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A18209 A defence of Catholikes persecuted in England invincibly prouing their holy religion to be that which is the only true religion of Christ; and that they in professing it, are become most faithfull, dutifull, and loyall subiects, to God, their King and country. And therefore are rather to be honoured and respected, then persecuted or molested. Composed by an ould studient in diuinitie. Broughton, Richard. 1630 (1630) STC 4833; ESTC S107625 93,830 235

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from Bishops Neque laico permi●u●ous facere opus aliquod Sacerdotale vt sacrificium aut Baptismum aut impositionem man us aut benedictionem siue paruam siue magnam Nemo enim sibi sumit honorem sed qui vocatur a Domine huiusmodi namque gratia per impositionem manuum Episcopi datur Neque Presbyteris potestatem damus ordinandi Diaconos aut Lectores aut Ministros sed Episcopis tantum Hic enim est Ecclesiasticus ordo Cum à Deo consequen●iam rerum didicerimus Episcopis quidem assignauimus a●tribuimus quae ad principatum Sacerdotij pertin●nt Presbyteris vero quae ad Sacerdotium Deinde Diaconis quae ad ministrandum vtriusque vt pu●è castè fiant quae ad Religionem pertinent Neque enim sas est Diacono sacrificium offerre aut baptizare aut benedictionem fiue paruam siue magnam facere neque Presbytero ordinationem Clericorūfacere Ostensum est An●istitum Ordinem perficientem esse perfectionis authorem Non licet sine Episcopo baptiz●●e neque dothen celebrare Neither doe we permit ●he Lae●ie to doe any Priestly functi●n as to offer Sacrifice baptize impose hands or to giue any Benediction either litle or great For no man taketh this honour to himselfe but ●e who is called by God Because this grace is giuen by the imposition of the Bishops hands Neither doe we giue vnto Priestes the power of ordaining Deacons or Lectours or Ministers but onely to Bishops This is the order of the Church When we did lerne the sequell of things from God indeede what appertained to the principalitie of P●iestes we assigned and gaue it to Bishops and to Priestes what belonged to Priestehoode afterward to Deacons what appertained to the assistance of both that these things which concerned Religion might be performed chastly and cleanely Neither is it lawfull for a Deacon to offer Sacrifice or to baptize or to make any Benediction either litle or great neither for Priestes to ordaine Clergie-men It is declared the Order of the Bishops is the perfecting Order and authour of perfection It is not lawfull without a Bishop to baptize nor to offer Sacrifice nor to saie Masse 6. Wherevppon the English Protestants in their most publicke and authorised proceedings thus acknowledge It is euident vnto all men diligently reading holy Scripturs and auntient authors that from the Apostles time there hath beene these orders of ministers in Christ Church Bishops Priests and Deacōs which offices were euermore had in such reuerent estimation that no man might presume to execute any of them except he were first by publike praier and imposition of hands approued and admitted therevnto And these orders should be continued and reuerently vsed and esteemed in this Church of England And in this both their booke intituled Of Consecration of Archbishops Bishops Priests as their Articles of Religion and cōmon practise doe onely allowe and commit such thinges to them whome they call and apprehend to be Bishops saying Allmightie God giuer of all good things by his holy spirit hath appointed them in the Church Episcopall Order is of diuine Ordination and by law diuine Christ acted it by the hands of the Apostles It is an ordinance Apostolicall He hath enacted it for succeding posteritie and so it is a Canon or Constitution of the whole Trinitie Wherevpon the Protestant Puritās conclude If prelacie be de Iure diuino by the lawe of God it receiueth both breath and life from the Religion of Rome And this they offer Publikly to defend and the Parlament Protestants so graūte claiming that Ministrie they haue by ordination from Rome Wherevpon these Puritans with generall assent haue thus concluded They cannot see how possibly by the Rules of Diuinitie the separation of our Chu●ches from the Church of Rome and from the Pope head thereof can be iustified They protest to all the worlde that the Pope and the Church of Rome and in thē God and Christ Iesus himselfe haue had great wronge and Indignitie offered vnto them and that the Protestant Churches are scismaticall in forsaking the vnitie and communion with them If the English Protestant opinion he maintained That Bishops Iurisdiction is de Iure diuino by the lawe of God his Magestie and all the