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A04347	A manuduction, or introduction vnto diuinitie containing a confutation of papists by papists, throughout the important articles of our religion; their testimonies taken either out of the Indices expurgatorii, or out of the Fathers, and ancient records; but especially the parchments. By Tho. Iames, Doctor of Diuinitie, late fellow of New-Colledge in Oxford, and Sub-Deane of the cathedrall church of Welles. This marke noteth the places that are taken out of the Indices expurgatorij: and this [pointing hand], a note of the places in the manuscripts.	James, Thomas, 1573?-1629.	1625 (1625)	STC 14460; ESTC S107696	146,396	156

iurisdiction Where we attribute to the Kings Maiestie the chiefe Gouernment by which title we vnderstand the minds of some slanderous folkes to be offended we giue not to our Prince the ministring either of Gods Word or of the Sacraments the which thing the Iniunctions also set forth by Elizabeth our late Queene do most plainely testifie But that onely prerogatiue which wee see to haue been giuen alwaies to all godly Princes in holy Scriptures by God himselfe that is that they should rule all Estates and degrees committed to their charge by God whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Temporall and restraine with the Ciuill sword the stubborne and euill doers This thirtie seuenth Article explained and maintained by the Papists in these subsequent Propositions 1. THe Kings Maiestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions 2. Ouer all persons in all Causes whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill 3. The King is not subiect to any forraine iurisdiction 4. Hee may restraine with the Ciuill sword the stubburne and euill doers The first Proposition The Kings Maiestie hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions I Must craue pardon of euery honest Reader if I inlarge my papers in this point and the propositions following beyond my first proposall for that I take it to bee a piece of my alleageance for me and all of my coate not onely to oppose those paper walles but to interpose our deerest liues betweene the King and danger if need require Danger there is and euer will be to Kingly power as long as their bloody Inquisition-house shall stand at Rome for if their transcendent and vniustifiable power be not limited they will in time to come if they may haue their willes quod absit first thrust Kings out of their bookes and then out of their Kingdomes But the best is nocumenta documenta his most excellent Maiestie being forewarned is forearmed not only to preueut the danger by their bookes but by their mischieuous persons with a iust deleantur both out of his Kingdome and State Wee may see their euill intents in their thrice accursed Indices Expurgatorij If a flower of Regall authoritie do begin to bud forth it is presently nipped off with their vlcerous hands For example Place we the King according to our bounden duties by the Lawes of God and men in a Throne higher than all other men because he hath no Peere or Compeere vpon earth that can equalize much lesse ouertop Honore quolibet sublimiorem quum habeat dignitatem this doctrine was taught vs long agoe by Agapetus the Deacon and other ancient Writers whose steppes the Papists pretend to follow and who but they that seeme to reuerence their graue sentences and gray haires Neuerthelesse you see a crosse in the Margent and you shall find a Deleatur in their books or a Caue as if you had trod vpon a Serpent I haue an ancient Manuscript in my keeping that made an hard shift to come vnto mee for he almost lost his coate by the way but ragged and torne as he is he hath these words which doe serue to bee written in letters of gold because they speake the Supremacy in expresse tearmes and accord with this our Article The King hath no liuing person aboue him in his Kingdome who then dares appeale from him Vnlesse it be some traiterous Becket or other that passing the Seas raised such seas of trouble in this Kingdome that he had welnigh ouerwhelmed both King and State if the prouidence of God had not the better preserued them as may appeare in our English Stories But leauing Becket to be fully displaied in all his colours and prooued to bee as he is a notorious Traytor notwithstanding all their shifts that would apologize for him I proceed and further shew that there is iust occasion giuen vs to feare that if this old Manuscript had lighted into the Papists hands either this leafe should haue bin purged or torne or the whole booke made away that it should neuer haue come in euidence against them For Manuscripts as well as