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A45589 A detection or discovery of a notable fraud committed by R.B., a seminary priest of Rome, upon two of the articles of the Church of England in a booke imprinted in anno 1632, intituled, The judgment of the apostles and of those of the first age in all points of doctrine, questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England as they are set downe in the nine and thirty articles of their religion : with an appendix concerning Episcopacy / by a lay gentleman. Harlowe, Pedaell. 1641 (1641) Wing H780; ESTC R21855 37,934 54

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A DETECTION OR DISCOVERY OF A NOTABLE FRAVD Committed by R. B. a Seminary Priest of ROME upon Two of the Articles of the Church of ENGLAND In a Booke Imprinted in Anno 1632. Intituled The Judgment of the APOSTLES and of Those of the first Age in all points of Doctrine questioned betweene the Catholikes and Protestants of England as they are set downe in the nine and thirty Articles of their RELIGION With an Appendix concerning Episcopacy By a Lay Gentleman LONDON Printed by E. P. for William Leake and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery-Lane neere the Rowles 1641. To the right Honourable HENRY Earle of Manchester Lord Privy Seale and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell My most honoured Lord SEeing it is a Maxime of divine and humane Law most infallibly true Suum cuiq reddere I hold my selfe obliged in Obedience to it to dedicate unto your honourable Patronage the ensuing Tract most truly and humbly acknowledging Tam me quam omne meum to be your Lordships Creature made fortunate by the Rayes of those sweet Influences which have issued from your Lorships ever Candide Aspect which Bounty my inability wanting means of any Requitall or other Retribution doth claime this my poore Infant-worke together with all other Services both as a duty of Tribute unto your Lordships high Merit and as a signall or testimoniall Badge of that ever bounden Gratitude and Recognition which my Heart and Tongue rendreth unto your Lordships goodnesse Your honourable Greatnesse as able and your gracious Benignity as willing to protect it hath Encourag●d my humble Boldnesse to beseech your noble acceptance of it I neither will nor can presume it worthy your Lordships Perusall not daring to arrogate so high as to invite so great a Iudgement to discend beneath it's proper Spheare to behold A thing so meane and low It 's sufficient that your Lordship vouchsafe the loane of your honourable name to give it credit unto others of the lesser Orbe For though this Tract as I am somewhat confident containes in it nothing but what is justifiable by the evidence of Truth yet it is likely to meet with opposition Quia veritas odium parit but it being quitted from harms by such as are Friends to the vertue of truth splendent as light radiated from the Sun it may serve ut fragmentum in Cophinis Christi or otherwise ut minutumi Gazophylacio Ecclesiae how ever your Lordship and the world may find that Inter res seculares I have spared some time for sacred designes taught to doe so well by the rare President of your Lordships divine Enchyridion de contemplatione mortis et immortalitatis a piece of such admirable excellence as would exse without your honourable name or dignity protect it selfe But my Modicum lesser than a meere shadow to that perfect substance implores both your honourable regard to the Author and worke and also Fronte serena to entertaine this humble duty of him whose perpetuall suit unto the Supremest is for all successefull blessings on the Person and state of your honourable Lordship and noble Posterity both in stocke and branches as well for health and life to be happily lengthned here as for Eternity to be enjoyed hereafter for some manifestation of his Cordiall meaning the soule of verball expressions he really wishes for such Imployment as may testifie him to bee Your Lordships most faithfull and humble Servant PEDAELL HARLOWE To the READER IN Lent 1639 there came to my hands commended and esteemed by some as a choice piece a Booke intituled The judgement of the Apostles and of those of the first Age in all points of doctrine questioned betweene Catholikes and Protestants of England as they are set downe in the Nine and thirty Articles of their religion by an old Student in Divinity Dedicated to her most excellent Majesty Queene Mary subscribed R. B. Which Booke opening about the middest of it with intent to read such part of it as first offered it seife to my view I casually lighted on the Ninth Chapter thereto the six twentieth Chapter hath reference both which chapters doe treat of the Consecration of our Bishops and the Ordination of our Priests Ministers and Deacons wherein as it is there delivered is concerned the Standing or ruine of our whole Religion Hereat making some pause as morthy the reading which being perusid me thought it was a point not to be slighted jam securis ad radicem ' its ayme was to strike at the roote for the utter overthrow and razing up the Basis and foundation of the visible Entity of that Church whereof my selfe is an unworthy Member and consequently as it concerned the generall so it concerned me in particular how much my soule was afflicted and troubled at it cannot be exprest because the particulars urged by the Adversary are chiefely or altogether matters of Fact and Record not matter of Dispute Reasoning or argumentation so as nothing could be had from the reach of Reason or my onne understanding on which I presume not nor from literature whereof my portion is but small how to be brought out of the Bryers and for that purpose applying my selfe to the learned of our Church in Print especially Master Francis Mason late Archdeacon of Norfolke now with God who have most exactly and gravely to their eternall praise and renowne vindicated our Church in the matter of Consecration and Ordination against a great company of virulent cunning and subtile adversaries I could not meet with any of those particulars alleadged in these Two chapters of this Author's Booke anywhere objected treated of or answered which happened as I beleeve because this Booke came either under the Presse since those workes were finished or else it lurk't so close as it came not to the view of those brave Defendors of our Church whereupon being become restlesse in my selfe and holding it too supine negligence to continue still ignorant in so weighty a matter without some indeavour to be satisfied in so reall a Concernment I became resolved to make such search into it my selfe as my weake abilities could attaine unto which having in some poore measure atchieved it was originally intended for my owne selfe-satisfaction but thereof some of my friends having view they became very desirous to be pleasured with Copies of it which being found to be too tedious and over-chargeable it was earnestly desired to be made vnlgar by the Presse but being loath to be read in Print it hath lyen by me by the space of a yeare in which time it having gotten approbation by some of Eminent learning I am become obedient to the desires of others in that behalfe holding it better to Communicate a browne morsell than to be totally uncharitable being pers●aded it can doe no hurt but to the Adversary by detection of his Fraud and hoping that this piece of plainnesse may at present give some content and satisfaction if