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A19742	A briefe discouerie of Doctor Allens seditious drifts contriued in a pamphlet written by him, concerning the yeelding vp of the towne of Deuenter, (in Ouerrissel) vnto the king of Spain, by Sir William Stanley. The contentes whereof are particularly set downe in the page following.	G. D.	1588 (1588)	STC 6166; ESTC S109186	83,314	136

to God comfortable to your Prince and healthfull to your owne soules NOw to such as are faithfull true harted subiects to her Maiestie as I trust all are I shal not neede to vse anie exhortation at all because I know you are already so wel affected in hart towards your gracious Souereigne and so throughlie confirmed in your obedience and duetie as there cannot bee more added thereunto by anie mans persuasions Therfore will I onelie giue you in a word such comfort encouragement as I haue receiued my selfe from mine owne conscience to perseuer constantlie in that obedience in the defense of Gods truth our Princes safetie the weale libertie of our Countrie You haue plainly vnderstood by this discourse the malicious minde purpose of D. Allen and his partie against our Queene countrey the seditious practises and persuasions vsed by him in his Pamphlet to the furtherance therof which though I know they can take no hold of any of you yet let vs take this benefit of our enemies to make their doings our warnings to arme our selues against their malice That they wish ill to vs we need not doubt their owne writinges bewray it That they intend il towardes vs wee must needes suppose their practises haue declared it That they meane to attempt ill against vs wee may well assure our selues their preparations doe certeinlie confirme it How then shall wee bee dismaied at it that were not manlike Shall Romish and Spanish forces appall vs That were dishonourable for English men Shall we be daunted with the feare of a forrein enemy Then should we degenerate from the courage of our forefathers Their forces are great ours greater Their threatnings are terrible our valour is tried Their pride vnmatched our courage vnmated Their malice deadly our mindes vndaunted Their furie vehement our quarrell iust godlie honourable They fight for reuenge wee for defense they for the spoile we for our liues and liberties they for the Pope we for God and our Prince And what is hee nay what is shee that will not take armes that wil not fight that will not die in this quarrel Our fathers haue vanquished forreine Princes and shall not wee fight for our owne Prince Our fathers haue conquered other Realmes and shall not wee defend our owne Realme Our fathers haue been Lords of other Countries and shall we be slaues in our owne Countrie What an alteration or rather degeneration would this bee in vs how dishonourable to the English name and Nation How iustlie might all other Nations reproach vs and all succeeding ages record vs for vnworthie Subiects of so worthie a Prince degenerate Children of so generous Parentes and infamous Inhabitantes of so famous a Countrey Let vs therefore all of vs seeing the quarrell is generall and common to vs all for the defense of true Religion our Prince and our Countrey let vs all prepare our selues cheerefullie to th'encounter let vs not respect the crie of wife or childe let vs respect their defense let vs plucke vp our hartes take vp our armes and march hardilie to meete with our enimie let vs fight with him let vs die vpon him yea let vs seeke him if he seeke not vs. We do all owe God a death how shall we better pay it then in hîs quarrell Our liues are all at our Princes commandement how can they be better spent then in hêr seruice We are all borne for our countrey why should we then refuse to die for our countrey If we die in Gods quarrell we shall liue in his kingdome If we die in our Princes seruice we shall liue in the memorie of all posteritie If we die in defense of our countrey our renowme shall liue for euer A Heathen Poet could saie to his heathen countreymen in his age Dulce decorum est pro patria mori It is a sweete and honorable death In countreys cause to spend our vitall breath And shall not we Christians thinke it most dishonorable for vs to feare to die in the common cause of our God our Prince and our countrey Why D. Allen himself in his pamphlet where he goeth about to discourage vs by admonishing vs not to be emboldened by the Memory of our old English notorious battailes and victories which in olde time were comparable to what prouinces or peoples were most famous nor by th'esteeme or opinion either true or partiall of our present strength and courage in England what doth he but adde comfort and courage vnto vs in stirring vs vp aswell by the examples of our forefathers victories to imitate their vertues as by the knowledge of our own strength and courage to take hart and courage vnto vs Let vs then not cast away that encouragemēt which he giueth vs rather let vs augment it by our own constancie of mind and resolution If the strength of our Realme were great in our forefathers times it is now far greater Nay it was neuer so great in any Princes age as it is now God be thanked And when our realme was not so strong yet hath it conquered other Nations and was neuer conquered by any so long as it was true within it selfe And nowe when our forces are greatest shall our faith bee least when our state is most prosperous shall wee bee most miserable when our quarrell is most glorious shall we bee most infamous No no let vs link togither in one mind in one faith in one force let vs sticke togither fight togither die togither like men like Englishmen like true-harted Englishmen Let vs all and euery one of vs shew ourselues forward in aduauncing this seruice of the common cause with our substance with our forces and with our bodies also to the vttermost as a great number of our faithfull countreymen in diuers partes of the realme yea whole countyes cities and townes and namely the honorable citie of London haue done most duetifully louingly and honorably Which I do the more willingly remember not onely for the comfort of my selfe and them and euery good subiect and to their great honor and commendation but also for an incitement vnto others by their example to be stirred vp vnto the like duetie and forwardnes Wherein if we ioyne all our hartes armes and forces togither like true and faithfull subiects I am fully perswaded our forrein inuadors whensoeuer they come shall find England the hotest countrey that euer they set foote in We are likely inough to measure their Spanish Cassocks with our English bowes and their shoulders with our browne billes before they measure our broad cloth with their long pikes And before it come to that I doubt not but some thousands of them God being our guide shall cary their last message vnto their great grandfathers the next way by water But what do I vse encouragement to thē that are of themselues most couragious valiant and euen eaguer to fight Yet let me adde this to your

