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A04286	An apologie for the oath of allegiance first set foorth without a name, and now acknowledged by the authour, the Right High and Mightie Prince, Iames, by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. ; together with a premonition of His Maiesties, to all most mightie monarches, kings, free princes and states of Christendome.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1609 (1609)	STC 14401.5; ESTC S1249	109,056	264

An Apologie for the Oath of ALLEGIANCE FIRST SET FOORTH WITHOVT a name And now acknowledged by the Authour the Right High and Mightie Prince IAMES by the Grace of GOD King of Great Britaine France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Together with a PREMONITION of his Maiesties to all most Mightie Monarches Kings free Princes and States of Christendome PSAL. 2. Vers 10. Et nunc Reges intelligite Erudimini qui iudicatis terram ROM 14. Vers 13. Non ergo ampliùs inuicem indicemus Sed hoc iudicate magis ne penat●s offendiculum fratri vel scandalum ¶ Imprinted at London by Robert Barker Printer to the Kings most Excellent Maiestie April 8. ANNO 1609. Cum priuilegio Regali TO THE MOST SACRED AND Inuincible Prince RODOLPH the II. by GODS Clemencie Elect EMPEROVR of the ROMANES KING OF GERMANIE HVNGARIE BOHEME DALMATIE CROATIE SCLAVONIE c. ARCH-DVKE OF AVSTRIA DVKE OF BVRGVNDIE STIRIA CARINTHIA CARNIOLA and WIRTEMBERG c. Earle of TYROLIS c. AND TO ALL OTHER RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTY KINGS AND RIGHT EXCELLENT Free PRINCES and STATES of Christendome Our louing BRETHREN COVSINS ALLIES CONFEDERATES and FRIENDS IAMES by the grace of GOD King of GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE and IRELAND Professor Maintainer and DEFENDER OF THE True Christian Catholique and Apostolique FAITH Professed by the auncient and Primitiue Church and sealed with the blood of so many holy Bishops and other faithfull crowned with the glory of Martyrdome WISHETH euerlasting felicitie in CHRIST our Sauiour TO YOV MOST SACRED AND INVINCIBLE EMPEROVR RIGHT HIGH AND MIGHTIE KINGS RIGHT EXCELLENT FREE PRINCES AND STATES MY LOVING BRETHREN AND COVSINS To you I say as of right belongeth doe I consecrate and direct this Warning of mine or rather Preamble to my reprinted Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance For the cause is generall and concerneth the Authoritie and Priuiledge of Kings in generall and all supereminent Temporall powers And if in whatsoeuer Societie or Corporation of men either in Corporations of Cities or in the Corporation of any mechanike craft or handie-worke euery man is carefull to maintain the priuiledges of that Societie whereunto hee is sworne nay they will rather cluster all in one making it a common cause exposing themselues to all sorts of perill then suffer the least breach in their Liberties If those of the baser sort of people I say be so curious and zealous for the preseruation of their common priuiledges and liberties as if the meanest amongst them bee touched in any such poynt they thinke it concerneth them all Then what should we doe in such a case whom GOD hath placed in the highest thrones vpon earth made his Lieutenants Vice-gerents and euen seated vs vpon his owne throne to execute his Iudgements The consideration heereof hath now moued me to expone a Case vnto you which doeth not so neerely touch mee in my particular as it doeth open a breach against our authoritie I speake in the plurall of all Kings and priuiledge in generall And since not onely all rankes and sorts of people in all Nations doe inuiolably obserue this Maxime but euen the Ciuill Law by which the greatest part of Christendome is gouerned doeth giue them an interest qui fouent consimilem causam How much more then haue ye interest in this cause not being similis or par causa to yours but eadem with yours and indeed yee all fouetis or at least fouere debetis eandem causam mecum And since this cause is common to vs all both the ciuill Lawes and the municipall Lawes of all Nations permits and warne them that haue a common interest to concurre in one for the defence of their common cause yea common sence teacheth vs with the Poet Ecquid Ad te pòst paulò ventura pericula sentis Nam tua res agitur paries cùm proximus ardet Awake then while it is time and suffer not by your longer sleepe the strings of your Authoritie to be cut in singulis and one and one to your generall ruine which by your vnited forces would rather make a strong rope for the enemie to hang himselfe in with Achitophel then that hee should euer be able to breake it As for this Apologie of mine it is true that I thought good to set it first out without putting my name vnto it but neuer so as I thought to deny it remembring well mine owne words but taken out of the Scripture in the beginning of the Preface to the Reader in my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that nothing is so hid which shall not bee opened c promising there which with GOD his grace I shall euer performe neuer to doe that in secret which I shall need to be ashamed of when it shall come to be proclaimed in publique In deed I thought it fit for two respects that