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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09105	A manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit of certayne in England calling themselues secular priestes VVho set forth dayly most infamous and contumelious libels against worthy men of their owne religion, and diuers of them their lawful superiors, of which libels sundry are heer examined and refuted. By priestes lyuing in obedience.	Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610.	1602 (1602)	STC 19411; ESTC S119803	191,126	270

so shamfully auoucheth the contrary The second act enacted or Statute saith he made in that high infernal Consistory was concerning Church Abbey lands c. all which must be vnder the holy Society of Iesus presently vpon the establishing of the spiritual monarchie which done their Father General must cal out 4. Iesuits and two secular priests who must be also demy Iesuits these six vicars I pray God not of hell for of heauen they are not like six Duch peeres shal haue the lands meanes c. resigned ouer to their hands for to allow to Bishops persons Vicars c. a competent stypend only to liue on euen as the Turkes Bassaes Genisaryes do lyue vnder him Thus wryteth he as out of the said book wherof no one word is there but all to the contrary The third Statute saith he was made concerning the nobility gentry such as to omit others Sir Robert Cecil Sir Iohn Fortescue c. with sundry other knights and Squyres all which were limited by that blynd prophane parlament what retinue they should keep how much should be allowed them to spend yearly c. And do yow not think these men to be more then half frantick that publish such deuises in print The fourth Statute saith he was made concerning the common lawes of this land consisted in this principal poynt that all the great Charter of England must be burnt all the manner of holding lands in fee simple fee tayle franke almayne c. must be brought into villany schoggery and popularity c. Thus he saith but if yow read the book it selfe yow shal find the playne contradictory of all put downe in the said Memorial For in the fourth Chapter of the third part therof which is intituled Of the Innes of Court and study of common lawes c. the whole course of the same lawes is persuaded to he continued with supply of some points that may be found wanting and reformation of others that may be abused so as all this heer alleadged is a meere fiction in the ayre The fifth Statute saith he was concerning Calumniation with a prouiso in the forsaid Statute that whosoeuer did offend a Iesuit or speak against this high Counsel of Reformation it should be lawful for the Fathers or their Synodical ministers to defame detract calumniate him or her at their pleasure be who they shal be noble peere or Prince Bishop Cardinal or the Pope himself c. To this deuised Statute we know not what ro say seing there was neuer any such word or thought The sixt Statute saith he in the forsaid high Counsel of Reformation may wery wel be called the Statute of Retractation which is a hoate counterblast to the former horneblast of Calumniation it goes vnder the tenour of a prouiso that if such such things do happen then the persons defamed contemned and condemned ad inferos aliue shal be as highly exalted aduaunced and elcuated ad caelos after their death c. This they wryte which being matters of meere madnes as yow see and neuer dreamed of by the author deserue only contempt and compassion for answere especially seing that in the end of all their babling about this book of reformation Statutes therin conteyned they conclude their whole treatese thus Happie were some men yf they might but haue a sight of that Statute book c. No doubt but he should fynd notable stuffe in it that would serue for many purposes c. This he seemeth to say of himself cōfessing herby that he neuer saw the book by him impugned so that whatsoeuer he hath set downe in almost 20. pages togeather against the same is not ouely without book but also must needs be forged and deuised hy himself And this is sufficient to shew the mans honesty and the credit of his compagnions and cause All which being considered litle more needeth to be said in this place for direction of discreet prudent Catholiks how to beare themselues which is the argument of this Chapter in this tyme of controuersy and contention raysed by the common aduersary and mayntayned by his instruments wherin we can say no more but as the holy Apostle S. Iohn said vnctio docebit the sweet direction of Gods holy spirit wil be a sufficient guide vnto Catholiks in this behalf and the discretiō or discerning of spirits so often and highly commēded by S. Paul and by vs before recommended wil yeild aboundāt light for the same For he that shal but a litle consider with himself on what side goeth the spirit of modesty patience longanimity obedience truth charity mortification feare of God and the like and on the other side the playne contrary spirits of clamors rage reuenge enuy and emulation audacious speches disobedience contempt resistance temerarious assertions false and slaunderous asseuerations as out of their books haue byn shewed He that wil weigh further with himself where how and when and by what men and against whome and vpon what causes and motiues these emulations and contentions were first begone and haue byn continued synce and what manner of men out of all sorts of discontented people haue runne vnto them against their Superiors maisters Fathers benefactors what ends the most of thē haue had or are like to haue according as in our Apologie we haue declared He that wil ponder moreouer how and by whome this great worke of Englands conuersion was begonne and hath byn mayntayned synce and is brought to the state wherin now it standeth and that the vnion of this body hath euer consisted in due subordination of one to another which these men now cannot abide it wil be very easy to frame a sound iudgment of the whole cause and men that handle it For first denyed it cannot be that priests and Iesuits ioyning all togeather at the beginning of the Seminaryes both at Doway Rhemes Rome and other places afterwards to wit D. Allen D. Saunders D. Stapleton D. Bristow D. VVebbe many other graue men of our nation togeather with the help credit and assistance of the Fathers of the Society both there and els 〈◊〉 did set this cause first on foot and haue promoted the same euer synce with conioyned labors of teaching preaching wryting bookes and the like and God hath prospered their labors as by the effects we see which being so it is easy to perceaue what spirit this is now which goeth about to seperate and disioyne all this agayne vnder fond and odious pretences that they are of diuers bodyes of diuers Societyes and of different vocations c. Is not this that diuelish spirit of dispersing so much detested by Christ himself in the ghospel Consider we pray yow who do gather and who do disperse And then further yf we consider wherfore these dispersers haue made all this trouble and diuision all this foule breach in our publike cause