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A14155	Tvvo learned sermons The one, of the mischieuous subtiltie, and barbarous crueltie, the other of the false doctrines, and refined hæresis of the romish synagogue. / Preached, the one at Paules Crosse the 5. of Nouember, 1608. The other at the Spittle the 17. of Aprill. 1609. In the first, are examined diuers passages of that lewde English libell, written by a prophane fugitiue, against the Apologie for the Oath of Allegeance. In the seconde, are answered many of the arguments published by Rob. Chambers priest, concerning popish miracles; and dedicated (forsooth) to the Kings most excellent Maiestie. By Robert Tynley, Doctor of Diuinitie, and Archdeacon of Ely.	Tynley, Robert, 1561 or 2-1616.	1609 (1609)	STC 24472; ESTC S118816	62,579	82

against them Woe be vnto you blinde guides Now this is an essentiall propertie of the Guides and doctors of the Romish Synagog who not contenting themselues with the fountaines of liuing waters the holy Scriptures and word of God as not containing all things sufficient for manners in this life and Saluation in that which is to come dig to themselue pits euen broken pits of diuers and sundrie traditions which in truth can holde no water For thus m Bellarmine de verbo dei l. 4. c. 2. they teach and professe that besides the written word of God there is an other part thereof not written their meaning is in the Scriptures and by the first Authors therof the Apostles of our Sauiour though otherwise it be extāt almost in the anciēt Fathers n Bellarmine as they say which they tearme call traditions of which they make many sorts agreeing in this that they concerne both faith maners What reckoning and account they make of these traditions shall come from their owne mouthes for otherwise it would seeme I suppose incredible what they ascribe vnto them The o Pari pietatis affectu et reuerentia ses 4. decret 1 Councel of Trent decreeth that they are to bee receiued with the like affection of Godlinesse and reuerence wherby wee admit and reuerence the bookes of the old and new Testament p Eandē vim habent de verbo dei li. 4. c. 2 Cardinall Bellarmine saith that they haue all one Force and strength q Perinde infallibilē auctoritatem habent Analis fidei Cathol li. 8. cap. 6. sec 2 Gregorie of Valentia the authoritie of each is alike infallible and cannot deceiue Cardinall Hossius r Multo maxima pars euangelij peruenit ad nos traditione per ex igua literis est mandata confess Catholica c. 92. not content with this paritie addeth further that far the greatest part of the Gospel came to vs by traditiō when but verie little thereof was committed to writing And ſ Ex traditione noui testamenti scripta omnia authoritatem acceperunt Annal. 46.1 Ann. 53. num 11. Cardinal Baronius as if this were not enough auoucheth that all the bookes of the new Testament receiue their authoritie from traditions In regard whereof hee preferreth them before the Scriptures because Scriptures saith he vnlesse they be established by traditions haue no beeing when as traditions without the Scripture are firme and stable in themselues So t Scripturae nisi traditione firmentur non subsistunt traditiones vero sine scriptis suam obtinent firmitatem likewise t Petrus a Soto before him r Fundamentū explicatio defens Cathol confes l. 2. c. 68 calleth them the foundation and exposition of the Scriptures And u Lydius lapidus Panopl li. 1. cap. 9. Lindane the touchstone of true and false doctrine Finally Andradius saith That many points and heads of Faith would reele and totter were they not supported by the assistance and authority of traditions x Multa sidei nostrae capita reperies nutare iam et vacillare si tollas traditionum subsidium et auctoritatē Orthodox Explicat l. 2. p. 80. yea not onely reele and totter but a great part of Religion would also perish saith y Sine quibus magna pars religionis perit et ad inane nomen Euangelium redit de sens Cathol l. 2 cap. 68. Soto were it not for those partes of Doctrine which are maintained by tradition and the Gospell would come to a vaine name without substance which I easily grant and acknowledge in their Popish Faith and Religion which can no more stand without traditions then a huge building without a foundation For it is the confession proceeding from their owne mouthes that the Primacie of the Pope and Sea-Apostolike is from tradition their fiue Sacraments of Confirmation Order and Matrimonie Penance extreame vnction with their elements words fruites and effects the consecration of water and oile in the sacrament of Baptisme The Doctrine of Transubstantiation and receiuing in one kinde of auricular cōfession satisfaction choise of meats Fastes purgatorie monastical profession single life praier for the dead z Petrus a Soto vt supra Peresius de traditionibus parte 3. Lindanus panop li. 4. c. 100. Canus locor Theologic li. 3. ca. 3. 