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A34573	Stafford's memoires, or, A brief and impartial account of the birth and quality, imprisonment, tryal, principles, declaration, comportment, devotion, last speech, and final end, of William, late lord viscount Stafford, beheaded upon Tower-hill on Wednesday the 29. of December 1681 hereunto is also annexed a short appendix concerning some passages in Stephen Colleges trial.	Corker, James Maurus, 1636-1715.	1681 (1681)	Wing C6306; ESTC R20377	92,206	80

Christian Mysteries and Duties respectively necessary to Salvation 8. This Church thus Spread thus Guided thus visibly Continued in One Vniform Faith and Subordination of Government is that Self-same which is termed the Roman Catholick Church The Qualifications above-mentioned viz. Vnity Indeficiency Visibility Succession and Vniversality being applicable to no other Church or Assembly whatsoever 9. From the Testimony and Authority of This Church it is that We Receive and Believe the Scriptures to be God's Word And as She can assuredly tell Us This or That Book is God's Word so can she with the like Assurance tell us also the True Sense and Meaning of it in Controverted Points of Faith The same Spirit that Writ the Scripture Enlightning Her to Understand both It and all Matters Necessary to Salvation From These Grounds it Follows 10. All and only Divine Revelations deliver'd by God unto the Church and proposed by Her to be Believ'd as such are and ought to be esteem'd Articles of Faith and the contraty Opinions Heresie And 11. As an Obstinate Separation from the Vnity of the Church in known declared Matters of Faith is formal Heresie So a wilful Separation from the Visible Vnity of the same Church in Matters of Subordination and Government is formal Schism 12. The Church proposeth unto Us Matters of Faith First and chiefly By the Holy Scripture in Points plain and Intelligible in it Secondly By Definitions of General Councils in Points not sufficiently Explained in Scripture Thirdly By Apostolical Traditions deriv'd from Christ and his Apostles to all Succeeding Ages Fourthly By her Practice Worship and Ceremonies Confirming her Doctrines PARAGRAPH II. Of Spiritual and Temporal Authority 1. GEneral Councils which are the Church of God Representative have no Commission from Christ to Frame New Matters of Faith these being sole Divine Revelations but only to explain and ascertain unto us what antiently was and is received and retained as of Faith in the Church upon arising Debates and Controversies about them The Definitions of which General Councils in matters of Faith only and proposed in such oblige under pain of Heresie all the Faithful to a Submission of Judgment But 2. It is no Article of Faith to believe That General Councils cannot Err either in matters of Fact or Discipline alterable by circumstances of time and place or in matters of Speculation or Civil Policy depending on meer humane Judgment or Testimony Neither of these being Divine Revelations deposited in the Catholick Church in regard to which alone she hath the promised Assistance of the Holy Ghost Hence it is deduced 3. If a General Council much less a Papal Consistory should undertake to depose a King and absolve his Subjects from their Allegiance no Catholick as Catholick is bound to submit to such a Decree Hence also it followeth 4. The Subjects of the King of England lawfully may without the least breach of any Catholick Principle Renounce even upon Oath the Teaching Mantaining or Practising the Doctrine of deposing Kings Excommunicated for Heresie by any Authority whatsoever as Repugnant to the fundamental Laws of the Nation Injurious to Soveraign Power Destructive to the Peace and Government and by consequence in His Majesties Subjects Impious and Damnable Yet not properly Heretical taking the Word Heretical in that connatural genuine sense it is usually understood in the Catholik Church on account of which and other Expressions no wise appertaining to Loyalty it is that Catholicks of tender Consciences refuse the Oath commonly call d the Oath of Allegience 5. Catholicks believe That the Bishop of Rome is the Successor of St Peter Vicar of Jesns Christ upon Earth and Head of the whole Catholick Church which Church is therefore sitly stiled Roman Catholick being an universal Body united under one visible Head Nevertheless 6. It is no matter of Faith to believe That the Pope is in himself Infallible seperate from a General Council even in Expounding the Faith By consequence Papal Definitions or Decrees