Nobilite ought to be Sub●ect to Excommunication 7. Which neither king Nobles or vnnoble no meanest Protestants of England can ●oubt feare or pretend against the Bishop of Chalcedon he neither hauing or claiming the ●easte spirituall power or Iurisdiction ouer ●ny one great or little highe or lowest Protestant in Englād His Episcopall both Order ●nd Iurisdiction which as he construeth be●ongeth vnto it extending onely to Catho●iks of this kingedome to keepe them in good order and loyall dutie both to God and ●heir king as good Catholik Bishops doe ●nd are bounde to doe Which must needs be an helpe and no hurt or offence to any Common-wealth Bishops learned louing and knowing their dutie and hauing charge whereof they must render a seuere accompt to God attended with watchfull and reuengfull eyes vpon them for loue will not or feare dare not concurre vnto or suffer vnder them disobediēce to heauenly or earthly Prince They which cannot endure spirituall dutie are in most daunger of lapse into temporall disobedience hauing reiected spirituall power keeping them in awe and dutie to temporall VVhich perhaps caused Constantine our wise king and Emperour to saie vpon experience as he did of staggerers in Religion and faithfulnesse to God No doubt but both the Pope of Rome and Rich of Chalcedon know their offices sufficiently without any admonishments They are not ignorant who said and how it concerned them Non possumus aliquid aduersus veritatem sed pro veritate VVe cannot any thing against 2. Cor. 13. the truth but for the truth and potestatem quam Dominus dedit mihi in aedification●m non destructionem The power which our Lord hath giuen me vnto edification and not vnto destruction 8. There is great difference in hauing and exercising power from Rome The first should not feare them which would feare without cause of feare neither secret and prudent exercise in necessitie to redesse or preuent euills Greater meetings and assemblies be often made by some in and of as great daunger and to lesse purpose then would serue priuately to examine witnesses or so to giue a sentence where the litigants be and ought to be secret To doe many vsuall and necessarie act● of Religion be as daungerous and require as great and greater assemblies A publike setled Consisto●ie in any place or ●laces to be set vp could not but with ●onde ●maginations be thought vpon were the Iudg ●ad not vbi reclinet caput suum Probate of pu●like wills administrations Tithes Con●racts Marriages Diuorces Alimonie Bas●erdie and publike slanders among Protestāts ●aue publike Protestant Courts and all or ●any mixt with our temporall lawes Many ●f the remembred instances as Tithes and ●asterdies concerning inheriting
then ●se where The kings thēselues were not spa●d for offēding therein but were excōmuni●ted and deposed as in the case of king Vorgerne who by S. German the Popes Legate ●th the aduise of the British Clergie was ●communicated and by the whole kinge●me after deposed as British ●nd Saxon ●atholike and Protestant Antiquaries thus ●liuer vnto vs. And our Protestants most ●thorised among them cōmunion Booke in the title of Matrimonie and publicke solemnizing thereof attribute sufficient vnt● it against this Article to receiue it as a S●crament 17. Concerning Extreme Vnction there i● yet extant a short written Relation Ab auth●re antiquissime by a most auntient Author ● our Protestant Antiquaries acknowledge wherein concerning this Sacrament S. Iam● the Apostle is expounded as Catholiks do● and is proued that the Britās so professed a● practised it Whereby we are assured th● the old true beleeuing Britans receiued a the seuen Sacraments as Catholiks now do● And yet if after so great losse and hauoc● made of their Antiquities we had prou● they had vsed fower or three this had co●demned these Protestants admitting one two for such 18. That it was receiued and vsed al● with these true Catholike Britans to re●eru● and some times to receiue also the Blessed S●crament G●ld ● d●●xcid conquest Britan. Manuscr Antiqu. C●●grau in vit S. 〈◊〉 Con● Turonen 2. can 3. of the ●ltar in one onely kinde ād not in b●● we haue ample testimonie Saint Gildas vp● such vsed reseruation there of vpon their h●ly Altars calleth the Altar the Seate of ● h●auenly sacrifice Sedes coelestis Sacrificij Not o●ly therevpon offered but as seated perm●nent and preserued An old British Antiqu●tie deliuereth it was the vse here for such ● were daungerously sicke To receiue Extre● vnction and communicate thus in one kinde So is in Ireland So in little Britanie receiuing Gregor Turonen l 1. de gloria mariyr c. 86. l. 1. de vit Patr. c 3. Conc. Nican 1. can 3. 