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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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