this my Apologie should first visite the world without hauing my name written in the forehead thereof First because of the matter and next of the persons that I medled with The matter it being a Treatise which I was to write containing reasons discourses in Diuinity for the defence of the Oath of Allegiance and refutation of the condemners therof I thought it not comely for one of my place to put my name to books concerning scholastick Disputations whose calling is to set forth Decrees in the Imparatiue moode for I thinke my selfe as good a man as the Pope by his reuerence for whom these my Answerers make the like excuse for that his Breues are so summary without yeelding any reason vnto them My next reason was the respect of the persons whom with I meddled Wherein although I shortly answered the Popes Breues yet the point I most laboured being the refutation of Bellarmines Letter I was neuer the man I confesse that could thinke a Cardinall a meet match for a King especially hauing many hundreth thousands of my subiects of as good birth as he As for his Church dignitie his Cardinalship I meane I know not how to ranke or value it either by the warrant of God his word or by the ordinance of Emperours or Kings it being indeed onely a new Papall erection tolerated by the sleeping conniuence of our Predecessors I meane still by the plurall of Kings But notwithstanding of this my forbearing to put my name vnto it some Embassadours of some of you my louing Brethren and Cosins whome this cause did neereliest concerne can witnesse that I made Presents of some of those bookes at their first printing vnto them and that auowedly in my owne name As also the English Paragraphist or rather peruerse Pamphleter Parsons since all his desciption must runne vpon a P. hath truely obserued that my Armes are affixed in the frontispice thereof which vseth not to bee in bookes of other mens doing whereby his malice in pretending his ignorance that he might pay me the soundlier is the more inexcusable But now that I find my sparing to put my name vnto it

drying thereof or vnexspected passage made through it by Cyrus Babylon was wonne and Baltasar destroyed and his Monarchie ouerthrowne euen while hee was sitting in that literall Babylon corporally drunken and quaffing in the vessels ordained for GODS Seruice and so sitting as it were in the Temple of GOD and abusing the holy Mysteries thereof For remedy whereof at the powring forth of the sixt Vial three vnclean Spirits like frogs shall then come foorth out of the mouth of the Dragon that Beast and of the false Prophet which I take to be as much to say as that how soone as the kingdome of Antichrist shalb● so obscured with such a grosse and a palpable ignorance as learning shall be almost lost out of the world and that few of the very Priests themselues shall bee able to read Latine much lesse to vnderstand it and so a plaine way made for the Destruction of Babylon Then shall a new sect of Spirits arise for the defence of that falling Throne called three in number by reason of their three-folde direction beeing raised and inspired by the Dragon Sathan authorized and maintained by the Beast the Antichrist and instructed by the false Prophet the Apostatike Church that hath the hornes like the Lambe but speaketh like the Dragon These Spirits indeed thus sent forth by this three-folde authoritie for the defence of their Triple crowned Monarch are well likened to Frogs for they are Amphibions and can liue in either Element earth or water for though they be Church-men by profession yet can they vse the trade of politike Statesmen going to the Kings of the earth to gather them to the battell of that great day of GOD Almightie What Massacres haue by their perswasions beene wrought through many parts of Christendome and how euill Kings haue sped that haue beene counselled by them all the vnpartiall Histories of our time doe beare record And whatsoeuer King or State will not receiue them and follow their aduise rooted out must that King or State be euen with Gunpowder ere it faile And these Frogs had reason indeed to labor to become learned thereby to dissipate that grosse mist of ignorance wherewith the reigne of Antichrist was plagued before their comming foorth Then doeth this Chapter conclude with the last plague that is poured out of the seuenth Viall vpon the Antichrist which is the day of Iudgement for then Babylon saith he came in remembrance before God But in the xvij Chapter is the former Vision interpreted and expounded and there is the Antichrist represented by a Woman sitting vpon that many-headed Beast because as CHRIST his true Spouse and Church is represented by a Woman in the xij Chap. so here is the Head of his adulterous Spouse or false Church represented also by a woman but hauing a cup ful of abominations in her hand as her selfe is called a whoore for her spirituall adultery hauing seduced the Kings of the earth to bee partakers of her Spirituall fornication And yet wonderfull gorgious and glorious was shee in outward shew but drunken with the blood of the Saints by a violent persecution of them And that she may the better be knowen he writeth her name vpon her forehead agreeable to her qualities