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A Memento for English Protestants ... together with a preface by way of answer to that part of the Compendium, which reflects on the Bishop of Lincoln's late book.
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Sixtus V, Pope, 1520-1590. De Henrici Tertii morte sermo. English.
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1680
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Wing M1658; ESTC R9391
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the rest of the Beneficed Clergy throughout the Kingdom that were either married or refused to turn Papists 2. On the twenty seventh of the same Moneth the Service began to be sung in Latin in S. Pauls Church 3. The same Year the Pope's Authority was restored in England and the Mass commanded to be used in all Churches 4. The same Year she caused a Synod to assemble which restored the Romish Religion and ordained Mass to be celebrated after the Romish Fashion 5. The fourth of February Mr. John Rogers the first Martyr of those times was burnt at London 6. Presently after her Coronation she pretended to shew Mercy by granting a general Pardon but it was so interlaced as an Author saith with Exceptions of Matters and Persons that very few received benefit by but many were trepann'd by it 7. In October 1554 she caused Ridley Bishop of London and Latimer Bishop of Winchester to be sent from the Tower of London where they were Prisoners to Oxford upon pretence that they were to dispute with the Papists about the Real Presence of Christ in the Sacrament but when they were brought thither instead of being disputed with they were both burnt 8. The next thing she did was to set up again the Pope's Supremacy in England and to this purpose she sent for Cardinal Pool from Rome who being arrived with the Pope's Authority as Legatus à latere made a Speech to the Parliament exhorting them to return to the Bosom of the Church for he was come as he said to reconcile the People to the Church of Rome And in order to a Reconciliation he required them presently to repeal all Laws that had been made in derogation of the Catholick Religion When the Speech was ended the Parliament begg'd Pardon for their former Errors and told the Queen they would repeal all such Laws whereupon the Cardinal accordingly gave them Absolution And so was all England in one day subjected again to the Romish Yoke by this Popish Queen 9. On the twelveth of March 1555 she restored all the Lands formerly belonging to Abbies and Monasteries that had been invested in the Crown and did leave them to be disposed of as the Pope should think fit 10. It 's thought that she had once resolved to put her Sister Flizabeth to death for divers of the Privy Council had signed a Warrant to that purpose yet when the Lieutenant of the Tower had received the said Warrant he went to the Queen and sollicited her for her Sisters Life she protested she knew nothing of such a Warrant However it 's believed that she would have consented to her Sisters Death had her own Life been continued a little longer 11. In her fourth Year Monasteries began to be rebuilt and restored and no doubt she had in a short time caused all the Abbey Lands in England to be restored had not Death prevented her design 12. To summe up all it is recorded That in less than 4 Years of this Queens Reign 277 Protestants were put to death for their Religion without any regard had to Age Sex or Condition viz. 5 Bishops 21 Divines 8 Gentlemen 84 Artificers 100 Husbandmen Servants and Labourers 26 Wives 20 Widows 19 Virgins 2 Boys and 2 Infants also near as many died in Prisons through Hunger and other Hardships So that Dr. Heylin saith that though many Persecutions lasted longer than this yet none since Dioclesians time raged so terribly You have seen the horrid Actions committed by Charles IX of France and Mary Queen of England and yet History tells us negatively that he was not of a bloudy or cruel disposition and positively that she was of a mild and gentle temper so that we must necessarily conclude that the Doctrines of the Romish Religion do infallibly debauch both the Consciences and Morals of all such as believe them From what hath been said I infer 1. That English Protestants of the meanest capacities may without the help of Prophecy be able to foretell what will become of them if which God forbid Popery should again prevail and be re-establish'd amongst us 2. That it is no less the Interest than the Duty of all true English Protestants to pray for the long and prosperous Reign of our present Protestant Prince in whose Life next under God are bound up our Lives Religion Laws Government Liberties and Properties Lastly That it is our Duty for the good and welfare of Posterity to pray That all His Majesty's Successors in the Government may be Protestants to the end of the World Amen FINIS
Ministers questionable for the Miscarriages in Government because he himself is in his own Person inviolable and sacred but this concerns not the present Business These men I say as bad as they were had not the Impudence to Interest the Protestant Religion or any Protestant Church whatever in the guilt of their impious Treason by pretending to derive any Warrant or Encouragement for it from them or if they had it would have signified nothing to the Compendionist's purpose since there is no King-deposing or King-killing Principle to be found in any Protestant Confessions of Faith or Articles of Communion which are the only proper Evidences to convince a Protestant Church of any Principle or Doctrine that is laid to her charge and so it would have amounted to no more than their particular mistaking or perverting the Principles of their Religion as grosly and as wilfully as they did the