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A04328	An apologie for Iohn Wickliffe shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England; with answere to such slaunderous obiections, as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons, the apologists, and others. Collected chiefly out of diuerse works of his in written hand, by Gods especiall providence remaining in the publike library at Oxford, of the honorable foundation of Sr. Thomas Bodley Knight: by Thomas James keeper of the same.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.; Wycliffe, John, d. 1384.	1608 (1608)	STC 14445; ESTC S108215	68,345	90

ouer al persons 2. Admit he were so whether he may intermedle with the Temporal affaires of Kings and Princes Thirdly supposing that also whether he be of that temper and making that he cannot erre in his finall Conclusions Fourthly and lastly whether he be Antichrist or no. Sect. 1. Touching the 1. point it cannot be denied but that Iohn VVickliffe supposing the Donation of Constātine which afterwards proued but a counterfeit did for a while hold that the Pope was to bee consulted in the greatest points of Religion and that he had b De Verit. Scrip. p. 122. plenā solam potestatem plenarie and ful power of himselfe and c Peccatum paganitatis incurrit quisquis dum ●e Christianum a●●erit sed i. Apostolicae ob edi re contemnit De Verit. Scr. pag 426. that he did incurre peccatū paganitatis the crime of Paganisme which did not obay his mandats But what of all this Was VVickliffe a Papist No verely For first his plenarie power was built vpon a rotten d Tempore Constantini translatio● Sacerdotij nec fuit decretum quod● Episcop illius Ecclesiae haberet necessario primatū in alios vt hic supponitur De Ver. Scrip. pag. 565. foundation which afterwards fel to the ground of it selfe 2. It was giuen him only e Habet plenā solam potestatem ad ae● dificandum Ecclesiam De Ver. Scrip. pag. 122. ad aedificandum Ecclesiam for to edifie not to destroy or demolish the Church 3. It was so limited that he could doe nothing f lb. pag. 455. contra Deum or contrarationem against the Law of God or against the law of reason Lastly if his lawes g Certum est ex fide Scripturae quod quicunque Secularis vel Clericus maxime obuiat Christi legibus hic est potissimus Antichristus De Verit. Scrip. pag. 590. did obviare Christi legibus an h Oportet inferiorem nomine tenus Superiorem ●uum corrippete lb. p. 524. Inferiour might and in conscience ought not only to disobey him but to reprooue correct and contradict him as i lb. pag. 524. Paule did withstande Peter vnto the face and wil our Papists grant this Farthermore he grants the Pope no greater auctoritie or superiority over his fellow-brethren k Pe●●●s ipse Apollo exclusi à Dominatu suorum conuer●●rum imo ipsos esse quasi nihil abiectos seruos D ●esu cui omnis scientia omnis amor vel honor Christiani debet attribui cum nullum creatum debet sciri amarivel honorari nisi Christus vel in habitu diuino ad ipsum De Verit Script pag. 494. then Peter and Apollo had over there new Converts whom he excludeth and debarreth flatly from any such Soveraintie taking away all honour from them and giving it vnto Christ Iesu to whō all knowledge all loue all duty from al Christians is to be ascribed so far that no Creature is to be acknowledged loued or honored but Christ or in respect of Christ. l Nec credo quenquā Catholicum ad ●antum desipere quod credat quod vbi Christi● vicatius sc●ibit Fiat ipse qui dixit facta sunt non approbat ad quiritur ius aliquod impetranti cum de isto solo verificatur hoc metricum-sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas in Expos. Decal p. ● Nether is it possible as he thinketh for any Catholike to be so vnadvised or inconsiderate as to follow the Popes fiat Let it be done when he that spake and it was done shall say no. Because this verse can be true of no earthly man but of our blessed Saviour Christ Iesus Sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas This is my will this I commande My will for reason good shall stand Finally to conclude this point he was m Quod Papa sit summus Pontifex est ridiculum Christus nee in Petro ne● in alio talem approbauit dignitatem Art 17. damnat in Syn. Const. condēned as an heretike for denying the Popes Supremacy and therfore cannot verie wel be accounted of the Romish Church Sect. 2. The 2. questiō whether the Pope may intermedle with the Temporal affaiers of Princes NOw we come to the 2. question where we consider his civile dominion or right