though ex Cathedra as they term them taken exclusively from a General Council or Vniversal Acceptance of the Church oblige none under Pain of Heresie to an interior Assent 7. Nor do Catholicks as Catholicks believe that the Pope hath any direct or indirect Authority over the Temporal Power and Jurisdiction of Princes Hence if the Pope should pretend to Absolve or Dispence with His Maiesties Subjects from their Allegiance upon account of Heresie or Schism such Dispensation would be vain and null and all Cathelick Subjects notwithstanding such Dispensation or Absolution would be still bound in Conscience to defend their King and Countrey at the hazard of their Lives and Fortunes even against the Pope himself in case he should invade the Nation 8. And as for Problematical Disputes or Errors of particular Divines in this or any other matter whatsoever the Catholick Church is no wise responsible for them Nor are Catholicks as Catholicks justly punishable on their Account But 9. As for the King Killing Doctrine or Murder of Princes Excommunicated for Heresie It is an Article of Faith in the Catholick Church and expresly declared in the General Council of Constance That such Doctrine is Damnable and Heretical being contrary to the known Laws of God and Nature 10. Personal Misdemeanors of what Nature soever ought not to be Imputed to the Catholick Church when not Justifyable 〈◊〉 the Tenents of her Faith and Doctrine For which Reason though the Stories of the Paris Massacre the Irish Cruelties Or Powder-Plot had been exactly true which yet for the most part are Notoriously mis-related nevertheless Catholicks as Catholicks ought not to Suffer for such Offences any more then the Eleven Apostles ought to have Suffered for Judas's Treachery It is an Article of the Catholick Faith to believe that no Power on Earth can License Men to Lye to Forswear and Perjure themselves to Massacre their Neighbours or destroy their Native Countrey on pretence of promoting the Catholick Cause or Religion Furthermore all Pardons and Dispensations granted or pretended to be granted in order to any such ends or Designs have no other validity or Effect then to add Sacriledge and Blasphemy to the above-mentioned Crimes 12. The Doctrine of Equivocation or Mental Reservation however wrongfully Imposed on the Catholick Religion is notwithstanding neither taught nor approved by the Church as any part of her Belief On the contrary Simplicity and Godly Sincerity are constantly recommended by her as truly Christian Vertues necessary to the Conservation of Justice Truth and Common Society PARAGRAPH III. Of some Particular controverted Points of Faith 1. EVery Catholick is obliged to believe that when a Sinner Repenteth him of his Sins from the bottom of his Heart and Acknowledgeth his Transgressions to God and his Ministers the Dispensers of the Mysteries of Christ

the Law is adjudged Treason 2ly The Papists do not undertake to make good Oates's Charge of Perjury against Dugdale Smith and Turbervil Nor theirs against him But only to shew that the guilt of this Horrid Crime lyeth amongst them And consequently whether it be charged upon Oates as the Chief Swearing-Master and Original Author of the Plot Or upon Dugdale Smith and Turbervil at his Pedants and Accessaries in the Imposture Or as is most rational upon Both and All of them It follow 's That the Lord Stafford dyed by Perjury And Roman Catholicks have wrongfully suffered by their Villanies the loss of their Fortunes their Estates their Liberties their Lives Luke 19. Verse 22. Out of thine own Mouth will I Judge thee Thou Wicked Servant THus I have here Briefly and Impartially set down what occur's to me on this occasion And now for an Appology to the whole Treatise Seing the Papists as well as all other Men have a natural right when Impeached to defend their Innocence I hope it will not be Imputed a fault in me to have Rehearsed some of their Arguments as they lay within the Limits and Sphere of my Design If any Persons of Depraved Judgments shall from hence draw sinister Reflections upon the Justice of the Nation I declare they abuse both the Government themselves and Me by such their unjust Paraphrase FINIS Some Errors escaped the Press PAge 1. Line 30. for lesse read least p. 14. l. 36. for it is credible r. is it credible p. 30. 1. 10. for Deposited r. Deposed Ibid. 1. 16. for left himself to r. left to himself p. 31. l. 35. for injured r. invred p. 37. 1. 3. for Railed r. Railyed p. 39. 1. 2. for addressed r. addressed p. 49. 1. 