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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00631	An antiquodlibet, or An aduertisement to beware of secular priests	Fenner, Dudley, 1558?-1587, attributed name.; Udall, John, 1560?-1592, attributed name'.	1602 (1602)	STC 10765; ESTC S117686	60,651	170

sense of a part for the whole is subiect to a decay fall which is absolutely the fourth principle and thus by accident besides the Quilibets purpose concluded If vpon the Antecedent you would inferre that principle of Aristotle there wil appeare a disproportion betwixt the argument and the conclusion For the argument mentioneth not a generation of the particulars with a precedent or concurrent corruption of some other thing which it should haue performed in case the proceeding had been sutable to the Question but onely a ●all and dissolution of them As through this and some other impertinencies which I doe with regard t● breuitie forbeare to debate the induction halteth so doth it offer vnto vs an vntruth in that particular of Moses law the generation whereof is by the Quilibet made to be the plaine corruption of the law naturall pag. 4. As if when men beheld that knowledge diuulged and set foorth to the eye as it were in characters of gold which before rested secret and confined within the vnsearchable cabinet of their hearts they were then occasioned the rather to stumble hauing a double direction and light to guide them in the traine of their life Wee may with greater probabilitie thinke that the Lord of heauen discerning the law which hee had imprinted in the heart of man to bee defaced first through the defection of Adam and after by an irrespectiue and dislimited cariage of life in his descendants did out of wisedome to preuent the totall abolition thereof and out of mercie to reclaime his people to a course of dutie resolue vpon a new and second impression of the said law which vpon the mount Sinai hee accordingly performed But let vs see how he handleth this question I will doe him the credit to spend a little time in vnfolding the frame of his dispute herein He reasoneth thus If presently vpon the publication of Moses law men fell to infidelitie and idolatrie and not before then vpon the generation of Moses law ensued the corruption of the law naturall But presently vpon the publication of Moses law men fell to infidelitie and idolatrie and not before Therfore vpon the generation of Moses law ensued the corruption of the law naturall If by infidelitie he note the state of deprauation or the originall and roote of all inconformitie to the law the proposition may passe as blamelesse whereas if vnder that terme he conceiue a distinct and particular sinne and such as is a branch it self then may we charge the proposition with inconsequence For mans freedome for a time from some two or moe speciall corruptions doth not proue his freedome frō al other during the same time Dauid could not be taxed with the crime of blood and adultery till the time of his defiling the bed of Vria if hereupon it should be concluded that Dauid till the said time had obserued the Morall lawe I thinke the Quilibet would not endure so loose a sequell Touching the assumption howsoeuer hee interpret the word of Infidelity hee cannot iustifie the sense thereof it being contradictory to the Author of all truth who in the sixt of Genesis mentioneth a visible malignant Synagogue distinguishing it from the trew Church Now where there is a Synagogue of that quality their infidelity which is as it were the very life and forme thereof must necessarily rest and beare sway The same Spirit also in the said chapter setting downe the corruption of the heart of man before the flood and thereby discouering with what disobedience and rebellion to the law of nature he had demeaned himselfe till that vniuersall deluge auoucheth that the heart is depra●ed and wicked not in some thoughts but in euery thought whatsoeuer not in some particle of it selfe and of his thoughts but in euery part particle not at some time but without intermission continually If then the hearts of the people that liued before the flood were such as they are described in the said chapter it followeth of necessity that they were fallen to infidelity For if they beleeued the promises and comminations of their Creator then were their hearts at some time in some apprehensions and parts of duty free from that touch of corruption afore mentioned Besides in the 24. of Matthew Christ himselfe chargeth them with an exceeding carnall security particularly with ignorance of the inundation to come till they beheld it with their eyes Whereupon I infer that if No● fayled not in the denunciation therof and his ministery of calling them to repentance they grew thus carnally secure and ignorant vpon a resolued disbeliefe and contempt of the worde of the Lorde This infidelity of that people is noted also in the 11. to the Hebr. and by the Apostle Peter in the third of his first epistle Further that infidelity and idolatry raigned in the world many yeeres before the promulgation of the law of Moses appeareth by the 24. chapter of Iosuah where it is recorded that the ancestors and predecessors of Abraham worshipped strange Gods And in the one and thirtith of Gene●●s Labaa is reported to haue had his Idols and marmon●ets Now if in those families where God intertained his church idolatry and vnbeliefe found approbation and place what shall wee iudge of the nations and people extract from the line of Ch●n or of those which issued and branched out of the stocke of Iapheth The wickednes of Sodome and G●●●●r the Gods of the Egyptians and their Sorcerers in the time of the Israelites pilgrimage there the full measure of Atheisme and other strange iniquities in the land of Canaan before the Lorde would proceede to displant and extirpate the inhabitants thereof will testifie against the assumption of this syllogisme and eu●●t that infidelity and idolatry did not then begin to aduance themselues in publique when Moses vpon the mount Sinai receiued from the hand of the Lord the Morall law But the Quilibet finding his assumption subiect to question hath thought meete to yeelde it this proofe When the distinction of Iew and Gentill first began then also began that fall to infidelitie and idolatrie and not before But presently vpon the publication of the laws of Moses the distinction of Iewe and Gentill first began Therefore vpon the publication of Moses laws began also that fall to infidelitie and idolatrie and not before For answere to the proposition it must bee remēb●ed that the effect and the cause or occasion therof do not alwaies concur in time it being cleere both in reason and experience that where the occasion and the euent haue a coherence not of nature and necessity but dependant on accident and the will of man the one may a long time precede the other And so in this case of the aboue named distinction though it be supposed to haue taken beginning not before the inacting and deliuery of the lawe Mosaicall yet might the occasion thereof namely the fall to infidelity and idolatry be of some growth many yeeres