A Mystery that great Babylon that mother of whoredomes and abominations of the earth A Mystery is a name that belongeth vnto her two maner of wayes One as she taketh it to her selfe another as she deserueth it indeed To her selfe she taketh it in calling herselfe the visible Head of the Mystical bodie of CHRIST in professing her selfe to bee the dispenser of the Mysteries of GOD and by her onely must they bee expounded This great God in earth and Head of the faith being a Mystes by his profession that is a Priest And if the obseruation of one be true that hee had of olde the word Mystery written on his Myter then is this prophecie very plainely accomplished Now that indeede shee deserues that name the rest of her Title doeth beare witnesse that sheweth her to be the Mother of all the whoredomes and abominations of the earth and so is she vnder the pretext of holinesse a Mystery indeed of all iniquitie and abominations vnder the marke of pretended feeding of Soules deuouring Kingdomes and making Christendome swimme in blood Now after that this scarlet or bloody Beast and her Rider are described by their shape garments name and qualities the Angel doth next interpret this vision vnto Iohn expounding vnto him what is signified both by the Beast and her Rider telling him the seuen heads of the Beast are seuen Hils meaning by the situation of that Citie or seat of Empire and that they are also seuen Kings or formes of gouernement in the said Citie whereof I haue told my conceit already As for the tenne Hornes which hee sheweth to be tenne Kings that shall at one houre receiue their power and Kingdome with the Beast I take that number of ten to be Numerus certus pro incerto euen as the number of seuen heads and ten hornes vpon the Dragon the Deuill cannot but bee an vncertaine number And that he also imitates in those ten hornes the ten hornes of the seuen headed Beast in the seuenth of Daniel and therefore I take these ten Kings to signifie all the Christian Kings and free Princes and States in generall euen you whome to I consecrate these my Labors and that of vs all he prophecieth that although our first becomming absolute and free Princes should bee in one houre with the Beast for great Christian kingdomes and Monarches did but rise and receiue their libertie by the ruines of the Ethnicke Romane Empire and at the destruction thereof and at the very time of the beginning of the planting of the Antichrist there and that wee should for a long time continue to worship the Beast hauing one Catholike or common consenting minde in obeying her yelding our power and authoritie vnto her and kissing her feet drinking with her in her cup of Idolatrie and fighting with the Lambe in the persecution of his Saints at her command that gouerneth so many Nations and people yet notwithstanding of all this wee shall in the time appointed by GOD hauing thus fought with the Lambe but being ouercome by him that is conuerted by his word wee shall then I say hate the Whore and make her desolate and make her naked by discouering her hypocrisie and false pretence of zeale and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire And thus shal the way of the Kings of the East be prepared as yee heard in the xvj Chapter And then doth hee subioyne the reason of this strange change in vs for saith hee GOD hath put it in their hearts to fulfill his will and with one consent to giue their Kingdomes to the Beast till the words of GOD be fulfilled according to that sentence of

disagreeth front their Traditions with almost as many foule wordes and railing epithetes as the Cardinal bestoweth on my Apologie not ruling nor interpreting Scripture by scripture but making their Traditions to be such a touchstone for it as he condemneth of Heresie not only those places of Scripture that he citeth but layeth the same generall condemnation vpon all other the like places wheresoeuer they be writin the Scriptures And yet praised bee GOD we beginne now with our eyes as our predecessors haue done in some ages before to see these Witnesses rise againe and shine in their former glory GOD as it were setting them vp againe vpon their feete and raising them to the heauens in a triumphall cloud of glory like Elias his fiery chariot Which exalting of the Gospel againe hath bred such an earthquake and alteration amongst many Nations as a tenth part or a good portion of these that were in subiection to that great Citie to wit Babylon are fallen from her seuen thousand that is many thousands hauing beene killed vpon the occasion of that great alteration and many others conuerted to the feare of GOD and giuing glory to the GOD of heauen This now is one of the wayes by which I thinke this place of Scripture may be lawfully and probably interpreted The other is more common and seemeth more literally to agree with the Text. And this is to interpret not the word of GOD but the Preachers thereof to bee meant by these Witnesses Few they were that first beganne to reueale the man of Sinne and discouer his corruptions and therefore well described by the number of two Witnesses Nam in ore duorum aut trium testiū stabit omne verbum And in no greater number were they that begun this worke then the