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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03332	The apology of Theophilus Higgons lately minister, now Catholique VVherein the letter of Sir Edvv. Hoby Knight, directed vnto the sayd T.H. in answere of his first motiue, is modestly examined, and clearely refuted.	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1609 (1609)	STC 13452; ESTC S114948	30,879	65

of Veniall and Mortall sinnes flat against the principles of that profession 7. If after Reconciliatiō vnto the Catholick Church I had written or spoken against any article of hir faith my crime toward hir might seeme inexpiable and your aduantage against me very great Howbeit it is neither the one that I am guilty of nor the other which I feare but it was your pleasure Sir to make a chayne of such wrongs to weaue them in your discourse 8. I answere therefore FIRST that I wrote not that little Pamphlett after my returne out of Yorkeshire but before SECONDLY that as I came vnreconciled into the presence of that Venerable Priest F. Flud so I neuer saw him nor heard of him vntill my arriuall in S. Omers where also himself had remayned one whole yeare at the least before that time And I meruayle that your intelligencer concealed this point from your notice which he could not but know much more certainly then that I was reconciled by such a Priest though heere also I leaue your informer and your self vnto your better proofes THIRDLY that I wrote it according to my opinion therein precisely at that howre And truly this was one of the 3. or 4. points wherein I had the learned judicious and expedite resolution of that Reuerend Priest after my arriuall being perswaded absolutely in most points at that time and chiefly in the chiefest metropoliticall question concerning the ❀ Men must diligētly seek out the true Church that so they may rest in hir judgement sayth D. Field in his epist. dedicat CHVRCH So then I neither wrote agaist that which I did belieue nor yealded vnto that which I did not conceiue FOVRTHLY that the occasion of writing it was a certain conference betwixt me and a Catholick gentleman vnto whose hands I deliuered it and desired him to procure me a good resolution thereunto FIFTLY that the occasiōs of publishing it were many and one principall viz. to diuert a strong suspition intertayned somewhere to my prejudice as I was induced to think by sondry reasons SIXTLY that some particulars in that pāphlet as namely * in fine Secreta mea mihi c. haue long since made the construction more cleare vnto Sir Edward and his world which sometimes was more secrete and obscure 9. This is good Readers the true text of this matter which now I referr vnto your judicious interpretation Let me add onely a word for a finall complement herein and say thus much that if I were as guilty of or in this fault as my Accuser would make you belieue yet I might be excused rather then y See the Examen of Fox his Calendar Part. 1. pag. 374. c. CRANMER himself whose seuerall Treatises pro contra for and against the Reall Presence were exhibited by Bonner in a publick Iudgement when it was no small mortification you may think vnto that chādged Father to behold the faces of his vnlike children Wherefore z Ouid. Met. 13. Haud timeo si jam nequeo defendere crimen Cum tanto commune vivo 10. But as there is no proportion in our faults if yet I committed any in respect of all the circumstances of Person matter manner c. so ZWINGLIVS a greater Patriarch then he and one of the a Apo. 11.3 two witnesses against Antichrist as b de Relig. in exposit 4. Praecepti Zanchius belieueth may hold out his buckler for my defence For he * Sir Edw. phrase pag. 100. mark you me now falling away from Luther and teaching a doctrine of the Sacrament contrary vnto his former preachings confesseth plainely that c De vera falsa Relig. he knew the truth long before but he serued the time wherein he is commended by Christ as a faithfull and wise seruāt who giueth meate vnto his family in due season So sayth your Zwinglius of whom the censure of d De Eucharist lib. 1. c. 1. Bellarmine is perhapps very true to witt Zwinglius betrayeth his impiety to couer his ignorāce Howsoeuer it be the censure of his fellow witnesse e Loc. Com. Luth. Fabric classe 5. pag. 50. M. LVTHER is very terrible against all that Sacramentary faction viz. He that taketh pleasure in his owne damnation let him belieue that the truth is taught by theis Spirits since they beganne and