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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

religion for our fathers faith and spiritual inheritance for the seruing of God in the maner of al Catholike Prouinces and not for treason or disobedience to her Ma. ties temporal lavves or the Realmes Vve haue not committed any other treasons neither haue the Fathers or Priests seruing God in our Countrie done any other trespasses tovvard the Realme or Prince then are done by the same endeuours in any other Nation either Christian or Heathen No commission haue they or authoritie to absolue vvhatsoeuer it be or in vvhat forme so euer vvritten or by vvord of mouth that implieth any more special clauses of treason to the Prince there then they do in al other through the vvorld graunted or vsed in the like cases Our holy Apostle S. Augustine came to our Countrie then vvholy in maner heathen vvith the like and no lesse authoritie to conuert the Prince and people to the faith vvith order there to preach the same doctrine that the Catholike fathers and Priests novv do no vvhit altered since then vntil this day to minister the Sacraments in the same sort as they do as by the recorde of S. Bedes historie and other appeareth Vvho entered in vvith Crosse Christes image and Litanies much more openly then ours do novv professed to come from Pope Gregorie the first to a Pagan people vvhich is novv so heinous a matter for vs to do from Gregorie the xiij to a Christian Countrie brought giftes from him to our King and Queene euen such like consecrated tokeÌ„s as novv caÌ„ not be had or brought in vvithout death and treason Vvhich consecrated creatures or the like though they vvere in vse in al antiquitie not onely among the simple people as the Aduersaries vvould make the vvorld thinke but vvith the best learned and are great helpes to deuotion and special badges of our Catholike communion one vvith an other yet not being so necessarie as to incurre the extreme rigor of lavves therfore or to bring our Catholike frendes into peril for them vve haue tempered the affectioÌ„ and zeale of some Priests and yong gentlemen othervvise most commendable al that vve could possibly requiring them to carie rarely and sparingly such things vvith them that the forces of our patience and sufferance may be entiere and vvhole for such brunts as may fall vnto vs and our brethren in matters of greater importance for our faith and saluation though he be happie that dieth for the lest momeÌ„t of our Catholike religion But to passe that point such things vvere sent from S. Gregorie the Great the famous Doctor to our Princes and people then such authoritie from him had S. Augustine then in such sort he preached and ministred the SacrameÌ„ts as vve do novv it vvas no treason it vvas no seditious practise it had a blessed honorable and gratious effect in vs it vvas the beginning of our Christianitie euen the same Christianitie vvhich is of al NatioÌ„s and vvhich hath bredde aÌ„d brought furth al our Princes Priests and people and al this goodly forme of Commonvvealth vvhich our forefathers left vs. This same commission end and intentions haue the fathers of the Societie in al other Countries vvhither they be sent by their Superiors through the vvhole vvorld By vvhich they haue our Lord Iesus giuing grace and force of vvord vvorke and miracle to their godly and heroical endeuours in the zeale of Gods house and incomparable loue of soules for vvhich our Sauiour gaue his pretious bloud entered into the extreme partes of the vvorld almost through al the East Indes and most barbarous Countries and haue conuerted diuers mightie Princes vvith their prouinces and peoples and innumerable persons in other Kingdoms besides vvhere the vvhole state yet yeldeth not vnto the faith of Christ euen the same Catholike Apostolike Romane faith that vve and al NatioÌ„s are named Christians by In the like spirit haue they passed into the vvest Indes to the gaine of millions of soules vvith infinite perils of the iourney both by sea and land most long and dangerous diuers of theÌ„ intercepted by Heretikes by the Heathen by Pirates and many martyred many brought to captiuitie many languishing avvay by the vnacquainted sauage diet or disagreing of the aire and many by other accidents To those places they go yerely vvith the same obedieÌ„ce the same coÌ„mission the same intentioÌ„ that they come novv to England they neuer committed reason nor disquieted the state vvhere they come the preaching of the Catholike religion and ministring the holy Sacraments being not coumpted of any of those peoples seditious atteÌ„pts as being done vvithout concourse