in Temporall estates which question VVickliffe doth n In ciuili dominio non possunt esse duo dominantes aequo oportet quod vnus sit capitalis Dominus alter subdominans-Regem nostrum nolumus in hac parte sibi ●ubijcere cum donans quicquid ad manum mor tuam sibi reseruat capital e dominium Wickliff de Ciu. Dom. p 67. euerie where determine against the Pope for the king his regalty and that of set purpose in an especiall Treatise of his o Extant in the publike Librarie De Civili Dominio strengthning his opiniō verie plainly out of the p The contrary opiniō a● he saieth videtur impugnare iura consuetudines Regni de Ciuili Dominio pag. 66. Tenendo quod iura Angliae in hac parte sunt nullo modo Iuri contraria lb. I knowe the particular and approued custome of euerie na●ion is the most vsual binding assured Law my L. Cook in his 5. l. of Reports in praes Fūdamētal laws of this lād with great iudgement and knowledge of the common law which I speake in fide aliena being not able to iudge of that which is beyond my profession but I do verily beleeue it to bee so becauseth he seemeth vnto me to vrge the verie same reasons lawes and arguments which that thrise q My L. Cook Chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas in his 5. booke of Reports Wickliffe maintaineth it as an old Custome the which our King Lords Prelats beene sworen to sustaine maintaine-as pertaining to the Kings Regalty and of Common Law In supplicat por recta ad Parliam pag 9. The kinglie head of this politique body is instituted and furnished with p'enarie and entire power prerogatiue and iurisdiction to render iustice and right to euerie part and member of this bodie of what estate degree or calling soeuer in al causes Ecclesiastical or Temporal otherwise hee should not be head of the whole bodie My L● Cook in his 5. book of Reports pag. 9. The verie same reason is vrged by Wickliffe in sundrie places else he were not King of al England but of a little part thereof In supplicat ad● Parliam pag. 10. Non haberet plenae pacis custodiam De Verit. Script pag. 453. Non ●oret ' Rex totius Angliae sed Regulus paruae partis De Verit. Script pag. 424. The Title of his book is this Controuersiarū Rob. Bel larmini Defensio Auctore Iac. Gretsero Soc. Iesu S S. Theol. Doct. et in Academia Ingolstadiensi Professore Ingol Anno. 1607. in fol. Reverend and learned Iudge doth faithfully mention in his fift booke

AN APOLOGIE FOR IOHN WICKLIFFE shewing his conformitie with the now Church of England with answere to such slaunderous obiections as haue beene lately vrged against him by Father Parsons the Apologists and others COLLECTED CHIEFLY OVT OF diuerse works of his in written hand by Gods especiall providence remaining in the Publike Library at Oxford of the Honorable foundation of S r. THOMAS BODLEY Knight BY THOMAS JAMES keeper of the same 3. Esdras Cap. 4. ver 38. Truth doth abide and is strong for ever and liveth and raigneth for ever and ever At Oxford Printed by Ioseph Barnes printer to the Vniversitie 1608. TO THE HONORABLE S r EDWARD COOKE Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common Pleas. My very good Lord it is not lōg since It was my happe to see a Booke published quo iure quáue potius miuria against your Lordships Fift booke of Reportes Intituled de Iure Regis Ecclesiastico by one that if he had not tearmed himselfe a Catholik Deuine I should haue takē him for any thing els So far is he in this lying Libel frō being a Deuine much lesse Catholik vnlesse it ●●e in the sence vniuersal being indeed nothing els but an vniuersal Historiā I haue also read an other book wherin your Lordship is most vniustly produced or rather traduced for an egregious falsarie a crime which that Libeller hath made common to others of your ranck and of higher mark by imputing the same most scandalously vnto one of the most Honorable and religious Peeres of this land Farthermore I haue hard of diuerse others whose fingers doe itch to be dealing with your Lordship according to the grounds of your Honorable profession By al which I perceaue that your Lordship hath so mortally wounded the hayrie scalp of that man of Rome which would faine bee accepted for head of this Church that our aduersaries doe striue with noe smale adoe whoe shal be most forwarde to salue this sore though it be neuer so incurable But amongst all others who so aduenturous as our pretended Catholike surnaming himselfe the Deuine which hath spared no cost no labour for the effecting thereof in his late aunswere Seely disputer that where the