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doctrine_n	church_n	faith_n	unity_n	4,187	5	9.2413	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68000	A declaration of the true causes of the great troubles, presupposed to be intended against the realme of England VVherein the indifferent reader shall manifestly perceaue, by whome, and by what means, the realme is broughte into these pretented perills. Seene and allowed.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1592 (1592)	STC 10005; ESTC S101164	40,397	78

she might haue enioyed the kingdome could aswell haue bene contented to haue cōtinued the faith of her auncetours as to be brought vnto her coronation with solemne procession of the Catholyke clergie and at a masse by a Catholike Bishop to be bothe crowned anointed at what tyme she vowed by othe to defend and maintayne that Catholyke faith and religion the which point I do only here alleage for proof of her meaning not to chaunge religion wherein yf she had firmly remained she should haue left vnto the world a farr greater memorie of her giftes of nature and educatiō But hauing once reposed cōfidence in this suggester he shadowed his sinister practises vnder her aucthoritie and lefte the obloquie of his owne vniust actions to redound vnto her and her estate For this person vnto whose wylinesse was ioyned a wōderfull ambition who beeing by birth but of meane degree thereby denied to be set in equalitie with the nobilitie and peeres of the realme for the better satisfying of his insatiable desire of greatnesse resolued that the best way for his aduancement must be by innouation and that in no lesse matter then in points of faith and religion for that by experience late before in the other Queenes dayes he could neither by the greatnesse of his beades creeping to the crosse nor exterior shew of deuotiō before the highe altar fynde his entrāce into highe dignitie to be so speedie as by this meanes he deemed it And therefore among other his fraudulent reasons he sinisterly perswaded the Queene that she could not stand permanent in her crowne and kingdome vnlesse she did condescend vnto the alteration of religion and hereby he so farr abused the sexe and capacitie of his Princesse that the gate vnto all ensuiug iniquitie was spedely opened He then promoted vnto authoritie one Nicolas Bacon with whome before he was lyncked in bādes of affinitie vvho being also of meane birth but of an exceding craftie witt was the more fit to be ioyned with himself in the menaging of the nevv gouernement I do not here deny but that any man hovv meane soeuer may by iust prerogatiue obtaine credit honor by his vertuous endeuours neither cā any honor be more due thē that which is atchiued by desert But how this person with his compagnion haue vsurped their reputation their actions haue since manifested to all the world as hereafter shalbe shewed espetially in the suruiuer being the beginer prosecutor and continuer of the ruyne of England and the disturbāce almost of euery Christiā regiō And he that as is said before was farr inferior to be matched in ranck with the nobilite of the realme hath in a fewe yeares so ouermatched them al either by fained crimes cut them of or by one meanes or other so maimed them of their due honor and aucthoritie that he hathe now made himself Dictator perpetuꝰ The Queene now being broughte to condescend vnto the chaunge of the old religion he broughte also the election of the new to lie in his owne choise and neither followed the doctrine of the Lutherans of Germanie nor that of the Caluinists of Geneua but prescribed a composition of his owne inuention Almost all the old Bishops and clergie he thrust into prison and there consumed them and forced the others in exile to end the rest of their dayes and to supply their places he shufled together the very rif raf and refuse of the world A wedded ministry he would haue albeit the Queene neuer lyked it because the fugitiue Apostataes that were novv returned into Englād fittest for this nevv function were for the most parte coopled with yoke fellowes had vnited the flesh vnto the world the deuill the defects that wāted to make vp tale of this ministeriall multytude were takē vp without partialitie frō tapsters tīckers such depe diuynes these were sent abrode to preache starve the cures throughout the whole coūtrie Some vestures of the old clergie he left in the churches whereby the bearded ministers his trāsformed apes might somuch the better imitate the outward apparence of Catholike priests the more to diminish this great conceit of mutation in faith amōg the people and to make them wene that the old seruice was but turned out of Latin into English and some ceremonies only altered the Gospels Epistles ꝑte of the Letany the very Collects vsed before at Masse were ordayned by a booke of In iūctiōs to be daily red in the churches The name of this new profession was borrowed from Germany for the professors would be called Protestants a name vnknovvne vnto all our Catholike auncetors in all ages since first they receyued Christianitie but the chiefest substance of dotrine was taken frō Geneua whereunto the compositor added of himself an Ecclesiasticall superioritie to the Queene vvhich Iohn Caluine vvhose doctrine they lyked neerest to follovv dothe terme to be Antichristian in any tēporall prince and it was neuer chalenged by any prince Christian before king H. the eighte nor neuer atributed to any heathen potentate except by one only people of Persia called the Asasynes for they in the yeare of our Lord 1253. admited their religion to depend wholy vpon the will of their Prince Thus was the protestanticall congregation of Englād created erected most repugnāt to the old Catholike faith participant of some newe he resies and yet not consonant to any one religion els but different and disagreeing from all sectes and religions past present vnder heauē and what confusion it hathe since declyned vnto in it self shal here after be declared The apologie of this Church was written in Latin trāslated into English by A.B. with the comendatiō of M.C. which twaine were sisters wiues vnto Cecill and Bacon and gaue their assistance and helping hands in the plot and fortification of this newe erected synagog But because so strange and extraordinarie a doctrine being in an antipathia to all and in vnitie with none was vnlykely to haue lōg endurance espetially wanting such deepe roote of succession from Christ and his Apostles as hathe these many hundred yeares preserued in vigeur one only entire faith and religion against all heresies schismes dissētions whatsoeuer the author fearing least with the decay of this late erected Churche the creator with the creature might fall he then as impudently reiecting all shewe of moral honesty as late before he had don his hipocriticall cloke of deuotion studied to put all countries in garbroiles round about him And for the effectuating of this his heroical intention he begā to vse the excercize of a newe skill that was alwaies to ꝑswade the Queene that other princes ment to inuade her dominions when himself ment to drawe her to any violent attempt against them It is a world to see how his experience hathe since encreased in this practize how well he hathe made this deuice to extend to the encrease of Englands