greatnesse of the errand did necessarily require They prophecied in sackcloth for they preached Repentance That diuers of them were put to cruell deaths is notorious to the world· And likewise that in the persons of their Successours in doctrine they rose againe and that in such power and efficacie as is more then miraculous For where it is accounted in the Scriptures a miraculous work of GOD wrought by his holy Spirit when the Apostle S. Peter conuerted about three thousand in one day these Witnesses I speake of by the force of the same Spirit conuerted many mighty Nations in few yeeres who still continue praising GOD that he hath deliuered vs from the tyranny of Antichrist that raigneth ouer that great Citie and with a full crie proclaiming Goe out of her my people lest ye be partaker of her sinnes and of her plagues Let therefore these Miracle-mongers that surfet the world and raise the prise of paper daily with setting foorth olde though new gilded Miracles and Legends of lies 〈◊〉 such I say consider of this great and wonderfull miracle indeede and to their shame compare it with their paultry wares Thus hauing in two fashions deliuered my coniecture what I take to be meant by these two Witnesses in the xj of the Apocalyps there being no great difference between them In the one taking it to bee the word of God it selfe In the other the word of God too but in the mouthes of his Preachers It resteth nowe that I come to the third point of the description of Antichrist which is anent his Person That by the Whoore of Babylon that rideth vpon the Beast is meant a Seat of an Empire and a successiue number of men sitting thereupon and not any one man doeth well appeare by the forme of the description of the Antichrist throughout all the sayd Booke For in the last verse of the xvij Chapter the Woman is expounded to bee That great Citie that reigneth ouer the Kings of the earth which cannot signifie the only person of one man but a successiue number of men as I haue already saide whose seat that great City must be like as in the same Chapter The seuen heads of the Beast are two wayes expounded First they are called seuen Hils which is plaine And next they are called seuen Kings which cannot bee meant by the Kings that shall giue their power to the Beast and bee subiect vnto her which is immediately after expressed by the tenne hornes But rather appeareth to be those seuen formes of gouernment of that Seat fiue of which had already been and fallen As Kings Consuls Dictators Decemuiri and Tribuni militum The sixt was in the time of S. Iohn his writing of this booke which was the Gouernment of the Emperours The seuenth which was not yet come and was to last but for a short space was the Ecclesiasticall Gouernment by Bishops which was to come vpon the translation of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople though their gouernment was in a maner substitute to the Emperours For though that forme of Gouernment lasted about the space of 276. yeeres yet was it but short in comparison of the long time of the reigne of the Antichrist not yet expired which succeeded immediatly thereunto And the eighth which is the Beast that was and is not and is to goe to perdition is the Antichrist the eighth forme of Gouernement indeed by his absolutenesse and yet the seuenth because hee seemeth but to succeed to the Bishops in an Ecclesiasticall forme of gouernement though by his greatnes hee shall make Babylons Empire in glory like to that Magnificence wherein that great Citie triumphed when it most flourished which in S. Iohns time was much decayed by the factions of the great men the mutinies of the armies and the vnworthinesse of the Emperours And so that flourishing state of that great Citie or Beast which it was in before S. Iohns time and Being much decayed was but in a maner in his time should bee restored vnto it againe by Antichrist who as he ascendteh out of the botomlesse pit so must hee goe to Destruction And likewise by that great lamentation that is made for the destruction of Babylon in the xvij Chapter both by the Kings and by the Merchants of the earth where it is thrice repeated for aggrauating the pitie of her desolation that That great Citie fell in an houre By that great lamentation I say it well appeareth That the raigne of Antichrist must continue longer then three yeeres and a halfe or any one mans time For the Kings that had committed fornification with her in delicijs vixerant behoued to haue had a longer time for contracting of that great acquaintance And the Merchants of the earth set her foorth and describe her at great length as the very staple of all their riches which could not bee so soone gathered as in one mans time And to conclude now this description of the Antichrist I will set downe vnto you all that is spoken of him in the Apocalyps in a short methode for the further explaining of these three