question is de Iure produceth testimonies de facto and being by profession a Deuine the questiō of law bringeth his proofs out of Hisstorie Doubtles the Deuine is much beholding vnto your Lordship though hee doe craftily dissemble it for giuing him so good an occasiō both to shew his great reading and withal to purg so much choller being of liklyhood of that cholericke bilious disposition Quod si non aliquà nocuisset mortuus esset I gather so much by his writings for I am verily perswaded that this is not the first book that hath come out of th●s mans forge ●here bee diuerse books I should haue said Pamphletts cast abroad which sauour of the same stile and file so finely smothed and framed for the nonce that a man maie knowe him to bee his crafts Master in this black Art though he transfigure himselfe into an Angel of light professe al manner of Candour and Chari●ie in hi● writings but the contrary is too too manifest in his lyeing Pamphlets To saie nothing of his slaunderous reports against the late religious Queene of blessed memorie against the reuerend Sages and Iudges of the Common law in general and your Lordship in particular because he takes vpon him to be so great a Clearke in the question about the Kings Crowne and dignitie I haue endeauoured in this Apologie which I haue framed in defence of that famous writer and preacher of Gods word Iohn VVickliff to oppose against his slaunderous Libel his answere as the answere of a most anciēt Catholike and learned Deuine Ancient for hee liued in the time of K Edward the 3. Catholike for he maintained the same doctrine then which the Church of Eng 1 and now being guided by the Holy Ghost and sacred writings of Scripture Fathers doth professe learned in al kind of good knowledge needfull for a Divine for the maine question touching the kings Regaltie the Popes Supremacie hee delivereth in other termes the very same argumēts reasons which I finde written in that your said fift Booke of Reports proving the truth of your assertiōs by the Iawes Civill Canon Common Wherein because I professe little knowledge it being not my element and as your Lordship hath well obserued Perito in sua arte credendumest I haue presumed to submit the whole Apologie vnto your iudicious learned censure quatenus de Iure If your Lordship finde him not in this Apologie where I haue as neare as I could truly related his words most iudicious religious temperate learned altogether conformable vnto the doctrine and discipline of this presēt Church which this libeller so much impugneth and agreeing with the laws of God and of this Realme let me beare the fault of presumption and vndergoe your heauiest Censure whom I professe I doe honour and reuerence as farr as anie of my profession and as it becometh me to doe in al Christian dutie knowing your Lordship to be a zealous professor of the truth a worthy maintainer of the Cleargie a louing Patron of both our Vniuersities and lastly a great furtherer of al good learning which that you may liue for to doe maugre the opposition of our aduersaries I shal neuer cease to pray vnto the Almighty long to continue your Lordship in health wealth and prosperitie with encrease of spiritual gifts for the benefit of both Church and Common wealth From the Library in Oxford Feb. 10. 1608. Your Lordships in al Christian dutie to be commanded THO IAMES Faults escaped in the printing of this Apologie Pag. 1. l. 15. but read butte p. 7. in the marg 1.6 for Auctorziatio read Auctorizatio p. 9. l. 12. impious read pious p. 19. marg l. 36. discipui read discipuli p. 25. l. 18. ohfarlanot read of an harlot p. 34. l. 2. awere read werep 37. l. 7. t●e read the p. 39. marg l. 34. lucrationes read lucratiuas p. 40. l. 21. secundā read secundum p. 42. marg l. 33. habe● read habent p. 44. mar l. 33. formicator read fornicator p. 48. l. II. excommunication read excommunications p. 53 l 20. fitest read fittest p. 56. l. 12 rained read raigned pag. 69. l. 10 ia read in pag. 71. l 5 should obay read obay lb. marg l. 16. leges read legis in his life for many read maine for to pray macks read their stomacks THE PREFACE VNTO ALL TRVE Catholicks and Christian Readers WHeras among al the writers which haue since the daies of Antichrist sharpened there pens in defence of the Gospel and maintained the cause of Christ against Antichrist and his Supposts by opposing themselues as Arch-pillers against the Arch-hereticks and Caterpillers of there times there is none that hath behaued himselfe more religiously valiantlie learnedlie and constantlie then