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A17981	A thankfull remembrance of Gods mercy In an historicall collection of the great and mercifull deliverances of the Church and state of England, since the Gospell began here to flourish, from the beginning of Queene Elizabeth. Collected by Geo: Carleton, Doctor of Divinitie, and Bishop of Chichester.	Carleton, George, 1559-1628.; Passe, Willem van de, 1598-ca. 1637, engraver.	1624 (1624)	STC 4640; ESTC S107513	118,127	246

vnrighteousnesse at the commandement of the Pope or any superior These I am sure are the practises of vnrighteousnesse would to God these men would once looke backe vpon themselues and their owne actions and consider what a difference is betweene ancient Bishops of Rome and these of late betweene godly Divines and the Popes Clergie The ancient Bishops did never draw the sword to propagate the faith the Apostles left no such example to them but by their labours in Preaching and their patience in suffring they gathered a Church and established the faith but behold how vnrighteousnes and villany is now come in place An vngracious bloudy wretch kills a man in his bed a man that was his friend such a thing chancing in the Warres may be borne with but in bed to murther his friend is an extraordinary signe of barbarous crueltie And yet that Sanders the Popes Legat should pronounce this thing to be a sweet sacrifice to God this passeth all imagination Can any either practise these things or commend these practises but onely such men as the Apostle describeth that are given vp to beleeue lyes and to worke vnrighteousnesse If any man shall answer me here with that old worn Cuckow long that these things are not vnderstood by them to be vnrighteo●s which the Pope commandeth that they doe these things in obedience to Christ his Vicar I answer they that would make such an answer are either such as are men of conscience or altogether without conscience If they be men without conscience I haue nothing to say to such but wish them better then they doe to themselues that they had some fecling of conscience If these men haue any sparke of conscience then would I intr●at them seriously to consider what is that which the Apostle in the place before cited calleth the deceivablenes of vnrighteousnes For this word sheweth that there is some plaine and down-right vnrighteousnesse and also some deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse What is that deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse Surely there is something herein for them to study that are so ready at the Popes command to doe vnrighteous things and make not Gods Word but the Popes word to be the rule to know what is righteous what vnrighteous When the law of God the law of nature the law of nations the law of our Land when I say all lawes forbid a thing and onely the Pope commands it and commands it against all lawes then if a man obey the Pope in such things he is deceived and he doth vnrighteously Here is the deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse But you must vnderstand that these men are thus deceived by him whose cōming is by the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and in all deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse in them that perish because they receiue not the loue of the truth Let men that haue any care to saue their soules learne to loue the truth the truth will deliver them And let them obserue that maintaining of false doctrines and of vnrighteous actions are things ioyned together one followeth the other Now because we see false doctrines or lyes maintained by Papists and vnrighteous and vngracious actions by them ordinarily attempted therefore we hold them vndoubtedly to be the servants of Antichrist who are given vp to beleeue lyes because they lou● not the truth But for our selues we know that the Scriptures are the Word of God We beleeue the Scriptures We trust in God We worship him as himselfe hath revealed and commanded If our enemies wrong vs we haue recourse to God by prayer we haue found by continuall experience that God taketh the protection of them that thus trust in him We haue trusted in him we haue found his protectiō We rest in patience and commit the vengeance to God Is there any man in the world that knoweth any thing of religion that can denie that we are in a good state and our enemies in a desperate state we haue comfort but they can haue none Consider this you that forget God least he plucke you vp and there be none to deliver you Now which is our chiefe end in these collections for our deliverance we blesse the name of God and we doe acknowledge with all humilitie and thankesgiving that all our deliverances come from the vndeserved loue and favour of our most gracious God and Father And we finde our selues most sirictly o●liged vnto this dutie because we see God hath made our enemies his enemies they cannot fight against vs but they must fight against God how much then are we bound to honor serue this great God of heaven and ●arth that hath shewed such favour to his Church in England CHAPTER VI. AT this time An 1580. the seminary Priests and ●esuites increasing in England