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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16612	A briefe censure vpon the Puritane pamphlet entituled, (humble motyves, for association to maintayne religion established.) Reprooving of it so many vntruthes, as there be leaues in the same.		1603 (1603)	STC 3519; ESTC S116908	31,775	92

gouernment of his Church according to the Scriptures set vp both which we lacke or else there can bee no right Religion nor yet for contempt thereof can Gods plagues be from vs any while deserred Wee in England are so farre from hauing a Churche rightly reformed according to the prescript of Gods word that as yet we are not come to the outward face of the same Admonit tract 10. Tract 11. In the booke of Common prayer a great number of thinges contrary to the worde of God are conteyned Except they yeeld not onely Gods instice shall be powred forth but also Gods Church in this Realme shall neuer bee builded The way therefore to auoide these inconueniences and to reforme these deformities is this to remooue Aduousons Patronages Impropriations Bishops authority You must plucke downe without hope of restitution the Court of Faculties remooue Homilies Articles Con. Lon. anno 1562. Parl 5 Eli. Booke of articles c. Tract 17. admonit this is the Book where the summe of Englishe Protestant doctrine is allowed IniunctioÌ„s the Queenes spirituall laws a prescript order of scruice the Communion booke take away the Lordship the loytering the pompe the idlenesse and liuings of Bishops c. In steede of Chauncellors Arch-deacons Officials Commissaries Proctors Doctors Admonit tract 18. Sumners Church-wardens and such like you haue to place in euery congregation a lawfull and godly Seignorie The Lord Bishops their Suffraganes Arch-deacons Chauncellors Officials Proctors Doctors Sumners Tract 18. sup and such rauening Rablers take vpon them which is most horrible the rule of Gods Church The Archbishops Court is the filthy Quauemire and poysoned Plashe of all the abbominations that doe infect the whole Realme Neither is the Controuersie betweene them and vs as they would beare the worlde in hand as for a Cap a Typpet Addit Admonit Admonit Parl. Tract 20. or a Surplesse but for greater matters concerning a true Ministery and Regiment of the Church according to the worde To these three ioyntly that is the Ministers Seniors Deacons is the whole Regiment of the Church to be coÌ„mitted Hitherto be the wordes of that holy Puritane sentence And that it may be manifest what their loyalty and loue is to our Soueraigne her Bishops and their proceedings both in temporall and Religious affaires making no exception at all Tract 23 either of Queene councell Bishoppe or whatsoeuer except poore ignoraunt soules they bestowe their holy blessing vpon all which will not allowe of their Admonition and holy Eldershippe in these tearmes following God confound them that his peace may be vpon Israell his saumg health vpon this NatioÌ„ Now let the Reader iudge whether these men seeke Associations to preserue her Maiesty her State and Religion or no or whether they intende so great loue and duety to the Protestant Bishops as is glosed in this Pamphlet or that no kinde of Subiect is so carefull as they to preserue the honour and quiet of our Kingdome Let vs now see whether this be true or no. Philosophers and Diuines teach that to loue is velle alicui bonum to wishe good to the beloued then by how much more good is wished by so much the loue is greater lesse when lesse good is desired and where no good but euil is wished Pa. 1 lin 4. it is hatred This Pamphletor himselfe acknowledgeth in the fourth line of his worke that 3. things in duety are to be exhibited by the Subiects to the Magistrates that is Honor Obedience and Defence Then who hath performed these duties to our Soueraigne none but Putitaine call honour is temporal or spirituall the first is most dutifully yeelded of all both Protestants and Catholicks of spirituall honour the Catholicks make distinction and are disliked chiefly for that opinion But this Puritane friend absolutely denyeth the secoÌ„d and speaketh doubtfully of the first As for spiritual honor the case is euident in al their assertions And towching the terrene honour of a Princesse Goodm li. demonstr Regim muher was not Goodman in the time of Q. Mary a Geneuean Puritane and yet he tearmed the temporall regency of a woman Monstrosum Regimen A Monstrous Regiment And this was the doctrine of his consorts and practises of their Disciples Stowe hist in Q. Mary Groft c. For who were they which laboured so much to depose not onely that Catholicke Queene but our present Soueraigne No man will say that they were Catholickes therfore I say and prooue