37. for justifiable to her Tenents r. justifiable by her Tenents p. 54. 1. 36. for Creature r. Creator p. 67. 1. 12. for Implored r. I Implere Tryal p. 4. Pag. 7 c. Pag. 17 c The motives of his Perversion His Imployment in England pag. 21. c. His Contribution for Arms c. 50. l. Armies ready at an hours warning The Popes contribution 1000 l. Pag 25. c Pag. 25. c. his feigned Conversion The Provincial of Castile contribution 10000 l. Pickering receive'd a Discipline Afterwards a Promise of 30000 Masses Page 32. A Twenty pound Debt returned for a Reward to kill the King page 30 Page 17. The Papists plea against the Plot in general Pag. 70. Page 123. a Coleman's Tryal Coleman's Letters Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Murder Pag. 20. Pag. 87. Pag. 136. Fire-Balls Sham-Plots c. The Votes of both Houses of Parliament declaring it a Plot. * See the Tryals of Wakeman Corker Marshal Earl of Castlemain Sir Tho. Gascoin Lady Powis Tempest c. Gunpowder-Treason French Massacre c. Ireland's Tryal Page 40. c. The first onset against My Lord. My Lords Address Page 25. c. Pag. 24. c. Dugdal 's Infamy and Beggery Pag. 94. c. Pag. 84. c. Pag. 87. c. Pag. 145 c. Pag. 163. Pag. 175 Pag. 147 Pag. 163. Pag. 168. Dugdale's Perjury Pag. 87. c. Pag. 175. Pag. 74. page 147. page 83. c page 80 c Page 132 c. Page 174. Page 177. Page 175. Page 178. Dugdales Subornation of Oaths Page 90. c. Pag. 138. c. Dugdale 's Improbable manner of Swearing Page 22. Page 46 c. Page ●28 c. Page 130 c. This Oates affirms in Langhorns Tryal Page 101. Page 179. Oates's new Porgeries Page 102. Page 25. Page 126. Oates his Apostacy and Sacriledge Page 123. Turbavil's Perjury in seven Particulars Page 120 c. Pag. 122. Pag. 152. Page 109. Page 151. Page 108. Page 113. Page 181. Page 106 Page 180. Page 112. Page 110 Page 182. Page 101. Page 116. Turbervil 's loose manner of Life Page 154. Page 163. c. The sum of my Lord's Plea as to matters of Fact Page 167. c. My Lord's Plea as to matters of Law Page 199. c. The sum of the Evidence against my Lord. Page 170. Page 171 c. Page 184. Page ●●● Answer to 〈◊〉 Lord's Plea in matters of Law Page 190. My Lord 's particular Address Page 198. Page 212. My Lord High Steward's Speech His Religion imputed to him as the C●●se of his Guilt Page 21● The Sentence Page 54. Page 53. Ibid. Ibid Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. An Objection Answered The intent of this Epistle 〈…〉 Christ a Eph. 2. 8. 1 Cor. 15. 22. applicable by Faith b Mark 16. 16 Heb. 11. 6. c Eph. 4. 4. c. Which is but One d Jam. 2. 10. e 1 Cor. 1. 20. Mat. 16. 17. Supernatural By the Divine Providence to be learnt f Isai 35. 8. By the Divine Providence to be learnt g Joh. 9. 41. h Mat. 11. 25. i John 15. 22. Not from private Interpretation of Scripture but from the Universal Church dilated continued and guided by the Holy Ghost for that end k 2 Pet. 3. 16. Pro. 14. 12. Mat. 22. 29. l 1 Jo. 4. 1 6. Prov. 12. 15. m Mat. 18. 17. Luke 10. 16. n Psal 2. 8 sa 2. 2 c. 49. 6. Matth. 5. 14. o Isai 59. 21. Joh. 16. 13. Ezek 37. 26. Eph. 5. 25. c. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Mat. 16. 18. p Mat. 28 20. Joh. 14 16. q Deut 17. ●8 c. Mat. 23. 2. This Church is the same with the Roman Chtholick From the Testimony of which we believe the Scripture to be Gods Word Divine Revelations only Matters of Faith r Can. 6. 8. Joh. 10. 16. Rom. 15. 5. Joh. 17. 22. Philip 2. 2. s Mat. 16. 18. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Mat. 18. 17. t Isai 59. 21. Joh. 14. 26. u 1 Cor. 11. 19. Mat. 18. 17. What Heresie what Schism How Matters of Faith are proposed by the Church x Tit. 3 10. 1 Cor. 1. 10. cap. 12. 25. y Joh. 5. 39. z Acts 15. per tot a 2 Thes 2. 15. cap. 3. 6. 2 Tim. 2. 2. b Jam. 2. 18. Gal. 1. 7 8. What is the Authority of General Councils c Deut. 17. 8. Mat. 18. 17. Acts 15. pertot Luke 10 16. Heb. 13. 7. 17. An Explanation of the same Authority d Joh. 14 16. e 1 Tim. 6. 20. A Deduction from thence concerning Allegiance A second Deduct on concerning the same Of the Oath of Allegiance The Bishop of Rome Supreme Head of the Church but not Infallible d Mat. 16. 17. Luke 22. 31. Jo 21. 17. e Eph. 4 11 c. Nor hath any Temporal Authority over Princes 1 Pet. 2. v. 17. c. The Church not responsible for the Errors of particular Divines King-Killing Doctrine Damnable Heresie Conc. Const Sess 15. Personal misdemeanours not to be imputed to the Church No Power on Earth can authorise Men to Lye Forswear Murther c. Equivocat●on not allowed in the Church Of Sacramental Absolution a Ex. 18. 21. 2 Cor. 7. 10. b Psa 32. 5. Pro.

