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A06481	A persuasion from papistrie vvrytten chiefely to the obstinate, determined, and dysobedient English papists, who are herein named & proued English enimies and extreme enimies to Englande. Which persuasion, all the Queenes Maiesties subiectes, fauoring the Pope or his religion, will reade or heare aduisedlye ...	Lupton, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16950; ESTC S108934	242,044	324

he performed and broke not And is not our Princesse Quéene of England as wel as Asa was King of Iuda And hath not she as great power in hir kingdome as he had in his And if God was well pleased wyth King Asa for making and performing that couenant as hée was indéede woulde he then be angrye thinke you with Quéene Elizabeth if she made the like and performed it I thinke not But our merciful Quéene though she hathe set forth the very true law of God as spéedily as earnestly and as zealously as eyther king Asa or anye other Ruler hathe done to be followed and obserued throughoute hir whole Realme hath not made any such couenaunt or lawe to slea or kil them that do not followe and obey the same But consider this well if the Pope not appointed by Gods law to raigne and rule as he hath done and doth may murther and kill as many of you thinke he may the professors and folowers of Gods word being not his subiects for disobeying his law deuised inuented by man on earth and procured by the Diuel Then may not we thinke that our Quéene appoy●ted by God and allowed by his word to raigne ouer vs may lawfully kil and put to death the Idolatrous Papistes hir subiectes for wilfully disobeying and withstanding the law of God that came from heauen béeing long sin●e taught vs by the Prophets by Iesus Christ the sonne of God and by his Apostles moued and procured thereto by God the holy ghost Therfore I beséeche you weigh the milde nature of our gratious Quéene the mother of Mercie that doth not vse the iustice she may and marke your holy father the Pope the Captain of Crueltie that vseth ●he iniusticie he ought not I pray you is not our Elizabeth Quéene of England aswel as Quéen Mary was what power what iurisdiction what auctoritie what superioritie what excellencie and what else hadde Quéene Mary that this our Quéene Elizabeth hath not Quéen Mary was King Henry the eights daughter so was our Quéen Elizabeth Quéene Mary was King Edw. sister so is Quéene Elizabeth Q. Mary succéeded hir brother King Edward so dydde Quéene Elizabeth succéede hir sister Quéene Mary Quéene Mary was lawful Quéene of England Quéene Elizabeth is as lawful Quéene of England I wil not say more Quéene Mary put downe Gods worde planted by hir brother and set vp Papistrie and Idolatrie and obeyed the Pope Quéene Elizabeth putte downe Papistrie and Idolatrie planted by hir sister and obeys God Quéene Mary vsed hir harmlesse and obedient Subiectes cruelly and putte them to death that professed Gods word Quéene Elizabeth vseth hir wicked and disobedient Subiectes mercifullye and suffereth them to liue that professe and stiffely defende Papistrie and Idolatrie the doctrine of the Diuel These comparisons duly considered your Quéene Mary did not muche excell oure Quéene Elizabeth vnlesse in crueltie and burning hir harmlesse subiects Nowe if Quéene Mary might put to death hir humble and harmelesse subiects for professing of Gods worde then I can not sée but that our Quéene Elizabeth maye as wel execute hir stubborne and disobedient subiectes whiche she as yet neuer did that withstande Gods worde and wil néedes followe Papistrie and Idolatrie And further if Quéene Mary hadde a lawe to burne the seruauntes of God that were obedient to hir concernyng their worldly duty and neuer meant hir harm Then why may not our Quéene Elizabeth make a law to execute the Popes seruants that are bound to be hir louing subiects which are disobedient vnto hir and that séeke procure desire and wish hir death and destruction Therfore be thankfull to God that hath giuen you and vs such a merciful Prince to raigne ouer vs loue ob●y hir that gyueth you for Iustice mercy and for extremitie lenitie And now as hir Grace doth refraine fcom that she may do so prouoke not hir highnesse to that she can doe And as I saide thinke not that hir Grace can not vse the sworde againste you bycause she hathe not vsed it for if you thinke so you do not only deceiue youre selues but also do much abuse hir Maiestie in that you séeme thereby to make hir a Prince without power whereby you are vnworthy of the great mercy she shewes vnto you What seruant is so foolishe to thinke much more to say that