necessary lawes were provided against them These in truth were maintained by the adversaries of England as a seminary of rebellion for so still they proued Their first foundation was at Doway in the Low-Countries where by the procuring of William Alan an Oxford-man afterward Cardinall there was a Colledge provided for them in the yeare 1568. Where fugitiue Priests were brought vp not so much in Religion as in new and strange practises of treason The Pope assigned them a yearely stipend Thus they stood for some yeares But when the Low-Countries began to be troubled with Warres Requesenius who was governour there vnder the Spanish King did thrust out all English fugitiues out of the Low-Countries Wherevpon they that were willing to make vse of such instruments to trouble England thought good to giue entertainment to them And therefore two Colledges were set vp for the English sugitiues the one at Rhemes by the Guises another at Rome by Pope Gregory 13. From these Colledges they were sent into England vnder pretence of Religion but indeed to withdraw subiects from obedience to their Prince and to draw the Land vnto the subiection of strangers they called themselues Seminaries because they were to sowe the seed of the Roman Religion in England And what is that seed of Roman religion but the seed of Rebellion Certainly so it hath euer proued These men to shew their zeale to their new founders and their hatred to their Country disputed and defined the Popes authoritie by Gods law to haue the plenitude of power ouer the whole world in all things Ecclesiasticall and Politicall out of which plenitude he might excommunicate Kings and after excommunication depose them from their thrones and absolue their subiects from all oaths of alleagance Thus was the Bull of Pius V. published An 1569. From whence rose the rebellion in the north of England and those rebellions of Ireland of which we haue spoken Hanse Nelson Main Sherwod Prie●ts then taught that Queene Elizabeth was a schismatike and an heretike and therefore worthily to be deposed for which they suffred deservedly but still others were sent into their places and though they came in vpon desperate points as souldiers vpon

Their answer was that of them some were sent from the most holy Father the Pope of Rome some from the Catholike King of Spaine to whom the Pope had given Ireland for as much as Queene Elizabeth had lost her right in Ireland by reason of heresie And therefore that which they had taken they would hold and get more if they could When the Lord Deputy and Winter had consulted of the maner of the siege they brought some Culverings out of the Shippes in the darke of the night and digging through the banke they drew them the nearest way placed them The souldiers also mounted their great O●dnāce against the wall and did beat vpon the Fort continually foure dayes together The Spanyard once or twice made Sallyes out but still to their losse Of the English none was killed saving onely Iohn Cheke a goodly yong man and val●ant the sonne of that learned Knight Sir Iohn Ch●ke San-Iosephus who was governour within the Fort a weake man and terrified with the daily shot began quickly to thinke of yeelding And when as Hercules Pisanus and other Captaines disswaded him earnestly from that as a thing vnworthy of military men vrging that all should prepare for a defence least by their negligence they might withdraw the courage of the Irish which were comming to helpe them But he being a man of singular cowardise assayed the mindes of the souldiers and wrought so that the souldiers sedi●●ously offred force to the other Captaines that at last they consented to yeeld Wherevpon the fift day when they saw no hope of helpe neither from Spaine nor Desmond they put out a white flagge and demaunded parley Which thing was denied them because they had ioyned themselues with the rebells with whom it was not lawfull to haue any parley Then they demanded that with bag baggage they might depart but neither was this granted Then they intreat●d that this favour might be granted at least to the governour and some few besides but that though they much besought it could not be granted But the Lord Deputy inveighing against the Pope commanded that without any condition they should simply yeeld themselues And when they could obtaine no more they put out their white flagge againe and cryed misericordia misericordia And so submitted themselues simply to the Lord Deputy his mercy Who presently fell into consultatiō what were best to do The adversaries were in number as many as the English and danger was feared of the Irish rebells who were moe then 1500 at hand The English wanted vittails and apparell so that they were ready to make a tumult v●lesse they might be relieued by the spoiles of the enemies out of the fort and shippes were wanting to carry away the enemies At last they came to this conclusion the Lord Deputy being much vnwilling weeping that the Captaines should be preserued the rest should all be slaine promiscuously in terror of others that might attempt so hereafter The Irish should be hanged which was presently executed The Queene was not pleased at the maner of this execution