indeede some doubtfull speeches in Caluines Institutions but if it would please them but to interpret fauourably his speeches in like for as they interpret the speeches of many later Dinines yea and sentences of the very scripture it selfe which in some places seemeth more directlie to make God the Author of sinne then euer Caluine did their calumniating spirit would bee satisfied and know that hee teacheth nothing else then what their own Christian Philosophers do teach therein of Gods immediate and positiue concurring to the entitie and nature of euery sinne and to the entitie and nature of euerie morall or naturall occasion of sinne and if hee should say that God as a vniuersall Cause doth not onely immediately concurre and intrinsecally coworke with morall second Causes in their morall euill actions as you all teach or must teach vnlesse you bee Heretikes but also that God as the Prime vniuersall and supreame independent Cause of all things doth in a kind of priority of nature also preuent and moue such morall second causes in their free morall actions beeing either of vice or of vertue tell mee is there none of your Pontifician Doctours Friars or Monks who teach the same if not farre worse who can be ignorant of this who hath vnderstood of the great * I my selfe when I was some yeere ago in Doway saw this doctrine that God doth moue with a priority of nature of causality and effectually all morall agents in all their actions printed in certaine Theses which were to be defended publikely vnder the moderation of one D. Estius who obstinately as I was there informed defended the same position controuersie betwixt the Ignatians at Doway and some other Professours of that Vniuersity the noise of which scandalous controuersie soundeth euen vp to Rome it selfe there to be determined c. The English Liturgy is most egregiously calumniated to be vaine irreligious a most slanderous imputation for the forme thereof is conformable to all antiquity is very religious and if some priuate disorderly persons sometimes minister not the Sacrament according to the forme there prescribed what of that But I haue often wondered why the speciall absurdities and abuses if there be so many in the Booke of English Common Praier as they pretend haue not been by any of the aduersaries in some special sort largely discouered and confuted considering how often and in how speciall sort the many turpitudes abuses cōtradictions fooleries of their Roman Masses haue been learnedly deciphered Commonly and daily is the Church of England calumniated for giuing vnto the Prince the Title of Supreame head or gouernor of the Church of England which yet is giuen in no other sense then to shew that very power and Supreame Iurisdiction which all Ancient Christian Emperours and Kings in the q 1. Paralipom 28. 2. Paralip cap. 17. 19. Reg. 4. cap. 18. 3. Reg. 2. old Testament and since haue euer more or lesse had in their Kingdomes to wit that for the publike setling establishing execution and administration of all manner of iustice whether in matters of Religion or other Temporall causes the Prince hath Supreame authority and that without his command or permission no man may so much as beare or wagge any rodde of any publike Iustice or gouernment But touching the ministration of Sacraments giuing of Orders giuing the power of the Keies and in or touching defining of faith it is a meere foppery to say the Prince challengeth any such matter in this Kingdome or that any such is giuen him But in al such respects he doth most religiously acknowledge himselfe to be one of the sacred sheepe of Christs sacred flocke vnder Christ his ministeriall Shepheards of the English Churche Remember I pray you how r Parsons his Catholike letter and answer to our Kings Apology Parsons admitteth that the Kings supreamacy as his most excellent and pious Maiesty most religiously and excellently explaneth the same in his Apology for the Oath of Allegeance is allowable and such as may be receiued The truth is you care not so much for what the Prince hath as for that the Pope is excluded from his gainful Supremacy ouer this Kingdom who was accustomed with his Annats Reseruations Vnions Comendaes Expectatiue graces Prouisions Presentations Nominatiōs and with infinite such like ſ 1 ad Tim. 6. nouelties of names and prophanations to corrupt all Church discipline and Religion of this Kingdome as the t Lincoln Epise apud Matth. Paris in Henrico 3. famous and holy Robert Bishop of Lincolne long agoe obiected to your holy Pope Innocent the 4. And heere to note by the way your vanities you thinke it to be eternall blemish to the Church of England for that King Henrie for loue of Queene Anne Bolleyne as you say and to be diuorced from Queene Katharine did exclude the Popes authority out of England meerely vpon fancy and passion But alas your deuise is vaine for it was first giuen vnto him by the learned Vniuersity of Oxford then Pontifician vpon this occasion which I desire you to marke There was earnest suite made by some certaine Pontificians to the Kings Maiesty to condemne Martin Luthers opinions as being the very same in many points with those of Iohn Wicleff who had beene long before often condemned in that famous Vniuersity of Oxford and by many of his former predecessors whereupon the King being desirous to see a copy of Wicleffs Articles one was brought vnto him the which hee seriously perusing found one of them to be thus to wit that the Bishop of Rome had no power nor iurisdiction by right ouer the Church of England Which when the King saw hauing at that time the weighty controuersie about his diuorce with the Bishop of Rome he seemed to like thereof but willing to doe nothing rashlie or against Faith u This standeth recorded in Oxford as M. Thomas James hath affirmed vnto me very lately hee presently dispatched the same Article to the Vniuersity of Oxford to haue it by the learned anew examined and their iudgements freely to bee giuen vpon it the which was accordingly done and the Article approued whereupon that Prince resolued by Consent and Authority of Parliament to exclude the vsurped power of the Bishop of Rome ouer the Church of England which vnder his most tyrannicall oppressions had a long time groned but by this meanes came to be deliuered from the Egyptian seruitude as the holy Bishop of Lincolne long agoe Prophesied it would And if King Henry the 8. vpon your supposed motiues did impugne the Papacy yet I pray you what greater disgrace is it to the Church of England that King Henry should exclude the Popes supremacy then it is to the Church of Rome that he should establish the Statute of sixe Articles for your Masse auricular confession c and what disgrace to your doctrine of adoration of Images because the vsurping and auaricious Empresse x Baron in
