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A04250	A remonstrance of the most gratious King Iames I. King of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. For the right of kings, and the independance of their crownes. Against an oration of the most illustrious Card. of Perron, pronounced in the chamber of the third estate. Ian. 15. 1615. Translated out of his Maiesties French copie.; Declaration du serenissime Roy Jaques I. Roy de la Grand' Bretaigne France et Irlande, defenseur de la foy. English	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Betts, Richard, 1552-1619.	1616 (1616)	STC 14369; ESTC S107609	113,081	306

the sacred Name of God nor should he haue marshalled the passage of a Royal Poet after the example of an heathen Oratour Neither will I giue any touch to his conceit of the Romane conquests which the L. Cardinall bestoweth in the list of Gods graces and temporall blessings as a recompence of their zeale to the seruice and worship of Idols As if God were a recompencer of wickednes or as if the forcible eiecting of tenants out of their frames and other possessions might bee reckoned among the blessings of God Nor to that of the Milesian Virgins dragged starre-naked after they were dead which the L. Cardinall drawes into his discourse for an example of the eternall torments denounced by the Lawes Ecclesiasticall to be inflicted after this life Nor to his exposition of the word Problematicall where he giueth to vnderstand that by Problematicall he meaneth such things as are of no necessitie to matter of faith and in case men shall beleeue the contradictorie of the said points they are not bound for such beleefe to vndergoe the solemne curse of the Church and the losse of communion Whereas Aristotle of whom all Schooles haue borrowed their tearmes hath taught vs that euery proposition is called a Probleme when it is propounded in a formall doubt though in it proper nature it containes a necessary truth concerning the matter thereof As for example to say in forme of question Whether is there but one God or Whether is man a creature indued with reason By which examples it is plaine that propositions in problematically forme doe not forgoe the necessitie of their nature and that many times the contradictorie binds the beleeuers therof to Anathema and losse of communion There is a confused heape or bundle of otherlike toyes which my purpose is to passe ouer in silence that I may now come to cast anchor as it were in the very bottome and substance of the cause HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE A REMONSTRANCE OF THE MOST GRATIOVS King of Great BRITTAINE FRANCE and IRELAND Defender of the Faith c. FOR THE RIGHT OF KINGS AND the independencie of their Crownes AGAINST AN ORATION OF the most Illustrious Cardinall of PERRON pronounced in the Chamber of the third Estate The 15. of Ianuar. 1615. THE L. Cardinall euen in the first passage of his Oration hath laid a firme foundation That Ecclesiastics in France are more deepely obliged to the King then the Nobilitie and third Estate His reason Because the Clergie do sweetly enioy their dignities and promotions with all their infinite wealth of the Kings meere grace without all danger and with faire immunities whereas the other two Orders hold their offices by a chargeable and burdensome title or tenure euen to the great expence of their blood of their substance But see now how loose and weake a frame he hath erected and pinned together vpon his firme and solide foundation Ergo the third Estate is to lay all care to prouide remedies against apposted cut-throats vpon the Clergy the said remedies as he boldly affirms must be deriued from the laws of conscience which may carry an effectuall acting or operatiue efficacie vpon the soule nor from ciuil or temporall punishments Now this consequence limpeth like a lame creple after the premises For it is no vsuall common matter to see men that are deepest in obligation performe their duties and couenants with most fidelity Againe were it graunted the Clergie had wel hitherto demonstrated their carefull watching ouer the life and honour of their Prince yet is it not for spirituall punishments thundred by Ecclesiastics to bind the hands of the ciuill Magistrate nor to stop the current of temporall punishments which ordinarily doe carrie a greater force and vertue to the bridling of the wicked then the apprehension of Gods iudgement The third Estate therefore by whom all the Officers of France are properly represented as to whome the administration of iustice and protection of the Kings rights and Honour doth appertaine can deserue no blame in carrying so watchfull an eye by their wholesome remedie to prouide for the safetie of the King and for the dignitie of his Crowne