defend their opinions by lies 11. So much for your second proof and now to your THIRD which you deliuer in theis words f pag. 19. It is not long since you haue complayned through impatient emulation and ambition that if you might haue been then preferred and not aduised rather to returne to the Vniuersity to repayr your wings You would not haue changed your copy so soone nor made so sorry a flight from vs to ROME This you know to be well knowen and vpon farther occasiō may be better specified vnto the world 12. I answere The thought neuer entered into my heart the speach neuer proceeded out of my mouth And I am glad as well for your owne as my sake that you haue some other Authour then your self who sitt at the receipt of custome and keepe an auditt of intelligences to specify in theis behalf that so when he commeth forth and crieth adsum I may answere confidently and say vnto his face * Psal 26.12 Mentita est iniquitas sibi Wherefore remooue theis wrongs from your self vnto their proper Authours that I may behold them in their owne center then you are free whosoeuer shal be found guilty in this matter For I assure you that I am incredibly abused and whosoeuer the Authour be I beseech the Readers to vnderstand that g Matth. 1● 28 Inimicus homo hoc fecit §. 2. Of vnnaturall affection to my Father 1. SIR Edward is desirous to make me odious and contemptible in the eye of his world and therefore he would shew that I am an vnnaturall Husband to my VVife and likewise an vnnaturall Sonne vnto my Father persons that should be conjoyned with indissoluble bands of loue For the bands betwixt the first are sacramentally Supernaturall betwixt the secōd intrinsecally Naturall and Inseparable in both In the first two are made one in the second one brancheth from the other so that betwixt the Husband and Wise there is a concourse of equall duties from the Father there is a decourse of affection vnto the Sonne and from the Sonne a recourse vnto the Father 2. How I am condemned in the first respect you haue h Chap. 1. §. 4. already seene how I am condemned in the second you shall now receiue a double proof FIRST Your Father tooke a long iourney saith i pag. 17. Sir Edward to seek out his lost Sonne who neuer opened his mouth to aske him blessing for his paynes Then after an amplification of no value or su●stance he addeth k pag. 18. Was not this I say grief inough but that you must depriue him also

it may seeme repugnant vnto the duty and affection of a Sonne to detract any estimation from his Fathers report yet since his * Annexed vnto Sir Edwards Letter is published to giue more creditt and authority vnto Sir Edwards calumniations yea to satisfy any vnprejudicate Reader for so the † In his Admonit Printer testifieth in his name and lastly since heere the matter it self doth ineuitably challendge it at my hands for though there are other vntrue points contayned in that Letter either as much or more prejudiciall vnto me then this yet I will seek no occasion to contradict any parcell thereof otherwise then it shall present it self vnto me nor yet will I accept it farther then pure necessity shall constrayne me I must remooue a scandall which by virtue of the sayd Letter may perhappes make a deepe impression in some mens hearts to my singular inconuenience and losse 12. Whereas therefore you my deare and louing Father giue this signification in your Letter bearing the forme of an indictment against me your Sonne viz. before he went beyond the Seas he borrowed diuers summes of money with purpose I am perswaded neuer to repay them and amongst the rest he abused my self for ten pound the former instāces besides many other proofes may perswade you otherwise and assure you of that which a Father doth least suspect or least accuse to witt the Morall honesly of your Sonne which by the course of nature hath from you descended vnto me as my best inheritance And that it may appeare vnto your self and others who either by your owne consent or by Sir Edwards fault haue interest in theis accusations to require my defence that I did not abuse your Fatherly benignity which emptied your meanes to fill my wāts as freely as n S. Aug. Conf. l. 2. c. 3. Patricius himself dealt with his Augustine I pray you to remēber that which you did or might know lōg before to witt that I borrowed and receiued the sayd ten pounds of you to further my suite in obtayning a * S. Michaels in Gloucester Benefice being in his Majesties gift and vacant vpon the depriuation