Baldach of certaine Popes make mee thinke there wanteth no good will but onely meanes and possâ—ssion which their Canonists and Ignatians labour a pace in euery place where they can finde footing by their preachings secret conferences and bookes to procure vnto him And consider this what bookes are with more fauour receiued printed and published at Rome then those of this stampe and kinde For this respect Pesantius Bozius and such like shal be cherished there Bellâ—rmine in the time of Sixtus the Monarch of the world who had deuoured England in his vaiâ—e Psendopropheticall hope Bellâ—rmine I say because hee applauded not the Papall Monarchy of Sixtus but wrote against it found no fauour but was glad to auoid Rome for feare of frying but h Bâ—llar against Barkley and his anâ—wer to a Ve netiaÌ„ Doctor saepâ—ssime de Rom Pon. â— 5. c. 6 now by end euouring to bâ—ing the Monarchy of christendome vnder the Popes command with the distinction of indirect direct he hath profited so much that hee hath purchased a Cardinals hat the next steppe to the Romane Monarchy it selfe the which if he euer obtaine doubtlesse he will speake as Sixtus did for as his doctrine is much changed from that it was in Sixtus time so doubtlesse if he proue Pope it will * Hanores mutant moâ—â—s come to greater perfection i Baron in annalibus saepissime Steuch lib. de donat Constant Bozius alij Cardinall Baronius good God how he trauaileth as though he were wich child to bring forth this Monarchy throughout his Annals and Augustinus Steuch more earnest then he if it may be how carelfully doth he record Diplomes and Charters by which the Popes challenge the direct and supreame Soueraignties ouer most kingdomes of the West as of Spaine France England Ireland Hungary Norway Sicily and of which not but such baubles I passe ouer the trying of those Charters I put off to those whome it concerneth I will onely a little examine how this man of sinne that sitteth in the Temple of God is saide to sit in Gods Temple doubtlesse it cannot otherwise bee well vnderstood then of some principall part of the externe and visible Church of Christ there beeing no other temple of God of which it may with any probability bee expounded To expound it of the Temple in Hierusalem were very incongruous yea impossible coÌ„sidering the same is destroied and that the desolation thereof shall continue til the end as k Dan. 9. Hieron ibidem Daniel the Prophet hath foretold yea and Christ himselfe seemeth also to haue l Math. 24. In the time of Iulian the Apostata when the Iewes atteÌ„pted to haue reedified their temple in Hierusalem they were miraculously letted by God a tokeÌ„ that the same shal neuer bee reedified Baronius his Annals in Iuliano Theod Socrates lib. 3. foretold so much to say that Antichrist when he commeth shall reedifie the Temple of Hierusalem in the same place where that of Salomon stood and it therefore to be called the Temple of God by the Apostle is too too improbably and idlely said with as much congruity as to say that the turkish moskyes in Constantinople are the Church of God because standing in the same places and within the same materiall walls in which once the True and onely God Iesus Christ was worshipped The Pontificians would be offended to heare their Church of the blessed Virgin Mary and all the Martyrs in Rome to be now called the Temple of all false Gods because it was so once called by the name of Pantheon Besides if wee will beleeue the Rhemists * The substaÌ„ce of Lessius demonstrating book coÌ„sisteth in that hâ— confoundeth diuers predictioÌ„s concerning the states of diuers enemies of Christ and diuers calamities of the Church to the imagined 3. yeeres and a halfes raigne of one singular maÌ„ Antichrist Leonard Lessius in his laborious and demonstratiue booke of Antichrist we must think that Antichrist when he commeth shall worship no God a toy for if so how then shall he be thought to build a temple to the true God what Worship no God and yet build a Temple to the true God a Paradoxe But most cleare it is and to me it hath beene often confessed by diuers learned Papists that Antichrist is said to sit in the Temple of God because he shall vse a tirannical proud vsurped imperious gouernment in the visible Church excluding the society paritie of any other in that vsurped office of his changing that forme of gouernment which Christ left in his Church and by tiranny seeking to draw all to himself m Annotation in 2. ad thes 2. an 5 as the Rhemists themselues affirme But that this Antichrist of which Saint Paul speaketh shall sitte in the visible Church of Christ visible I said for so they are to be expounded diuers auncient n Aug lib. 20. de ciuita cap. 19. Hieron ad AlgasiaÌ„ q. 11. Greg. l. 4. epist 34. 38. 39 et in 2. ad Thes cap. 2. apud Paterium clarissime Robertus lincolniens apud Math. Paris in Henrico 3. anno 1162. Coruelius mussorat habita in con Trid. dominica 3. adueÌ„tus Athanas in epist ad solitar vitam agentes Hilar. li. cont Constan Lucifer in lib. moriendum pro filio dei Bernar. ser in conc Rem et serm 33. in cantica Hieron in Dan. 11. Hila. cont Auxent This greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist in properlinar gie significatioÌ„ according to the differeÌ„t vse of the preposition 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greeke signifieth one that is for insteed or against another all which three significations are vnited in the man of sinne called Antichrist beeing annointed insteed and against the true annointed Lord Iesus Christ Fathers eyther expresly affirme or by most euident consequence it is deduced out of them S. Austin S. Ierome S. Gregory and others expresly Cornelius Mus seemeth to affirme so much although hee dare not speake it expresly Athanasius also agreeingly with Hilary and Lucifer Calaritane make therefore Constantius the Arian Emperour Antichrist because he assumed to himselfe all rule tiranically in the Church and against Church-men Saint Bernard not farre from this conceit where hee chargeth the Church-men for seruing Antichrist Saint Gregory is most cleare for otherwise how vnworthy an argument were it in that Father to call Iohn of Constantinople Antichrist and the Title of Vniuersall Bishop Antichristian if Antichrist when hee should come was not to bee either a Bishop or not to challenge any such vsurped power or any such name Along while King Henry the eight Queene Elizabeth both of renowned memory were certaine Antichrists with the Pontificians in respect they challenged the titles of cheefe Gouernours in the Church of England the sense whereof being now sufficiently explaned and by the same made euident that they require no more then what their predecessors had and vsed though not with the name
desire them to point me out some illustrious person some Arrogant Bishoppe who sitting in the Church challengeth all rule and Empire to himselfe to iudge all to bee iudged by none who challengeth to bee honoured and worshipped as an earthly God extolling himselfe aboue all things that are called God marke what the k 2. ad Thes 2. Apostle saith which is called God not thus which is God again shewing himself as if he were a God but not the true and onely God for it is a meere imagination that the Antichrist here described shal make himselfe to be the very true God indeed for he shall only by his tyrannicall outlawish Godlike behauiour in vsurping in commanding doing vndoing in dispensing binding against al lawes diuine and humane heare himselfe as if he were a God Reade to this purpose l Greg. in 2. ad Thes 2. apud Paterium Baron ad anno 992. Saint Gregory and withall the resolute verdict of Arnulphus a French Prelate cited by Barontus in his Annals But if the expositions of some learned Pontificians bee true that Antiochus Epiphanes who adored the God Maâ—zim and despised the Gods of his Fathers Antichrist was prefigured then doubtlesse he shall worship some God And if the exposition of some other Pontificians take place that m Dan. 11. Daniel in that Chapter prophecied of Antichrist himselfe and that hee should worship the God Maozim who will gainsay it and affirme that Antichrist shall worshipe no God but here I desire the Reader by the way to remember that of the word Maozim there