4. 5. with the rest inuocation and worshipping of Saints worshipping their Relikes and images in a word scantlie any matter in controuersie betweene vs which they acknowledge not to bee grounded on tradition howsoeuer with consciences more then seared in their disputes they alleage Scriptures for proofe of them and a In his Rock Sanders proclaimeth that they haue moste plaine Scriptures in all points for the Catholike Faith falsely so called and none at all against the same The case then standing thus with the Popish Religion it is no maruell if so highly they extoll their traditions and on the other side thinke and speake so baselie of the holy Scriptures tearming them b Tilmannus H●shusius sexcent errores Tit. de Scriptura Sac. a nose of Wax readie to receiue any impression expound it how a man list a leaden rule flexible and easie to bee wrested whither a man will a dumbe teacher which can neither answer nor expresse his owne meaning a dead Scripture the matter and subiect of strife and contention which without the Churches authoritie is of no more credit then Aesop his fables yea a very bable as c Dr. Fulcke his confutation of Saunders treatise of the worshipping of images pag. 575. Doctor Cole the Papist being Visitor in Cambridge when a Bible was brought vnto him to be defaced called it Bible Bable These blasphemies against Gods sacred word which d Rom. 1.16 1. Cor. 1.24 S. Paul calleth the wisdome of God and the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth demonstrate these Popish Doctors if I should adde nothing more to be those false Prophets of which our Sauiour heere speaketh For right so did their fore-fathers the ancient Heretikes vilifie the holy Scriptures and magnifie their Traditions as e Lib. 3. cap. 2. Irenaeus a mostancient Father testifieth Cùm ex Scripturis arguuntur When saith he men argue against them and they are reprooued out of the Scriptures they turne themselues to accuse the Scriptures quasi non rectè habeant as if they were not right neque sint ex authoritate nor haue authoritie in them quia sint variè dictae and because they are diuersly spoken and haue diuers senses quia non possit ex his inueniri veritas ab his qui nesciant Traditionem and because the truth cannot bee found nor gathered out of them by such as know not the Traditions Non enim per literas traditam illam sed per viuam vocem For say they the truth was not deliuered by writing in the holie Scriptures but by word of mouth from man to man Neuer

f Non tam ouum ouo simile Cicer. Acadē quaes l. 2. was one egge so like another as these old Heretikes and our Popish Doctors Soto Lindane Pighius and such like of the Popish crew So likewise are many of their reasons and arguments the dull and blunted weapons of the old Heretikes returned vpon them so often by the ancient Fathers g De verbo Dei l. 4. c. 5. Bellarmine allegeth for proofe of his Traditions that of our Sauiours Iohn 16. v. 12. I haue yet many things to say vnto you but yee cannot beare them now With which saying of Christs all Heretikes euen the most absurd and foolish which notwithstanding would be called Christians did endeuour to colour saith h Omnes insipientiss haeretici qui se Christianos vocari volunt audacias figmentorum suorum quas maximè exhorret sensus humanus hac occasione Euangelicae sententiae colora●e conantur Jn Euang. Johann tract 97. S. Augustine the audacious fictions of their idle braines which the sense of man did most of all feare and abhorre But as that godly Father answereth so say I If our Sau●our concealed those things quis nostrum dicat ista velilla sunt who is he amongst vs that may say they are this or they are that Yet i Haec multa non erant diuersa ab his quae hactenus Dominus praesens docuerat sed planior clarior eorum explicatio Concordant fol 964. Iansenius one of their owne well obserueth that these many things were not diuers and contrarie to those which our Sauiour taught his Disciples whil'st hee was present amongst them but only a more full and cleerer explication of them So k Loc. theol l. 3. c. 3. fundamento 4. Canus allegeth that of the Apostles We speake wisdome amongst them that are perfect 1. Cor. 2.6 whereby he would prooue that certaine holy mysteries were communicated by the Apostle apart from the ignorant to the perfect perfectis maioribus Euen as the old Heretikes saith l Hanc sapientiā vnusquisque eorum esse dicit quam à semetipso ad●nuenit fictionē videlicet Irenaeus