of people no nor vvheÌ„ it is vvith coÌ„course of peaceable poore simple vnlearned men and vvemen seruing God in Christian maner They be sent to diuers Prouinces and cities throughout al Germanie Bohemia Austria Polonia Transsyluania Suetia Dalmatia and many other CouÌ„tries diuersly affected in religion no lesse then ours vvith no other charge purpose or commission then they are come to England none of al those states though by the endeuours of ProtestaÌ„ts the good fathers haue beeÌ„ endaÌ„gered and molested many vvaies fearing their endeuours to be pernicious but finding them daily more and more to be most profitable beneficial and agreable to the preseruation of their Commonvvealths and Countries And they are receiued not onely into these partes aforesaid for reclaimiÌ„g the deceiued soules from Paganisme and heresie to the vnitie of Christes catholike Churh againe but also for their exeÌ„plar life and vertue for their exceding exercise diligence and dexteritie in the education of youth both in pietie and knovvledge for their great learning and discretion and for other their rare graces of Gods spirit they are vsed to the maruelous benefite of the Church as vvel by his Holinesse as other greatest Princes of Christendom for their preachers confessors spiritual counselers professors in their Vniuersities reformers of the decated maners of al sortes and most exquisite Maisters of al religion deuotion and true vvorship of God These mens order in deede and rule of life is nevv but their faith and doctrine is the same that our forefathers and al the Church had and hath They are hated of Heretikes vvhich S. Hierom coumpteth a singular glorie for those holy fathers vvhich vvere raised of God to coÌ„bate vvith Heretikes of old vvere hated as these be novv sent to repaire the ruines of Luther and Caluin and the rest But vvould God our people vvere so happie as to haue full proofe of their giftes and qualities that so they might see and feele that they are sent to bring saluation rest and peace of conscience and not disquietnes to their Countrie Alas poore men these same fevv that you there haue might as vvel haue been sent to the Indes or to any part of Turky or Heathenesse if it had been their lotte and their Superiors commaundement as vvel as to you For thither they go vvith

They vvere ouercome in AÃ«rius Vigilantius Iouinian Imagebreakers Berengarius and others by many iudicial sentences and by plaine learning refuted before our daies they are condemned by the like meanes in our time yeld they vvill not til God miraculously coÌ„found their cheefe preachers And for further trial of our doctrine vvould God it might please our Prince to coÌ„maund some of vs her Catholike subiects abrode or of them vvhich be at home either in prison or at libertie to appeare before her Ma. tie or any indiffereÌ„t iudges in scholastical coÌ„bat vvith any one or any number of ProtestaÌ„ts of her dominions or any other part of the vvorld Vvhich men though they durst not shevv their faces in the late General Councel vvhich is the proper place of such disputes vpon trifling and vnvvorthy pretences refusing the same blaspheming that holy assembly and barking at it in bookes a far of vvhen they durst not come neere it as the Heretikes condeÌ„ned in the first foure great Councels did also tovvard the same yet their causes of feare or exception vvould cease in this case if it pleased her Highnes by her vvisdom and clemeÌ„cie to giue order for the libertie and saftie of both partes therein Neither neede our Aduersaries be curious in the case the personal feare or danger being on our side but the shame and confusion vve trust in God shal be on theirs Once there vvas a conference in deede but vvithout al order and indiffereÌ„cie and at that time vvhen there vvas such a greedly desire of nouelty and chaunge that vvil and affection forcibly ouerruled al the matter Novv so many yeres hauing both vvel cooled the inordinate heat that the people lightly haue in such cases and giuen good experience of the Sect vve doubt not but God vvould prosper the matter to the great good of the Realme and contentmeÌ„t of her Ma. ties and al doubtful consciences For though such disputes vvith the Catholike Churches Aduersaries out of Councels and fit places be not in them selues alvvaies so allovvable nor profitable yet oftentines they haue done good and haue been thought necessarie both of late and of old as vve see by the diuers conferences of S. Augustine and others vvith the ManichÃ©es Arians and Donatistes in Afrike and some in France and Germanie vvith the Caluinists and ProtestaÌ„ts And that this vve also might do vvith our Superiors