is a treble interpretatio by some it is interpreted summi roboris or fortitudinis of greatest strength or fortitude so that the God Maozim is the God of greatest power I finde also that Maozim is interpreted inhabitatio tabernaculi in-dwelling of a Tabernacle so the interpreter of the Hebrew wordes in the old Bibles of Saint Hieromes edition it is interpreted also turris fortitudinis a tower of fortitude or strength c. by all which interpretations fitly agreeing to the nature of the word I leaue it to the Christian Reader to iudge whether the God of the Tabernalces or Sacramentall towers amongst the pontificians bee the God Maozam God of Fortitude of which the Prophet foretold that Antichrist should worship One thinge I meruaile at why the interpreter of the Hebrew wordes in the last editions of the bibles interpret not this word Maozim which is so greatly to the purpose for one side or other as for my parte I will absolutely iudge nothinge of these interpretations Iesus Chrisi vouchsafe to open our eyes that we may both see his truth and imbrace it and beware that wee worshippe not falselie and idolatrouslie any false God in Turrets or Tabernacles The Romane Empire thus dissipated and ouerthrowne and dissolued into diuers Kingdomes accordinge as it was prophecied by n Daniel 2. Daniel The Popes still by their vndermining indirect power and by the earnest defenders of the same the Ignatians and other fauourites doe strongly endeauor to bringe all Kingdomes of the world vnder their command wherin hee vseth the spirituall power as hee would seeme of the lambe pretending to proceed onely against Kings and Kingdoms in holy Churches necessity and for the temporall quietnesse and necessary safety of common weales but not for that he aymeth at any profit therby but onely to reduce them to holy Churches obedience Wherein for my part I giue no more credit vnto such a saying then I did to the great Admiral of Spaine some 16. yeares agoe who in my hearing affirmed that his * Philip the 2. King of Spain Master the King of Spaine sent not the great Armado in 88. so much to make a conquest of England as to conuert it to the Church and to make it a friend for my Master the King said he hath already so many Kingdomes that hee is scarce able to gouern them with peace and content and surely the proceedings of Pandulph Legat with King Iohn do liuely demonstrate what the Popes ayme at when they presume to correct Princes and dispose of Kingdomes our Historians will tell vs that it was not inough to haue the kingdome to be idlye made feudatary by that King to the Pope but also there must be yeerely summes sent vp to Rome in token of this subiection Doubtlesse p Platina in vita Paschalis 2. Paschal the second was well acquainted what Popes aymed at by their direct and indirect powers when at his installing a mysticall girdle with seuen keyes seuen seales hanging at it was put about him I haue spoken sufficiently against this indirect power in my booke vpon the oath of Allegeance which as yet I see no otherwise answered then by a libell from some of the wise mens punies of Saint Omers as is reported who esteeme the same a sufficient answere to it doubtlesse desperata causa theire cause is desperate beeing growne to libelling But alasse that is too too common with them for what booke almost commeth from them with any name q Iohn 3. or any more insinuation of the Author then with N. D. H. I. or some two like letters the truth is they are ashamed or afraid of their Gospell and therefore as children of darknesse they deale so couertly and will not come to the light because they feare reproouing yet before I leaue this matter I will set downe a sentence or two out of two of the Pontificians bookes by the which the Curteous Reader may gather to what their indirect power of Popes tendeth Heare their r Coquae pa. 170. Coquaeus in his most seâ—itious booke against his Maiesties Premonition to Christian Princes thundering rather against our Soueraignes Person whom he reputeth a notorious Heretike and his Kingdome rather then against his Doctrine Si autem crimen haeresees sit notorium et publicum c. But if the crime of heresie saith he be notorious or publike in a Prince * Was not this Catsbyes atheistical position on which the powdermine of the IgnatiaÌ„s and the Ignatianed was grounded the subiects may lawfullie before any declaratiue sentence of the crime if they haue strength withdraw themselues from the obedience of such a Prince for euident notice of such a fact is insteed of a sentence Whereas therefore the crime of Heresie is notorious in the King of England so that by no tergiuersation it can be auoided it is certaine that neither for the forme of the Oathe nor for any respect of the person to whom the Oath is made that his subiects are bound therewith Thus the most seditious Coquaeus but if I should heereto adioyne how in his 48. or 49. page hee in the like case of notorious crime of heresie approueth the murthering of Princes non expectata sententia Iudicis no sentence of any Iudge expected and endeuoureth also most prophanely to proue the same out of Å¿ Deut. cap. 13. holy Scripture
by their bulles of deposition and excommunication c Bull. Sixti 5. Pij 5. contua Reginam charged vnder the paine of excommunication all English Subiects forceably to depriue that most Gracious Lady and Queene Elizabeth and although God of heauen had set her ouer vs yet the earthly god with his triple crowne to whom all power vpon earth was giuen as one of them speaketh sitting in the high throne of his See did d Bull Pij 5. vnqueene her make her as another ordinary Subiect But what were the English Chiefe-leaders guilty of any one of these plots and practises Let Cardinall Allen march first who although he * Related by the moderate Answerer would seeme to touch and reprehend those who gaue information to Pius the 5. it was not for want of good will to the matter it selfe but because the state of England did not then permit it ◠the Pontificians being not strong enough to put in execution Pope Pius his depositiue sentence for otherwise in his booke called the defence of English Catholikes hee doth most eagerly defend the Popes power to depose Princes and constantly auoucheth that he may charge all Subiects and authorize them to depriue Princes in case of Heresie and other needfull occasions of Church and Common Wealth the which doctrine as he doth most politikly and cunningly seeke to establish by sophisticall reasons and many deuised vntruthes so is hee most learnedly confuted by that singularly learned and iudicious Prelate the e Bishop Bilson of the supremacy Bishop of Winchester so soundly that neither Allen himselfe nor any of his Seminarists durst euer yet attempt to make any reply against that very learned and iudicious worke Againe call to minde Cardinall Allens declaration to the Nobles in England in 88 the which hee himselfe conceiued and dictated in very great haste to three or foure Scribes together at once to haue with speede more copies to send hither into England thereby to incite the Peeres and all Pontificians of this Kingdome to ioine with the Armado which King Philip of Spaine sent hither for the conquering of this Kingdome which Spanish fleete came also full fraught both with Pope Sixtus his prophesies his blessings and curses and with the blessings of their maide of Lisboe with a vaine prediction of their victory but through the power of God both Horse and Horseman were drowned in the Seas where most of their ships with the Popes