of the late Incumbent stayned with Puritanisme and that I was expressly counsayled thereunto by my Honorable Lord howbeit vpon some difficulties I surceased from the same 13. This was the occasion of borrowing that summe But now if you will compare the time also when I borrowed it with the time of my departure out of England I may be fully cleared from all suspition of abuse For my departure out of England being in Nouember 1607. and the receipt of that money about Easter 1606. the distance of the times doth prooue that my intention was not fraudulēt since at Easter 1606. I thought not of this departure in Nouember 1607 which was almost two yeares after 14. So then it is true that I borrowed sundry summes in generall and this in particular also before I went beyond the Seas but this word BEFORE is heere ambiguous and in one sense very prejudiciall and therefore must be distinguished viz. Mediately or Immediately before If it be taken mediately as it signifieth a good distance of time I confesse the accusation in this sense to be very true but then my honest intention receiueth little or no prejudice thereby If it be taken immediately as it signifieth a propinquity and neerenesse of time I must deny the accusation in this sense to be true and this onely is it which can be prejudiciall vnto the honesty of my intentiō To cōclude then I say and vpon my saluatiō I protest vnto you that neither immediately nor neere vpon my departure nor after my first resolution that way did I borrow any money but I did repay some and so in each respect both of not borrowing and of repaying I am freed from the infamy of this pretended abuse forasmuch as I might then haue borrowed more and I might not haue repayed any both which had been to my great aduantadge when money was to be my best if not my onely friend 15. Now if my true defence were not thus plainely and articulately set downe who would not conceiue the meaning to be this viz. Immediately before or vpon his departure he borrowed diuers summes of money c. For by the contempering and mingling together of theis words borrow abuse neuer repay going beyond the seas this sēse must necessarily flow issue thereout and this I know is the construction which is made by many and specially by them whose will doth make them more credulous in this case o Caesar in commentar Et Lamprid. in Heliogab Quod volumus facilè credimus 16. But there is more art then charity in theis commixtions which are as preiudiciall vnto those whom we are willing to defame as the conjunction of Saturne with a more benigne happy starr is fatall vnto the bodies in our inferiour world As for example CLEMENT the eight of blessed life and happy memory is accused by p de Antichr M. Gabriel Powell of whoredome When Ante Papatum sayth he before his Popedome Who is the witnesse Doctour Gentilis his professed enemy Well be it so it was in his yong * of 16 years age as D. Gētilis related it vnto me wherein and q Confess l. 6 cap. 15. after which Augustine himself confesseth and lamēteth his greater follies But yet why ante Papatum Why should his Papacy or the Papacy rather in his declining age beare the fault of his youthfull yeares This was an euill commixtion also for the manner it hath a singular resemblance with the other whereof I haue already treated and wherewith I will conclude this matter 17. Finally therefore as my Religion and dispositiō do powerfully incline me to GIVE euery man his owne which is the proper act of Iustice but not of Charity which doth FORGIVE euery man his debts and for this cause though I will pay others yet I will spare Sir Edward so I will endeauour to my power to giue a iust satisfactiō vnto my Creditours whether * See before num 2. 3. clamorous or silent Vnto the first if there be any such I would owe nothing but loue vnto the second I owe more loue then before I know the precept which S. Paul r Rom. 13.8 giueth viz. Owe nothing vnto any man but this that you loue one an other I know that it is a mark which Dauid ſ Psal 36.21 setteth vpon the vngodly man he borroweth and payeth not agayn My desire to obserue that precept and to avoyd this mark shall expresse it self in my carefull and industrious prouision for that little quantity of debt which Sir Edward esteemeth to be a great cause of my Alienation frō his Church But whether there be any porportiō betwixt the cause and the effect I will now remitt my self him vnto the decision of the impartiall Reader §. 3. Want of Preferment 1. I come