Verse 2. Verse 6. Verse 5. Verse 5. Verrse 9. Verse 12. Verse 13. Verse 14 Verse 16. Reuel 16.12 Verse 17 Prou. 21.1 Verse 18 Chap. xviij Verse 9.10 Verse 11 15 16 17 18. Verse 12 13. Verse 13. a a Henry 3. K. of France b b Henry 4. Verse 4. Verse 6 * * Cornicula Aesopica Verse 7 Cap. xix Verse 1. Verse 2. * * Bellar. in Resad Gerson consid 11. Verse 19 Verse 20. Cap. 18.21 Ibidem Verse 22 23 Cap. xx Verse 2 Verse 8 Verse 9. Verse 10. Verse 11 12 13 Matth. 24 22 Chap. xxj xxij a a Lib. de Clericis cap. 16. b b Lib. de Episcopatibus Titulis Diaconijs Cardinalium Rom. 13.5 1 Pet. 2.13 Actes 25.10 Actes 22.28 a a 1. Sam. 10.1 b b 1. Sam. 16.12.13 Actes 1. Cyprian lib. 1. Epist 4. 1. King 12.20 2. King 9.2 ● Isai 5.20 Verse 23. Iohn 10.27 a a 1. Tim. 1.4 b b Ibid. c. 4.7 Actes 26.29 Abac. 2 4. a a Gen 4.10 The Pope his first Breue The Oath a a Magno cum animi moerore c. The intendement of this discourse a a Iosh 1.17 b b Iere. 27.12 c c Exod. 5.1 d d Ezra 1.3 e e Rom 13.5 f f Augusi●in Psal 124. g g Tertul●ad Scap. h h Iust Martyr Apol. 2. ad Ant. Imperat. i i Amb. in orat cont Auxent●ū de basilicis traden habetur lib. 5. Epist Amb. k k Optat. contra Parmen lib. 3. l l Greg. Mag. Epist. lib. 2. indict 11. Epist 61. m m Concil Arelatense sub Carolo Mag. Can. 26· a a Vide epistolam generalis Conc. Ephes ad August b b Iohn 18.36 c c Mat. 22.21 Question Answere to the Popes exhortation Fama vires acquirit eundo a a Eusebius Occumemus and Leo hold that by Babylon in 1. Pet. 5.13 Rome is meant as the Rhemists themselues confesse b b See the Relation of the whole proceedings against the Traitors Garnet and his confederates The Catholikes opinion of the Breue The second Breue A double Oath of euery Subiect A great mistaking of the state of the Question and case in hand The difference betweene the Oath of Supremacie and this of Allegiance Touching the pretended Councel of Lateran See Plat. In vita Innocen III. The Oath of Allegiance confirmed by the authoritie of ancient Councels The ancient Councels prouided for Equiuocation The difference between the ancient Councels and the Pope counselling of the Catholikes Concil Toletan 4 can 47. Ann. 633. a a Concil Toletan 5. Can. 7. anno 636. b b Synod Toletan 4. vniuersalis magna Synodus dicta Syn. T●l 5. ca. 2. a a Concil Tolet 6. Can. 18 Anno 638. b b Concil Tolet. 10 Can. 2. Aera 694. a a Concil Toletan 4. cap. 74. b b Concil Tolet 4. cap 74. a a Concil A. quisgran sub Ludou Pio Greg. 4. Can. 12. anno 836. Campian and Hart. See the conference in the Tower The Cardinals charitie a a Mat. 5.43 a a Matth. 11.17 No decision of any point of Religion in the Oath of Allegiance a a Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 4. cap. 6. Ibid. lib. 2. ca 12 b b Idem ibidem lib. 2. cap. 14. The Cardinals weighiest Argument a a Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 5. cap. 8. lib. 3. cap. 16. b b Gotfrid Vite●b Helmod Cuspinian e e Pascal 2. a a See the Oration of Sixtus Quintus made in the Consistory vpon the death of Henry the 3. a a Bellar de Iustif lib. 5. cap. 7. b b Contrary to all his fiue bookes de Iustificatione c c Bellar. de amis gra s●at pecca lib. 2. cap. 13. d d Ibidem paulò pòst e e Bellar. de cleicis lib. 1. cap. ●4 f f Bellar. de P●nt lib. 4 cap. ●5 g g Bellar. de ●ont lib. 1. cap. ●2 h h B●llar de ●ustif lib. 3. cap. 14. i i Bellar. de gra lib. arbit lib. 5. cap. 5. k k Eodem lib. ●ap 9. l l Bell. de Pont. lib. 4. cap. 3. m m Bell. de Iust ●ib 3. cap. 14. n n Bell. de Rom. Pontif. lib. 3 ●ap 14. o o Ibid. ex sen●ent Hypol. ●yril cap. 12. eiusdem ●ibri p p Bellar. lib. 1 ●e missa cap. 27 q q Bellar. de ●ss lib. 2. cap. 2. r r Bellar. de inim Christ ●●b 4. cap. 5. ſ ſ Bellarm. de Pont. lib. 3. cap. 17. t t Bellarm. de ●on lib 3. cap. 3. u u Bellarm. ibid. x x Bellarm. de Pont. lib. 2. cap. 31. y y Bellar. de Pontif lib. 2 cap. 24. a a Henry 4. b b Abbas Vrspergen Lamb. Scaffin Anno 1077. Plat. in vit Greg. 7. c c Frederick Babarossa d d Naucler gener 4● Iacob Bergom in Supplem chron Alsons Ciacon in vit Alex. 3. e e Henry 6. f f R H●ueden in Rich. 1. Ranulph in Polychronico lib. 7. g g Abbaes Vrsper ad Ann. 1191. Nauc gen 40. Cuspin in Philippo h h Abbas Vrsper i i Matth Paris in Henr. 3. Petrus de Vineis Epist lib. 1. 2. Cuspin in Freder 2. k k Vita ●rederici Germaincè conscriptae l l Frederick Barbarossa m m Paul Iouius Histor lib. 2. Cuspinian in Baiazet 11. Guicciard lib. 2. n n Houeden pag. 308. Matth. Parls in Henric. II. Walsinga in Hypodig Neustriae Ioan. Capgraue o o Gometius de rebus gest Fran. Ximenij Archiepis Tolet lib. 5. a a Card. Allens Answere to Stan. let Anno. 1587. a a Nazianzenus in Iulian. inuectiuâ primâ The disproportion of the Cardinals similitude a a 2. Macchabees cap. 6. vers● 18. An answere to the Cardinal● example of Eleazar a a 1. Sam. 14.15 a a Theodorit lib. 4 cap. 19. An answere to the Card. example of S. Basil a a Theodorit lib 4. cap. 19. b b Modestus as Nazianzen vpon the death of Basil calleth him in his oration c c Looke cap. 12. eiusdem libr. The Cardi. assimilating of the Arch pr. case to S. Peters and Marcellinus considered· a a Looke Platina in vita Marcellini b b Concil Tom. 1. pag. 222. Looke Baronius Ann. 302. num 96. See Tom. 1. Concil in Act. Concil Sinues san a a Apol. Pat. Paul aduersus opposit Card. Bellar. An answere to the place alledged out of S. Gregory b b Greg. lib. 11. cap. 42. c c Beda Ecclesi Hist gen Ang. lib. 1. cap. 25. d d Beda Ecclesiast Hist gen Ang. iib. 1. cap. 4 a a Greg. lib. 11. cap. 42. a a Iohn of Constantinople See Greg. lib. 4. Epist 32. b b Lib. 6. Epist 30. c c Greg. lib. 4. Epist 32. 