blessings and curses made shipwracke God conuerting their curses vpon their owne heads These bookes of this Cardinall with many other of his discontented speeches against the English State before 88. doe discouer liuely how much he had borrowed of a worse spirit then that was which our Sauiour f condemned in two of Luc 9. his Apostles I say before 88. for I haue obserued since that time God checking by that miraculous ouerthrow his spirit he hath beene farre more moderate then Robert Parsons into whose soule how a double spirit of that kinde hath ascended from below it is almost superfluous to stand to prooue His Doleman which I know by some speeches that I haue heard from his owne mouth he purposely intended against the vndoubted Title of our most Gracious Soueraigne whom Iesus vouchsafe long to preserue and to intitle as much as lay in him the Archdutchesse with an imagined and chimerian title to the English Crowne and to that purpose he dispersed as many of those bookes into this kingdome before the death of Queene Elizabeth as he could conueniently earnest he was with me some fifteene yeeres since to haue brought some of * How often haue I heard this man reioice at the shuffling and ciuill commotions which he foreimagined would light vpon the English at Queen Elizabeths death How often haue I heard him say and Ios Creswell also with diuers other Ignatians that England will neuer be happy and fully conuerted without the sword and a conquest thereof his Dolemans ouer with mee into England which I vtterly refusing highly displeased him therewith Againe his publike reioicing when he heard by a false Alarum that the Spaniards had safely landed in England in 88. and his deiected countenance when that false newes by true report was checked How ioyfully did he trot vp and downe to carry the first newes amongst the Popes friends and Englands Enemies But good God how was hee confounded at the hearing of the second newes of the burning and drowning of the Spanish Fleete All Elements concurring to the confusion of Pharaohs host This * Diuers worthy persons haue obserued this spirit in Parsons especially that worthy Deane of Life D. G. who for his loue to his Countrey and openly disliking the Ignatians courses was by Parsons others of his fellowes procuremēts banished out of the low Countries mans spirit was euer thought to be plotting and deuising for Englands conuersion by Englands subuersion against which time he had prouided certaine rules of reformation amongst all which I will tell you one pretty one When England is conuerted at first said he there must not be admitted into it any religious excepting poore Capuchins and the contemplatiue Carthusians and his owne brethren the Ignatians for some selfe pretences as is obserued A politike deuise that so he and his might haue the shooting at the purse the hitting of it for * When in Spaine by a witty libell the Capuchine Friars were described to shoote from the purse the Franciscans wide of it the Ignatians were described to hit it in the very middest with this posie teattino which word signifieth Theatine and I hit thee Of this the Ignatiās complained to the present King who wittily replied to them Doe ye not then his the purse Fathers and all will be well the Capuchines hauing no possessions shoote from the purse the Carthusians being contemplatiue should not so much as draw an arrow to shoote at the purse and so he and his might carry away the bell and doe all and purse all How Ioseph Creswell another of that societie and an English Chieftaine hath beene tainted with that spirit it is too to manifest hee must forsooth carrie Priests that come from Spanish Seminaries into England vp and downe to visite the Peeres of that Kingdome and to take their leaues of them that they may bring some comfortable newes to the oppressed English of their Kings intentions for England hee must carrie them also vnto the late King of Spaine to kisse that Kings hands and to heare from the Kings owne mouth words of comfort not of patience to carrie to the distressed English Catholikes that hee forsooth would aide and assist them as soone as possibly hee could c. Oh how did I my selfe see and heare the same man about some fifteen yeres since applaud commend a certaine Spanish g Adelantado is an Admirall Adelentádo for protesting and vowing that if his master the King of Spaine would giue him leaue
THE MOTIVES of Richard Sheldon Pr. for his iust voluntary and free renouncing of Communion with the Bishop of Rome PAVL the 5. and his Church I saw the woman drunke with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus and I admired when I saw her with great admiration Apocal. cap. 17. 6. Goe out of her my people that you be not partakers of her Sinnes nor receiue of her punishments Apocal. 18. 4. Published by Authority London printed for NATHANIEL BVTTER and are to be sold at his shop neere S. Austines gate 1612. To Mr. George Birker the Arch-Priest and all other Priests with the rest professing in England communion with PAVL the 5. Bishop of Rome that now is THese my inducements passing ouer with silence many others by which I haue resolued to relinquish renounce the communion of the present Bishop of Rome and to adioyne my selfe to the Catholike and truly Apostolike Church of England I doe not therefore addresse vnto you thereby to craue your patronages but to require your seuerest censures expecting only and humbly begging and doe daily multiply obloquies against me yea and libell also against me in respect of my booke written in defence of my Prince and Countrie doe presume to Dedicate these my Motiues which will proue nothing acceptable to Rome or to some of your tastes to your worthy persons and names the truth is the cause of this is my considence in truth which I deliuer the which being gratefull to her veriest enemies cannot but be grateful to many of you to whom I know the verie sound of truth is pleasant though through the seducements of your leadâ—rs and your little reading of Gods Word and bookes of controuersie you are now misled mâ—gnâ—rance but veritas filta temporis truth is the daughter of time shee doth not alwaies appeare at the first as God wot shee hath very latelie would God sooner to me yet now shee is come and appeareth I professe without lying God is my witnesse I senâ—â—bile feele in such sort as the soule can feele my vnderstanding and souâ—e as it were a new inlightned illustrated consorted and encouraged by a new change and translation out of the h 〈◊〉 1. shadow of darkenesse into the i Ad Colâ—ss 1. Kingdome of Gods beloued sonne Iesus for whose testimonie Oh how happie should I bee to suffer euen death it selfe But because I am growne of late so contemptible with you wherein I reioice haue and doe vndergoe the same fortune which my k 〈◊〉 6. deare Sauiour and onelie Master Iesus did sustaine being conuersant vpon earth in respect of the honor of the cause which I haue vndertaken sufferte modicum quid insipientiae meae suffer a little of my folly to vse the words of the l 2 Ad Cor. 11. Apostle in like sort beginning to commend himself in commending of my self to you in such things whereof for some circumstances I take now no comfort but rather am ashamed of them and with my very soule doe lament them When I liued in the Romane English Colledge I begin there if any one can say any great ill of me before that time or since let him not spare to speake hee hath good leaue it is well knowne how I was reputed to haue profited being there better esteemed then I euer