bycause his Maister doth not beate him for his faulte therefore he can not beate him Bycause the mercifull father doth not beate his sonne for his offence that maketh not that he can not beate him for the same Shall hir clemencie and mercie make you thinke in hir disabilitie Therefore if anye of you thinke so as I beléeue some of you haue said so you are not worthy of suche a mercifull Maistresse that vseth you so And I am sure that it is the spirite of vnthankfulnesse the spirite of blindnesse the spirite of errour or rather the spirite of the diuel that makes you say so Thinke not I beséech you that I haue written this for that I woulde haue the Quéenes Maiestie to withdrawe hir mercie from you and to vse you with crueltie whiche is contrary to hir milde and merciful nature if anye other way would serue for I do it as the Lord knows my hart to make you to sée and vnderstand hir great mercy lenitie and gentlenesse towards you thereby to win and allure you frō obstinacie to obediencie from ingratitude to thākfulnesse from ignorance to knowlege frō error to truth It may be that some of you wil saye that you loue the Quéene as wel as we and wishe the commoditie of youre country as wel as we If you do so then you wil not procure nor wishe anye forraine foes to come into anye of hir Graces dominions to help aide or succor any rebelles or traytors against our Quéen neither wil you be glad when you heare that any such are aryued or come into anye of hir highnesse dominions to fight against hir neither will you reioice if they and the rebels shoulde prosper againste oure Quéene and country But if you hearken for their comming in to fight against hir Maiesty and hir louing subiects or to aide rebelles againste hir or if you reioyce that they aide or helpe traitors against our Quéene or if you desire that they the rebels may get the victorie of hir and hir louing subiects as I feare many of you haue done and yet doe then whatsoeuer you say you are I am sure you are not true subiects but traitors to your prince no friendes but enimies to England Did none of you reioice that the forraine foes ariued in Ireland of late were none of you glad that they aided the rebels there against our Quéene and hir louing subiects And were none of you sory for their euil successe and ouerthrow you in your consciences know whether you do thus or not whether you are such or not whether you reioyced that the forraine foes ayded the

A Persuasion from Papistrie VVrytten chiefely to the obstinate determined and dysobedient English Papists who are herein named proued English enimies and extreme Enimies to Englande ¶ Which persuasion all the Queenes Maiesties Subiectes fauoring the Pope or his religion will reade or heare aduisedlye and throughly especially such as woulde be counted friendes to ENGLANDE that wishe oure Princes prosperitie the safegarde of the Nobilitie the concorde of our Comunalty and the continuance of this our happy state and tranquillitie AT LONDON Imprinted by Henrie Bynneman dwelling in Thamis Streete neare Baynards Castel ANNO. 1581. Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis To the most merciful and prudent Princesse Elyzabeth by the grace of God of Englande Fraunce and Ireland Queene Defender of the faith c. AS heretofore my moste gratious Soueraigne I troubled your Highnesse not without some trauell to my selfe in a thing that was necessarie reasonable and commodious to many and hurte to none Euen so I haue now not troublingly but louingly framed an earnest persuasion to suche of your subiects as feare not God as they ought regarde not hys worde as they shoulde nor obey your Highnesse as they are bounde naming them Englishe enimies as I maye verye well for Englishe friendes I am sure they are not whych persuasion is necessarie reasonable and very profitable for thē not hurtfull to any And as that which beefore I made to your Maiestie was by your Grace onely to be aucthorized for the greate releefe and succour of youre subiectes So this that I haue nowe written to your subiectes is to bee allowed and practised by them to the great comfort and ioy I hope of your Highnesse And though I haue penned it for them to performe yet I haue dedicated it to your Grace to peruse Beseeching youre Maiestie therein to pardon my boldenesse or rather presumption for thoughe it bee not so learnedly so cunningly and so finely framed as is requisite for your excellēcie yet it is so plainly so truly and so zealously done as is meete for your subiects Not doubting but stedfastlye trusting though al thereby be not allured from their errour that many will be wonne to the truth