liking vve most hartely desire trusting that our doctrine vvhich novv is condemned of fansie and humane tradition should then be inuincibly proued to be most agreable to Gods sacred vvord and holy Scriptures Thus also further being bold and of duety to his Holines vvho also is charged to haue instituted these Colleges to traine vs vp in erroneous doctrine bound to say as the truth is that in these his Colleges there be vsed as many meanes to attaine to the knovvledge of the Scriptures and Gods truth reserued in them and his holy Church as in many mo of theirs Our vvittes be of God as theirs are and alloted to vs by his goodnes in as plentiful measure as theirs our absence from our Countrie the aduersity and pouerty incident to the same being not excessiue is as fit for studie as the more plentiful and delicate state of our English Vniuersities at home being othervvise for that thing and for al vvorldly splendour the noblest Schooles in Christendom Our foundation in al kind of faculties requisite for the studie of Diuinitie is as deeply laid as theirs our diligence rather more then lesse our time both of age and studie more complete then theirs commonly can be that are for the most part in our daies so timely called out of the Schooles to pulpits and promotions Our order methode and course of Diuinitie kept and ruled by obedience and the Superiors prescription much more profitable then theirs that is mere voluntarie Vve haue mo disputations lessons conferences examinations repetitions instructions Catechizings resolutions of cases both of conscience and controuersies methodes and maners to procede in the coÌ„uersion of the deceiued and such like exercises specially for daily practise in the Scriptures vvherein the ProtestaÌ„ts vainely pretend their cheefe praises to coÌ„sist because they can promptly alleage the leafe and the line of their booke in our tvvo Colleges then are in their tvvo Vniuersities coÌ„teining neere hand 30 goodly Colleges And as concerning Sermons no Sunday nor Holy day in the yere vvanteth one and tvvise a vveeke besides for the exercise of yong preachers declamations in matters of Diuinitie For the tonges also notvvithstanding so many their publike and priuate lessons and great vaunting of the same I vvould vve might haue opportunitie to shevv vvhether they or vve haue more commoditie of them either to the knovvledge of Diuinitie or to the aduantage of our cause As for the Maisters and Professors of our Colleges specially the Romane Readers of vvhom vve may vvith better reason and respect of our shamefastnes speake then of our ovvne here vvhom yet I trust our Aduersaries shal find sufficieÌ„t vvhen God shal put them to the proofe vve may be bold to say they be in al kind the most choise and cunning men in ChristendoÌ„ for vertue learning gouernemeÌ„t and al education of youth vvherof vvould God our Nation at home might once take triall Novv for that part of education vvhich pertaineth to Christian life and maners because knovvledge and learning be obtained specially by prayer and godly behauiour impure persons being not so apt to receiue and obey the faith our cheefe endeuour is in both the Colleges to breede in our Scholers the feare of God deuotion and desire of saluation Vvhich is done by diuers spiritual exercises as daily examinations of their consciences often Communicating or Receiuing the B. Sacrament often confessing much praying continual hearing and meditation of holy things deepe conceiuing and compassion of their Countries state and danger of their deerest frendes soules Al vvhich things to tell in particular vvere to long Neither this much vvould vve haue said of such matters had not our necessarie defense driuen vs therevnto For vvhich and principally for the honour of God and his Holinesse eternal commendation vve haue touched the maner of that education vvhich our Aduersaries haue persuaded her Highnes Councel to be disagreable to Gods vvord Humbly thanking our Lord God that for our further vvarrant therein he hath giuen to these endeuours such effect that many haue found eternal good thereby in our Countrie and that he neuer suffered any as far as vve could perceiue and do remember vouchsauing to conferre vvith vs one moneth to go heÌ„ce not persuaded and contended in conscience though many yerely resort to both the Seminaries either vvholy doubtful or plaine Protestants Vvhereby vve find it certaine that many a good soul perisheth in our Nation onely for lacke of hearing and seeing the Catholike faith and practise therof The sensible comfort vvherof is so vnspeakable to al that truely do

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