other books whether Greeke or Latin old or new are the subiect or obiectum adaequatum of their damnable vnheard of and Diabolicall censures But to resume my first Proposition againe that the Kings Maiestie hath next vnder God the chiefe power in this Realme is a doctrine so harsh and distasteful in their mouthes that there is a Deleatur wheresoeuer it is found non habet in terris se quicquam excelsius He hath no man greater vpon earth is shamefully put forth and cleane turned out of an ancient Writer in their Bibliotheque of ancient Fathers This very sentence in other words in Lud. Viues Epistle vnto King Henrie the eight hath endured the like purgation and is washed away cleane out of the booke Now to grow to a conclusion If the Papists doe so ill entreate Kings in their bookes I leaue you to imagine what they would doe to their persons if they could as easily come by them But nouerint vniuersi I would haue all men know that the more they corrupt the lesse they gaine in the iudgement of any indifferent Papist not too much Romanized and of fauour let me aske them this question and let them answere mee if they can vpon their consciences doe these sentences that they haue caused to bee blotted and blurred make against them or not If they doe not they make themselues ridiculous by taking so much labour in vaine the Thalmud of the Iewes nor the great Theater of Zuinger amongst the Protestants nor Tostatus or Salmeron among your Papists nor any booke in any Science haue wearied your patiences or terrified your Inquisitors from prying into their bookes or corrupting their writings if they doe make against you and your doctrine which cannot subsist without these notorious shiftings and shufflings wrenchings and wrincklings the more dishonest men you that while the controuersies are depending and the questions are in disputing doe shamefully either suborne Authors to beare false witnesses to testifie vntruths or suppresse and subuert the testimonies that make against you To close vp this first Proposition and your mouthes if it be possible this first Proposition standeth inuiolable The Kings Maiesty hath the chiefe power in this Realme of England and other his Dominions The second Proposition Ouer all persons in all causes whether they be Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill HEarken then I pray you to your own Writers Claudius Espencaeus a man of singular note trencheth vpon this troublesome question and decideth it thus Hauing spoken of Saint Pauls omnis anima Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers expounded by Chrysostome whether he bee Apostle or Euangelist Prophet Priest or Monke which exposition is seconded by Theodoret Theophylact Oecumenius and what Greeke Writer dares oppose against it he inferreth these words Yea Gregorie the first Gregorie the Great doth ingenuously acknowledge

Windsore Park Concerning Deanes of Churches and Abbots and Priors of Conuents THe Priors of Kockford and Bingam were sued for proceeding against some in the spirituall Court after prohibition R. Io. anno 15. The Deane of Doncaster for molesting diuers of the Kings liege people was conuicted before the Iudges and admitted to his fine The Prior and Couent of Saint Patricks in Dublin lost their Temporals for electing an Archbishop without the Kings consent Anno 6. Edw. 1. The Deane of Wooluer-hampton was cited to appeare before the Iudges for his contempt for admitting one Ottobon to a Prebend in the same Church by a Mandate from the Pope Anno 31. Edw. 1. The Prior of Canterburie for appealing to the Court of Rome was adiudged to bee imprisoned and to reuoke his Appeale Anno 23. Edw. 1. Io. Abbat of Walden attached for the same Anno eodem Thus farre of Bishops Deanes Abbots and Priors the recitall of the rest would fill the booke and not much more satisfie the Reader and therefore I forbeare to name them and come now to shew how little the Pope of Rome or his Buls were regarded of our English Iudges There was an Act made against drawing causes to Rome anno 27. Edw. 3. and a commandement giuen anno 16. Edw. filij R. Edwardi that no man should alienate sell or send any thing beyond the Seas and how many were accordingly indited and committed as Io. Ouerton to the Tower Simon Mellercet to the Kings Bench anno 28. Edw. 3. William Beuercot to the Marshalsey anno Regis filij Edwardi 17. And for the Popes Buls how little were they regarded or rather how greatly were the getters or procurers their fautors and abettors those that did but threaten to make vse of them punished and censured There was a proceeding with some seueritie against one that threatned he would get a Bull from the Pope