For if the Clergie shall not stand to their tackle but shrinke when it commeth to the push of their dutie who shall charge themselues with carefull foresight and preuention of mischiefes Shall not the people Now haue not all the calamities which the third Estate haue sought prouidently to preuent haue they not all sprung from the Clergie as from their proper and naturall fountaine From whence did the last ciuill warres wherein a world of blood was not more profusely then prodigiously and vnnaturally spilt and wherein the parricide of King Henrie III. was impiously and abominably committed from whence did those bloodie warres proceed but from the deposing of the said King by the Head of the Church Were they not Prelats Curats and Confessours were they not Ecclesiastics who partly by seditious preachments and partly by secret confessions powred many a jarre of oyle vpon this flame Was not he that killed the forenamed King was not he one of the Clergie Was not Guignard a Iesuit Was not Iohn Chastel brought vp in the same schoole Did not Ravaillac that monster of men vpon interrogatories made at his examination among the rest by whom he had been so diabolically tempted and stirred vp to his most execrable attempt and act of extreme horror did not the referre his examiners to the Sermons made the Lent next before where they might be satisfied concerning the causes of his abominable vndertaking and execution Are not Bellarmine Eudaemonoiohannes Suarez Becanus Mariana with such other monsters who teach the doctrine of parricides vphold the craft of Ianus-like equiuocations in Courts of Iustice and in secret confessions are they not all Clerics are not all their bookes approoued and allowed as it were by a corporation or grosse companie of Doctors with their signes manuel to the saide bookes What were the heads the chiefe promoters the complices of the powder-conspiracie in my Kingdom were they not Ecclesiastics Hath not Faux by name a confederate of the same demned crew hath not he stoutly stood to the gunners part which then he was to act in that most dolefull Tragedie with asseueration of a conscience well assured and setled touching the lawfulnes of his enterprise Did he not yeild this reason to wit because he had beene armed with instruction of musket proofe in the case before he made passage ouer from the Low Countries Is it not also the generall beleefe of that Order that Clerics are exempted from the condition of Subiects to the King Nay is it not confessed by the L. Cardinall himselfe that King-killers haue ingaged themselues to vndertake the detestable act of parricide vnder a false credence of Religion as beeing instructed by their schoolemasters in Religion And who were they but Ecclesiasticall persons All this presupposed as

safetie of their King and honour of the truth it is their hard hap to leaue any at all vnsatisfied But suppose the said heretikes were the Authors of this Article preferred by the third Estate What need they to conceale their names in that regard What need they to disclaime the credit of such a worthy act Would it not redound to their perpetuall honour to be the onely subiects that kept watch ouer the Kings life and Crowne that stood centinell and walked the rounds for the preseruation of his Princely diademe when all other had no more touch no more feeling thereof then so many stones And what neede the Deputies for the third Estate to receiue instructions from forraine Kingdomes concerning a cause of that nature when there was no want of domesticall examples and the French histories were plentifull in that argument What need they to gape for this reformed doctrine to come swimming with a fishes tayle out of an Island to the mayne continent when they had before their eyes the murders of two Kings with diuerse ciuill warres and many Arrests of Court all tending to insinuate and suggest the introduction of the same remedy Suggestions are needlesse from abroad when the mischiefe is felt at home It seemes to me that his Lordship in smoothing and tickling the Deputies for the third Estate doth no lesse then wring and wrong their great sufficiencie with contumely and outragious abuse as if they were not furnished with sufficient foresight with loyal affection towards their King for the preseruation of his life and honour if the remedie were not beaten into their heads by those of the Religion reputed heretikes Touching my selfe ranged by his Lordship in the same ranke with sowers of dissention I take my God to witnes and my owne conscience that I neuer dream'd of any such vnchristian proiect It hath been hitherto my ordinary course to follow honest counsells and to walke in open waies I neuer wonted my selfe to holes and corners to crafty shifts but euermore to plain and