thought of my selfe and for learning compared with your Doctor Norrice a man of farre worthier partes then my selfe with whom also had not his oppositions against the gouernours of the English Colledge and the generall commotion of the same Colledge letted it at that very time I had defended publike Theses and Conclusions out of the whole corps and body of Diuinity the same being with their Epistle Dedicatorie allowed and readie printed for that purpose but because Doctor Norrice might not haue that honor in respect he was theÌ„ in opposition against the Superiours I was desired not to expect lest also the Bishop of Cassano Doctour Norrices Patron and fauourer then should bee discontented thereat the same at Rome but I was promised to performe it in Spaine whether I was sent with letters of as fauourable commendations both from the superiours of the Colledge and their Generall Claudius Aquauiua as euer anie English Priest had and also with as ample faculties into England yea in some things as it is well known concerning The Rect â—r of the English Colledge â—iâ—hed me to set downe in writing what faculties I desired and that hee would procute from the Cardinall protector confirmation allowance of the same which was accordingly done so largely as none had so large before whereof I haue a Copy to shew dispensations in all degrees of marriages contracted or to be contracted touching all Ecclesiasticall positiue impediments letting or dissoluing marriage more ample then any other euer had before mee as any Priest or Ignatian then in England had And if I was not in good esteeme then and there why did the Superiors of the English Colledge request me onely alone aboue others to write a short letter rather then a Petition to the Pope who then was Clement the 8. by the same to giue testimonie to that Pope of their vpright gouernment in the Colledge which then was so eagerly called in question by most of the English there I could vse more folly courteous Reader in adding many more very fauourable particulars as of my free accesse to Cardinall Catetane Protector to their General Aquauiua c. but I haue been too foolish already being constrained thereunto Since my comming into this Kingdome it is well knowne I haue been too too industrious in exhorting preaching c. And it is as well knowne that my conuersation and entertainement hath beene with the best Honourable not excepted let those who haue knowne me last and longest who are very Worshipfull very true hearted English and vnacquainted with the Equiuocating Spirit Speake what my carriage and conuersation hath beene But good Iesus why doe I thus trouble my selfe thus to waste paper and inke calumniated I am and most disgracefully calumniated I shall be as the Right Honourable my Lord of Canterbury his Grace presaged to me when I first told his Grace of my resolution but I will reioyce therein and shall esteeme all as dungge so that I may glory m Ad Galat. 6. in the Crosse of Iesus Christ the onely comfort and ioy of my soule the n Act. 4. onlie hope of my saluation Let hell it selfe spew out against mee all most disgracefull taunts and calumniations I will to God commend my cause hee will bring the truth of my innocency in the end to light I will in the meane vse patience the anker of all Christian soules in times of any tribulations and distresses Thus most humbly beâ—eeching with heart prostrate and in all your behalfes the mercies of the o 1 Ad Tim. 2. onely Aduocate and Sauiour of Mankind that you may returne to
where are such violent enemies against the Oath of allegeance and esteeme all such as take or allow of it as Heretikes as lapsed from the Catholike Romane faith because say they the Pope in his Briefes hath defined and decreed that there are diuers points in it against the Catholike faith Romane he should say and yet I suppose as very cleare that none of the English Secular Priests did expresly know against what speciall points of faith the Oath was till now of late a certaine i A Briefe declaration c. together with a recapitulation c. by H. I. Ignatian recapitulater vnder a double title promising a double book but bringing forth only a short pamphlet and that a namelesse one and therefore a Libell hath shewed in his namelesse defence of the Romane faith that Pope Paul the 5. in his Breues hath k Pag. 32. Ibidem pag. 56. defined the same Oath to bee hereticall and vnlawfull because it denyeth the Popes power to depose Princes and dispose of Kingdomes an article of faith with him in his libell although not naming himselfe I may iustly say l Rom 1. My eares haue heard many Ignatian Priests constantly affirme that Paul the 5. had defined in his late Breues that the oath could not be taken and that his Briefe was a definitioÌ„ of faith so R. B. G. B. I. F. R. L. M. W. T. T T. F. I. K. with diuers others of that profession erubescit cuangelium he is ashamed of his Ghospell But no meruaile that the Ignatians are so well acquainted with the mysteries of the Popes faith for since their Father Ignatius his beatifying vvho had so many m Apud Ribadin in vita Ignat. idle reuelations I doubt not but that they haue receiued newe illustrations from that Code and Deske of all law faith and right the Popes brest which the ancient Church neuer knew But when n The Recapitulater in the Title of his vnlearned and seditious pamphet and for his traiterous doctrine see him page 43. Promised Leonard Lessius commeth forth with his demonstrations for he would seeme to demonstrate in all his bookes as this pamphletter of Louaine not H. I. but P. W. hath couertly promised doubtlesse he will reueale the hidden mysterie which was not knowne in the Primitiue Church though then darkly working but was to be o 2. Thess 2. reuealed in these times with which the world is likely to end But to returne to what I haue to proue It being manifest that Popes and the Romane particular Church with all those of the societie of Ignatius not excepting any one doe dogmatically maintaine that the Pope defining ex Cathedra is the infallible vncontrollable vnappellable and onely necessarie Iudge in all controuersies of faith it should be lost labour in me to stand to proue that this their position is beleeued by them as a point and article of their faith nay I should say as a principle and very maxime of their faith For can any the simplest idiote doubt but that the infallible rule of faith which declareth faith squareth faith must be beleeued as faith and by faith But by this their nouell article of faith by ineuitable consequence it followeth that they differ in the most fundamentall point of beleefe from all such Fathers Councels and Doctors as did maintaine or as yet doe that the most infallible rule of faith is the doctrine of the Scriptures especially when it is publikely declared out of the same Scriptures by the authoritie of free Generall Councels and the publike voice of the vniuersall Christian Church the which rule of faith as I am most assured all p Conc. Hierosol Act. 15. Greg. in ep 1. ad Corinâ—h apud pateriuÌ„ Vinc Lirin contra hereses cap. 4. S. Austen most clearely contra Donat. lib. 2. contra epist funda tract vltimo in Ioh. contra Crescon alibi sepissime Cyprian lib. de vnitate Ecclesiae in epist ad Pomp. Patres conc chal cedo Sinod 6. 7. 