Anno 27. R. Henrici There was likewise an Inquisition indented taken for those that procured them anno 20. Edw. 3. their Abettors anno R. Edw. 4. and one that pleaded them was committed to prison So then those that bought those Buls at Rome giuing Gold for Lead found them still Lead and no better here in England and neither Buls Appeales Bishops or liberties of the Church could protect them against the King his Crowne and dignitie Kings of England here and I trust euer shall be able to maintaine their soueraigne iurisdiction within these Kingdomes ouer all persons and in all causes against all forreine iurisdiction which commeth next in order to bee handled The Third Proposition The King is not subiect to any forraigne iurisdiction THe Pope pretends to be the Head of the Catholique Church how rightly we shall see hereafter I am sure the King of England holdeth it by as good right as the Law of God and the Law of this Kingdome can giue him I know it will bee presently obiected that King Henry the eighth being a violent King tooke this title vpon him they are certainely deceiued that either thinke or say it and therefore to manifest this point the better I will tell you my conceit how this matter was brought to passe not without an especiall prouidence of God out of very vnlikely meanes For when King Henry the eighth was sharpened against Luther there wanted not some about him that buzzed this into the Kings eares that the doctrine of Martin Luther was nothing else but drawne from the hereticall proposition of Iohn Wicklife which was condemned long since in and by his Vniuersitie of Oxford Whereupon the King being tickled because the full knowledge of this at that time serued well for his purpose presently dispatched Edward Leighton one of his Chaplaines and Batchelor of Diuinitie with those Letters to the Vniuersitie of Oxford By the King TRusty and welbeloued Wee greet you well And forasmuch as Wee at this instant time for certaine great and weighty considerations Vs moouing touching as well the repressing of such erroneous opinions and heresies as be now a dayes spread abroad in sundry places as also the consolation of Christs Church and good Christian people be desirous not only to be aduertised of the Articles whereupon Wicklife was condemned heretofore by that Our Vniuersitie of Oxford but also of the confirmation of the Councell of Constance concerning the condemnation of the said Articles We therefore will that yee with all celerity doe send vnto Vs by Our trusty and welbeloued Chaplaine M. Edward Leighton the bearer in writing vnder the Seale of Our said Vniuersitie in as lawfull and Authentique wise as yee can deuise as well all and singular the said Articles of condemnation of the said Wicklife and also the confirmation thereupon of the said Councell of Constance giuing vnto Our said Chaplaine firme credence in such things as he shall shew vnto you in Our behalfe touching the premises And in thus doing you shall minister vnto Vs full acceptable pleasure Yeuen vnder our signet at our Castle of Windesore the last day of Iuly Vpon the receipt of these Letters followed a Conuocation a Delegacie was appointed the sixth of this instant moneth there wanted no cel●ritie the Instrument is made and both it and the answere to the Kings Letters sealed the ninth day of that very moneth Amongst those Articles that were sent vp there were diuers that did mainly trench vpon the Popes power which as Wickliefe said were neither found nor founded vpon Gods Word What effects these Articles wrought in the Kings mind I know not but of one thing I am wel assured that not long after the King being at variance with the Pope a Parliament was called with in two yeres and a motion was made therein that the King should be declared Head of the Church but his Maiestie refused till he had aduised with his Vniuersities vpon that point and whilest the Parliament sate God in whose hands the hearts of Princes are so disposing it the King reflecting belike vpon Wickliefes former Articles directing his Letters to the Vniuersitie of Oxford about the election of the Bishop of Lincolne into the Chancellorship of the Vniuersitie of Oxford in the roome of Archbishop Warham lately deceased After the accomplishment whereof saith the King Our pleasure and commandement is that ye as shall be beseeme men of vertue and profound literature diligently intreating examining and discussing a certaine question sent from Vs to you concerning the power and primacie of the Bishop of Rome send againe to Vs in writing vnder your common Seale with conuenient speed and celeritie your mind sentence and assertion of the quaestion according to the meere and sincere truth of the same willing you to giue credence to Our trusty and welbeloued this bringer your Commissarie aswell touching Our further pleasure in the premisses as for other matters c. Yeuen vnder Our Signet at Our Mannor of Greenewich the eighteenth day of May. Vpon the receipt of these Letters the Vniuersitie at