by occasion of these words of S Paul Did euery one of them call the fiction of their owne b●aine this selfe same wisdome of which the Apostle spake But m Si quaedam inter domesticos disserebant non tamen ea fuisse credendum est quae aliam regulam fidei superducerent c. De praescript haeretic Iansenius rightly noteth n Sed quod suae prae●●●otionis fidei mysteria perfectius aperiret perfectioribus sermonemque suum aptaret audientium capacitati Concordant f. 965. as did Tertullian before him that the Apostle did not signifie by those words that he taught the perfect one thing the vnperfect and ignorant another thing cum vtrisque eandem fidem praedicaret when as he preached the same faith to them both n Sed quod suae prae●●●otionis fidei mysteria perfectius aperiret perfectioribus sermonemque suum aptaret audientium capacitati Concordant f. 965. but that his preaching was not all after one manner which he applied to his hearers to some more perfectly and profoundly to others after a plainer fashion according to the capacitie of each of them Againe what the Apostle writeth to Timothie O Timotheus keepe that which is committed vnto thee depositum custodi 1.6.20 is o Canus Bellarmine c. generally alleged of them for proofe of their Traditions And so was it by the old Heretikes as p De praescripion hae●eticor Tertullian witnesseth who from thence taught that the Apostles q Apostolos non omnia omnibus tradidisse ibid And non omnia omnibus reuelasse quaedam palam vniuersis quaedam secretò paucis demandasse quia hoc verbo vsus est Paulus ad Timotheum O Timothee depositum custodi ib. deliuered not all things to all sorts of men but committed some things openly and to all men other matters secretlie and to few But depositum or the thing committed signifieth the whole charge which the Apostle committed to Timothie r Quod praeceptum supra infra ex scriptis intelligerat non nescio quid ostendi hoc dicto de remotiore doctrina c. ib. and particularly the true forme of sound doctrine deliuered vnto him in that Epistle by S. Paul and not hid elsewhere or farre fetched as Tertullian expoundeth the Apostle But of all authorities of Scripture alleged by our aduersaries that which S. Paul writeth to the Thessalonians 2.2.15 is in shew most cleere for them Stand fast and keepe the traditions which yee haue beene taught either by word or by our Epistle In which words the Apostle maketh mention of doctrine not only written but also taught by expresse word of mouth Which as we ingenuously acknowledge it being a truth so we say withall that it maketh nothing for our aduersaries For although at that time when the Apostle wrote those Epistles to the Thessalonians ſ Baron Annal tom 1. an 53. num 11. which are more ancient then diuers of the writings of the Euangelists and the Epistles of the Apostles some yea many points of doctrine were deliuered in the Church by word of mouth yet this is not against vs which haue those writings of the Euangelists and the Apostles which the Thessalonians had not then In all which now written we affirme to be comprehended all things which concerne faith and good manners and whatsoeuer is needfull to be beleeued so as that it is either expresly written or by necessarie consequence may soundly be deduced and concluded out of the Scriptures For concerning the old Law Moses giueth this charge in the person of God You shall put nothing thereto neither take ought therefrom Deut. 4 2. And of the Gospell S. Paul saith that though himselfe or an Angell from heauen preach otherwise then that which he had preached to the Galatians let him be accursed 1.8.9 The like is S. Iohns testimonie of the things recorded in his Gospell These things are written that yee might beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the sonne of God and that in beleeuing yee might haue life through his name c. 20. v. 31. Vpon which words Hugo the Cardinall hath this remarkable note Specialiter intentio huius libri generaliter verò totius Scripturae finis his verbis declaratur By these words the scope of this Gospell in speciall is shewed but in a generalitie the end of the whole Scripture is declared According heerein with S. Paul 2. Tim. 3.16.17 The whole Scripture is giuen by inspiration of God and is profitable to teach to improoue to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse that the man of God may be absolute being made perfect vnto all good workes So the Prophet Dauid witnesseth of the testimonie of the Lord that it giueth wisdome to the simple Psal 19. v. 7. Euen that wisdome which is able to make vs wise vnto