36. a a Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 2. cap. 10. b b Idem lib. 2. de Missa cap. 10. a a Greg. lib. 7. Epist 1. An answere to the authoritie out of Leo. b b Leo trimus in die ass●m● su●e ad Pontif. s●rmone 3. Leo Epist 89. ad Epist Vien Idem ibid. cap. 2 c c Cicero in Hor. a a For so he calleth himselfe in serm 1. in die assum b b Ex●reuiario Romano c c Epist 89. d d Epist 52. e e Epist 89. a a In serm 2. in die anniuer assum suae b b Ser. 3. in die anni assump suae c c Epist 24. d d Epist 4. e e Concil Ch●lced Act. 16. c●n 28. a a Epist 9. Theodosio b b Epist 16. Flauiano c c Epist 17. Theodosio a a Bellar. de sacra Eucharist lib 4. cap. 14. Some of Sanders his worthy sayings remembred a a Sand. de visib monar lib. 6. cap. 4. a a Sand. de clau Dauid lib. 6. cap. 1. b b Sand. de visib Monar lib. 2. cap. 4. c c Ibidem d d Ibidem e e Ibid●m f f Sand. de clau Dauid lib. 5. cap. 2. g g Ibidem a a Sand. de c●a Dauid lib. 5. cap. 4. The Cardinals paice of Martyrs weighed b b Called Elizabeth Barton See the Act of Parliament Histor aliquot Mar●num nostri seculi Ann. 1550. The Supremacy of Kings sufficiently warranted by the Scriptures a a 2. Chron. 19.4 b b 2. Sam. 5.6 c c 1. Chron. 13.12 d d 2. Sam. 6.16 e e 1. Chron. 28.6 f f 2. Chron. 6. g g 2. King 22.11 h h Nehe. 9.38 Dauid Salomon * * 2. King 18.4 i i 1· Kings 15.12 k k 2. Chron. ●7 8 l l 1 Kings 2.27 m m 2. Sam. 7.14 n n Psal 82.6 Exod. 22.8 o o 1. Sam. 24 1● p p 2. Chro. 9.8 q q 2. Chron. 6.15 r r 2. Sam. 14.20 ſ ſ 1. Sam. 13.14 t t 2. Sam. 21.17 u u Isa 49.23 x x Rom. 13.5 y y 1. Tim. 2.2 a a Rom. 13.4 b b 1. Pet. 2.13 c c Rom. 13.7 d d Matth. 22.21 e e Iohn 18.36 f f Luke 12 14 g g Luke 22.25 a a Euseb lib. 3. de vita Constaetini 1. De la●cis cap. 7. 2. De Pont. lib. 1. cap. 7. 3. Ibidem 4. Ibidem de cler cap. 28. 5. De P. nt lib 3. cap. 16. * * De Rom. Pont lib 5. cap. 8. 6. De laicis cap 8. 7. De Pont. lib 5. cap. 18. 8. De Pont. lib. 2. cap. 26. 9. De Pont. lib. 4 cap. 15. 10 De Clericis cap. 28. 11. Ibidem 12. Ibidem

this forme was this Treason reuealed to Garnet as himselfe confessed And next though he stood long vpon it that it was reuealed vnto him vnder the vaile of Confession in respect it was done in that time while as the partie was making his Confession vnto him Yet at the last he did freely confesse that the party reuealed it vnto him as they were walking and not in the time of Confession But hee said hee deliuered it vnto him vnder the greatest Seale that might be and so he tooke that he meant by the Seale of Confession And it had as he thought a relation to Confession in regard that he was that parties Confessor had taken his Confession sometimes before and was to take it againe within few dayes thereafter He also said that he pretended to the partie that he would not conceale it from his Superior And further it is to be noted that hee confessed that two diuers persons conferred with him anent this Treason and that when the one of them which was Catesby conferred with him thereupon it was in the other parties presence and hearing and what a Confession can this be in the hearing of a third person And how far his last wordes whereof our Answerer so much vaunts him did disproue it to haue been vnder Confession the Earle of Northamptons Booke doth beare witnesse Now as to the other parties name that reuealed the Powder-Treason vnto him it was Greenwell the Iesuite and so a Iesuite reuealed to a Iesuite this treasonable plot the Iesuite reuealer not shewing any remorse and the Iesuit whome to it was reuealed not so much as inioyning him any penance for the same And that ye may knowe that more Iesuites were also vpon the partie Owldcorne the other Powder-Martyr after the misgiuing and discouerie of that Treason preached consolatorie doctrine to his Catholike auditory exhorting them not to faint for the misgiuing of this enterprise nor to thinke the worse thereof that it succeeded not alleadging diuers Presidents of such godly enterprises that misgaue in like manner especially one of Saint Lewis King of France who in his second iourney to the Holy land died by the way the greatest part of his army being destroyed by the plague his first iourney hauing likewise misgiuen him by the Soldans taking of him exhorting them thereupon not to giue ouer but still to hope that God would blesse their enterprise at some other time though this did faile Thus see ye now with what boldnes and impudencie he hath belied the publikely knowen veritie in this errand both in auowing generally that no Iesuite was any waies guilty of that treason for so he affirmeth in his Booke and also that Garnet knewe nothing thereof but vnder the Seale of Confession But if this were the first lie of the affaires of this State which my fugitiue Priestes and Iesuites haue coined and spread abroad I could charme them of it as the prouerbe is But as well the walles of diuers Monasteries and Iesuites Colleges abroad are filled with the painting of such lying Histories as also the bookes of our said fugitiues are farced with such sort of shamelesse stuffe such are the innumerable sorts of torments and cruell deathes