63. Arahic Conc. Are●la●●n ●e faith from hence and our Britans and it as so decreed there in the secōd Councell of ●urs in the yeare 570. Vt Corpus Domini sub cru●titulo componatur That the bodie of our Lord should placed vnder the title of the Crosse Gregorius Tu●ensis recordeth it to be an old Custome those parts And more ouer relateth how holy Bishop S. Gallus there did communi●e many people in one kinde onely This stome is remembred and approued in the ●t Nicen Councell which the Britans re●ied and that of Arles to which their ●hbishop of London Restitutus for Brita● subscribed And our Protestants by pu●k statute and Parliament haue declared ● in the Primatiue Church Communion ● vsed sometimes in both kindes and ●etimes in one onely Therefore there was expresse commaund of Christ euen by ●e men against one kinde otherwise it ●ld not haue so beene vsed nor could king ●ard the 6. Q. Elizabeth king Iames and Protest Parlamēt an 1. Edw. 6. An. 1. Eliz. An. 1. Iac● Parl. 1. Caroli ● Charles so determine and decree it in ●lick Parlaments ●● Their libertine wanton doctrine For ●iage of Priests is sufficiently confured by Britans before no example to be giuen ●ng them of any one such married man among so many thousands in so many ●asteries Colledges and other places in ● Regiment here in which not any one such as lawfull and allowed Marriage is ● be found The Nicen Councell here then ●ceiued and whereat our king and Empero● with others of this Nation were present do● disalowe it Paphnutius himselfe there call● Concil Nicaen can 3. it the old tradition of the Church Veter● Ecclesiae Traditionem That Priests might a● marrie Vt qui●unque in Sacerdotum Ordinem le● Soz●m hist. aeccl l. 1. cap. vlt. 22. g●rentur si coniuges nondum essent nè ducerent vxo● That whosoeuer should be chosen vnto the Orde● Priests if they were not yet married they should marrie Which is the case of Protestants if th● Concil Arelaten ● can 2. had true Priests Like hath the Councell Arles to which our Britans subscribed A●mi aliquem ad Sacerdotia non posse in vinculo co●gij constitutum nisi fuerit promissa conue●sio N● which are married can be assumed to Priesthood lesse they promisse continancie 20. The rest of their Articles neede ● this Examine little differing from Cat●likes or to smale purpose Therefore the ● of Catholieks in England concerning R●gion being thus holy and warrantable w● God and men they which be the Teach● and Preachers of such sacred rights ● keepers of others to performe them suc● our renowned Bishop and Priests be sho● not be persecuted but honoured and reue●ced of all But because the malice of Perse● tours hath procceeded so farre against th● which haue so well deserued and ought be better respected I must take leaue of th● Enimies to giue our holy Bishop and Priests ●me parte of their due and honour belon●g to their sacred Orders Functions and ●r●ons THE V. CHAPTER ●at the Consecration Iurisdiction and mis●ion of our Catholike Bishop teaching the same Apostolicall Doctrine in all things with the Catholike Church is most lawfull holie orderlie and honourable in that his sacred call●ng is most worthie and necessarie and therfore he vnw●rthi●ly Persecuted SO honourable and eminēt is the name and Office of sacred Bishops that no●●ly the holy Apostles in holy Scripturs Apostolick Fathers are so named but ●ist himselfe by the greatest Apostle is sti● Bishop of our soules Episcopus animarum 1. Pet. ● ●arū And that sacred Order is so necessarie ●e Church euery one in particular to rule gouerne it to confer holy Priesthood and other Orders to minister Sacrament Preach Preserue and continue it and d● other their most needfull offices therein th● if we will beleeue the holy Scripturs the ●postolick Fathers of the Apostles age ● continuall Tradition and doctrinall pract● of the true Catholick Church from the● euen by Protestants confessions and the te●monies of themselues against themselues t● now persecute an holy and learned Bishop ● being a Bishop and receiuing Episco● Order and power whence all our Bish● hitherto haue and must deriue it it is w● out question that as no other degree or ●nitie whatsoeuer is so eminent in spirit affaires So none in such matters and nec●ties is so behofull and needfull None so m● to be honoured reuerēced and desired ● in the greatest Persecutions 2. In holy Scripturs the flock of C● and gouernment of his Church is commi● vnto thē wh●n it is saied vnto them Att● Act. 20. vobis vniuerso gregi in quo vos spiritus sanct● suit Episcopos regere Ecclesiam Dei quam acq● sanguine suo Take heede to your selues and to the ● flocke wherein the holy ghost hath placed you Bi● to rule the Church of God which he hath pur● with his owne bloud Where it is saied Fi●e●mo 1. Tim.