saluation through the faith which is in Christ Iesus 2. Tim. c. 3. v. 15. Therefore when one demanded of our Sauiour what he might doe to inherit eternall life hee referred him to the Scripture for his direction Luc. 10.25.26 As Abraham sent the rich Gluttons brethren to schoole to Mos●s and the Prophets that he might auoid the torment of hell fire Luc. 16. v. 28.29 If then the Scriptures are so perfect that wee must adde nothing to them nor take ought from them if no other Gospell must bee preached vnder paine of Gods curse if by the writings of the Prophets the Euangelists and Apostles we beleeue that Iesus is the Christ the sonne of God and by faith in his name obtaine eternall life if they make the man of God absolute and giue wisdome to the simple that wisdome which maketh wise vnto saluation if they direct vs to eternall life and keepe vs from the torments of hell fire it is as cleere as the Sunne-light at noone day that they containe all things necessarie for saluation and therefore the Papists not contenting themselues with their sufficiencie doe the very same for which our Sauiour rebuked the Scribes and Phariseis Mat. 15. v. 3. transgresse the Commandements of God by their Traditions Now if beside the voice of God speaking in his holy word any heere present require further the witnesse of man and desire to know the minde and opinion of the ancient Fathers although where God speaketh it may well become man to be silent yet that it may appeare that we teach the same doctrine with the old Greeke and Latine Church it shall not be amisse the rather for the stopping of the mouthes of our aduersaries who are alwaies bragging of the Fathers of whom they are the degenerate children to obserue their iudgement in this point First therefore t Quod per Dei voluntatē in Scripturis nobis tradiderunt fundamētū columnā fidei nostrae futurum lib. 3. cap. 1. Irenaeus saith that the Gospell which the Apostles and Euangelists deliuered in the Scriptures is the foundation and pillar of our faith u Ad puteos Scripturarum ad aquas Spiritus sancti haurire sēper ac ple●um vas ref●rre domū c. hom 10. in Genes Origen instructeth vs to haue daily recourse to the Wels of the holy Scripture the waters of Gods holy Spirit and to draw from thence and to carry home our vessels full like holy Rebecca x 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodoret li. 1. histor Eccles ca. 7. Constantine the great in his speech to the Bishops assembled in the Councell of Nice hath this worthy saying The bookes of the Euangelists and Apostles together with the Oracles of the old Prophets doe plainly teach vs the things which we are to know concerning God Athanasius in his Oration against Idols the z Piae Religionis veritatis de vniuerso ratio cognitioque per Christi doctrinam sole clarius sese demonstrat very first words thereof The reason and knowledge of godly Religion and truth doth demonstrate it selfe more cleerely then the Sunne by the doctrine of Christ And immediately after a Sufficiunt quidem per se tum sacrae diuinitus inspiratae Scripturae ad veritatis indicationem The holy and inspired Scriptures from aboue suffice by themselues for the finding out of the truth b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 394. Basil saith that it is a manifest falling from the faith and crime of arrogancie either to reiect any thing which is written or to adde any thing which is not written c Omnia clara sunt plana ex Scripturu diuinu quaecunque necessaria sunt manifesta sunt homil 3. in 2. Thessal Chrysostome yet more directly to the point All things are cleere and plaine out of the holy Scriptures whatsoeuer things are necessarie are manifest d Non omnia quae D●minus fecit cōscripta sunt sed quae scribentes tam ad mores quam ad dogmata putarunt sufficere vt recta fide oper●bus virtule ru●●lantes ad regnum c. l. 12. in Iob. c. 68 So likewise S. Cyril All things are not written which our Lord did but tho●e things which the Euangelists the Writers did thinke to suffice both for manners of life and precepts of faith that shining with a right faith and good workes and vertue wee might come to the kingdome of heauen e 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De Orthodoxa fide li. 1. ca. 1. Damascene confesseth that he receiueth and acknowledgeth and reuerenceth all things which are deliuered in the Law and the Prophets the Apostles and the Euangelists seeking after nothing beyond these Yee haue heard by these what the opinion is of the Greeke Fathers concerning the sufficiencie of the Scriptures without the supplie of traditions With whom in like sort concurre the Fathers of the Latine Church f Scripturae plenitudinem adoro aduers Hermoginem I adore saith Tertullian the fulnesse of the Scriptures And