8. conc Constan Basil ConstaÌ„tinus apud Euseb in eius vita Con. Constantinopol in epist ad epâ—sc Rom. congregatos â—arissime apud Zozom l. 5. c. 9. l At this preâ—ent now in â—aris it is required of the Ignatians amongst other articles to wit that the Pope cannot depose Princes c. to subscribe also to the superiority of the general Councel â—boue the Pope ancient Fathers did teach and beleeue so it cannot be doubted but that many learned both in Germanie England and q France doe still professe and maintaine to all whom as to the ancient Fathers and Councels the later Popes with their Pontificians who obstinately maintaine and beleeue this nouell rule of faith must in truth be reputed heretikes yea obstinate heretikes because pertinaciously erring in the very fundamentall rule of all faith And if any learned Priest retort against me and say that as I heere confesse all Papists concurre not to maintaine this pontifician rule of faith and that many Sorbonist Doctors teach it not neither do beleeue it This is true indeed but let him take this inference with him that notwithstanding all their bragges for the certainty of their faith they are yet most vncertaine as being not as yet agreed vpon the rule of faith yea they are so opposite that one side beleeueth as the Pope with his what the other disbeleeueth and condemneth as erroneous yea and this in Councels as in those r Conc. Constan Basil opposite to the Lateran vnder Leo the 10. and the Florent vnder Eugenius the 4. deposed by the Fathers at Basil of Laterane Florence Constance Basill Frankeford Colen c. which being so that themselues are not agreed vpon the rule of faith why will they not giue leaue and allow to true Christians the word of God as it is expounded clearely constantly and vniuersally by the ancient Fathers to be the inerrable rule of faith as his most excellent Maiestie in his learned premonition to Christian Princes iustly requireth and exacteth according to ancient and learned Å¿ Vincent contra heres cap. 4. Vincentius his rule It followeth that I demonstrate this rule of faith deuised by the Popes and Pontificians to support the Romane soueraignties to be meere noueltie and so to prescribe against it by antiquitie This I must now doe contractly not doubting but that I shall haue occasion more to enlarge my authorities and reasons when these my motiues shall be impugned as doubtlesse they will be vnlesse it seeme good to the wise men of Saint Omers as their owne libel termes them to answere them by some libelling ballade as they of late haue thought meete to answere t An answere made vpon Sheldons booke to a priuate friend beginning laugh laugh c. which libell hath ofteÌ„ moued the persons against whom it is to very much laughing at the Ignatians follies and wisdomes with a libell a certaine Priests booke for the oath of allegeance for Quicquid
of the Pope amongst his adorers and followers and doe you think the Pope knoweth not or affecteth not this his greatnes obserue his pride excuse me Pontifician reader when he saith not priuate Masse himselfe but is in his publike Chappel * When I saw these things I was astonished especially to obserue the oscitancie of the purpured Fathers at that time and their talking one with another and you shall scarce euer see one Cardinall amongst them who heareth Masse deuoutly much like the Nuncio at Brussels although an Archbishop he must not kneele when he receiueth vpon any solemne feast the Sacrament his very God he commeth from his Chaire of State downe to the Altar and standeth close cheeke by cheeke to the Priest that celebrateth who also must then reuerence him and when he receiueth of the Chalice he must forsooth standing haue a quill of siluer and drinke as much as pleaseth him out of the consecrated Chalice O most foolish and apish foppery what must Popes needs shew their maiesties in that place of the dreadfull misteries Not long since when our Soueraigne came to the Crowne of England k Relation of a reuereÌ„d Priest then in Rome there was a deliberation had in Rome amongst the Cardinals whether it were not meete to salute and congratulate his Maiestie with some humane and kind letters it was resolued vpon both by Pope and most Cardinals that it did not become * Such was the spirit of the Roman Cleargie in S. Bernards time against which he most vehemently declaimeth lib. 4. c. 2. de consid the Maiestie and greatnesse of the court of Rome for in the name of court the Romanes take more delight then in the name of Church and in Rome it selfe few call it the Church but the court of Rome and the Popes Pallacc c. to condescend so farre as to write first to his Maiestie O inexplicable pride tell me Oye Romane Bishops whose Vicars doe you challenge to be not his who suffered death and all ignominie to saue soules tell me by what meanes haue you got your supremacies dominions not from Christian Kings the most fruitfull sheepe of the Church what you care not belike for the sheepe hauing got the fleece tel me did not your selues often pretend vainely to haue had conceits and hopefull expectations of his comming to your Church and doubtlesse most hopefull your expectations might haue beene and most effectuall for the reformation of the Church if you would haue had accepted or woul yet accept of his most royall offer to haue had a free generall and vniuersall Councell but God permitted it not the sins of Rome and our sins crie vengeance The abominations within the walles of your Temples and the impurities within the walles of your Pallaces crie for the iust iudgement of God vpon your * Ezech. 8. backes set against the Temple and doubtlesse although Rome haue beene as a l Ieremie 22. ring vpon the finger of God yet for her impurities idolatries and abominations she will be cast off as Iechonias was Read 2. 3. 6. 7. 10. 22. 23. 44. of Ieremie and then tell me whether God will be so infallibly tyed to any Church though of his owne appointing and establishing so that if the same fall to wickednesse and impietie that he will not forsake the same and cast her off m Ierem. 7. 11. Read also the Epistle to the Romanes These things considered will the Rhemists denie but that the Popes are adored in the Church which is one of their owne markes of the man of sinne neither can they denie but that he hath vniuersall and immediate gouernment in ouer the whole Church for so to affirme and beleeue is the very essence and soule of their profession but by this onely they will excuse it and say he hath it not tyrannically and that he is not an Apostata nor a Renegate out of the Church Truly if they should confesse so much they might be well bought for fooles and for them to say he is no Apostata nor Renegate out of their Church it is a toy or a paradoxe for he is their very Church and life thereof therefore to say he should be an Apostata or a Renegate out of the Church were all one with this to affirme that he is an Apostata from himselfe but I must tell them that it is enough to make him a certaine Antichrist the man of sinne euen in their owne iudgements to shew that he hath subuerted the gouernment instituted by Christ applying by singular tiranny and vsurpation all to himselfe and I would in good earnest demaund of any friend of the Rhemists what excelleÌ„t power or iurisdictioÌ„ is there or can be in the church which the Pope hath not applied to himselfe and so vniuersally that whosoeuer in the Church hath any power or iurisdiction both in the Popes and in the Ignatians beleefe and the purpled Fathers beleefe also as n Papa c. the Pope and the purpured Fathers Iudge the world â—oquae in respons ad praemon Regis Coquaeus calleth them it all commeth from the Pope and is so dependent from him that at his pleasure without cause validly and effectually although as some of them say not