that time for ought we know consisting all of Papists being assembled in Conuocation decreed as followeth That for the examination determination and decision of this question sent vnto them to be discussed from the Kings Maiestie viz Whether the Bishop of Rome had any greater Iurisdiction collated vpon him from God in the holy Scripture in this Kingdome of England than any other forraine Bishop that there should be deputed thirtie Diuines Doctors and Bachelors of Diuinitie of that facultie to whose sentence assertion or determination or the greater part of them the common Seale of the Vniuersitie in the name thereof should be affixed prouided that the question should bee first disputed and then sent vp to his Maiestie And the 27. of Iune in the yeere of our Sauiour 1534. this Instrument following was made and sent vp sealed with the common Seale of the Vniuersitie The Instrument it selfe is in Latine in English thus TO all the sonnes of our Mother the Church to whom these present Letters shall come Iohn by the grace of God Chauncellor of the famous Vniuersitie of Oxon and the whole assembly of Doctors and Masters Regents and not Regents in the same greeting Whereas our most noble and mighty Prince and Lord Henrie the eighth by the grace of God of England and France King Defender of the Faith and Lord of Ireland vpon the continuall requests and complaints of his Subiects exhibited vnto him in Parliament against the intolerable exactions of forraine Iurisdictions and vpon diuers controuersies had and mooued about the Iurisdiction and power of the Bishop of Rome and for other diuers vrgent causes against the said Bishop then and there exponed and declared was sent vnto and humbly desired that he would prouide in time some fit remedie and satisfie the complaint of his deere Subiects Hee as a most prudent Salomon minding the good of his Subiects ouer whom God hath placed him and deepely pondering with himselfe how he might make good and wholesome Lawes for the gouernment of his Commonwealth and aboue all things taking care that nothing bee there resolued vpon against the holy Scripture which hee is and euer will bee ready to defend with hazard of his dearest blood out of his deepe wisdome and after great paines taken hereabouts hath transmitted and sent vnto his Vniuersitie of Oxon a certaine question to be disputed viz. Whether the Bishop of Rome hath any greater Iurisdiction granted to him from God in the holy Scripture to be exercised and vsed in this Kingdome then any other forraine Bishop and hath commanded vs that disputing the question after a diligent and mature deliberation and examination of the premisses we should certifie his Maiestie vnder the common Seale of our Vniuersitie what is the true meaning of the Scriptures in that behalfe according to our Iudgements and apprehensions Wee therefore the Chancellour Doctors and Masters aboue recited daily and often remembring and altogether weighing with our selues how good and godly a thing it is and congruous to our Profession be fitting our submissions obediences and charities to foreshew the way of truth and righteousnesse to as many as desire to tread in her stepps and with a good sure and quiet conscience to anchor themselues vpon Gods Word we could not but endeauour our selues with all the possible care that wee could deuise to satisfie so iust and reasonable a request so great a Prince who next vnder God is our most happy and supreame Moderatour and Gouernour Taking therefore the said question into our considerations with all humble deuotion and due reuerence as becommeth vs and assembling our Diuines together from all parts taking time enough and many dayes space to deliberate thereof diligently religiously and in the feare of God with zealous and vpright minds first searching and searching againe the Booke of God and the best Interpreters and Commenters thereupon disputing the said questions solemnely and publikely in our Schooles haue in the end vnanimously and with ioynt consent resolued vpon the Conclusion that is to say That the Bishop of Rome hath no greater Iurisdiction giuen vnto him in Scripture then any other Bishop in this Kingdome of England Which our assertion sentence or determination so vpon deliberation maturely and throughly discussed and according to the tenour of the Statutes and