and wished it had beene vndone hating crueltie though necessary against such as haue once yeelded and was hardly after drawne to admit any excuse of the slaughter committed This was done An 1580. Some three yeares after the Earle of Desmond of a noble house but of a barbarous nature who barbarously had sworne that He would rather forsake God then forsake his men wandring from place to place was at last found of a commō souldier in a poore cottage The Earle was in a poore estate vnknowne till the souldier had almost struck off his arme Then he descryed himselfe and was killed Nicholas Sanders that had drawne the Earle into this rebellion was at the same time spent with famine and forsaken of all succour and being impatiently grieued at the evill successe of this rebellion proceeding so much against his desires seeing neither the Popes blessing nor the consecrated Banner nor the authoritie by the Pope committed to him could do him any helpe he lost himselfe and ran starke mad wandring vp and downe in the mountaines and woods and finding no comfort died miserably When he was dead there were found in his scrip some Orations and Epistles written to confirme the rebells filled with great promises of the Pope and Spanyard Thus Gods justice met with a restles and wretched man and that foule mouth was stopped vp with famine that was ever open to stirre vp rebellions against the State that had vttered so many blasphemies against God and his holy truth and inuented so many strange lyes against men This man first of all men devised a notorious lye against the birth of the Queenes mother which none of her enemies ever heard or knew she being in the hatred of so many Papists that would not haue spared to haue spoken evill yet was it never heard or knowne for forty yeares after And the accompt of the time doth proue it false himselfe like a forgetfull lyer doth plainly refute himselfe This Pageant of the Pope and his Legat Sanders we may not let passe without some observations Seeing there is no way to exsatiate their crueltie we pray that it may please God to remoue their coec●●ie and obduration if it be his good pleasure that they may once truely see themselues and their vngracious actions whereof the sight is now taken from them by reason of their blindnesse For we hold this to proceed rather from their blindnesse then from a wilfull and obstinate striuing against the knowne truth but this we warne them to labour to know the truth and to set their hearts to seeke it least they be wrapped farther and farther into that great iudgement wherein as yet they are vnder his power which worketh with all power and signes and lying wonders in all deceivablenesse of vnrighteousnesse among them that perish because they receiue not the loue of the truth that they might be saued And therfore God shall send them strong illusions that they should beleeue lyes that all they might be damned which beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse Two things are here conteined in these words which iump with these Priests and Seminaries which the Pope sendeth forth the doctrine which they teach and the actions which they practise Their doctrines which they teach are lyes the Apostle warned vs they should beleeue lyes this is a iust judgement vpon such as loue not the truth Their vsuall practise is vnrighteousnesse What greater lyes can be invented then to say that Whatsoever the Pope will allow for a tradition of his Church that is the Word of God A lye with a witnes and withall a blasphemy against the most High What greater vnright●ousnesse then to giue away other mens possessions to strangers that haue no right to them to aispossesse Kings to giue Kingdomes which is none of yours to giue to kill to murther to massacre to aoe any act of

whatsoeuer haue beene attempted against vs the Pope is firme on their side God hath manifested himselfe many waies to be on our side What cause haue we then how many waies are we prouoked to trust in God to loue him to worship him that so miraculously hath defended vs to cleaue with all singlenes of heart to that cause that hath bin so mightily maintayned by Gods hand and power And what cause haue our adu●rsaries to examine themselues and more narrowly to examine the cause which God by so many iudgements hath condemned The people of Israel were mightily protected by the hand of God so long as they truely serued God al their aduersaries could neuer preuaile against them they were defended by power from aboue God did watch ouer them but when they fell from God God did suffer them to fall into the hands of their enemies There will hardly be found any president euen among the people of God that for so many yeeres together they haue bin continually deliuered from so many so cruelly intended so dangerous assaults The deepest deuises of malice reaching euen from hell vnto hellish men vpon earth haue beene practised against vs as this last which came from the deepenesse of Satan wherein without sword or speare without any shew of warlike preparations their hellish deuise was at one blow to root out religion to destroy the state the head with the body the King with the stat● the Father of our Country