without sinne he may take it from them but at this present sufficiently of this I will heere adde somewhat how the Popes by taking away wholy or else helping to take away the Romane Empire doe shew themselues to be the men of sinne and children of perdition which were to come at the taking away and destruction of the said Empire according to the prediction of o 2. Thess 2. Saint Paul To begin that of the Apostle onely that which now holdeth hold vntill it be taken out of the way the p Annotationâ— vpon the second to the Thessal 2. cap. Rhemists themselues admit that some ancient Fathers expound of the Romane Empire they might haue said most of the q August 20 de ciuitate cap. 9. Hieron epist ad Algas q. 11. in Dan. ad Geronti de monogamia Tertul. de resurrectione carnis Ciril Hieros catech 15 Chrysost Amoro Theoph. Primas in 2. ad Thess Bellar. lib. 3. de Pont. cap. 13. ancient Fathers and haue called it the true exposition also during the continuance of which in full state God shall not permit Antichrist to come Obserue Christian reader how with their owne weapons they pierce their owne sides God shall not permit Antichrst to come so long as the Romane Empire or Emperour standeth in his full state thus they most truly but to their own confusion for in good earnest I demaund of any Rhemist or of any Dowist in their behalfes whether the Romane Emperour or Empire is now or hath beene a long time in former state or not and if it be not as most manifestly it is not the named Emperour being now onely Soueraigne ouer Bohemia and certaine small states and prouinces in
for Traditions of which Traditions when it is also shewed out of the Fathers that they must also be tried by holy Scriptures will they heerein receiue the Fathers euen as before renounce all and runne to the present voice of their Church which Church is with them the Pope alone or Pope and his Cardinals Againe when all the Fathers that euer commented vpon the 14. of the first to the Corinthians with the authorities of many others bee produced to shew that the publike Church Liturgy ought to be in such a tongue as may be vnderstood by the assembly and for their edification will they heere accept of the Fathers Good God they fleet vp and downe like men in mases to finde some probable reasons for their barbarous seruices Againe when innumerable authorities of ancient Fathers are clearely produced for iustification by onely faith e Ad Gal. 5. which worketh by charity and against their Laterane Transubstantiation will they admit the Fathers Good God their subterfugies are innumerable either they will skippe ouer them and runne onely to the text of Scripture This is my body 〈◊〉 else they will expound all their sayings that 〈◊〉 still remaineth the natures of the creatures are not changed Christs flesh which was crucified is not in the Sacrament Christs flesh is present as in a Mystery as in a Sacrament as in a figure c. with infinite such like most expresse sentences They will I say so figuratiuely expound them all to shew that as they detest any figuratiue exposisition of the words of Scripture in this Sacrament so they themselues delight in nothing more then in figuratiue expounding most plaine sentences of the Fathers discoursing of this mysterie Againe when authorities of all the ancient Fathers that euer had occasion to entreat of the obedience of Subiects towards their naturall Princes and lawfull Soueraignes bee produced to shew that Christians ought to obey them g Ad Rom. 13. euen for conscience sake although they be persecutors of the Christian Religion and that they neuer vnderstood of the Imperiall Papall power ouer Kings and kingdomes which the Romane Bishoppes now assume to themselues will they heere strike saile and doe homage to the Fathers No God wot they flie out of the field and for the most part either they passe ouer the question with silence or else if they bee English and Ignatians or Ignatianed they fall to libelling and with namelesle Pamphlets labour continually to traduce Magistrates Gouernment Maiesty onely striuing by such a nouell Gospell to the Apologies of which they are ashamed to put their names to set vp the maiesty of the Romane Papall monarchy after destroying of the Romane Empire to ruinate such Kingdomes as were according to the predictions of holy Prophets to rise out of the Romane Empire vntill the times of malice bee 〈…〉 I iustly touch them heere for writing of 〈…〉 in defence of this Gospell to which bookes they are ashamed or else afraide to put their names wherein they shew themselues to bee right Parsonians and Ignatians or else deepely ignatianed Those infamous libels of stinking and prophane Pruritanus and the most blasphemous masked Polonian Exetasis against the maiesties glories and gouernments of these Kingdomes and expressely the most disloiall quipping in the Polonian Exetasis of Englands title P. W. The Corrector W. Pater Gib to France Who composed them Ignatians who diuulged them Ignatians and Ignatianed The vnsauory Pruritanus worthy to bee retorted into the Popes bosome but that the Maiesty of Gods Scripture may not bee abused who caused them to bee reprinted againe after that most of them were taken at the Venetian Embassadors Ignatians Who brought new store of them againe ouer into England Ignatians Who were so well pursed as to giue eight shillings apcece yea an angell for such a prophane Pamphlet comprised in a sheet or two of paper The Ignatianed and Brethren of the societie Who composed the late idle Pamphlet of the Puritan and Protestant Sister communing against the Oth of Allegiance A simple and silly Ignatian creature God wot Who was the Authour of the late bragging recapitulation in the title of which the namelesse Composer who as it is reputed resting in S. Iohns Mount should haue put P. W. to the end of the Pamphlet rather then H. I. promiseth a recapitulation together with a declaration but faileth in the latter for he declareth nothing only he recapitulateth a certaine learned booke as it is thought of Leonard Lessius the demonstrating Diuine which booke as yet appeareth not Some say the cause is that the Sorbone Doctours of Paris hearing of it haue written to Rome against the publishing of it to the Popes Holinesse for that say they France is not in a fit temper for such doctrines Others say the French Ignatians haue written vnto their Generall Aquauiua to haue the worke stopped because in this time when their credits are so shaken euery where for like pernicious doctrine it would greatly * That doctrine must not be allowed in France which poore English Recusants must maintaine with all vtter extremity manifest perdition of their soules hurt their cause This is done to saue the Ignatians skinnes whole and yet the poore English Recusants termed both in Italy and France the Popes Asses must beare the brunt of the Popes quarrell though it be to their vtter ruines I rather thinke the booke is kept in out of diffidence of their cause and that the Louanian societie of Ignatians will not permit their Diuine to enter into such an vnsound quarrell leauing it as they say for the English to defend and vndertake Alasse the good English like Asses must vndertake all and vndergoe all yet there was neuer people vpon earth who haue had worse successe with traiterous doctrines and conspiracies then they Againe who was the composer of the late Libel against me the which I neuer read to make my selfe merry therewith But I heartily also reioiced that I was found worthy to suffer contumely and disgracefull slanders for truths sake and for my Countries and Princes sake Some silly Saint-Omeristian boy for his Fathers the Ignatians who as it is reported made themselues oftentimes merie with the same at their recreations after their full meales whom I here leaue to the making of Libels stil if they hold that a fit course to support their desperate cause only giue me leaue Curteous Reader here with two or three particulars to shew how the young Ignatians like Crabs learne of the old like as to write namelesse bookes for their gospell so also to blaspheme maiesty and soueraigntie and to commend and engender disloyall spirits and to discommend and checke the naturall and loyall Some yeere agoe and as much as since Iuly last my selfe with diuers other Priests arriuing at S. Omers we heard there a certaine Ignatian preach vpon that j Matt. 7. text Beware of false Prophets c. In which his Sermon before the
