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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68512	A warning agaynst the dangerous practises of papistes and specially the parteners of the late rebellion. Gathered out of the common feare and speche of good subiectes. Sene and allowed.	Norton, Thomas, 1532-1584.	1569 (1569)	STC 18685.7; ESTC S113364	44,769	112

alway to be noted that the Prince is so not a priuate but a publike person as no attempt against her safetie can or ought to be accompted a priuate cause The full proofe and larger explication of these conclusions though it be easy as a thing which not onely all conuenientie of reason affirmeth but also dayly experience laieth before all mens eyes that haue a frée consideration not accombred with corrupt zeale and affection so yet surely were it a méete thing to be handled by some such man as could adde thereto such ornaments of speche such strength of eloquence and pith of persuasion as myght not onely be vnderstoode beleued but be felt mouel Here any most excellent orators special-vertues might be well employed A fit argument sure it were to shewe witte and knowledge but specially truth and good meaning But till some fitte person shall take in hand to bestow his more profitable trauayle that way let vs yet for vnlading of some of the abundance of our entier deuotion for Gods truth for her maiestie and our countrey haue some remembrance of the particularities thereof For the first article that defineth papistes that accuseth thē of treason to God to kings and to realmes if it be well weyed it can not but quickly be séene for vndouted truth Though it be true that euery one that holdeth any one error or article of doctrine that the Pope teacheth varying from the worde of God is in that article a papist as for example the heresie of transubstantiation the blasphemie of popish masse or any such other yet compt I not euery such a one wholy a papist within compasse of this article that is vnder title of a traitorous Papist but such a one as holdeth all the Popes doctrine to be true that the Romane church erreth not that it hath rightfully such superioritie and primacie in others kingdomes and diocesces as it hath proudly claimed vsurped and that Christians are bound to referre their fayth vnto it and to hang vpon the Popes determinations Many men otherwise good honest subiectes are not yet purged of all errors wherwith Rome hath infected them must haue their tyme to be better instructed But those that are perfect Papistes that publish the Pope to be head of the church which yet in dede is no member of the true church and would haue vs with an implicite bond faith to depend vpon that sea for that reason will refuse by all lawful meanes to confesse the right of Princes in their kingdomes ouer all their subiectes they be perfect traitors in deede yea and the learned sort of them be wilfull heretikes traitors For though in the darke tymes when controuersies of religion were not brought into searching the streame of error caried men awaye without douting yet since that by debating the light hath bene euidently opened and men haue sought and throughly examined the matter there is no learned papist but he knoweth he mainteineth error and in defending and spreading the same he defendeth and spreadeth and so directly aduisedly wilfully and maliciously putteth in execution to his vttermost power hye treasons against God against kinges and kingdomes Against God I cal them treasons though our law the iudge of ciuil treasons in England haue no such name because the nature of the offence so properly receaueth that title and also the vsuall name of hye treason in iure gentium in the common law of nations and in other languages doth so playnely expresse it Hye treasons are in their true nature offences against hye maiestie that is either to the destruction of the persons or denyall and defacement of the iust dignities and authorities of those that beare the name of maiestie and to whom the hyest dutie of obedience faith and alleageance extendeth And therefore is treason called Crimen lesae maiestatis the crime of violating or abating of maiestie Greater maiestie than the maiestie of God can not be therefore hyer and verier treasons then against God can not be His person can not be destroyed or touched his dignitie honor glorie and authoritie may be sclaundered and blasphemed and his subiectes that is mortall men may be withdrawen from their due obedience and drawen into rebellion against him And this I say is hye treason to God to violate or abate the maiestie of God and this do papistes For though God be king of the whole world and so is rightly called the Lord by vniuersall name yea euen of deuilles yet is hys chirch hys more proper and certaine kingdome whereby he is more restrainedly and aptly called our king and our father and so more fitly called our head in respect of the body which is his chirch and not the rest of the worlde In this kingdome hys hyest dignitie is to be the onely head thereof which the Papistes take from him and deriue it to their Pope And though with gloses they excuse it that theyr Popes take it not from God 〈…〉 vnder God as his vicars yet must they be admonished that wythout sufficient deputation and warrant from the kyng himselfe which the Pope hath not the subiect to thrust himselfe into gouernance of the kingdome is hye treason where he that being a stranger would seke to conquere it were but an enemy And so is it rightly to be sayd that the Turke is to God an enemy and the Pope is to God a traytor and all his adherentes principall traytors for treason admitteth no accessaries Also one great part of Gods maiestie standeth in making of lawes to gouerne his kingdome that hys shéepe shall heare hys voyce and no strangers Against which poynt of maiestie as it is hye treason to publish lawes and proclamations in ciuile kynges names against their wyll so are papistes hye traytors in publishing and receauing lawes proclamations and decrées from a climing and vsurping tyrant to bynde Gods subiectes the chirch wythout the wyll and warrant of God Also rebelliously to burne destroy tread downe or deface in great contempt the commissions and lawes of temporall kynges is an hye offence against maiestie and therefore papistes that dishonor and discredit the word of God and destroy the bookes thereof are hye offenders agaynst hys maiestie Also hie treason it is for the subiect to leuie warre agayst hys soueraigne and to destroy hys lande hys faythfull subiectes and true liege people And therefore Papistes in their persecuting and murderyng of Christians with open hostilitie haue shewed themselues hye traytors to the vniuersall King of Christians Also where the counterfaityng of princes handes and coynes and the clipping and abating the value of their true coynes and the vttering of such forged and abated coine is hie treason what lesse name than hye treason agaynst God can we geue to papistes that haue counterfait the writing and coynes of God and geuen out false commissions false patentes and false charters in stede of his worde that clippe from the dignitie