may see how the Priests treat their Penitents in the condition and circumstances my Lord was in My Lord THE Character I bear gives me some Title And the singular esteem I have for your Noble and Truly virtuous Person and Family gives me Confidence to present your Lordship in this your last and Grand Affair with a Consolatory or rather Congratulatory Letter As I daily make my Supplication to God on your behalf so I hope I may make my Addresses to you on Gods behalf You are chosen by the King of Kings to share with him in Immortal Crowns You are called from an Abisse of misery to the top of Felicity You now pay a debt on the score of Grace which is due and which you must shortly have paid to the course of Nature And herein my Lord you are adorned with all the Trophies of Jesus's Victory He was Condemned of High Treason by false Witnesses for the love of you And you stand Condemned of the same Crimes by the like Evidence for the love of him Yet you shall not die my Lord 'T is a mistake of this blind World you shall only pass from a state of Death to a state of Life True Life Eternal Life you shall be Transformed into him whose essence is to live In whom with whom and by whom you shall enjoy all that is good all that is lovely alt that is pleasant And this enjoyment shall be in all its fulness altogether all at once without Interruption without Bound Limit or End The Omnipotent Creator● of Heaven and Earth The searcher of Hearts The dreadful Judge of Men and Angels He who justly might otherwise peradventure have cast you into Eternal Fire From whose Sentence there is no Appeal He I say will now be forgetful of past Frailties regard you with a merciful Eye with a pleasing Countenance a loving heart an open Arm an endeared affection Millions of Lawrels hang over your Head Thousands of Millions of Glories and Sweets attend you which neither Eye hath seen nor Ear hath heard nor hath entered into the heart of man The Virgin Mother shall meet and conduct you to her beloved Son The Apostles Martyrs and Confessors shall receive and accompany you And all the blessed Quires of Saints and Angels shall Celebrate your victory and Sing Halleluja's to their celestial King for his Inspeakable goodness to you My Lord You were made for the enjoyment of God and now you arrive at the accomplishment of that End you owe to God all you have and all you are And now you restore to him all both what you have and what you are O happy Restauration where the advantage is wholly yours where Misery is turned into Bliss where Temporal into Eternal where God is found where Death as the Apostle saith is Gain The Innocence of your Cause The Dignity of your Religion for which you Suffer entitles you to the merits of the Cross and Incorporates You to the Bloud and Passion of Jesus your Saviour If we shall be dead with him saith St. Paul we shall live together with him If we suffer with him we shall Reign with him Hence our Saviour himself He that looseth his Life for me shall save it Again If any Man will serve me let him follow me And where I am there shall my Servant be also You are going to the Nuptials of the Lamb. God who is all good is pleased to Impart himself entirely to you Love hath made him wholly yours What need you fear What can you desire He that dyed for the love of you will now reap the Fruits of his pains and joy himself in you with delights proportionable to his own Goodness and Merits You are Select from amongst Thousands for the Espousals of Love Let nothing either past or present deject you nothing disturb you nothing retard you Let not your heart be troubled saith our Saviour nor let it be afraid As for the Crimes for which you stand Condemned God and your own Conscience knows you are Innocent All un-interested Men believe you so Passion and prejudice against your Religion hath advanced the credit of Perjured Persons and influenced your Adversaries to carry on your Death Had you been no Catholick we all know you had never been a Condemned Man So that it is palpably manifest you Die for your Religion and for your Religion wrongfully traduced What greater comfort What greater glory What greater happiness can arrive to a true Christian Blessed shall you be saith our Saviour when Men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you Falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be glad for great is your reward in Heaven Concerning your real defects and frailties Take courage take confidence in God my Lord I have already told you what right you have to the Passion of Christ Your present Death is more then a Pledge of future Pardon Many sins are forgiven her saith our Saviour to Magdalen because she loved much to him that loveth less less is forgiven Now what it is to love much he himself sheweth saying No Man hath greater Love then this That a Man lay down his Life for his Friend Hence the Spouse in the Canticles Love is strong as death c. And our Saviour in express terms assureth us He that looseth his Life for me shall find it First therefore acknowledge your faults with a Penitent Heart and firmly believe what the Scripture avoucheth If we confess our Sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our Sins and cleanse us from all Iniquity Next offer with a chearful Heart your Life to God In satisfaction for your offences In union of the Sufferings of Jesus Christ In a Sacrifice of Love And then doubt not in the least but that Dying as you do in and for the Profession of your Faith Jesus hath signed your Pardon and pronounced upon your Soul those Life giving words Thy Sins are forgiven thee Thy Faith hath saved thee Go in Peace Neither let any endearments towards your Wife Children Friends or Family enfeeble your mind check your Love or imbitter your Joy Remember that Sentence of our Saviour He that loveth Son or Daughter above me is not worthy of me Again Every one that hath forsaken Houses or Brethren or Sisters or Wife or Children or Lands for my Names sake shall receive an hundred fold and possess eternal Life You cannot give God too much You can bestow nothing on him but what you have received of him and what upon many accounts is infinitly due to him But in reality my Lord you do not desert your Friends nor they you by rendring your self and them to God suffering for Jesus He it is standeth Charged with the care of your Wife Children and Family He stileth himself The Father of Orphans and Judge of Widdows As he punisheth to the