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A20671	An humble appeale to the Kings most excellent Maiestie Wherein is proued, that our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ, was authour of the Catholike Roman faith, which Protestants call Papistrie. Written by Iohn Hunt, a Roman Catholike, in defence of his religion against the calumniations and persecutions of Protestant ministers.	Doughty, Thomas, fl. 1618-1638.	1620 (1620)	STC 7072.3; ESTC S116238	58,171	97

shal not be deliuered to another people and it shal breake in peeces shal consume al those Kingdoms it self shal stand for euer Which Prophecie we finde verified by experience vpon the Catholike Roman Church which as Protestants themselues confesse was so potent presently after the Apostles times that it destroyed and consumed the Church of Protestants and for these one thousand and two hundred yeares hath raigned vniuersally without any debatable contradiction as is set downe in the third Chapter Againe we see by experience that all other Kingdomes and Monarchies of Christians haue been interrupted and changed as the Empire first from the West vnto the East and after into Germany Spaine was first possessed by the Romans after by the Goathes and lastly for many yeares by the Moores France was long time tributarie to the Romans and about the yeare of our Lord 451. the Franck Germanes who dwelled beyond the Rhyne began to conquer them and in processe of time obtained their Kingdome and changed their name from Gaules to French and about the yeare 461. elected Mirouee for King after France was possessed by the English and Henry the sixt was crowned King of France about the yeare 1422. from which time the Kings of England haue alwayes challenged to be Kings of France England was vnder the Romanes vntill the time of Honorius and shortly after it was conquered by the Saxons and then by the Danes and last by Norman French In so much as that it is manifest to experience that the Catholike Romane Church is the Kingdome raysed vp by God which shall not bee destroyed for euer Whereupon the Prophet Ioel saith Yee children of Ioel 2. 23. Syon the Church of God reioyce and be ioyfull in the Lord your God because he hath giuen you a Doctor of iustice and hee will make the earely and the late showre to descend to you as in the beginning And the floores shal be filled with wheate and the presses shall ouerflow with wine and oyle And I wil render you the yeares which the Locust the Bruke and the blast and the Eruke hath eaten my great strength which I haue sent vpon you And eating you shal eate and shal be filled and you shal praise the name of the Lord your God that hath done maruailes with you and my people shal not be confounded for euer And you shal know that I am in the middest of Israel and I the Lord your God and there is none besides and my people shal not be confounded for euer So the Prophet Micheas saith And thou Bethelem Mich. 4. 2. Ephrata art a little one in the thousands of Iuda out of thee shall come forth vnto me he that shal be the Dominator in Israel and his comming forth from the beginning from the dayes of eternity c. and the remnant of his brethren shal be conuerted to the children of Israel And he shal stand and feed in the strength of our Lord in the height of the name of our Lord his God and they shal be conuerted because now shal he be magnified euen to the ends of the earth c. And the remnant of Iacob shal be in the Gentiles in the middest of many peoples as a Lyon amongst the beasts of the forrest and as a Lyons whelpe amongst the flocke of cattell who when he hath passed and trodden downe and taken there is none to deliuer Thy hand shall be exalted ouer thine enemies and thine enemies shall perish So the Prophet Abacuc saith God wil come from Abac. 4. 3. the South and the holy one from the shady mountaine his glory shal couer the heauens and the earth is full of his praise That is saith S. AVGVSTINE the Gospell shall begin from Ierusalem and Mount Oliuet and so be dilated ouer the world For Ierusalem saith Saint AVGVSTINE is placed Southward as is read in the Aug. ●p 166. booke of Iesus Naue from whence the name of Christ hath been spread and there is a shadie mountaine Mount Oliuet from whence he ascended into heauen that his vertue might couer the heauens and the Church might be filled with his praise throughout the whole earth So the Prophet Zacharias saith Behold thy King will come to thee the lust and Sauiour himselfe poore and riding vpon an Asse and vpon a Colt the Fole of an Asse c. He shal speake peace to the Gentiles and his power from sea euen to sea and from the riuers of Iordan Matth. 5. 13. where he was baptised euen vnto the end of the earth not for a day or a month or a yeare But as he spake to Luke 1. 