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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

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

roome for it in Rome no holinesse there where his Holinesse dwelles to find an honest man or an honest woman there amongst your Brothel-houses and Stewes that are publikely tollerated to the high offence of God and men were to see a white Crow amongst your Secular men or Secular Priests take it in what sense you will Now my Masters if you like Rome vpon these conditions packe and be gone the sooner the better if his Maiestie will giue you leaue it were a faire riddance as we say without a Sessions But I must leaue to hold you any longer I know you stand vpon thornes and long to be gone to your holy Father the Pope I haue done with their vices and I would they had done with them too and so farewell Of the Clergie of Rome HAuing described the Citie of Rome and shewed our Romanists what wonderfull things are spoken of her I will if needs they will goe to Rome giue them this counsell to goe their Stations as soone as they come thither and as they passe by to view the state of their Clergie and Church in generall and then of their Cardinals Bishops Priests and Monkes in particular the knowledge hereof may be profitable vnto you and yet not puffe you vp neuer a whit the more First then of the Clergie in generall HEre I must bee bold to borrow a pen or two from their owne Espencaeus vpon Titus or from some one or other in the Councell of Basil as for inke if any bee blacke enough to register the seuerall enormities and foulenesse of their facts I will borrow that from Thuanus Historie there will neuer be wanting Inke as blacke and as bitter as Gaule amongst Popish Writers to supply our wants and therefore vpon full trust and confidence hereof as we shall see when we come to handle the particulars I come in this second place to speake of their Cardinall sinnes or the sinnes of their Cardinals although I am not ignorant of Ant. de Dominis saying that a man were as good touch the apple of the Popes eye as point out or point at their Popish or Romish errors but that care is cared for and so I proceed Of the Cardinals and Bishops SOme call them Carpinales in scossing manner as Conrade of Mentz some on the contrary prayse them beyond the skies and say that when they die they shall be sure to goe to Heauen and neuer goe by the Examiners office Be it so yet by their leaues we will make bold to examine their liues while they liue here vpon earth First for their originall it cannot be precisely learned when they began Wicelius saith they were anciently instituted by the primitiue Popes if the word Pope be so ancient to be aiding and assisting to his Holinesse in visiting the sicke and burying the dead But I doubt they will not fall out to be of that antiquitie for in Saint Hieromes time the name of a Cardinall was hardly in request and yet their Writers or Painters seeing Saint Hierome so poore in his Cell of meere pitie and liberalitie haue bestowed a red Hat vpon him which if he had liued in these latter times perchance might haue cost him threescore thousand or a hundred and fifty thousand Crownes Whatsoeuer their originall is they are now raised to a great state not much inferiour to that of Kings and Princes and they haue wherewithall to maintaine that estate they must haue their Horses and their Hounds their Mistresses or rather their Whores and Queanes their Bawdes and Ganimedes and then it is not to be wondered at if they be so couetous it was is and euer will be their guise to get fuell to maintaine this fire of lust I should here admonish them of their duties but the Councell of Basil hath preuented my paines in learning them their seuerall duties and representing before their eyes their red Scarlet which should teach them to be Martyrs for and not persecuters of the Christian Faith A word or two of Bishops and so an end The word Bishop is a name of paiues and not of honour he is a Superintendant ouer the flocke let not the Precisians appropriate this word vnto themselues or pare it as they doe all things else to their purpose but alas now adayes men are made Bishops I speake of our Popish Clergie for couetousnesse and not for righteousnesse sake they inquire not how many Parishes belong to their Diocessees but how many Lordships or rich Mannors belong to their Bishopricks and so what for fulfilling their lusts and filling full their purses and other by-respects men affect or rather infect the Bishopricke as a good Writer noteth And therefore we may very iustly complaine with Erasmus that those which haue the best Bishopricks are not alwaies the best men Mostly Bishops now adayes I speake thus much out of the mouthes and from the complaints of two famous Writers in those impurer times Fr. Duarenus and Isidorùs Clarius are more ignorant of true Religion and sacred businesses then Lay-Princes and Potentates and doe know any thing saue that which they should know that is their duties out of Saint Pauls doctrine contained in his Epistles to Timothie and Titus I conclude this point Let him that hath a Bishopricke attend his office attend his function attend his name he is called a Bishop an Ouer-looker or a Superintendant I know no harme by this word as I told you before his office is not Simonie but to visite his Diocesse to preach to his flocke If you cannot nor will not learne so much of me yet learne it of your owne deere Councell of Trent or at the least of the Councell of Basil And so much for Bishops and Cardinals their sinnes and failings their office and duties Of Popish Priests I Haue touched the Popes free-hold layed open the faults of their Cardinals and Bishops What remaineth Nondum completae sunt iniquitates Amorrhaeorum but that in like manner and that without any great order which their vices will not beare we proceed to speake of the intollerable abuses and innumerable sinnes of the Antichristian Romane Clergie that we may haue a complete mysterie of iniquitie Of the Priests HEre for breuities sake let me intreat thee gentle Reader whosoeuer thou art to name me any sinne wherein the Priest hath not bin Superlatiue They are Priests with a witnesse before all other men verum est in sinning Will you haue ordinarie sinnes or extraordinary prophane vices or Clergie-faults For me it is all one and it were well with them if one were all but I may number them vnto you almost by the dozens 1. They are notable Theeues some of them reade Albertus Krantzius History of Wandalia 2. Couetous beyond measure so Ferus Vatablus and the Councel of Basil in I know not how many pages in one onely Volume The