that they were Geneuean Puritanes our English Parlament Protestancie then not being established or knowne but diuers yeares after in these dayes Iacob Rex Scot. in li. Regin ad fil Are not the Ministers of Scotland Puritanes then aske the King himself if the booke of Regiment published in his name did come from him how full of honour obedience and defence this people is in that country he complaineth of them aboue all others in desect of these duties Petr. frar or cont sectar Staphil apolog fixe to 2. Mon. test tr ordin Burg in remonst sup edict Reg Gal. pare 2. Defens Reg. Relig. Were not Caluin Beza Spiphanius Othomanus the Swizerland French Hugonites Puritaines yes and be so accounted in England And yet what Councels Consistories did they keepe to depose Kings Princes what base and tyranicall Vsurpers did they erect what lawfull Magistrate in Fraunce was not deputed by them to death Who haue more turbulently behaued them selues in these times then this deceitfull and lying Sect. What Libels Admonitions threatnings chalendges hath this people made againste Queene and all kinde of magistrates especiallie the Protestant Bishops and ministerie with whom they would now in words be associated Demande an hundred sooleries of Martin Marprelate this Writer and his companions This is the honor and obedience they vse and defence whiche I feare they would exercise if it came to tryall Let them examine Catholiks by theyr owne Rule of rendring dutie of honor obedience and defence They were Catholickes which first crowned her with honor they were Catholiks which obeyed her when they were powerable to be disobedient Then by all presumption Catholickes will euer defend her And I trust with our prudent Princesse and Councell the malitious inuentions falsehoods of Puritans to aduance them selues nor the lewde slander of any Apostata to excuse his impietye will be admitted against the consciences of so many Religious Priests and Iesuites renouned in al parts of the christiaÌ„ world protesting euen with daylie dangers and death it selfe theyr Innocencie in these affaires THE VIII VNTRVTH THIS Pamphletor affirmeth that the estate of our Soueraigne is dangerouslye impeached with the Perill of her Person by the indeuour of Papists to bring in the Superiority Supremacie of a Forraigne Prelat c. I meruaile where this man learned his consequences Is the Superioritie and Supremacy of Pope or any forraigne Prelate only exercised in

spirituall and ecclesiasticall causes dangerous to the Temporall estate of any Ciuill Ruler or Magistrate or perilous to their Person Be not those Regiments diuers and distinct euen in the iudgement of Puritanes themselues then the one is not perilous to the other How many hundreds of yeares were they thus deuided among the Israelites without confusion or perill one to another That Nation came to moste calamities Li. 1. Mach Li. 2. Mach. Iosephlib antiq bell Genebr Cronol Bellon Tox to 1.2 bill turrie Petr. Mass lib 1.2.3 hist indie when these Regiments were vnited togither about the time of the Machabees and after In the Turkishe Regiment the Caliphes Rule in Religious causes and yet without perill to the Imperiall State Among the Indian Pagans the Brachmans ouer-rule their Princes in like cases yet without preiudice to their Persons or Temporall dignities Among the ancient Gentiles the FleÌ„mens and ArchfleÌ„mens had that charge yet no Temporall Regency endangered And now in Italy Spame France Polonia the Empire and so manye Catholicke Countries the Romaine Iurisdiction ruleth in spirituall affaires And yet what State of these countries What Person of those Princes is by that in peril And in EnglaÌ„d when that Superiority reigned in it so many hundred yeares and in the daies of almost 200. Fox tom 1. Mon in Catal Reg. Stowe hist Kinges of this Nation which of their estates or persons vvas endangered by that Regiment then it is not the doctrine of Catholickes in this point any plot or practise by theÌ„ which palyeth at hazard with the persons of Princes or draweth kingdomes to ruine But it is the presumptuous factious opinions of Puritanes vvhose priuat spirit in euery meane and vnlearned man doth not only condemne the sentence of Queene and Parlament and her Superiority by that title in spirituall busines but may by their Profession doth by open Pamphlets Inuectiues controle all Princes and Magistrates both in Ecclefiasticall and Temporall causes and dispose of Kingdomes cuntreis and Cities at their high will and pleasure as they did at Geneua Collin in France and other places as I haue recited before THE IX VNTRVTH BVt if we will beleeue this Puritane her Maresties Person shall still remaine in peril except his coufaile be admitted for her deliuery by which