55. our Fathers to Abraham and his seed for euer These Prophecies to be verified on our Catholike Roman Faith we haue shewed at large in the first second and third Chapter and are so far from being verified vpon Protestantisme that for a thousand and foure hundred yeares together Protestants are not able to name one man who held and taught the doctrine they now hold and teach So dread Soueraigne if the testimonies of Moyses and the Prophets may find grace and credit with your Maiesty they affirme that our Sauiour was Author of the Catholike Romane Faith as we haue abundantly shewed Yet the testimonies of Moyses and the Prophets were of such force with our Sauiour as he bringeth in Abraham saying If they heare not Moyses and Luke 16. 31. the Prophets neither wil they be perswaded though one rise from the dead Againe hee saith to the incredulous Iewes Had you beleeued Moyses you would peraduenture Iohn 5. 46. haue beleeued me for he wrote of me And if you beleeue not his writings which are confirmed by so many oathes and promises and found true by experience how wil you beleeue my words And so I conclude the Prophecies of the old Testament with the words of Saint Augustine saying The Aug. in Psal 30. Prophets haue spoken more obscurely of Christ then of the Church I thinke because they did see in spirit that men would rebell against the Church and would not haue so great strife concerning Christ but would raise vp great contentions concerning the Church therefore that about which men were to make great strife was more plainly foretold and more manifestly prophecied that it might serue for their condemnation who did see it and fled out CHAP. X. Wherein is proued by the testimony of Angels that our Sauiour was the Author of the Catholike Romane Faith HAVING most dread Soueraigne according to the counsel of our Sauiour Iohn 5. 39. sought the old Testament to see what it saith of the Faith Seed and Children of the Messias and hauing found that by it our Lord was the Author of the Catholike Romane Faith Seed or Religion we will now descend downe vnto the New to see what it saith in generall of the Faith Seed Word or Gospel which our Sauiour planted vpon earth that wee may also see whether

AN HVMBLE APPEALE TO THE KINGS MOST EXCELLENT MAIESTIE Wherein is proued that our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST was Authour of the Catholike Roman Faith which Protestants call PAPISTRIE Written by IOHN HVNT a Roman Catholike in defence of his Religion against the Calumniations and persecutions of Protestant MINISTERS IOHN 5. 39. Search the Scriptures for you thinke by them to haue life euerlasting and the same are they which giue testimonie of mee THE PREFACE Most dread Soueraigne SO heauy for many yeares hath been the hand of Protestant Ministers vpon vs Catholikes your auncient and faithfull subiects that heauen is ful with our cries the world with our afflictions the earth is drunk with our bloud the aire a receptacle for our quarters prisons are filled with our bodies and Pursuiuants infamous men at their pleasures inriched with the spoile of our goods in such sort as with the Apostles liuing in like persecution we may truly say Wee 1. Cor. 4. 9. are made a spectacle to the world and to Angels and to men that the extremity of our afflictions enforceth vs to Appeale vnto your Maiesty prostrate at your feet in most humble manner to beseech your Highnesse to heare the truth of our cause and take notice of the sincerity of our affections to God your Person and State God Almighty out of his infinit goodnesse hauing created vs according to his owne Image and after our fall Gen. 1. 27. redeemed vs from eternall paines in token of homage exacteth of vs the practising and professing of that Faith and Religion which was planted vpon earth by his only Son our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ and that with such rigor as whosoeuer at his death shal be found faultie herein shall not onely lose the inheritance of the kingdome of heauen and the happie vision of his diuine Maiesty but also condemned into fire euerlasting which was prepared for Matth. 25. 41. the Diuell and his angels there to endure the wrath and vengeance of God for euer and euer And lest any one should doubt which was this Faith or Religion he swore he would multiply it in men as the Gen. 22. Isay 88. Isay 54. Isay 62. Starres of heauen that remaining in all ages and times visibly seene and professed none could or should haue occasion of doubting which was this Faith or Religion vnto the which he was so straitly bound vnlesse he would wilfully be obstinate and blinde And yet notwithstanding your Protestant Ministers contrary to the oath of God and without respect of the penalty of eternall damnation imposed vpon misbeleeuers would perswade vs that their Religion which about threescore yeares agoe was inuented in England by Queene ELIZABETH only to keepe your Maiesties Mother and her issue from their lawfull right to the Crowne of England is the Religion which was planted by our Sauiour and afflict vpon your ancient subiects who haue maintained your Progenitors in the state of Kings and absolute Monarkes many hundred yeares confiscation of goods and lands imprisonment losse of liberty and life and the benefit of all Ciuil and Humane lawes and conuersation for that we wil not beleeue them to the losse of our owne soules and in continuance of time the destruction of your Monarchie according to the Prophecies saying I will blesse them that blesse thee and curse them Gen. 12. 