an ex●●dient for preuention of perill in this behalfe First there is an impossibility of such caution there being nothing that this or any forraine nation can yeelde which could be in valew satisfactory and answerable to her Maiesties life Secondly a possibility herein supposed yet cautions of what nature soeuer will be found exposed to so many incertainties as that they cannot serue for groundes of assurance in the case of so precious and inestimable a iewell Obligation of othe is with Romanists dispensable Ostages subiect to mortality and other accidents pledges in the nature of lands or chattels decayable caution of townes from forraine Catholiques full of difficulties and inconuenients Thirdly vpon the succeeding of an attempt against her Soueraigne and vnualuable person how shall we in so great a confusion and astonishment either reteyne in our hands without present daunger the caution giuen or pursue the recouery of satisfaction if we be not seazed thereof Speech therefore in the case proposed of caution is senseles But he hath happely some better ground for displanting and extermination of Puritans Howsoeuer it pleaseth him in shew to distinguish betwixt such as agreeing in the opinion of doctrine against the church of Rome doe notwithstanding differ in some honourable additions and circumstances of discipline yet in truth and in the secret account of his popish heart whosoeuer acknowledgeth not the soueraignety of Peters chayre or standeth in opposition of iudgement to the Counsell of Trent● is vnto him and to all of his stampe a Puritan and shall in that day of Iubiley which they haue so long attended passe as conuict of heresie to the faggot or sworde In those times of Queene Mary when the Pope swayed the Scepter in this land it was not enough to pleade a concurrence with them in opinion touching the gouernement of the state Ecclesiasticke by Bishops and other subordinate officers of the Clergy It was neither the Episcopall Roc●et nor the ornament of Typpet nor the squarenes of a Cap nor the mustring in Cope or Surplice that could then priuiledge a Protestant against the Clinke or the Purgatory of Smithfield And doe we thinke if then euery Professor of the Gospell from the Archbishoppe to the poore Curate and from the person of Honour to the Cobler were drawne into question of life that any hereafter shall for respect of his Typpit or Rochet finde fauour and impunity I doubt not but there haue beene many of each sorte and quality in France Germany the lowe Countries and else where who shoulde haue beene spared from the hard measure and extremity offered vnto them if their liking of the auncient dignities and outward formalities in the Churche could haue procured them regarde and grace It were against common sense to conceiue that they will persecute the refusing of the Surplice and leaue vncensured the contempt of the Masse punish all inconformity to externall ceremonies and beare with contradiction to the Popes Supremacy As to the Duke of Medina if in 88. hee had preuayled in his attempt against vs each Catholique would haue seem●d Protestant his sworde not discerning the one from the other but resolutely proceeding on to make roome for the King his Master So if the Lorde in his iustice should abandon this sinfull Land to the mercy of the Secular Priest and Iesuit then to smooth the way and passage for S. Peters Vicar euery Protestant should be adiudged a Puritan Whereas therefore hee pretendeth in word the ruine of the Puritans I hold it for certaine he intendeth in deede the generall dispatch of all Protestants For what else can we probably conceiue to be his drift herein It is cleere that his heaping of so many scandalous indignities vpon them and his charging them not only in generall with endeauours to pull downe Kings and Princes but in particular with practise to kill her Maiesty and to subuert all other Protestants cannot haue other scope then the raysing and nourishing of perpetuall ielousies great feares and bloody hatreds not onely betwixt the Protestant and the supposed Puritan but specially betwixt her royall selfe and many thousands her faythfull subiects and consequently the absolute depriuing her of their ready and dutifull seruices If then he labour to destitute and strip his Prince of the loyall affection and seruice which an infinite multitude woulde tender and performe vnto her if hee would likewise stirre the flame of ciuill contention amongst all the Protestant subiects of this State doth he not thereby ayme at some fearefull eclipsing of her Maiesties power and strength Doth he not prepare and fashion an ouerture to a desolation and change of State Either Religion and peace with the loue seruice and multitude of people on the one part and the reciprocall fauour and respect from the Prince on the other part are not the true foundations and pillars of the stand and greatnes of Monarches within their seuerall dominions or if they be then he that shall employ the whole force of his wit and affection as well to the expugnation of Religion and the mutuall amity amongst compatriots as to disarme his Soueraigne of the loue seruice and multitude of his subiects and to worke in him a reiection likewise on his part of all Princely and respectiue conceit towardes them cannot but stand in the iudgement of vnpartial men iustly chargeable with the imputation of a trayterous heart to his Prince and Countrey As therefore the vrged repeale of the sayde Statutes and the toleration of Popery is of a pernicious consequence so would he through the side of the Puritan wound both Prince and Subiect both Bishop and Curate Besides to yeelde vnto the mayne question in hand some further light let it be considered what doctrine he deliuereth in his Quodlibets of State and Succession for resolution and direction of the Subiect in case of the Popes excommunication The regarde of the time and the present affliction indured by Catholiques makes him as hee sayth vnwilling to maintaine positions odious to the State but yet hee is bolde to enforme the Subiects of their duty herein First therefore hee giues them to vnderstand that it is lawfull for his Popeship to excommunicate Princes and lawfull also for the Subiects to put in execution the sentence of such excommunication Secondly he doth aduertise them that howsoeuer both the one and the other be lawfull yet in regard of the manifold inconueniencies insuing thereof it is not expedient so to proceede Thirdly because the question of expediency should not vpon occasion offered for aduauncement of their religion either intangle scrupulous and nice consciences or minister discouragement to the forward and hotspirited Catholique he cleareth it and directeth them when they are to refuse their allegeance vnto their Soueraigne and take armes against him for execution of the sayd sentence Hee doth therefore the Bull and the denounciation thereof being supposed to bee of sufficient validity teach and instruct them that when they may without