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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04347	A manuduction, or introduction vnto diuinitie containing a confutation of papists by papists, throughout the important articles of our religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers, and ancient records; but especially the parchments. By Tho. Iames, Doctor of Diuinitie, late fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, and Sub-Deane of the cathedrall church of Welles. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices expurgatorij: and this [pointing hand], a note of the places in the manuscripts.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 14460; ESTC S107696	146,396	156

the Emperours soueraigntie aswell ouer the Priests that fight Gods battels as ouer the souldiers that warred vnder his conduct Regist lib. 2. Ep. 64. And after Gregorie and Chrysostome Bernard a late Writer in his to Henrie Archbishop of Senes Ep. 41. argueth after this manner out of the words Euery soule If euery soule then yours he that would haue you conceiue otherwise of these words doth but deceiue you follow not their counsels Espenc ep ad Titum cap. 3 pag. 513. And not long after If Princes haue nothing to do with Religion and sacred businesses what makes so many Imperiall lawes and constitutions for Religion in the Code Nouels and Authentikes And to what purpose doe wee reade of so many Royall Edicts and Parliaments in the Annals of all Christian Princes for the settling and establishing of Religion As I heare when those horrible fires were lighted throughout all the kingdome of France for the burning of men and women aliue Oh that was a matter of the Church appertaining to Religion But when there was speech of reforming the Clergie conforming Monkes to their primitiue orders and sending Non-residents home to their Cures to care for their flocks that matter was not to be spoken of by the temporall Magistrate it was to be treated of in a Councell or before the Popes Holinesse for so I haue heard and doe well remember that our Bishops were wont to distinguish after this manner as if Princes were not to be zealous and carefull in point of Religion but to commit the care thereof not only to men very indiscreet but altogether ignorant and so to become meere executioners of their cruell designes as if they were not sonnes of our Mother the Church and chiefe propugnators propagators and defenders of the same Wee haue heard what Espencaeus iudgement is of Princes intermedling in Ecclesiasticall affaires heare wee now a man nothing inferiour to him for learning Andreas Masius writing vpon Iosua what saith he If it should chance that the Priests forgetting their duties doe against the Lawes of God Customes of the Church or approoued Ceremonies and Rites of Gods worship and doe performe the seruices of God either negligently and disorderly or do violate and breake them or by their lewd liues and wicked actions doe trouble and disquiet the settled state of the Common-wealth we may not say that it belongeth not to the office of a Lay Prince to put them in mind of their duties and to admonish them and if this will not serue to bridle their audacious actions by his Princely authoritie and this doctrine I take to be well warranted by the letter and examples of the Scripture If out of the mouthes of these two witnesses this doctrine be not sufficiently concluded we will indeauour to euince the same out of the Pragmaticks of France and Courts of Iustice here in England and first of France The Vestall Virgins are not free from the punishment of the Temporall Magistrate and who more sacred And as learned Budaeus saith there was a French King that made their Cardinals and Bishops quake and who so great But optima prima his gouernment was too good to last long he was soone sent packing with a figge in his mouth or a peare or some such thing as the Deuill would haue it Boniface the eighth brought an error into the Church which was greatly preiudiciall to the Pragmattick of France one Tanquerel openly in Paris tooke vpon him to defend the same but a good paire of legges were his owne best defence he ran away and one P. Gustus in his steed before fiftie Doctors of Diuinity and Sorbonists in their Schoole stood bare a prettie while and then shamefully acknowledged his errour and not onely his but Boniface the eighths and forthwith their chiefe Diuines offered themselues prompt and ready to take the Oath of Alleageance or to giue any satisfaction to the King or Courts of Iustice But why dwell wee so long in France when domesticis exemplis abundamus England is sufficiently prouided to furnish vs with examples out of Westminster or the Tower as may appeare by the diligent hand of a most knowing Lawyer who hath collected them together sending them to a reuerend friend of mine who coppied them out and imparted the Transcript vnto mee whence I gather that it was a familiar matter in old time when the State stood Popish and the Iudges stood too much affected with that which they now call the Romane Religion to sue fine and imprison Archbishops Bishops Deanes and Clergie men for beating wounding burning houses killing of men cutting of lippes and not so onely but about Prohibitions in Prouisions out of the Realme Appeales to and Buls from Rome and it would not serue a Bishops turne so carefull were the Iudges of keeping and preseruing the ancient liberties and customes and the King his Crowne and dignitie that though they reuerenced the Church according to their blind deuotion yet a Bishop comming before a Lay-Iudge pleading that hee was an anoynted Bishop Brother to the Pope and an Ecclesiasticall person that he was a Clerke neither of both could be heard but in the Tower Marshalsey Kings-Bench c. or fined and ransomed brought they Letters Prohibitions and Buls from Rome the very bringing whereof was no lesse danger then a Praemunire I know you expect proofes and not words Records and no other proofes and therefore I proceed and shew out of the Records that For Archbishops and Bishops Anno 27. R. Henrici filij I●nioris there came a precept to the Iudges of the Kings-Bench to proceed against Robert Bishop of Worcester and others in a cause of Prohibition as being against the Kings Crowne and Dignitie The Bishop of Exeter lost his Temporals for not admitting the Kings Clerke to the Church of Southwell The Bishop of Ely for being accessary to the burning of Blanch Wakes house and murdering of Will Holme which was killed in a Wood by his seruants and intertained by him after the fact was done was put vpon his twelue Godfathers Walter Bishop of Exceter for appealing to the Court of Rome to the Kings great preiudice finds sureties to answer the matter before the King Anno 6. Edw. 1. Semblably Ralph Bishop of Bath and Welles was proceeded against for summoning men to Rome Anno 19. Edw 3. William Bishop of Norwich had his Temporals seazed on for excommunicating one Richard that brought the Kings Prohibition Anno 20. Edw. 3. Adam Hereford for partaking with Roger Mortimer is tainted in Parliament notwithstanding the Archbishops challenge Anno Edw 17 Rob. Archbishop of Canterburies body was to bee taken for excommunicating the Sherifes when he came to serue the Kings Warrant Anno 32. Edw. 1. And to see how small a matter would incense the King and how sharpe his punishments would be against the Clergie there was a warrant sent downe to the Sherife of Worcester to serue vpon him for hunting only in