3. that curse thee In thee shall all the Kindreds of the earth be blessed The Nation and the Kingdome that Isay 60. 12. shall not serue thee shall perish Which we haue seene so manifestly fulfilled in al ages times amongst Christians that hitherto neuer any Nation People or Countrey of Christian men did separate it selfe by Schisme from the Catholike Church the spiritual seed of Abraham dilated ouer the world but it was within few yeares conquered by barbarus people Whereupon we your ancient subiects feareful lest we should be forsaken of God and fal into these euils and timorous in any thing to offend your Maiestie our dearest Soueraigne prostrate at your feete doe humbly offer vnto your Highnesse the grounds and foundations of our Faith and Religion by which we proue that it is the same Faith and Religion which was planted vpon earth by our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ in which al the Kindreds of the earth were to be blessed hoping therby to remoue away from your Majesties minde these sinister false informations which such as neither wish well either to your Person or State more then may serue to the accomplishing of their designes daily publish in your presence viz. That we are wilfull disloyall Subjects who vnder pretext of Religion pretend Rebellion Ignorant blinde people that haue nothing to say for the Religion we professe Enemies to your Maiesty and State c. That your Majesty being better informed we also may taste of the sweetnesse of your Gouernment who are at al times and in al things as readie to obey and serue you our dread Soueraigne as our Auncestors haue serued and obeyed your Progeniters Kings and absolute Monarkes of this Iland or as the Catholike subiects of the Emperour or of the King of Spaine or France or Polonie do serue their Soueraignes And in testimony hereof we offer to binde our selues alwayes to remaine loyal faithful Subiects vnto your Majesty your Heires and lawful Successours by amoath whereby we may not in effect and deed sweare that God Almighty is forsworne in violating his oath and promises which he made to the Patriarks and Prophets euery where spoken of in the Scriptures to be fulfilled in that Faith Seede and Religion which was to be planted vpon earth by his only Son our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ Your Majesty wel knoweth that it is not yet much about threescore yeares since these your Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland were Catholike and the most of vs together with our Auncestors neuer were of any other Religion See this proued in the second Chapter then this we now professe since our Conuersion to Christianity from Paganisme And if we should now forsake it for feare of the losse of temporall goods imprisonment and hanging and not out of information in beleefe we should be but Atheists and be worthy to be hanged vp indeed for dissembling with men and violating all obligation to God Moreouer the meanes which God Almighty appointed his Officers to vse in the conuersion of Kingdomes and people was Humility Patience Charity c. saying Behold Matth. 10. 16. I send you as sheepe in the middest of Wolues he did not say I send you as Wolues amongst sheepe to kill imprison spoyle and deuoure those vnto whom they were sent Againe he said They to whom I send you will deliuer Matth. 10. 17. you vp in Councels and in their Synagogues they wil scourge you And to Presidents and to Kings shall you be led for my sake He doth not say you whom I send shall deliuer the people whom you

to moue your Highnesse to dispence with the said Statutes are as many and as weightie as in any case can be giuen whereof I will repeate onely some few out of which others may be collected First for that the said Statutes are contrary to the honor of God his oathes words and Law as we haue abundantly prooued throughout this booke and as your Maiesty well affirmeth in your Speech in the Star-chamber printed 1616. There is another Law of all Lawes free and Supreame which is Gods Law And by this all common and municipall Lawes must be gouerned And except they haue dependance vpon this Law they are vniust and vnlawful Secondly they defame Christ Iesus and all Christian men who euer were before the time of King Henry the eight knowne and reputed Heretikes by both parties onely excepted For that they all eyther committed or helped or assisted or gaue counsell to commit these actions which are by the said Statutes made Treason Fellony or Criminall as we haue proued in the first second and third Chapters Thirdly they are contrary to the solemne oathes of the Kings of England taken at their Coronation according to the ancient Lawes and Customes of this Land as in the Saxon Law left by King Engward the Lex Sancti Edwardi 7. Confessor it is said That the King because he is Gods Vicegerent vpon earth is ordained to gouerne his earthly kingdome and people of God and aboue all things that hereuerence the holy Church which is our Catholike Romane