immediately after g Scriptum esse doceat Hermogenis officina aut t●meat Vae illud adijcientibus aut detrahentibus destinatum ib. Let Hermogines his shop teach that it is written or let him feare that Woe appointed for them which adde or detract any thing from the Scriptures h Vnde est ista traditio vtrumne de dominica Euangelica authoritate descendens an de Apostolorum mandatis atque Epistolis veniens Ea enim facienda esse quae scripta sunt Deus testatur c. ad Pompeium contra Epistolam Stephani Cyprian distinguishing of Traditions maketh this demand Whence is it saith he Doth it descend from the authoritie of our Lord or his Euangelists or commeth it from the commandement of the Apostles and their Epistles For God witnesseth that those things are to be done which are written And immediately after he inferreth this conclusion i Si ergo aut in Euangelio praecipitur aut in Apostolorum epistolis aut actibus continetur c. obseruetur etiam haec sancta traditio ib. If therefore it be commanded in the Gospell or comprehended in the Epistles or Acts of the Apostles c. let this holy tradition bee kept and obserued also But on the other side it hath no ground in the word of God Then marke what k Alia quae absque authoritate testimonijs Scripturarum quasi traditione Apostolica sponte reperiunt atque contingunt haeretici percutis gladius Des. Jn ca. 1. Aggei S. Hierome saith Other things which Heretikes doe finde of their owne accord without the authoritie and witnesse of the Scriptures as though they were deliuered by Apostolical tradition the sword of God which is his holy word Ephes 6.17 cutteth off But of all the ancient Fathers the iudgement of Saint Augustine is worthy your obseruation as being most sound and directly to the purpose who writing against l Siue de Christo

Matth. 23.35 yea our Sauiour himselfe was made a pray vnto them whose example serued to instruct his flocke in all ages what they were to expect and trust vnto For the disciple is not aboue his master nor the seruant aboue his Lord Matth. 10. vers 24. And if they haue done these things to the greenetree what shall be done vnto the drie Luke 23. verse 31. The Apostles of our Sauiour the rammes and bell-weathers of the flocke haue all in a manner verified the words of their master and what the condition of the Saints was in the Primitiue Church the Author to the Hebrewes reporteth vnto vs Some were racked some tried with mockings bonds scourgings C. 11. v. 35. c imprisonment some stoned some hewen asunder some slaine with the sword With which exquisite torments and many moe of like sort the crueltie of these Wolues could not be satisfied but as Tacitus in his Annales recordeth Li. 15. Pereuntibus addita ludibria The Saints of God suffering martyrdome after this cruell manner were further made laughing stockes to the world in being clad with skinnes of wilde beasts and so exposed to the tearing and renting asunder by dogges And this not in some few to the terror of the rest but as the same Author addeth when the day was not long enough to make them away in they serued in vsum nocturni luminis for men to see by in the night by the flames wherein their bodies were consumed Eusebius goeth yet further that the numbers in some places grew to be so great that the executioners fainted with wearinesse in their making hauocke though one succeeded after another and that the edges of their swords and axes were dulled and made blunt with the multitude of the slaine bodies of the Saints which he taketh not vp by way of credit vpon other mens report himselfe was an eie witnesse of it in Thebais of Egypt Eccles histor lib. 8. ca. 9. So cruell was the rage of these rauenous beasts in these ten persecutions vnder the Romane Emperors From which if we suppose that the ages following were free Iob 40.10 we erre and are greatly deceiued Dilatat Behemoth caudam suam in fine mundi nequius Behemoth saith S. Gregorie enlargeth his taile wherein lieth his strength more wickedly now in the end of the world Moral 3● c. 12 The Diuels wrath waxing greater in these Wolues his instruments by how much shorter he knoweth his time is to wreake his malice vpon the Saints So that as Berna●d distinguisheth serm 33. in Cantica Pax est non est pax there is peace and there is no peace Pax a Paganis c. The Church being in peace and rest from Pagans and Infidels sed non profectò à filiis Micah 7.6 but in sooth not secured of her owne children nor of them of her owne house yea most infested by them For who are they that for these many yeeres haue made hauocke and spoile of the Church but such as would be tearmed Gal. 2.9 I say not only Pillars as were Iames and Cephas and Iohn but the very heads of the Church Christ his Vicars vpon earth as they stile themselues the Popes of Rome that very Antichrist and scarlet coloured Whore drunké with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Iesus C. 17. v. 6. as the Spirit testifieth in the Reuelations Witnesse amongst many others the Albigenses against whom Innocent the third so proceeded by his censures that in one Towne of theirs 17. thousand of them were put to the sword without any respect had of age sex or degree and in another Towne one hundred and fourescore consumed together in one fire because they would not abiure the faith of Christ Histor part 3. tit 19. c. 1. §. 