Ordinances of this our Vniuersitie concluded vpon publikely in the name of the whole Vniuersitie we doe pronounce and testifie to be sure certaine and consonant to the holy Scripture In witnesse whereof we haue caused these our Letters to be written sealed and ratified by the Seale of our Vniuersitie Yeuen in our Assembly-house the 27. of the moneth of Iune in the yeere of Christ 1534. This Instrument being brought into the Parliamenthouse an Act passed whereby the King was declared Supreame Head and Gouernour of the Church What exception was it taken or giuen The Parliament motioned some such matter to the King his Maiestie wisely referreth it to the Learned of his Vniuersitie the Vniuersitie to thirty Delegats the referrees returne their ioynt opinion to the King that the Pope had no more to doe here in England then any other forraine Bishop this their opinion was grounded on the Scripture the places of Scripture confirmed by the exposition of the best interpreters the Parliament vpon full knowledge of this banish all forraine Iurisdiction out of the Realme to the comfort of Gods Church and the reliefe of his distressed subiects which had so long been inthralled and groaned vnder this Baby lonish captiuitie What remaineth If this be not satisfactorie Ireferre you to the reading of three excellent pieces of this Argument which I forbeare to insert into this booke first because of prolixitie secondly because ere long you shall haue them all comprized in one volume The first is taken out of Guicciardine the second out of Machiauell the third out of Stephen Pasquier quarit Recerches The place in Guicciardine is shamefully expunged that of Machiauell with the whole booke and all his Workes forbidden onely Pasquier is improhibited and vnpurged But no thankes to the Inquisitors for feare lest our French men which are accounted lost men at Rome should bee vtterly lost from the Church of Rome if the Inquisitors went about to infringe their Pragmaticall Constitutions Of these three witnesses two of them are without exception Guicciardine and Pasquier the third is branded for an Atheist and as I dare not make any Apologies for him so many and so great Schollers hauing fastned this imputation vpon him so I cannot but say it is onely my coniecture that if Machiauell had not touched the Popes free-hold but suffered him to haue been a God vpon earth Machiauell had been no Atheist for this booke but might haue hoped rather to haue been a Cardinall but how deadly soeuer they hated him and interdicted his Workes at his death as it seemeth he left his Machiauelismes to bee disposed of by the Pope and his Cardinals which haue made

of the Pontificians which reckon them in the second Classis of Authors prohibited which is the note of Papists bookes forbidden but whether they be or bee not the question is prooued without their testimonies which you may take or follow at pleasure 4. By those Authors that are vnquestionably theirs by them expunged by me vsed it appeareth euidently that the Church of Rome in point of Doctrine had need of reformation when they did so often and so many of them call for it before Martin Luther pressing and expressing it in their learned Writings which were printed at Rome Venice Madrill Paris and other Popish places 5. That their bookes were many of them examined before they came vnto the Presse and accordingly corrected in many places and afterwards printed permisses superiorum with these very notes which wee present vnto you 6. These Aduersaries of ours and Writers of theirs who write and speake many things in our behalfe forced by truth not inuited by charitie though their authoritie of it selfe were of small account yet they are to be esteemed and good reckoning is to be made of them when they speake in fauour of vs because their owne consciences freely and vncoact●dly induce them in such matters of weight to depose against themselues and against the oath of their owne confederacie and so rest condemned by their owne Records and guiltie of errour in themselues and iniquitie against God I. N. in his Preface to his learned Workes could any man if he had been hired haue spoken more properly and pertinently to our purpose I commend his iudgement and shall like it the better whilest I know him knowne him I haue and ere long we shall be better acquainted 7. The testimonie of these Writers by mee alleaged which vncoacted and forced by truth doe pleade for our Religion are pertinent and to the purpose for else what need had you to raze the Records and as it were to embezell their Writings 8. To say as some doe that our Mother the Church may correct her disobedient children and reduce