and sufficiencie of hys word that haue coyned false heresies abated true doctrines so do publish and vtter them Also if corrupting and counterfaityng of Princes seales and geuing out or annexing his seales to false charters of theyr owne in the Princes name be hye treason are they not hye traitors to God that corrupt his seales his Sacramentes and set forth new priuate institutions of their owne as Masses and such bagages in stede of them I meane not onely the inuenters and forgers but also the receiuers publishers vtterers and cariers abrode of such abhominable vntruthes Also what greater offense agaynst Maiestie can be than to commaunde the Princes subiectes not to beleue the Princes word or writyng nor any thyng that shall passe by his authoritie without such offenders confirmation and allowance And that the Princes word and writyng suffiseth not to direct the subiectes dutie without such offenders explication and addicions And that such offenders may adde at their pleasure And that such addicions are to be holden equal with the Princes word And that the Princes word must euer be so taken as such offenders expound it none otherwise Then must the Papistes in theyr discredityng the word of God in their dishablyng it as not sufficyng to the instruction of our fayth for the saluation of our soules ▪ in theyr clayming false and vndue authoritie to theyr traditions and in their restrayning the word of God to their expositions though directly against the word against the spirite of God nedes be accompted hye traitors agaynst Gods maiestie Also the greatest honor and dignitie that God hath and chalengeth ielously to hym selfe among men is the redemption and iustification of man The Papistes which draw that from God to man from grace to workes as they are most haynous and blasphemous traitors to God in denying his frée graciousnesse therin so are they most arrant theues to Christian men in robbyng them of the benefite therof Also if to deny that the Prince ought to enioye the stile kyngly name and dignitie of the realme with al preeminences to they same belongyng be hye treason are the not hye traitors to God that take from God the name of our onely Iustifier and from Christ the title of our onely redemer and Aduocate and from the holy ghost the office and stile of our onely true and sufficient Instructer Also seing that to defile the kynges wife is hye treason wherby the succession of hys crowne may growe to dishonor and oncertaintie are not Papistes then hye traitors that haue made the church the spouse of God to commit so many fowle spirituall whoredomes with idolatries heresies and yeldyng her selfe to be abused of strangers So appeareth it euidently that if violatyng of maiestie if denyng the kyng to be the onely kyng and hed of hys owne realme if vsurpyng supreme gouernance without the kynges assignement if makyng and receiuyng lawes and proclamations in the kynges name without hys warrant if destroyeng and defacyng in contempt the kynges charters if leuyeng warre agaynst the kyng within the realme and murderyng hys subiectes if counterfaityng the kynges coyne or seales if annexyng hys seales to false writynges if abatyng hys coyne by clippyng or otherwise if vtterance of such forged or abated ware if discredityng the Princes word and authoritie and auauncyng their owne aboue it if denyeng the kinges right to hys kyngly office if takyng from him hys royal stile name dignitie if corruptyng hys wife with adulterie if any of these if all these together be hye treason Papistes are hye traitors to the maiestie of almightie God But these parhappes may be thought to be but allegoricall or figuratiue treasons so litle the matters of God do moue vs and in the eye and consideration of the law of the realme they are none other yet are they in very dede truely treasons offenses agaynst the hyest maiestie euen the same maiestie by whom kynges do reigne and are vpholden and the same maiestie for which kynges ought to be carefull if they will haue hym to prouide for theyr maiesties Yea they are the very sedes of ciuil temporall treasons For vndoutedly as no man breaketh out into actuall sinne agaynst men that hath not first yelded to an assent to offend God so no man procedeth so farre as to commit treason agaynst the Prince that hath not first conceiued a traiterous minde to rebel against God And as of ordinarie course and naturall necessitie it foloweth that full and strong sedes throwen in ground fit for them cherished with conuenient moisture and comfortable heate of norishyng sonne must rankly growe and bring forth herbes or wedes of theyr propre kynd so these traitorous sedes layed vp in fat soile of Papistes bosomes if they be watered with welth and indulgence and shyned vpon with the cherefull glimses of opportunities will surely bryng forth the frutes of theyr owne qualitie treasons agaynst princes And for this respect other offenses that haue in tymes past ben wrongfully supposed to be of this nature haue ben also punished by the lawes of the realme In ancient order of Letes and other courtes they haue ben enquired vpon before treasons done to the prince They haue had theyr seuerall formes of punishmentes yea in some cases they haue ben and in some places and causes they yet be exempted from the Princes power to pardon They haue bene termed by speciall names of heresies and blasphemies and theyr punishementes byside temporall peynes haue ben extended in opinion to the further reuenge of the eternall Maiestie whoes crowne and dignitie they haue ben thought to violate And surely if in discernyng which were heresies and blasphemies they had not erred if they had not mistaken and executed the true man for the traitor the generall care which was pretended to mainteyne truth and the church stode well with the dutie of Christian Princes as viceroyes and deputies iustly zelous for theyr superior or rather supreme Lord king of kynges and Lord of lordes the true monarch of whole vniuersalitie And though the same late new deceiued antiquitie swarued from true iudgement of the persons and causes I can not well sée howe that should be a warrant to disburden Princes of imitation of that zele when it is ones ioyned with right vnderstandyng no more than the wrongfull hangyng of a true man by mistakyng hym for a thefe or a murderer ought to be a discharge for the very thefe or murderer when he is afterward taken in dede And without doubt more holesome and profitable it were for these hereticall traitors agaynst God I meane the Papistes them selues to be in this lyfe by some sharper law and execution driuen to repentance than to be repried or reserued to arrainement before the last iudge whoes knowledge can not be deciued whoes iusties can not then be entreated whoes execution hath neither end nor measure and so a litle more hardnesse with them a while would