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A16785	An apologie and true declaration of the institution and endeuours of the tvvo English colleges, the one in Rome, the other novv resident in Rhemes against certaine sinister informations giuen vp against the same.	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1581 (1581)	STC 369; ESTC S122355	72,955	248

in their ovvne conceit and very dānable in the iudgmēt of others the due consideratiō vvherof hath yelded to vs many yea some scores partly before and partly after their enterāce to that trade or that vvere doubtful vvhether of the tvvo religiōs vvere true vvherein to take trial of none but the one vvhich the svvay of the Countrie forcibly driueth vnto vvhen they might haue proofe of the other so neere at hand in a College of their ovvne vvithout great cost or trauail seemed to many much shame and inexcusable negligence in cause of saluation vvhich is the iustest cause to trauail as S. Augustine telleth Honoratus in the vvorld Vvhich hath driuen diuers ouer to their great satisfaction and admiration of the euidence of our part Grammar Schooles also from al partes of the Realme haue yelded vs many youthes vvhich hauing their vvhole and ful trayning in Catholike Colleges here proue no lesse seruiceable for their Countrie then the others And the rest brought vp in the Vniuersities there do easily here by comparison perceiue the great corruption in the same specially of life and maners sinne libertie and licentiousnes daily more and more shevving them selues to be companiōs of this nevv doctrine Vvhich doctrine vvho so euer attempteth to amend let him knovv by our experience that the place affected is custom and pleasure in sinne and shame and lothsomnes to cōfesse and amend Vvhich being cured there remaineth no difficultie These youths Gentlemens sonnes specially are much propense in our Countrie God be thanked for it as also for that it giueth exceding hope of better times to the Catholike faith and many aduenture ouer to vs vvithout their parents consent and sometimes much against their vvilles Vvho though they could be content to haue their children better brought vp then they can be at home yet for feare of disfauour of the vvorld vvherein they be more entangled then their sonnes they refuse often to giue them any releefe at all feare sometimes ouerpaising their natural affection and God taketh the care of their deere pledges and keepeth them here for their Countrie And because one College could not be sufficiēt for so great store of al sortes as is said and for that this beneath might be subiect to diuers disturbances by fine practises of the aduersarie vvherof our remoue from Duay gaue vs good experience notvvithstanding the Catholike and honorable Magistrate sithence by their letters instantly inuiting vs thither againe therfore God moued the hart of the Popes Holinesse to erect that other also in Rome a place not commonly subiect to the like hazards that so these tvvo Colleges might be more plentiful Nourceries for the Church of our Countrie and ioyntly vvorke together for the benefite of the same The first intended and most certaine fruite therof ouer and aboue the prouision for the time to come being to saue so many soules as not onely vvere any one time in both the Colleges or in other Schooles in these partes expecting roomes in the same but al othets that in diuers times and seasons haue been or shal be brought vp in them during the schisme the number of vvhom vvhich is already exceding great and the rest vvhich are to come hereafter Christ onely knovveth besides many trauailers that intending not precisely any matter of religiō haue yet by Gods careful prouidence that ouerreacheth mans purposes to his saluation been happily by them conuerted to Christian faith and life to their great and inexpected ioy Al vvhich if they had taried in the English Vniuersities or thervvise had folovved the maner of our Countrie had perished euerlastingly vvithout al question though by the erroneous iudgement and persuasion of the Protestants many feare not their damnable state The second and further fruite of the said Colleges is to instruct men in al Cases of conscience and Controuersies and to breede in them zeale and desire to be Priests euen in these daies specially vvhē they can looke for no vvorldly honour lucre preferment or promotion thereby but manifold dangers disgraces persecution vexations onely by praiers and Sacrifice the special office of that holy Order and an act that maketh the most forcible clamour to God for mercie of al others to make intercession for our desolate frendes at home and to aduēture into England there to serue them vvhose hartes God shal touch to admitte spiritual comforts and to preferre saluation before vvordly cōmodities and to minister vnto them al Sacraments necessarie for the life and grace of their soules Vvhich duety through loue that is stronger then death very great numbers of both the Colleges besides other vertuous and learned Priests haue godly and happily done to the benefite and vnspeakable solace of infinite persons great alteration of mindes throughout the vvhole Realme and vvonderful encrease of courage in al sortes not onely to thinke vvel in hart but opēly and as Christian Catholikes are bound to do boldly to professe their faith and religion and to refuse all actes contrarie to the same Vvhich vvas thought a hard thing to the vvordly at the beginning but novv they vvould not be in their former case for al the goods the Realme yeldeth acknovvledging it to be an extreme miserie that the greatest part of the Coūtrie should be Catholikes in their hartes and in their mouths and actions Protestants And this they haue done onely by the povver of Priesthod in spiritual silent and peaceable maner ād not vvith riottes tumults or vvarlike concourse they haue done it as the Apostles and other holy men did in the primitiue Church by trauails vvatchings fastings perils at the portes perils in the sea perils on the land perils of open enimies perils of false brethren feares of the lavves feares of hurting their frendes feares for scandalizing the vveake by contumelies disgraces pouertie prisonments fetters dungeons rackes deaths And this the omnipotēt God because it is his ovvne vvorke enterprised by order and authoritie of his cheefe Minister in earth hath prospered excedingly though it seemed at the beginning a thing hard or impossible the Aduersaries hauing so many yeres the lavves the svvord the pulpits and al humane helpes for them But the enterance to this spiritual attempt and traffike vvas vvel opened before by bookes vvritten from these partes and by sundrie letters of the vertuous youthes to their parents and frendes vvhom they besought to regard their soules and not to damne them selues vpon pretēce of sauing their lāds and goods to the profite of them their childrē and posteritie desiring no other inheritance then their saluation and companie in heauen the lacke vvherof should be to them more then al mortal sorovves To this the fruites of the Protestants doctrine their profane life and maners their restles contentions debates and dissentions among them selues their scandals mo in those fevv daies of their felicitie then vvas giuē of the true Clergie in a thousand yeres before though al the Aduersaries slaunderous reportes of