open designes I need not hide mine intentions for feare of any mortall man that puffeth breath of life out of his nostrils Nor in any sort doe I purpose to set Iulian the Apostata before mine eyes as a patterne for me to follow Iulian of a Christian became a Pagan I professe the same faith of Christ still which I haue euer professed Iulian went about his designes with crafty conueiances I neuer with any of his captious and cunning sleights Iulian forced his subiects to infidelitie against Iesus Christ I labour to induce my subiects vnto such tearmes of loyaltie towards my selfe as Iesus Christ hath prescribed and taught in his word But how farre I differ from Iulian it is to bee seene more at large in my answer to Bellarmines Epistles written to Blackwell from whence the Lord Cardinall borrowing this example it might well haue beseemed his Lordship to borrow likewise my answer from the same place Now as it mooues me nothing at all to be drawne by his Lordship into suspitions of this nature and qualitie so by the prayses that he rockes me withall I will neuer be lulled asleepe To commend a man for his knowledge and withall to take from him the feare of God is to admire a souldier for his goodly head of haire or his curled locks and withall to call him base coward faint-hearted and fresh-water souldier Knowledge wit and learning in an hereticke are of none other vse and seruice but onely to make him the more culpable and consequently obnoxious to the more grieuous punishments All vertues turne to vices when they become the seruants of impietie The hand-maids which the Soueraigne Lady Wisdome calleth to be of her traine in the 9. Prouerb are moral vertues and humane sciences which then become pernicious when they runne away from their Soueraigne Lady-Mistris and put ouer themselues in seruice to the Deuill What difference is between two men both alike wanting the knowledge of God the one fnrnished with arts and ciuill vertues the other brutishly barbarous and of a deformed life or of prophane manners What is the difference between these two I make this the onely difference the first goeth to hell with a better grace and falleth into perdition with more facility then the second But he becommeth exceedingly wicked euen threefold and fourefold abhominable if he wast his treasure and stocke of ciuill vertues in persecuting the Church of Christ and if that may be layed in his dish which was cast in Caesars teeth that in plain sobernes and well-setled temper he attempts the ruine of the Common-wealth which from a drunken sot might receiue perhaps a more easie fall In briefe I scorn all garlands of praises which are not euer greene but beeing drie and withered for want of sap and radicall moysture doe flagge about barbarous Princes browes I defie and renounce those prayses which fit me no more then they fit a Mahumetane King of Marocco I contest against all praises which grace me with pety accessories but rob me of the principall that one thing necessary namely the feare and knowledge of my God vnto whose Maiesty alone I haue deuoted my scepter my sword my penne my whole industry my whole selfe with all that is mine in whole and in part I doe it I doe it in all humble acknowledgement of his vnspeakable mercy and fauour who hath vouchsafed to deliuer me from the erroneous way of this age to deliuer my Kingdome from the Popes tyrannicall yoake vnder which it hath lyen in times past most grieuously oppressed My Kingdome where God is now purely serued and called vpon in a tongue which all the vulgar vnderstand My Kingdom where the people may now reade the Scriptures without any speciall priuiledge from the Apostolike See and with no lesse libertie then the people of Ephesus of Rome and of Corinth did reade the holy Epistles written to their Churches by S. Paul My Kingdome where the people now pay no longer any tribute by the poll for Papall indulgences as they did about an hundred yeeres past and are no longer compelled to the mart for pardons beyond the Seas and Mountaines but haue them now freely offered from God by the doctrine of the Gospel preached at home within their owne seuerall parishes and iurisdictions If the Churches of my Kingdome in the L. Cardinals accompt be miserable for these causes and the like let him dreame on and talke his pleasure for my part I will euer advowe that more worth is our misery then all his felicity For the rest it shall by Gods grace be my daily endeauour and serious care to passe my daies in shaping to my selfe such a course of life that without shamefull calumniating of my person it shall not rest in the tippe of any tongue to touch my life with iust reprehension or blame Nor am I so priuie to mine owne guiltinesse as to thinke my state so desperate so deplorable as Popes