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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03944	An adioynder to the late Catholike new yeares gift, or explication of the oath of allegeance Wherein certaine principall difficulties, obiected by a very learned Roman-Catholike, against the sayd New-yeares gift, and explication of the oath, are very clearely explained. Published by E.I. the author of the New-yeares gift.	Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1620 (1620)	STC 14050; ESTC S100127	50,683	158

many publike Decrees of the Parliament of Paris in France approued the contrary doctrine vnder paine of Treason condemned for false pernicious scandalous and sedicious The Copy of a letter written by R. P. a religious Catholike Priest to M. B. a very learned Roman Catholike in answer to certaine difficulties obiected by the aforesayd M. B. against the late Catholike new-New-yeares Gift or Explication of the Oath of Allegeance Worthy Sir THere was left for mee in the end of the last Trinity Term in my absence a letter with this superscription To the worshipfull and his most respected friend E. I. giue these and the Partie who brought it sayd it was sent and meant for me Which after I had opened and perused the first beginning thereof I was a little greeued in this respect that a friend and old acquaintance of mine should seeke as then I conceiued to put a tricke vpon me in making mee to bee the Author of the late New-yeeres Gift whereas the Author thereof knowing belike how displeasing such bookes are in the Court of Rome was desirous as you might haue gathered by the Inscription therof to haue his name concealed Whereupon some friends to whom I shewed your letter endeuoured to perswade mee not to meddle at all therewith but to returne it backe to the Party who brought it Neuerthelesse because I did not attribute this your errour to any euill affection or meaning in you towards me but rather to some want of discretion or consideration in you and for that as it seemeth you are desirous to haue from me some answer to your obiections I my selfe hauing also read and perused the said New-yeeres Gift with all diligence and not disliking the grounds and principles therof which I am not affraid publikely to acknowledge will in regard of our old acquaintance without more adoe or seeking any other Reply from E. I. the Author thereof take the paines to answer according to Mr. Widdringtons grounds to the principall obiections contained in your letter which I will entirely ad verbum and orderly set downe onely diuiding it into certaine parts or Sections without altering or inuerting the order of your letter Thus therefore you begin Sect. 1. Obiection 1. WOrthy Sir and mine old acquaintance Hauing read and perused with all diligence your late booke for the Oath of Allegeance mee thinketh I finde not in it that fulnesse of satisfaction at the least in all poynts which was expected and I and others could haue wished And therefore I make bold presuming of our ancient amitie to trouble you with some few lines concerning the chiefe doubts and difficulties I finde about your booke and exposition of the Oath Blame me not good Sir that I make thus bold to trouble you in this businesse for it is a matter which concerneth much both my selfe and others and such indeed as requireth great discussion and most diligent examination If the Oath might lawfully bee taken as you labour to proue and whatsoeuer others think as I am perswaded with great sincerity zeale to God and loue to your Prince and Countrey I should bee glad and none more glad for it would yeeld great content to our Prince a thing much to bee wished of all louing and loyall subiects and no small comfort to our poore afflicted brethren wearied and almost wasted to nothing for refusall of the same But if it cannot as I much feare at the least in that sense it is exacted at our hands no maruell if wee who haue daily to deale with poore mens consciences labour what wee can to haue it throughly examined And this I would haue you assure your selfe that whatsoeuer scruple or doubt you shall finde that I doe make about your doctrine and exposition of the Oath I will not doe it of any euill affection contradictious spirit or humour to wrangle for of that sort there hath been too much sayd and done already and a happy attonement were heartily to bee wished but meerely for loue of truth and desire of satisfaction to poore afflicted consciences which through the Popes Breues on the one side together with many other stiffe defenders of that doctrine and your late exposition of the Oath and the allowance thereof on the other still God not remaine perplexed and hardly know yet what to doe Answer 1. BVT first I doe not well vnderstand what fulnesse of satisfaction in all points you did expect and haue not found in the late New-yeeres Gift For if you expected that Mr. Widdrington from whom the Author of the New-yeeres Gift hath collected his Explication of the Oath should haue taken vpon him in this controuersie of the Oath which is forbidden by the Popes Breues though vpon false informations and suppositions and also impugned by diuerse learned men vpon the same false grounds to proue it to bee lawfull by such cleare and euident demonstrations as that no wrangling spirit or stiffe Impugner of the Oath could alledge any doubt difficulty or scruple against his arguments or answers you were herein greatly mistaken neither had you any reason to expect the same especially if you had duely considered what he did obserue in his Theologicall Disputation a In the Epistle n. 4. both for that to bring such euident demonstrations in any controuersie whatsoeuer among learned Catholikes is a very hard matter and also because it was sufficient for him to answer probably all the arguments which could bee brought against the Oath and to alledge such probable proofes grounded both vpon the cleare principles of Philosophie Law and Diuinitie and also vpon the testimony authority and confession of his chiefest Aduersaries which might perswade any prudent learned and indifferent man that there is nothing in the Oath repugnant to faith or saluation and consequently that it may with a safe conscience bee taken And whether hee hath sufficiently performed this or no the learned Reader must iudge you your self by the answers to your doubts difficulties or rather as you well tearme them scruples may easily perceiue 2. Secondly I cannot blame you for labouring to haue this controuersie of the Oath to bee throughly examined considering it doth so neerely concerne our duty to God and Caesar and consequently the spiritual safety or hurt to our soules to omit now all temporall losses by taking or refusing the same But truely in my conceit if without all partiality or ouermuch affection to either part you would be as curious and carefull to finde out fauourable Expositions of the Oath as you haue beene to inuent doubts difficulties or rather scriples against the same you would easily perceiue that no conuincing and demonstratiue argument can be brought to proue the Oath vnlawfull And the variety and diuersity of the grounds whereupon the stiffe Impugners therof do chiefly insist some disprouing the Oath for this clause some for another some for this reason others not for that some for the Popes Breues others not daring to ground themselues on them