shee shal be enfranchised from such dangers His presernatine and Antidote to vse his phrase followeth in these words It would be enacted that all Gentlemen Magistrates and Possessioners within this Realme shall take the oath of Assmiation for the defence and perpetuation of Religion now publickely professed within this Realme And the oath of Supremacy be mimstred with like addition to all men generally within this Realine from the age of sixteene yeares vpwardes twice euery yeare by the Mayors and Couernours of Cities Townes and Corporations and by Stewards and other Officers in Mannors and Lordshippes in their Cuntreis and their Leetes and Law-daies And if they refuse to enter into such league or oath that eucry such person shall be holden and reputed as suspected and shall be thereby disabled to beare any office or authority in Common wealth and shall also be bound to his good behauiour sequestred from all his aronour and weapons and if hee bee possessed of lands within this Realme shall yearly pay vnto your Maieflie the fourth part thereof c. This is the sentence of this Solon In vvhich how many vntruthes and fooleries there be it is not an easie account But because I deale in liberality with this Doctor I will put theÌ„ togither in one First then I conclude by this high Authority that Puritanes bee most wicked lying and dangerous members in this Kingdome and moste worthy by their owne iudgment to incurre these penalties which they practise against Catholickes For if this inuention were put in execution Catholickes shoulde become so impious as Puritanes be to make no account of oathes This stratagemme coulde take no effecte but the Queene would be more endangered both in regard of the perils pretended more vnknowne and the offendors coulde not be distinguished friends coulde not bee decyphered from enemies But by this mans confession all Puritanes be manifest aduersaries to her Maiestie in this matter for they both deny the Religion now publickly professed in the Realme as also her Maiesties Supremacy in most vncharitable tearmes Then when Puritanes as this man assureth will take these oathes both concerning the Religion established in England and her supreame Ecclesiastical power which they so much condemne they be condemned to be the most impious irreligious and disloyall people vtterly vnworthy any office credit or confidence in common wealth but by their owne lawe to bee bounde to these disablements penalties and payments which they inuent for Catholickes whose fidelities wordes oathes may be admitted for security of the greatest perill as these men acknowledge by this Inuention THE X. VNTRVTH BVT to manifest farther the folly falschood of this dreame deuice If any coulde be so mad to imagine that so wise a Princesse Councell Nobility Protestant Clergy and Commons for he desireth that his law may be presently enacted would immediatly after the dissolution of a Parlament wherein these toyes were reiected summon the whole kingdome againe to please such people Yet his intent against Catholicks would not be obtayned I will not examine the particulers of his fooleries therein but experience shall pleade against him for either the same or more grieuous haue beene enacted and are daily executed against vs yet he maketh these complaints of perilles by encrease of Catholickes within this kingdome For first concerning his oathes of the Reltgion now established and her Maiesties Supremacy are they not tendered to all Magistrates at their admittance The first Parlament it selfe only excepteth the Nobles of this Realme Parl. 1. Eliz 5. Eliz. to whom this man likewise seemeth to allowe that exemption And How often haue such oathes and interrogatories beene ministred to the Catholickes of this Nation Gentlemen and other Possessioners not Possessioners whome this lawe-maker includeth not Stat. 1. Eliz. c. 1. the Satute of Supremacy giueth the same authority for ministring the oath of that Superiority in as ample manner as he prescribeth only he aduiseth it to bee taken twise in the yeare which limitation imployeth no other vse or end but to make men dissolute in swearing forswearing as these Puritanes be for who wil hope for truth in him vvhich is accustomed to forsweare which by all lawes be reiected for witnesses And this great Politician himself calleth al Parlament persons which applauded not their deuises Papistes and yet most of them had taken the oathes which hee prescribeth But harken vnto his penalties The denyers of these oathes shall only be disabled to beare office bounde to the good behauiour sequestred from their armour weapous Pag. 23. Stat. 1. 5. Eliz. and pay yearely the fourth part of their landes to

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