3. 4. Li. 4. pa. 1132. as Antoninus reporteth witnesse the Protestants in Germanie against whom Paul the third excited Charles the Emperor instigante Paulo saith Genebrard their Chronologer who for the better managing of that warre assisted the Emperor with an Army out of Italie of ten thousand foot and fiue hundred horse vnder the conduct of his Nephew Octauius Farnesius who was so confident in his forces that departing out of Italy he boasted before hand that he would make such a slaughter in Germanie that his horse should swimme in the blood of the Lutherans as Iohn Sleidan is Author Last of all Commentar li. 17. pa. 534. not to stand vpon examples which in this kinde are infinite witnesse the slaughters and butcheries Factionis Hugoniticae of the Hugonites in France Histor li. 23. as Natalis wronglie tearmeth them of whom to the number of sixtie thousand perished at Paris and in other Cities of France what time the Admirall was murdered and in the ciuill warres not so few as twelue hundred thousand naturall French are numbred to haue beene slaine in which combustions the Popes of Rome were the very Alastores and Apollyons Brutum fulmen p. 108. the fire-brands of these mischiefes With whose flames if this our natiue Countrie haue not in like manner burnt within these late yeeres it was Gods watchfull eie ouer our Princes and vs which extinguished the sparkes whil'st they were enkindling and not want of malitious crueltie in them who were alwaies ready prest to minister fewell to these flames The Buls of Pius 5. Gregorie the 13. Sixtus the 5. testifie as much breathing out fire and sword against our late Souereigne whose memorie shall be blessed in all posteritie and by their loud lowing calling in forraine powers against our Land and exciting disloyall subiects as were Tichborne Parry Squier Walpoole and such like to treacherous conspiracies at home some of which conspiracies howsoeuer our English Catholike hauing made his forehead as the Adamant in his letter before mentioned Pa. 34. 89. tearme Ridiculous falfe deuises and monstrous fictions made against some Priests to make their whole companie and cause odious yet our Tribunals and benches of Iustice and Iudgement haue conuinced euidently this shamelesse vntruth and the Secular Priests haue likewise published as much Import Con sid p. 16. p. 23 33 40. concerning these treacheries to all mens view So that now it necessarily ensueth ex ore proprio from the confession of our Aduersarie that the companie of these Iesuites and their whole cause is iustly odious both to God and man for their treacherous and bloody designements From which aspersions in like manner the two Breues of Clement the 8. will not be purged although this Impostor wash them with niter to vse the words of the Prophet and take much sope to him Ier. 2.22 For most euident it is that Catesby that Arch-Traitor laid vpon them the foundations of the Powder-treason in his conference with Garnet Proceedings R. 4. arguing from their authority rightly and strongly that if it were lawfull not to receiue his Maiestie that now is or to

not only good Princes but had also and that not only of feare and flatterie but of conscience as the Apostle teacheth Propter conscientiam for conscience sake Why then ioine we not as in tongue so in hand and heart also and admit the triall of our obedience by the touch-stone of true fidelitie in taking the Oath of Allegeance Pa. 14.15.16 50. Because saith our English Catholike besides the exaction of naturall obedience which is lawfull the Oath containeth diuers other points also concerning matters of Catholike Religion which are vnlawfull For whereas the Oath is diuided into 14. seuerall parts 12. of them at the least as hee auoucheth touch the Popes supremacie one way or other As where it is said in the Oath that the Pope hath no authoritie to depose our King 2. to dispose of his Kingdomes 3. to authorize any forraine Prince to inuade or anoy him or his Countries 4. or to discharge his subiects of their Allegeance 