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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11461	Of romanizing recusants, and dissembling Catholicks. A counter-maund of a counterfeit embassage. Or, An answer to the posthume pamphlet of Ralfe Buckland sometime a popish priest secretly printed and published after his death about a yeere a goe.	Sanderson, Thomas, 1560 or 61-1614.	1611 (1611)	STC 21711; ESTC S114100	46,568	117

OF ROMANIZING RECVSANTS AND DISSEMBLING CATHOLICKS A COVNTER-MAVND of a counterfeit Embassage OR AN ANSWERE TO the posthume Pamphlet of Ralfe Buckland sometime a Popish Priest secretly printed and published after his death about a yeere a goe I haue not sent these Prophets sayth the Lord yet they ranne I haue not spoken to them yet they Prophecied Ieremy 23.21 AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Purfoot An. Dom. 1611. These things are performed in this Treatise 1 THe scope or drift of the Priests Pamphlet is iustified viz. That dissembling Papists in England ought to vnmaske themselues 2 The Popish Doctrine inserted is controwled by the Positiue Doctrine of Truth 3 The prophane blasphemies and vniust Criminations against the true professours called Protestants are iustly retorted vpon the Popish Synagogue 4 Vnsetled Consciences among the Papists are exhorted to continew their obedience to the proceedings of the English Protestant Church that by gods grace in the end they may be setled in the Truth TO THE MOST REVErend Father in God the Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace Primate and Metropolitane of all England and of his Maiesties most Honourable priuie Councell my very good Lord. Most Reuerend Father THE DEDIcation of euery work framed against the Common Aduersary of our Church and State seemeth vnto me of right next vnder his Majestie to belong vnto your Grace in regard both of your Place and Person Your Place being as that of Zadock or Nathan to King Dauid your Person worthy of all Honour Whome God and the King haue so greatly honoured with such high and eminent graces and endowments as which truly none saue Haereticall and Prophane Spirits of enuy and malignitie can dis-tast but which the syncerely-christian ought to prosecute with all Honourable approbation and loyalty The consideration whereof respectiuely joyned with some other congruent motiues hath emboldned me at this time submisly to entreat your Graces Patronage of this my first Onset in this Kind which I haue giuen to the Iesuiticall Opposite Wherefore in all humilitie presuming to commend the same to your Graces protection I pray God almighty to assist and blesse your Grace in all your weighty affaires with his most holy Spirit and happy succes for euer Your Graces in all most humble affection and duty TH. SANDERSON To the Reader CHristian Reader In this Treatise Truth and zeale of Gods glory which were aymed at I trust will appeare But I should hardly haue deliuered store of reading though I had beene furnished therewith For neither doth the quality of the Message controwled require it neither is it fitting for him in whose name it is answered to make shew of it The Person answering is our blessed Sauiour himselfe whose word is a proofe inuincible In whose name a popish Priest hath audaciously praesumed to deliuer an Embassage which he neuer receaued The Message it selfe is full of rayling lyes and blasphemies but no learning at all I cannot find that scarcely once he attempteth to prooue any of those idolatrous and Popish opinions which he euery where scattereth As he layeth downe false principles of Popish doctrine without proofes so it may be found in this Countermand that they are crossed and checked with the Positiue Truth supported with some chiefe fundamentall arguments thereof Of this I thought good to aduertise thee because this Answere intendeth onely to discouer the praesumption of a false Embassadour the impudent calumniations of a notable Rayler and the erroneous doctrines of a Romish Priest to the end to controwle the malapert sawcines of the Embassadour to retort the iniurious criminations of the Railer to oppose the Truth of God to the Romish profession that wisedome may be iustified of all her children and they that run well may run so still vntill the light of God do shine full in their hearts and vntill vnremooueable grace bee with all them that loue the Lord Iesus Christ in syncerity The Preface A Short Horse is soone curried though a ragged Colt is not so sodenlie broken A pettie pamphlet may be sodenlie answered though a prophane pedantick Haeretick is not so readily put to silence But it is no matter Dogs will barke and euill workers will euer be busie bodies and the Concision will neuer bee of the true circumcision Si pro errore homines damnabili dissensione conuicta modis omnibus falsitate tanta praesumunt c. quantò magis aequum est oportet eos qui pacis vnitatis Christianae asserunt veritatem c. satagere instanter atque impigrè non solum pro eorum munimine quiiam catholici sunt verum etiā pro eorum correctione qui nondum sunt Nam sipertinacia insuperabiles vires habere conatur quātas debet habere constantia Aug. ad Festū ep 197. quae in eo bono quod perseuerantèr infatigabilitèr agit Deo placere se nouit proculdubio non potest hominibus prudentibus displicere It is therefore expedient and it shall not be grieuous because it is a work of no great labour as to answere words with words againe a foole according to his follie c so to teach a yong coltish Priest by this Priest to range about without an errand and pretend an Embassage without a message Whose ragged Rhetorick jmpudēt boldnes is the more jntolerable because he taketh vpon him the person of Christ hauing been himselfe a Priest lym of Antichrist hauing crept like a Locust out of the bottomlesse pit he crowneth himselfe the king of kings and Lord of Lords as comming downe from heauen Is it any matter to halter the necks and euen to breake the hearts of such Colts Who dare to entitle their owne beastlie and blasphemous neighings with the name of An Embassage from the sonne of God our Lord and sauiour Iesus Christ But because this Embassador is now departed the mortalitie of this life as it seemeth to be insinuated in the preface I leaue him to the Iudgement of the Eternall Iudge Augustinus whose Iudgements are sometimes manifest sometimes secret alwaies iust Neuer-thelesse as one of the Lords Prophets and servants of Christ in the cause and quarrell of my Maister though the meanest and weakest of Ten-thousand I haue thought good to take in hand from a true and harty zeale that I beare vnto the Church of Christ to examine this Embassage And first he might haue gyuen leaue to some sturdier steed to haue rushed into the battell formost whether his meaning were in simple honestie to call backe his friends from the Enemies campe or in slye subtiltie to stirre and raise vp an open Rebellion so to muster all the papists in this Kingdome Recusants and Schismaticks as himselfe diuideth them in one Armie I will not determine his meaning because I know not his Conscience I leaue the purpose of his heart to him that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But as one saith Quicquid id est Virg. AEneid 2. Prov. 12.5 timeo