Iesus be they Patriarks Primates Bishops Priests or who elsesouer so that they only and alonely must bee the immediate Vicars of Christ for Christ and in Christs steede and if it please you to vse the Greeke wordes in their owne sense they are sole Vicars * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vicars for Christ so that agreeingly to c Bellar. lib. de Rom. Pont. saepissimè Bellarmines doctrine and almost all of his Societie directly against the prerogatiue of Christ the Church is to be called d Ioh. 20. one fold and one visible flocke because it hath one Pastour and one Sheepe-heard the Pope and so accordingly he must forsooth only be the dore and dorekeeper of the Church only to let in and to shut out And would God they would also proue to be at least of the good shepheards to giue their liues for their sheepe would God they would at leasly vouchsafe e 1. Tim. 1. to preach to their flocke and not place all the gouerning of their flocke in idle decreeing faith and ambitious enacting of lawes such lawes as tend so greatly to Christs dishonour to the scandall of the whole world and setting vp of their owne Papacies and the augmenting of their temporall Dominions But alas these courses of them being the very shipwracke of good consciences are also euident signes of shipwracke in faith and where the f Psal 35. foote of pride hath moued them there the foot of infidelitie also hath followed by the working of wickednesse and the malignant enemie The motiues which haue moued me to leaue their communion so farre as they haue abandoned and left the puritie of the Roman Primitiue Church which was no sooner planted but it was sliding if you will beleeue g Onuphrius annotat in Platinam in vitam Petri. Of the Roman Church also is meant that which Genebr ad ann 898. out of Platin. Negligentia Episcoporum c. by then negligence of Bishops manyabuses crept into the church Which in respect of the warres could not bee repressed Thus they Onuphrius I wil diuide into three principall heads The first shall containe Motiues out of their pernicious and hereticall doctrines The second Motiues out of their most dangerous and wicked lawes The third Motiues out of the obseruations which I haue made of the Spirits of the English Chieftaines of the Roman profession I thought to haue had adioyned fourthly some generall obseruations touching the corrupt liues especially of some principall ones of their Clergie wherein I could produce many particulars and such as could not be gainsaid but h Eccles 3. omnia tempus habent if occasion require and they desire it they shall well vnderstand that they haue little cause to bragge of the innocencie and integrity of many of their English Apostles and Martyrs Motiues touching doctrine The first Motiue FIrst I suppose for truth as cleare as any demonstration that what Church soeuer doth perniciously erre in the rule of Faith must or may perniciously erre in all conclusions and propositions of faith deducted out of that erroneous Rule Now that the Roman Church doth perniciously erre in the very rule of faith I make it thus manifest The rule of faith with the perfect Romanes is the Popes sole iudgement when he defineth ex Cathedra that is to expound their phrase in their What the Romanes meane by their Popes defining Ex Cathedra owne sense vvhen he so defineth that he intendeth thereby to teach the vvhole Christian Church for some of them not vvholly Romanes vvill not obstinately and in expresse termes say that he cannot erre vvhen he defineth and pronounceth for a particular Church to beleeue and practise as he decreeth and defineth and that this is the only inerrable rule of faith vvith the Romanes and that in the Pope alone resideth infallibilitie of defining and that all other meanes as consent of Fathers without him either in Counsell or out of Counsell may bee subiect to errours deceiue and be deceiued it is the most expresse sentence and doctrine of a 2. 2. q. 11. art 2. ad 3. refer caus 24. q. 1. cap. Quotiescunque Aquinas b Bellar. lib. 2. de Christo c. 28. lib. de Conciâ—â—s saepe Bellarmine c Valentia in his Analysis of faith where he hath this conclusion lib. 8. c. 1. 2. 3. Quo tiescunque c. As often as the Pope in desining questions of faith vseth that authoritie wherewith hee is indued that doctrine must by diuine precepts be receiued of al christians as a sentence of faith and wee must beleeue that so often he vseth that authority as often as in controuersies of faith either by himselfe or with his Councell of Bishops hee shall so determine one part of the question that he will binde the whole Church to receiue the same Valenti d Coq in his Treatise against our Kinges Premon very often Coquaeus e Endaemon in his Parralell Endaemon f Par. in his Philopater Parsons g Baldwin lun lib. de Rom. Pont. cap. 9. prop. 1. 2. ex Bellarm. operibus in sua solida si dei demonstr Baldwinus Iunius h Siluester in summ verbo Fides Coquae pag. 27. The purpured Fathers are Senatours and Counselers of the Pope and with them he iudgeth the whole world Thus he Siluester all Canonists very few excepted two only to wit Panormit Zabarel vvhich I now remember of all of the Societie of Ignatius of Baronius most often in his Annals and in his Parenisis to the Venetians and in his Voto to Paul the fifth of Suares Vasques Azor Coccius in his voluminous aggregat most often Sanders Allen Genebrard Gretser Becan Carerius the two Bozius Mancinus Boter vvith infinite others all whom it is both impossible and needlesse to relate Let the decrees of Leo 10. in the Councell of Laterane Boniface the 8. Vnam Sanctam and the two decretall Epistles of Sixtus the 5. and d Clement the 8. set before the late vulgar editions of those two Popes pretended by some to be the whole by others only the amended translation of S. Hierome for yet they are not agreed stand for all now vvhat Pontifician can vvithout note of impietie or infidelitie call in question this their doctrinall and dogmaticall position vvhich is so clearly and resolutely maintained by them practised and defined by their Popes yea and by Leo the tenth in his Laterane Councel and Eugenius in his And although some moderate Romanists to smoothe this vneuen rule vvill seeme to say that the Pope ought to take aduise of his Brethren the Cardinals or of Bishops his deputies when hee vvill define notwithstanding such politike excusers of their shame and all other defenders of this their position doe and must maintaine that the infallibilitie of any definition is from the Pope alone Here-hence it is that all English Ignatians and most English Priests at this present in England and else