5. to giue licence to any of them to beare armes against him 6. or to offer violence to his person or gouernment or Subiects The assertion of all which points and other such like specified in the Oath are saith he matters of Catholike Religion But who seeth not whose eies God hath opened to behold the light of his Gospell that this Religion falsly termed Catholike vtterly peruerteth the lawfull subiection of people to their Souereignes and that Hell is not more opposite to Heauen then the bearing of armes by the subiect against his Prince raising tumults in his dominions offering violence to his person state or gouernment is contrarie to his allegeance and fidelitie Christ saith S. Chrysostome in his Commentaries vpon the 13. to the Romanes made nor Lawes to ouerthrow the state of common-weales but that he might the better order and establish them but to depose Kings to dispose of their dominions to take the Crowne from one and giue it to another as men tosse a tenice ball in the Court from Henrie to Rodulph and so along to assoile subiects of their fidelitie these and such like which are after the decrees of latter Popes ouerthrow the very foundations of Kingdomes and Common-weales which transcendent authoritie whil'st they assume vnto themselues by vertue of the Churches censure they goe farre beyond the bounds and limits of their commission For excommunication being a punishment meerely spirituall depriueth a man onely of such spirituall comforts as otherwise he should receiue at the hands of the Church but no way impeacheth his estate in his goods and possessions De Iure iusti li. 1. c. 6. Conclus 2. as their owne Soto teacheth And much lesse hath it any force to depose Princes from their thrones to absolue subiects from their obedience to warrant them to rebell to say violent-hands vpon their Souereignes or any way to conspire or worke their death Wherefore let this bee the obedience of such Popish Recusants as refuse to professe their fidelitie by taking the Oath Bulla Pij 5. Gregorij 13. outwardly to make a shew of it ad redimendam vexationem to keepe themselues from troubles and mulcts yet with these circumstances 1. Rebus sic stantibus the State standing so firme as God haue the glorie and praise for it it doth such an vnion and consent in Prince Peeres and all good Subiects as need not dread the face of all their enemies and 2. Donec publica Bullae executio fieri possit that is vntill they haue got strength enough to make head against their Souereigne and then downe with him by open hostilitie or secret conspiracie it maketh no matter which so they haue their watch-word from Rome by the Popes excommunication and deposing of him But for vs beloued which haue otherwise learned Christ let these seeds of disloyaltie and treason bee farre from our hearts Let vs giue to our Caesar his feare his honour his seruice his protection by our bodies goods and liues which are his were he as wicked as was euer Nero how much more being so good and gratious so zealous of Gods honour and of his subiects good Neque enim pietatem subuertic ista subiectio this subiection saith S. Chrysostome subuerteth not pietie nay it confirmeth it more Neither is this spirituall but ciuill obedience due to the Prince ordained by God not depending vpon the Pope who exalteth his owne selfe Were he placed in his due ranke Siue Apostolus saith S. Chrysostome were he an Apostle that is as good as S. Peter himself or were he an Euangelist or were he a Prophet he were but a Subiect or if all this serue not the next words immediately ensuing will order him Siue quis quis fuerit or be he what he will be or may be saith S. Chrysostome if he consist of a soule and body Rom. 13.1 he must be subiect to the higher Poxers that is to the King or to the Emperour Gods viue images vpon earth and acknowledge them for his Lords Epist 32. as Pope Gregorie the great did Mauritius the Emperor Or if these bee matters which concerne Religion and such as touch the Popes Supremacie spirituall why doth not our English Catholike bring foorth his proofes especially hauing made promise so to doe in the fore-front of his Pamphlet But open it and peruse it from the first page to the last you shall finde nothing therein but his owne assertion the Popes supposition or at the most Pa. 13. 14. 15. 50. 62. 74. 