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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08697	A letter of a Catholike man beyond the seas, written to his friend in England including another of Peter Coton priest, of the Society of Iesus, to the Queene Regent of France / translated out of French into English ; touching the imputation of the death of Henry the IIII, late K. of France, to priests, Iesuites, or Catholicke doctrine.	Owen, Thomas, 1557-1618.; Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 19000; ESTC S1326	18,060	49

to the lawes of his Realme So Daniel was cast into the Lions den because he had done against the lawes of the Medes and Persians forsooth he serued and adored God almighty whome they acknowledged not for God Likewise Antiochus held all for traytors and violators of his Law whosoeuer vnder his Dominions kept obserued the law of God Samuel therfore had good cause when he was sent of God to annoint for King Dauid the sonne of Iesse to be afraid that Saul would kill him as guilty of treason against his Crowne who already had the possession therof and who afterward being possessed with a Diuell sought continually to make away Dauid although a true seruant of God and him only vnder pretence of state And in the new Testament what other meanes had the Diuell to batter the Ghospell and oppugne our Sauiour him selfe then by the Iewes as his instrumēts to accuse him before Pontius Pilate to call him in question of state as seditious and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar and calling himselfe King the which bare accusation without any proofe is of such nature so potent and soe odious amongst worldly men that be the fact neuer so false wherof a man is so accused it sufficeth to discredit and opresse him be he neuer so innocent as may appeare by that example of Christ our Sauiour who was the most innocent of all men yea innocency it selfe For although Pilate seeing him guiltlesse endeauoured to deliuer him yet the malicious redoubling that accusation therwith threatning Pilate himselfe saying if thou let him go thou art not a friend to Cesar they so terrified him with the only name of Cesar that straight he let himselfe be carried away to the greatest act of iniustice that was committed since the world began Wherin the Diuell hauing had so good successe as to haue condemned Christ and put to death the Author of life but yet so that in fine all fell vpon his owne head our Sauiour therby being exalted in glory and all mankind deliuered from the Diuells tyranny hath still continued by the same way as most assured effectuall to persecute all Gods seruants and true followers of Christ And therfore the Apostles following straight after were forced also against such calumnies opēly to teach and commād Christians to obey their Soueraigns and magistrates to pray for them to render them tribute to whom tribute appertaineth and honour to whome honour After the Apostles the ancient Doctors of the Church were also forced often to imploy their pennes and shew that true Christians were not enemies of Emperours but did offer sacrifices for their state and prosperitie and yet because those Emperours as worldly and wicked men preferred the least thought of their owne estate before the greatest reasons that might be alleaged for the defence of innocency alwayes such calumnies haue preuailed as first against the head himselfe so after against his members and followers Although at length by the almighty power of God truth hath alwayes had the victory the Diuell togeather with his instruments haue byn confounded As is notorious first in the old Testamēt by Aman by the enemies of Daniel by Saul and Antiochus their deathes and in the new by Pilate who died in banishment and by the whole nation of the Iewes who were first so miserably destroyed by Titus and Vespasians armie haue alwayes since remayned as vagabonds vpon the face of the earth Afterward what miserable deathes haue befallen all those Emperours that by such vniust wayes haue persecuted the Church of God vnder colour of state it were too lōg here to rehearse it will shortly come to your view fully set down in the secōd part of a learned Treatise cōcerning Policy and Religion So that allwaies they haue byn inexcusable before God mā who haue concurred by power of Princes to the oppressing of good men vnder the calumnious pretext of dealing in State matters But most inexcusable in this our dayes is this calumniation obiected by Heretickes to the Catholicks and Catholicke doctrine it being on the contrary side proper to Hereticks to impugne their Princes and to Hereticall doctrine to maintaine it as lawfull yea the only meanes wherby heresies haue sprong vp Hereticks first entred into the world haue beene their rebellions against their Magistrates their lawfull Kings and Princes The reason wherof is manifest Heresie being of her owne nature a separation and diuision from the body of the Catholicke Religion and therfore must needes begin with rebelling against the Catholicke Church and consequently against their Catholicke Kings and Soueraigne Princes But the experience hereof is much more manifest for as Luthers Zuinglius Caluins and all other hereticks beginning of innouation came by teaching all their followers that Princes may be restrayned by force pursued iudged punished by the people excommunicated depriued deposed and cast into hell by the Ministers condemned and put to death by inferiour Magistrates whensoeuer in their opinion they become Tyrants and opposite to the Ghospell as writeth the Author of the booke of Dangerous positiōs in his fourth and fifth chapter and the Author of the Suruey of pretended discipline Their practice of the foresaid doctrine hath byn too too well knowne through the whole world For first in Germany Luthers followers incited by such doctrine of his tooke armes and rebelled with such violent headines throughout all that Countrey against their owne Prince that as Sl●ydan a Protestant Author affirmeth at that only time besides the euersion of infinite numbers of fortresses and Castles aboue an hundred and thirty thousand people were slaine And afterwards the followers of Luther deuiding themselues into different sects of Luther anisme Zuinglianisme Caluinianisme Anabaptisme new Arianisme and the like with ech of them followed euery where new rebellions against their Princes as you may see which way soeuer you looke either towardes the North where you shall find fresh memory of their rebellions in Saxony Denmarke Sueueland Polonia and Transiluania or towardes the South in Zwitzerland Grisons Sauoy and their Confines where Zuinglius himselfe in the Cantons of Switzerland his owne countrey was the chiefe stirrer of rebellion and was slayne himselfe in the field And at Geneua Caluin Beza and other Ministers incited the Subiects against the Duke of Sauoy and other their naturall Princes Towardes the East the Heretikes ioyned their forces with the Turke himselfe against the Emperour their Soueraigne and so Boscaine that famous Caluinian Rebell forced the said Emperour to leaue him for his life tyme the Princedome of Transiluania Towards the west to wit in France through the which I haue trauailed some time and there haue spent some yeares of my age I haue seene in all places where I haue beene such pittifull ruines of Townes and Fortresses and haue heard recounted such Barbarous yea rather Beast-like cruelties committed in their rebellions that the only memory therof sufficeth euery