Laws of their Country But this is not the case for they did not so much as pretend any Warrant from the Protestant Religion for what they did How then can He charge Protestant Principles with the Personal Crimes of these men Or what does this Home-Blow and all his other Instances prove except this only viz. That several Protestants have been Rogues very great Rogues Murderers Rebels Traytors c. Does He not know that they are all mortal men too and subject to many other Vices which he might very clearly have prov'd upon them if he had pleas'd by undeniable Examples There 's not a Sin the Pope pardons of what Price soever but 't is too sadly true that Protestants have been guilty of it at some time or other if that will do him any service But now in the name of a little common sense Who or what does this Raver oppose in this strenuous Argument Did ever any of our Writers assert that all the Protestants in the world were good Men and pious Christians Or is there any sort of people among us besides Quakers i. e. mad men who hold a state of Absolute Perfection in this Life He has put himself into an extraordinary Heat and made strange violent Assaults and yet no Enemy appears near him What ayles the man he has sure been combating some Giant in imagination like Don Quixote when he hack'd down the Walls of his Chamber Well who ever he be though it were Malambruno himself I 'll warrant him he 's kill'd outright this La Mancha has so laid about him with Home-Blows Another great quarrel he has to the Bishop is that he does not answer four Books nam'd in the Compendium's margin writ it seems by the Catholicks of England since the King's Restoration about the Deposing Power of the Church * Compend pag. 78. His Lordship says he is so far from answering these Authors that he never so much as cites them to this purpose a great fault indeed so that we must conclude them unanswerable Well argued o' my word I see he deals in nothing but Home-Blows Mr. Bayes and this Compendionist would have made a couple of rare Disputants if they had not been spoil'd by their Tutors and ill grounded at first they have both an admirable natural talent at Reasoning all the difference between them is Bayes lov'd it in Rhime and this man 's altogether for it in Prose But without Raillery does he believe the Bishop of Lincoln oblig'd to take particular notice of every idle Pamphlet of theirs that keeps a Pudder about the deposing Power of the Church with design to make the business intricate and dark and to think them as considerable as his Party always do their own Books No doubt he takes it monstrous ill too that the Bishop has not thought him worth his Answering and perhaps concludes himself unanswerable But I hope I shall hinder him from falling into that mistake and make him sensible what an Impar Congressus Achilli what a poor contemptible thing he is when he appears in the Lists against so great a Scholar as the Bishop of Lincoln For the Pamphlets he mentions they are more than answer'd in the Bishop's Book though it does not particularly name them and when he or any other Factor for Popery gives a tolerable Answer to those clear Testimonies I told him of before and which he never so much as cites to this purpose by which the Bishop does so plainly prove the Doctrine of Deposing Kings upon the Church of Rome I here engage my word to him these Pamphlets shall be made ridiculous by name and their Authors shew'd to the people in the Fools Coats they deserve In the next place be tells us * Compend pag. 78. That the Venetians have openly in their very writings denied this Deposing Power of the Church without Censure And That several Authors have been censur'd in France and elsewhere for writing for it In answer to which First we know very well that the Church of Rome does always accommodate her Allowing and Condemning of Books to the circumstances of her present condition and as Princes are sometimes forc'd by the necessity of their Affairs to disavow the Actions of their Ministers though done by their most express command so is this interested Church frequently reduc'd to connive at Books which she does by no means like and to Censure others which she does not onely approve but underhand directs A good Instance of this we have in the case of Sanctarellus's Book one of those he mentions which though at first printed by the Approbation and special Licence of * See Sanctarellus himself Mutius Vittellescus then General of the Jesuits and by the Order of the Master of the Pope's Palace yet when the Pope found it would not be endur'd in France but that both the Sorbonne had condemn'd it and the Parliament of Paris had order'd it to be burnt he thought fit after it had been out so long that the Copies were almost all bought up to forbid the Sale of it at Rome but without any manner of Censure either upon the Author or Doctrine * See more of this in the Preface to the Jesuits Loyalty which is generally their way of condemning those kind of Books when Civil Considerations at last oblige them to it viz. a bare Prohibition of them after every body has read them that cares for them Such a Condemnation as this did Mariana meet with in Spain and of this gentle nature was Becanus's Correction at Rome not for the Doctrines he maintain'd but for Overlashing as Bishop Montague expresses it in his Preface to King James's Works i. e. for speaking the mind of their Churchmore plainly than was at that time convenient For Secondly we know well enough that these Principles of Deposing and Killing Kings and Extirpating Hereticks are thought too precious Truths and too high Points to be ordinarily expoâ—'d to the â—ulgar and pross'd upon all occasions they are the Arâ—â—na Imperii of their Kingdom of Darkness and kept like Warrants Dormant among