85. his determination the authoritie of Cardinall Bellarmine and the chiefest learned men of their Church as he tearmeth them that is Herod and Pilate the high Priests and Elders the Scribes and Phariseis with the nation of the Iewes conspiring against our Sauiour and seeking false witnesses against him but finding none For no better with vs is the credit of the Pope and his Consistorie his College of Cardinals and the whole swarmes of his Priests and Friars in matters concerning their owne authoritie contrary to the expresse words of holy Scripture Yea Pa. 14.19.85 but if the Pope haue not this authoritie to proceed against Princes by dethroning and deposing of them for their restraint and amendment Gods prouidence should be defectuous saith our English Catholike for the preseruation of his Church I answer Nothing lesse For if S. Peter and his successors were able to gouerne the Church in the middest of al the stormes of persecutions vnder the Pagan Emperors who laboured by all cruell meanes to root out the very name of Christianitie without the vse of any such authoritie how much more easie must it bee for them who claime succession from S. Peter to gouerne the ship of the Church when by the commandement of our Sauiour the windes are ceased and the stormes are laied Vnlesse wee shall say that the Church had not her due gouernment but was tossed vp and downe with euery waue and puffe of winde for the space of 1000. yeeres and

expectation of a golden day so long expected and so hopefullie conceiued in the declining age of that most renowned Q. Lady Elizabeth our late Soueraigne But the tune of that Song is altered God haue the glorie for it they lament anotherwhile and so may they euer with O spes fallaces O our deceitfull hopes our vaine dreames our idle imaginations h D. Bishop in his Epist to the King the state is now setled they say and so let it be O Lord euen for euer and euer and a continuall posteritie is like to ensue of one nature and condition Amen Lord Iesu Is it the splendor of their miracles which so long haue dazeled the eies of the World but these are conuinced to be false and fabulous or no better then the workings of Satan and illusions of Antichrist Is it the sinceritie of their doctrine but that is no better then the Beggars cloake patched together of olde haeresies long since condemned by the Catholike Church as in part hath been shewed and may as easily be proued in the rest i See Faxa sacrae panitentiariae They rob God of his honor and giue it to stockes and stones they take Christ his office from him and ioyne Saints with him in his Mediatorship Gods sacred word is but a bable with them and of no worth in regard of their traditions and vnwritten verities their religion is the high way to Atheisme and al impiety there beeing no sinne so heinous so enormous which they dispense not with by their indulgencies and pardon by their absolutions incest rapes murders vowes periuries all veniall so money be not wanting Their profession is knowne to be the dethroning and murthering of princes and for their practise it is the vtter ouerthrow of ciuil states and societies by swearing and forswearing by Aequiuocating and dissembling taking a-away all truth and sincere dealing from amongst men As for their life and maners no puddle is more impure then this sinck Rom. 1.26.28 et v. 21. and that by the iust iudgement of Almightie God God giuing them vp to vile affections and to ● reprobate minde because that when they knew God they glorified him not as God neither were thankeful as the Apostle speaketh of the Gentiles and is as truely verified in the Romanists So that if any man heere present will still bee misled seduced by the false Prophets notwithstanding the warning that hath beene giuen I must pronounce of him though with much greefe of heart that hee is guiltie of his owne blood Eccles 33.4 his blood bee vppon his owne head for my part I say as 〈◊〉 is in the Prophet for the integritie of my conscience discharge of this duetie liberaui animam meam I haue deliuered my owne soule now look ye to it But for you belooued in the Lord of whome we haue perswaded our selues better things such as accompanie saluation stand fast I beseech you in the bowels of Christ in the Doctrine of the Prophets and Apostles which yee haue receiued grounded vpon Christ the Corner-stone and sealed vnto you with his blood and with the blood of his holy Martyrs in all ages and beware of false Prophets beware of these Sheep-skin'd wolues trie their spirits examine their faith looke into their manners by these fruits you may know them and knowing them auoid their steps which leade to hel and destructiō Which that yee may bee able to doe that God of mercies and father of all goodnes which commanded the light to shine out of darkenes illightē the eyes of your vnderstandings confirme you with his grace and guide you with his holy spirit amidst the stormes of these last perilous times that so in the end yee may ariue at the hauen of all blisse and happinesse Amen FINIS