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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03350	A quartron of reasons of Catholike religion, with as many briefe reasons of refusall: By Tho. Hill	Hill, Edmund Thomas, ca. 1563-1644.	1600 (1600)	STC 13470; ESTC S113265	68,569	200

of the whole Realme for vertue learning were put to death with great numbers of others both spiritual tēporall many noble families were quite ouerthrowne King Edward being crowned King new Lordes new Earles new Marquises and new Dukes tooke the places of the old new fellowes were called out of Germany to witte Peter Martyr and Martin Bucer two Apostataes Fryars waited on by two Fustelugge vvenches vvhich had beene Nunnes vvho came to teache a new religion but with expresse condition to be indifferent to teach vvhat sect or opinions eyther of LVTHER ZVVINGLIVS or CALVINE or of anye other vvhatsoeuer vvhich the Parliament then in gathering shoulde agree vpon The poore irreligious Apostataes with their sacrilegious lasses were content so to doe and vpon that condition they were sent the one to Oxforde with his wench at his taile and the other to Cambridge accompanied with his lasse Then might you haue seene iolly holding drawing about Religion placing and displacing prisoning and setting at liberty all men forced to sweare to a forme of seruice drawen out in hast by certaine of the L. Protectours chaplaines which seruice was neuer heard of in the worlde before but the Cleargie refused so to doe and therefore were depriued and imprisoned The Duke of Somerset was head and ruler of the newe deuised Church for the Childe-King was a playing him could not once thinke of any such thing and attended to his owne aduauncement by purchasing good olde land whilest the two sillye Apostataes kept the people occupied with newe doctrine and with not trobling of him And then began such reuell and hold and tye in the lande as that the Protector first of all cut off the head of his brother the Admirall the Earle of Warwicke beheaded the Protector and diuers others of his friendes making him-selfe Duke of Northumberland and complotting with the Duke of Suffolke to cut off all king Henries children to bring in Suffolkes daughter and Northumberlands sonne as they did for the which both theyr heades were afterwardes cutt off by Queene Marie And in her Maiesties time that nowe is all the Sacred Bishops were depriued in one day al or the most of them imprisoned during theyr liues Manie noble houses abused disgraced and diuers ouerthrowne manie both of honour and worshipp intollerably afflicted manie thousands of inferiour sort greiuously persecuted aboue an hundred Priests tortured hanged and quartered the moste of them beeing Gentlemen of worshipfull discent of rare witt learning and of other parts incomperable The Realme is deuided and shiuered into a thousand peeces the old friends and allies thereof made enimies to it new friends few and weake the naturall inhabitants most pittifullie deuided amongst themselues at home tossed and turmoiled abroade euerie man of what state conditon or religion soeuer he be of hath felt the smart of this new Ghospell eyther in himselfe in his friendes children seruants kinsfolkes goodes honoures most of all the Realme and Common-weale in it selfe vvith ten thousand other troubles and afflictions vvhich the Protestantes Religion carrieth vvith it wheather soeuer it goeth Euer expelling driuing away Peace and Tranquilitie vvhich finde harbour and entertainement only in Catholike realmes and common-weales When I weighed and considered these things diligently with my selfe I could not but dislike your new Religion euer accompanied vvith Tumults Insurrections Ruines Desolations and vvith all manner of Tragicall miseries as is afore-saide and cleaue vnto the olde Catholike Religion euer bringing with it peace quietnesse loue friendshipp plentie and all kinde of happinesse as wee see in Lands Countries which euer haue kept the same THE XXV REASON All kind of witnesses against one and that onely in show or in very deed none at all EVERIE man knoweth that the Protestants can bring foorth nothing to witnesse theyr religion but onely the Scriptures and how they make for them I haue partlie shewed before for in euerie deed they being rightly examined truely interpreted beare witnesse moste of all other thinges against them for out of all doubt Gods word is not contrarie but most consonant to all thinges before aleaged practised through the whole christiā world for so many ages together And wheras they wil admit no expositors of holie Scriptures but the Scriptures themselues for that as they say one place expoundeth another I aske thē then how their chiefe maister M. Luther when as hee would moste gladlie haue denyed the Reall Presence thinking thereby to wreake his teene the more on the Pope confessed that he could not do it because the words were so manifest for it And why hath that text beene so tossed wrested in this age as that sundry sectaries haue wringed out of it aboue foure-score different opinions or expositions and yet euerie one defendeth with tooth and naile his interpretation to be sound and right So that in fine they haue no witnesse at all of their new inuented doctrine but euery one his priuate fancie or conceite whereas the Catholike Religion besides all the reasons before alleadged hath all thinges in the world witnesses of it for if you looke vpp to Heauen you may there see amongst innumerable Martyrs vvhich all gaue theyr liues for the saide Religion three and thirtie which were Popes of Rome And to speake some what in particular In Epist ad Smyr the zealous Martyr S. Ignatius who in Ecclesiasticall affaires would haue no man no not the King equall to a Bishop and who wrote Apostolicall traditions which hee him-selfe had seene sealed his religiō with his blood Lib. 3. c. 3. Irenaeus who declared the true Faith by succession in the See of Rome was of this religion S. Victor Euseb 5. hist 24 Euseb 4. hist 14. who by his pōtificall power kept in subiection all Africke was of this religion S. Polycarpe who went to Rome about the question of Easter was of this religion S. Cyprian S. Sixtus S. Laurence vvith infinite others both Doctours and Saintes doe witnesse the Roman Religion Thousandes of Virgins which defended their virginitie against diuels men Euseb 8. hist 17. Aug l. 9. conf cap. 7. vs ad 3. were of this religion Saint Helen who went to Ierusalem to finde out the Crosse of our Sauiour was of this religion The mother of S. Austin S. Monica who at her death requested that she might haue Masse said for her to be prayed for was out of all doubt a Papist So were S. Paul the Eremite S. Hilarion S. Anthonie S. Nicolas S. Martine S. Benet with millions of such like who were fed with fasting cloathed with sacke-cloath and enriched vvith all maner of vertues And to be short were there I pray you any Saintes in heauen before this our age vvhich were not Papist I am sure that either heauen was empty vntil Luth. shooke of his hood or if there were any there they were Papists Now if you looke downe into hell you may behold the