though it make not thē see that wincke for the nonce it wil cause thē to see that wil open their eyes And though it procure not the obstinate and determined Papistes from being Englishe Enimies yet it will enforce thousandes I hope of the simple seduced sorte to become Englishe friendes or rather friendes to England And thoughe there might seeme in mee too muche boldenesse to craue of your Maiestie to reade this presently yet I beseech your Highnesse to view and peruse it at your leysure conueniently For as the reading thereof I truste wil much profite them to whom I haue written it so your Graces reading of it woulde not a little reioyce mee to whome I dedicate it And whereas I firmely beleeue that God thereby wil be better honoured the Gospel more embraced Papistrie more contemned your Maiestie better obeyed your Highnesse of manye more loued your power more augmented treason lesse practised forraine foes more discouraged your louing subiects more comforted Englishe enimies more diminished Englishe friendes more encreased and this youre Realme of England the better strengthned yet the onely thing that I craue therefore of your Grace is well to accept it and in good parte to take it Beseeching your Maiestie not to respect the meane estate of the person but the meaning of the partie not the cunning of the contriuer but the intent of the writer neither howe it is couched but to what ende it is framed And if there be any thing therein that shall mislike your Maiestie I most humbly beseech you therefore to pardon me protesting to God and your Grace that I wrote the same not purposely but negligently and not willingly but ignorantly Hoping besides that the godly and wise will construe all things therein to the beste and not wreast them to the worst And as for other that haue an ouerweening in their owne wittes and that are rather curious carpers than profitable doers whereof there are not a few I doe not muche weigh for it is impossible to write so circumspectly to satisfie or please euery precise head And therefore I haue chosen rather to write truth and goodnesse for fooles to mislike than toyes and tryfles for the wise to deride not ignoraunte that there are moe finde-faultes than mende-faultes and moe that are ready to detract other mens doings than able to make the like of their owne whereof some thinke they deserue more to be commended so much they fancie their follie for discommending of that in a minute of an houre whyche the Writer with great study and paine for their greate profite and the continuall commoditie of many thousandes hath beene a framing and finishing twoo or three yeares And as a greate sorte for this will fauour me and not hate mee Euen so I am sure that some therefore will hate me moste spitefully that rather oughte to loue me earnestly Whose malice the better to withstande I haue chosen your Maiestie as one that is beste able vnder God to defende me Vnder whose protection this may the more safely passe abroade and thereby be the better accepted the more desired the gladlyer receyued the more willingly perused the more aduisedly scanned the lesse detracted and the better credited And thus omitting any further to trouble your Highnesse I as one of your most true and faithful subiects vnfainedly and from the bottome of my heart do beseeche God to preserue you from perils to shielde you from sorrow to confound al your foes to defend you from Traytours to reueale their conspyracies to frustrate theyr attemptes and to protecte you in peace Your Graces moste dutifull and obedient subiecte THOMAS LVPTON A persuasion from Papistrie IF this our famous realme of Englād hath manye Englishe enimies if it bréede and nourish such as lokes and hopes for y e subuersion of the good peaceable estate therof And if many that are carefully defēded therin by our most gracious merciful Princes are apparaunte enimies to hir grace and to this our countrey Then no maruel though it should haue a great sort of forraine foes Then it is vnlike that strangers borne and bredde out of it do wishe that it should prosper and thē how may it be thought that strangers not defēded by hir maiestie shold be faithful friends to hir to hir realme for if one hate his natural mother y t nourished brought him vp Thē it is not like y t one shold loue his stepmother that neuer did any thing for him And now for that it is wel known by tryal not surmised by heare say that ther are such mētioned english enimies as wel dwelling among vs as also rainging abrode in other Countreys which is no lesse griefe to hir grace than sorrow to hir louing subiects I for the zeale I owe to my prince