were they all but Heathens If Christ himselfe then hath confirmed the authoritie and power euen of Heathen Princes how can the Pope dissolue and take away the authoritie power kingdom yea life too of Christian Princes And yet he claimeth his authoritie from Christ as his Disciple and Vicar here on earth by which title he maketh all Princes subiect vnto his authoritie In truth so is the greatest Prince liuing subiect vnto the meanest Preacher and Minister of God to obey the doctrine and word which hee deliuereth out of the Scriptures and to receiue his instruction exhortation admonition and reproofe yet is hee not though he should reiect his instructions to be therefore deposed from his kingdome or resisted and disobeyed by him And greater authoritie hath not the Pope himselfe ouer anie Prince then the meanest Minister and messenger of God I finde not in all the Scripture that euer Christ gaue vnto his Disciples anie Commission to depose Princes although they should disobey his word but I finde that he gaue them Commission to Preach And whosoeuer shuld not receiue them nor heare their words he bad them that when they should depart out of that house or Citie they should shake the dust of their feete reseruing the punishment of them vnto God As for the superioritie which the Pope challengeth ouer Princes as the Successor of Peter disciple of Christ I finde no such Commission giuen vnto Peter himselfe to authorise him in such sort ouer Princes but I finde that Christ said vnto him three times Feede my sheepe As for the swoord wherby is signified the Ciuil Authoritie Christ expresly forbad Peter to vse it commanding him to put it vp into the sheath To the same effect also spake he not only to Peter but to all the rest of his fellowes the Apostles when there was some contention risen amongst them about superioritie Ye know saith hee that the Lords of the Gentiles haue domination ouer them and they that are great exercise authoritie ouer them But it shall not be so among you But whosoeuer will be great among you let him be your seruant And if the Pope bee Christs Disciple hee must learne this lesson of his Maister to be a seruant to his fellows not a Commander of Kings Christ himselfe from whom the Pope deriueth his supreme authoritie as his Vicar on Earth neuer tooke vpon him the authoritie to depriue Princes of their kingdoms nor to discharge the subiects of their dutie obedience but contrariwise confirmed the power of Princes both by his doctrine teaching that Feare Honor Obedience Subiection is due euen to Heathen Princes and also by his owne example yeelding tribute with all duetie and obedience vnto them and submitting himselfe his bodie and life to their authoritie iudgement correctiō And for himself professed that his king dō was not of this world that he came not to be serued but to serue And if Christ acknowledged himselfe not to haue any kingly authoritie in this world but to be a subiect vnto kings to their inferior officers and a seruant how can the Pope deriue vnto himself from Christ not onlie a kingly authoritie but a predominant authoritie ouer all kings Can the scholler bee greater then his Maister will the Vicar take vpon him more authoritie then hee from whom he taketh all his authoritie Nay will he of himselfe presume to giue warrant directly cōtrarie to the commandement of Christ Let euerie man then iudge both what he is that so opposeth him self against Christ what D. Allen is that iustifieth his so doing for iustification thereof pretendeth warrant of Scriptures against God himselfe which how shamefully he hath therin wrested peruerted and belied hath been I hope alreadie sufficiently declared vnto you so far forth as his pamphlet gaue occasion and farther should haue been but that this question is handled at large and all that D. Allen can say therein abundantly confuted by a learned Diuine a man of as great sufficiencie and of more sinceritie then himselfe in the answere to his Defense of English Catholikes Now to come to the matter and to the prosecuting of D. Allens purpose you see that hee hath not onlie failed in the proofe of the Popes authoritie to depose Princes and consequently of his warrant for the subiects reuolt but also his own examples and arguments retorted against himselfe and the contrarie part prooued both by them and by diuers other reasons and authorities of Scriptures out of which Doctor Allen bringeth not so much as one Text in trueth I must confesse because he cannot vnlesse hee should coyne it himselfe to proue directly his prophane assertions So that no man can be so blind but he must needes perceiue and acknowledge that the Pope hath neither power of himselfe nor authority from God to depose Princes from their kingdomes neither can giue to the subiect any commissiō or licence sauing only that licence which he hath himselfe that is that licence qua sumus omnes deteriores so much as to disobey their Souereignes much lesse to reuolte from them to their enimies to lay handes on them to beare armes against them Whereby it cannot but bee most apparant that D. Allen respected wholye herein the subtilty of his drifte not the soundnes of his doctrine and for the obteinment of credit and attainment of his purpose thereby affied him selfe altogither vpon the smoothnes of his perswasions and the affectionate mindes and inclinations of his adherents ANd sithens we haue alreadie discouered the foundation of his perswasions to bee weake false and rotten it shall not be amisse to bestowe a little labour to trie if a small wind will not ouerthrow the building it selfe which I doubt not but we shall find to be patched togither of as rotten stuffe and of as slender substance as the foundation is and to haue nothing in it to withstand the weather but onely the bare outside and colour of religion The ende whereunto this perswasion of disobedience and reuolte from her Maiestie tendeth hath bene alreadie declared namely the furtherance of all trayterous and rebellious designementes that may be by any person or in any wise attempted against her Maiestie and particularly the assistance of the k. of Spaine and the other forreine forces inuasion nowe presently intended and prepared against our countrey Let vs then next see to what persons D. Allen principally purposeth and addresseth his persuasions First for Protestants and such as are of sound Religion as I trust the greatest parte of England by great ods is D. Allen cannot be so madde as to hope that his perswasions can haue any authoritie or worke any effect with them but to confirme them rather in her Maiesties seruice and obedience for the better mayntenaunce of their Religion and defence of themselues