them into the right way of truth when they reclaime or swarue from the truth may perhaps be true prouided that it bee knowne which is the true Church secondly that it haue a certaine infallible and inerrable rule whereby all doctrine must be squared and lastly that the Author bee sent for by himselfe or his friends his errour shewed and reasons conuicted But for the first you haue no Church if you haue lay the Pope aside whom you would faine make your inerrable Dictator and tell me where it is and who it is and wee shall haue some hope of agreement in this point Secondly as you haue no Church so you haue no certaine Rule to proceed by your doctrine is yet to seek your Religion to be made except transubstantiation your doctrine against Priests Marriage some few points more that are in some sort in some Councels concluded shew all points of your doctrine your additaments determined before the Councel of Trent you shal haue them for me As for the Councell of Trents determination it neither maketh our religion schismatical or heretical nor yours truly Catholike and Orthodoxe Lastly that which you practise vpon your owne Writers by way of expurgatiō is not done with their priritie but altogether against their wils and consents 9. It will not auaile the Papists to say that they purge not the words of the Text in any Romish-Catholike Author but some scattred Annotations in the Margent or Indices of some Writers I reply that the Indices and Margents speake nothing different from the text and whether the Text be not thorowly expunged and some whole sentences pages yea sixtie in follio together blotted out I referre my selfe to any indifferent Popish Arbiter to arbitrate and sentence this controuersie betweene vs for being reduced vnto a Controuersie of fact euery Lay Gentleman if his eyes be matches becommeth a fit Iudge of these Controuersies your owne Smith truly saith it and I beleeue it But you cry out still Shew vs the bookes printed accordingly as Auentinus Cranzius Ferus Espencaeus or Stella Let me see whether the sentences you speake of or those that you haue produced in this very booke be omitted or no I answere This obiection hath a good varnish or glasse set vpon it but glasse is brittle and varnish will not long hold to say the truth your men speak they know not what in defence of their Indices you haue their toungs and they haue your eares to pawne and which is more your soules and consciences What you heare your spirituall Gouernours say you beleeue assuredly what so you beleeue you are ready to depose if need be against your consciences For example If one of your spirituall fathers should tell you that the house at the Blacke-Friers fell vpon a Puritane Preacher and his Psalming Auditorie to bring Gods Iudgements vpon them would you not beleeue him Doubtlesse he is a Iesuite ergo impeccable or a Father of the Societie and therfore to be beleeued chiefely in ordine ad Deum Or what if another of the same Societie should bring you a booke of my Lord of Londons Legacy a Legacy without a Will or a Will but neuer prooued how gladly would you reade and receiue hugge and embrace it as the words of a dying Saul so lately so miraculously conuerted to the Romane Faith Yet Preston that is said to be his conuerter denieth it saith plainly in Peters word but with more truth I know not the man his eldest son that was with him his Chaplains seruants that were about him know no such things Let other mē coniecture what they will of this rumour if I might freely deliuer vnto you my conceite this false report was hatched first in the Spanish Embassadours house by him is was rumoured abroad beyond the Seas and by him and his it was bruted here in England I haue my reasons to thinke it and thinke it againe for that about the same time there was a booke either going to the presse or newly printed wherein it was auouched that his most sacred and pious Maiestic was deposed by the Puritantes But I do but lightly passe ouer this as beeing a matter of State wherein it is not fit for Ministers to enterdeale I willingly forbeare But this story that followeth I cannot choose but relate it it lyeth aspersions on the late King scandalizeth the State pardon my iust indignation and true zeale that prickes me forward and maketh me for the good of the Kingdome and State to venture a chiding Thus then it is there is one D. B. Cleremond that hath made bold more bold then wise to make a most lewde and spightfull Commentarie vpon his Maiesties Lawes and Proclamations against Recusants vpon occasion of that about the powder raitours hee is bold not to deny the fact for then he must haue renounced his eyes or discredited the