that they record their Martyrs to haue suffered here some torne at foure Horses some sowed in Beares skinnes and then killed with Dogges nay women haue not beene spared they say and a thousand other strange fictions the vanities of all which I will in two words discouer vnto you First as for the cause of their punishment I doe constantly maintaine that which I haue said in my Apology That no man either in my time or in the late Queenes euer died here for his conscience For let him be neuer so deuout a Papist nay though hee professe the same neuer so constantly his life is in no danger by the Law if hee breake not out into some outward acte expresly against the words of the Law or plot not some vnlawfull or dangerous practise or attempt Priests and Popish Church-men onely excepted that receiue orders beyond the seas who for the manifold treasonable practises that they haue kindled plotted in this countrey are discharged to come home againe vnder paine of treason after their receiuing of the saide Orders abroad and yet without some other guilt in them then their bare home-comming haue none of thē bin euer put to death And next for the cruell torments strange sorts of death that they say so many of them haue bin put vnto if there were no more but the Lawe and continually obserued custome of England these many hundred yeeres in all criminall matters it will sufficiently serue to refute all these monstrous lies for no tortures are euer vsed here but the Manicles or the Racke and these neuer but in cases of high Treason and all sorts of Traitours die but one maner of death here whether they bee Papist or Protestant traitours Queene Maries time only excepted For then indeede no sorts of cruell deathes were spared vnexecuted vpon men women and children professing our Religion yea euen against the lawes of God and Nature women with childe were put to cruell death for their profession and a liuing childe falling out of the mothers belly was throwen in the same fire againe that consumed the mother But these tyrannous persecutions were done by the Bishops of that time vnder the warrant of the Popes authoritie and therefore were not subiect to that constant order and formes of execution which as they are heere established by our Lawes and customes so are they accordingly obserued in the punishment of all criminals For all Priests and Popish Traitours heere receiue their Iudgement in the temporall Courts and so doe neuer exceed those formes of execution which are prescribed by the Law or approued by continuall custome One thing is also to be marked in this case that strangers are neuer called in question here for their Religion which is far otherwise I hope in any place where the Inquisition domines But hauing now too much wearied you with this long discourse whereby I haue made you plainely see that the wrong done vnto me in particular first by the Popes Breues and then by these Libellers doth as deepely interest you all in generall that are Kings free Princes or States as it doth mee in particular I will now conclude with my humble prayers to God that he will waken vs vp all out of that Lethargike slumber of Securitie wherein our Predecessors and we haue lien so long and that wee may first grauely consider what wee are bound in conscience to doe for the planting and spreading of the true worship of God according to his reuealed will in all our Dominions therein hearing the voice of our onely Pastor for his Sheepe will know his voyce as himselfe saith and not following the vaine corrupt changeable traditions of men And next that wee may prouidently looke to the securitie of our owne States and

not suffer this incroching Babylonian Monarch to winne still ground vpon vs. And if God hath so mercifully dealt with vs that are his Lieutenants vpon earth as that he hath ioyned his cause with our interest the spirituall libertie of the Gospel with our temporall freedome with what zeale and courage may wee then imbrace this worke for our labours herein being assured to receiue at the last the eternall and inestimable reward of felicitie in the kingdome of Heauen and in the meane time to procure vnto our selues a temporall securitie in our temporall Kingdomes in this world As for so many of you as are already perswaded of that Truth which I professe though differing among your selues in some particular points I think little perswasion should moue you to this holy and wise Resolution Our Greatnes nor our number praised bee God being not so contemptible but that we may shew good example to our neighbors since almost the halfe of all Christian people and of all sorts and degrees are of our profession I meane all gone out of Babylon euen from Kings and free Princes to the meanest sort of people But aboue all my louing Brethren and Cosins keepe fast the vnity of Faith amongst your selues Reiect questions of Genealogies and Aniles fabulas as Paul saith Let not the foolish heate of your Preachers for idle Controuersies or indifferent things teare asunder that mysticall Body whereof yee are a part since the very coat of him whose members wee are was without a seame And let not our diuision breed a slander of our faith and be a word of reproch in the mouthes