the Mother of our Country the oliue branches the hopefull succession of our King the Reuerend Clergy the Honourable Nobility the faithfull Councellors the graue Iudges the greatest part of our Knights and Gentry the choisest Burgesses the Officers of the Crowne Councell Signet S●ales and of other seates of iudgement the learned Lawyers with an infinite number of common people the Hall of iustice the houses of Parliament the Church vsed for the Coronation of our Kings the monuments of our former Princes all Records of Parliament and of euery particular mans right with a great number of charters and other things of this nature all these things had the diuell by his agents deuised at one secret blow to destroy If the Lord had not beene on our side may Israel now say if the Lord had not beene on our side when men rose vp against vs they had then swallowed vs vp quicke when their wrath was kindled against vs praised be the Lord which hath not giuen vs vp a prey to their teeth our soule is escaped as a Bird out of the snare of the Fowlers the snare is broken and we are deliuered our helpe is in the name of the Lord which hath made heauen and earth We labour against the Papists to proue our Church a true Church of God They on the other side labour to proue themselues the onely Catholike Church and our assemblies to be as they call them assemblies of Heretikes God hath determined this controuersie most euiden●ly by his word and most powerfully from heauen by his continuall protection of vs and destruction of all the wicked practises which they haue attempted against vs. Was there euer any cause in the world so strongly ma●ntained on the one side as our cause hath beene was there euer any execrable practises in the world so pow●rfu●ly condemned from heauen as their practises haue beene God open their eyes that they may see and vnderstand that they fight against God The Church of Rome so long as it stood the Church of God did neuer practise either by open warres or by secret conspiracies to destroy Kings and subuert Kingdomes but by the preaching of Gods word by examples of piety and sanctimony laboured to draw the ignorant vnto the knowledge and obedience of the truth that course is now vtterly forsaken of them for how can they teach the truth to others that are themselues in ignorance and in the shadow of death or how can they giue examples of an holy life whose whole practise and conuersation is in bloud in malice in wicked and wretched actions And will they neuer vnderstand that they who practise such things can not inherit the Kingdome of God cannot be the Church of God cannot pray to God or expect any blessing from him vpon their execrable practises there is a manifest change of their Church and they will not see it They aske vs when was this change vnder what King vnder what Emperour vnder what Pope But if they were wise they would first inquire whether there be a change or no and then inquire further of the time and manner of it We say that which no man can deny that there is a notorious change this is euident for the Church of old neuer allowed the cruelty the impiety the execrable wickednesse which is daily practised by the great Masters of the Church of Rome and allowed and approued by the Pope Then there is a change it is euident to all But this is a change of manners of the Church not of the doctrines If therefore they demand of vs how a change of the doctrines may be proued We are able to point out from time to time that the doctrines which they haue inuented were neuer heard of in the Church before such times as wee are able to point at Master Iewell the reuerend Bishop of Salisbury for piety and learning the mirrour of his time hath made full and faire proofe that of those Articles wherein he challenged all the Learne● of the Church of Rome not one of them was euer taught in the Church before the 〈◊〉 of Christ 600. his proofes stand vnanswered to this day Though Master 〈◊〉 ha●● done his best to examine them who wanted neither learning nor eloquence bu● onely trut● wanting on his side the challenge is still made good We are also able to point to another time before the year of Christ 1000. many of the gr●atest grossest errors in popery was neuer taught or heard ●n the Church as the doctrines of transubstantiatio● of the reall presence as it is vnderstood in the Church of Rome of the Popes power to depose Kings and absolue their subiects f●o● their allegeance or to war●ant their subiects to rebell ●gainst them of he doctrines of Grace and iustification as now they are taught in the Church of Rome of the doctrine of merits whether ex congruo or condigro of the seauen sacraments and many other of this nature of which we are assured that not one of them can be proued euer to haue beene taught or heard of in the Church before the yeare of Christ one thousand Wee are further able to point to another time before which the rule of faith was neuer changed in the Church this was their last attempt in the points of Doctrine a desperate attempt against the truth For from the Apostles time till the Councell of Trent the rule of faith was euer held in the Church one and the same that is the doctrine contained in