Church as I haue abundantly proued defend her from the iniurious pull the euil doers from her and vtterly disperse them Againe The King ought to feare God aboue al things and keepe his Commandements through-out the Land he ought to preserue the Lands Honors Rights Dignities and Liberties of the Crowne and the Rights of the Realme such as is especially the Catholike Roman Faith planted in this Land by the Apostles lost dispersed and wasted to recall with all his power to their ancient and due estate He ought to set vp good Lawes and approued Customes and euill Lawes destroy and put from his kingdome c. All which to do the King in proper person ought to giue an oath vpon the holy Gospell and vpon the blessed Reliques in the presence of the whole kingdome the Priest-hood and the Laytie So likewise Bracton an Bracton l. 3. c. 9. ancient Lawyer saith The King at his Coronation vnder an oath in the name of Iesus Christ ought to promise these three to his Subiects First That he will command and to his power doe his endeauour that true peace be alwayes obserued to the Church of God and to all Christian people Secondly That he should forbid rapine such as is the Purseuants taking away of Catholikes goods without forme or order of Law and all iniquities to all sorts of people Thirdly That in all maner of iudgements he command equity and mercy to be vsed as he would that our benigne and merciful God should shew mercy vnto him According to which Law the Kings of England at their Coronations haue alwaies bin solemnely sworne to defend the Church of God and her liberties to set vp good Lawes and destroy euill and doe justice c. So William the Conqueror at his Coronation tooke an Stow in his life oath on the Altar of S. Peter where he promised before the Clergie and all the people to defend the holy Church of God the Pastors thereof and all the people subiect vnto him he should iustly gouerne he would ordaine good Laws and obserue true iustice and to the vttermost of his power to withstand all rapines and false iudgements MALMESBVRY maketh mention of the oath of King Stephen to this effect In the Records of the Tower in the first yeare of Edward the second and first yeare of Edward the third are set downe their seuerall oathes to this effect And your Maiesty maketh mention of your oath in your Speech in the Star-chamber 1616. saying I protest in Gods presence my care hath euer been to keepe my conscience cleare in all points of my oath taken at my Coronation Againe in the same booke and leafe I haue resolued to renue my promise and oath made at my Coronation Herein your Maiesty may bee like Asa the good King of Iuda who at the words of Azarias the Prophet 2. Parel 15. Tooke away the Idols out of the Land of Iuda and Beniamin and gathered together all Iuda and Beniamin and when they were come into Ierusalem he went in after the maner to establish the couenant that they should seeke our Lord the God of their Fathers in all their heart and in all their soule And if any man quoth he shal not seeke our Lord the God of Israel let him die from the least to the greatest from man vnto woman And they sware to our Lord witb a loud voice in iubilation and in noyse of Trumpet and sound of Shalmes all that were in Iuda with execration for in all their heart did they sweare the King and all the people to seeke our Lord the God of Israel his Law Religion and Commandements Fourthly if we will beleeue the Scriptures they will be the destruction of your Kingdome and Posteritie and therefore oblige all those who sincerely loue your Maiesty and your Posterity to desire their abrogation or dispensation Samuel said to the Children of Israel which now we Christians are I will teach you 1. King 12. 23. the good and right way Feare our Lord and serue him in truth and from your whole heart But if you shal perseuere in malice both you and your King shal perish together Againe Samuel said to SAVL Thou hast not kept the 1. King 13. 31. Commandements of our Lord thy God which he commanded thee which if thou haddest done euen now had our Lord prepared thy kingdome ouer Israel for euer but thy kingdome shall no further arise So MOYSES saith Deut. 29. 19. When he shall heare the words of this oath of the Couenant betweene God and man he blessed himselfe in his heart saying I shal haue place and walke in the priuity of my heart c. then shall Gods fury most specially fume and his zeale against that man and all the curses sit vpon him that be written in Deutronomie and our Lord will abolish his name vnder heauen Which we see by experience to haue beene verified of late yeares vpon two of the greatest Monarkes that were in Christendome Henry the eight King of England Henry the second King of France Henry the eight was the first beginner of these Statutes Henry the second went in person with thirtie thousand men to ayde the Protestants of Germany as witnesseth Serres in his life Henry the eight had fiue or sixe wiues and fiue or sixe children and Henry the second had fiue sonnes yet we see that both their names are abolished from vnder heauen their Kingdomes or Reignes ended