of our aduersaries who make Vnitie to be one of the speciall notes of the true Church And as for you my louing Brethren and Cosins whome it hath not yet pleased GOD to illuminate with the light of trueth I can but humbly pray with Elizeus that it would please GOD to open your eyes that yee might see what innumerable and inuincible armies of Angels are euer prepared and ready to defend the truth of GOD and with S. Paul I wish that ye were as I am in this case especially that yee would search the Scriptures and ground your Faith vpon your owne certaine knowledge and not vpon the report of others since euery Man must be saf● by his owne faith But leauing this to GOD his mercifull prouidence in his due time I haue good reason to remember you to maintaine the ancient liberties of your Crownes and Common-wealthes not suffering any vnder GOD to set himselfe vp aboue you and therein to imitate your owne noble predecessors who euen in the dayes of greatest blindnes did diuers times couragiously oppose themselues to the incroaching ambition of Popes Yea some of your Kingdomes haue in all ages maintained and without any interruption enioyed your libertie against the most ambitious Popes And some haue of very late had an euident proofe of the Popes ambitious aspiring ouer your temporall power wherein ye haue constantly maintained and defended your lawfull freedome to your immortall honour And therefore I heartily wish you all to doe in this case the office of godly and iust Kings and earthly Iudges which consisteth not onely in not wronging or inuading the liberties of any other person for to that will I neuer presse to perswade you but also in defending and maintaining these lawfull liberties wherewith GOD hath indued you For ye whom GOD hath ordained to protect your people from iniuries should bee ashamed to suffer your selues to bee wronged by any And thus assuring my selfe that ye will with a setled iudgement free of preiudice weigh the reasons of this my Discourse and accept my plainnesse in good part gracing this my Apologie with your fauours and yet no longer then till it shall be iustly and worthily refuted I end with my earnest prayers to the Almightie for your prosperities and that after your happy temporall Raignes in earth yee may liue and raigne in Heauen with him for euer A CATALOGVE OF the Lyes of Tortus together with a briefe Confutation of them Tortus Edit Politan pag. 9. 1 IN the oath of Allegiance the Popes power to excommunicate euen Hereticall Kings is expresly denied Confutation The point touching the Popes power in excommunicating Kings is neither treated of nor defined in the Oath of Allegiance but was purposely declined See the wordes of the Oath and the Praemonition pag. 9. Tortus p. 10. 2 For all Catholike writers doe collect from the words of Christ Whatsoeuer thou shalt loose vpon earth shall bee loosed in heauen that there appertaineth to the Popes authoritie not only a power to absolue from sinnes but also from penalties censures lawes vowes and oathes Confutation That all Roman-catholike writers do not concurre with this Libeller in thus collecting frō Christs words Mat. 16. To omit other reasons it may appeare by this that many of them do write That what Christ promised there that he did actually exhibite to his disciples Iohn 20. when he said whose sinnes yee remit they shall be remitted thereby restraining this power of loosing formerly promised vnto loosing from sinnes not mentioning any absolution from lawes vowes and oathes in this place So doe Theophylact Anselme Hugo Cardin. Ferus in Mat. 16. So doe the principall Schoolemen Alexand. Hales in Summa part 4. q. 79. memb 5. 6. art 3. Thom. in 4. dist 24. q. 3. art 2. Scotus in 4. dist 19. art 1. Pope Hadrian 6. in 4. dist q. 2. de clauib pag. 302. edit Parsien an 1530. who also alledgeth for this interpretation Augustine and the interlinear Glosse Tortus p. 18. 3 I abhorre all Parricide I detest all conspiracies yet it cannot be denied but occasions of despaire were giuen to the Powder-plotters Confutation That it was not any iust occasion of despaire giuen to the powder-Traitours as this Libeller would beare vs in hand but the instructions which they had from the Iesuites that caused them to attempt this bloody designe See the Praemonition pag. 127. and the booke intituled The proceedings against the late Traitours Tortus p. 26. 4 For not only the Catholiques but also the Caluinist-puritanes detest the taking of this Oath Confutation The Puritanes doe not decline the Oath of Supremacie but daily doe take it neither euer refused it And the same Supremacie is defended by Caluin himselfe Instit lib. 4. cap. 20. Tortus p. 28. 5 First of all the Pope writeth not that he was grieued at the calamities which the Catholiks did suffer for the keeping of the Orthodox faith in the time of the late Queene or in the beginning of King Iames his reigne in England but for the calamities which they suffer at this present time Confutation The onely recitall of the words of the Breue wil sufficiently confute this lye For thus writeth the Pope The tribulations and calamities which ye haue continually susteined for the keeping of the Catholique faith haue alway afflicted vs with