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A04323	A supplication to the Kings most excellent Maiestie wherein, seuerall reasons of state and religion are briefely touched: not vnworthie to be read, and pondered by the lords, knights, and burgeses of the present Parliament, and other of all estates. Prostrated at his Highnes feete by true affected subiects.	Colleton, John, 1548-1635.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1603-1625 : James I)	1604 (1604)	STC 14432; ESTC S107663	42,852	54

nothing in proper nor in common and beg their foode from dore to dore as do the Capuccines some attend the sick in all diseases assist them with ghostly counsell prouide them Sacraments and burie their dead bodies as do certaine fraternities some clense vlcers and festered sores nor refuse any office how base and loathsome soeuer about impotent criples and lazars as do the Nunnes of S. Elizabeths order And all these with other diuers orders that after another manner labour to mortifie themselues and do good to others he vpon no other beds but of straw rise at midnight sleepe little and spend much time in prayer and meditation Which are no conditions of life that either a Rom. 13. 14 make prouision for the flesh in concupiscences or b Galat. 5. 16. do seeke to accomplish the desires or c Titus 3. 3. serue the voluptuousnesse thereof sinnes which the Apostle forbiddeth but rather formes of life that d Galat. 5. 24. crucifie the flesh with her vices and concupiscences do e Galat. ● 19. naile them to the Crosse with Christ and render both f Galat. 6. 14. the world crucifide to those that so liue and them to the world Vertues which by the testimonie of the same Apostle g Galat. 5. 24. make their dooers the seruants of Christ and h Galat. 2. 20. to liue now not they but Christ in them Effects of no false religion 30. A religion from which Countries eyther departing or mingling other doctrines with it made present wracke of their former felicities falling eyther into flatte Apostafie or most lamentable bondage or both The instances are The i Theodoretu● lib. 4. cap. 32. Sozomen lib. 6. cap. 37. Goths while they remained Catholike florished and enlarged their territories but becomming Arians were shortly expelled thence by the Hunnes then Infidels The like and by like occasion befell the k Iornandes de rebus gest Dacians Mysians and Pannonians by inuasion of the Hunnes Gepides and Rugians The l Ex Aenea Silu●● in Eur. cap. 16. 17. Anto. Sabel Enne 10. lib. 6. ex Chronicis earundem Nationum alijsque Historijs Dalmatians Gaulls Britanes Spaniards and the Africans by superinducing or mixing one the heresie of Manichaes another the herisie of Vigilantius the thirde the heresie of Pelagius the fourth the heresie of Priscillian the last the heresie of Donatus with the catholike religion were conquered and supplanted the Dalmatians by the Turke the Gaules by the French the Britaines by the English the Spaniardes by the Goths the Africanes by the Vandals To which may be added the Germanes wasted and subiected by A●tila to the seigniory of the Hunnes after the Arian heresie had rooted it selfe in seuerall quarters and prouinces of their Countrey The inhabitants also of the citie Iulinum who being conuerted to the Ortelius in Rugia ex Saxone Helmold● Cran●zio Romane faith and falling againe from it were all consumed both cittizens and cittie with fire from heauen Touching the Countries in the East after they beganne to dishonour themselues with newe doctrines they so fast ratine headlong therein an inseparable propertie of all heresie because they are vnbounded and lacke a defining and binding power that in short while after to witte in the raigne of Heraclius the Emperour there were on foote d Nic●ph lib. 18. 45. Iacobitans Georgians Theopaschite Armeniaens Monophysites Agnoetans Staurablatans Monothelites Seuerites Aphtarthodocites Phantasiasts Manichaes Tetradites Tritheites Arians Nestorians sixteene seuerall sortes of beleefe but what followed First Chosroes king of the Persians sacked Ierusalem and much weakened the Empire Then Heraclius the Emperour turned Monothelite Mahomet that infernall monster being made the Captaine of the Saracens tooke Syria and Aegypt Anno Dom 635. Mesopotamia An. Dom. 639. and afterward all Africa Finally we thinke that in the reuolution of the fifteene first ages the Nation or kingdome cannot be named which forsaking the catholike Romane religion or not keeping it whole and inuiolated was either not conquered or miserably torne by ciuill diuision and slaughters 31. A religion whose professant companie or congregation hath bene euermore since the first planting thereof very visible and perspicuous as the seuerall resemblances parables and figuratiue speeches vsed in holy Scripture doe cleerely testifie that the true Church and Spouse of Christ should euer be comparing her to a a Psal 18. 5. tabernacle placed in the Sunne to a b Esa 2. 2. mountaine prepared in the toppe of mountaines to a c Matth. 5. 15. Citie scituated on a hill to a d Matth. 3. 12. Luke 3. 17. Floore to a e Mat. 13. 47. Nette a f Iohn 10. 16. Sheepefolde a g Luk. 14. 16. great Supper a h Mat. 21. 33. Luke 20. 9. Vineyard c. and her doctrine to a i Matth 5. 15. Candle put vpon a candlesticke shining to all that are in the house that is in the world as k Tract 2. in epist Ioan. S. Austen vnderstandeth the place things that are all most visible and obuious to weakest sense and therefore doe proue that the true Church ought to be alwayes visible and apparant to the view of others Neither is the word Church to be found throughout the whole body of Scripture to signifie other then a visible knowne multitude and the reason is plaine why it must so signifie because it were otherwise impossible for any one to ioyne himselfe to the true Church perseuere therein obey the head and be subiect to the Prelates thereof which all are bound to doe by the expresse word of God lawe of nature and vnder heauiest Matth. 18. 17. Ephes 5. 23. Hebr. 13. 17. curse and censure of damnation if the Church were or could be inuisible or not remonstrable For vnto things hidden inuisible there can be no repaire no adherence nor homage of duetie or tribute of obedience defrayed Nay to deny the perpetuall visibilitie and duration of the Church were in great parte to euacuate Christes passion and plainely to robbe him of the ende he suffered for namely to sanctifie and cleanse his Church as S. Paul witnesseth and to render Ephes 5. 26. it glorious vnto him It were the Church being as the same Ephes 1. 23. Apostle writeth Christs bodie and the fulnesse of him to make Christ a head bodylesse and take as it were his totalitie or perfection from him it were to diuorce our Sauiour from his dearely beloued spouse formed out of his side vpon the crosse Ephes 5. 29. and inseparably ioyned in marriage with him it were to bereaue his omnipotent Maiestie of his house kingdome lotte and 1. Tim 315. Colos 1. 14. Psal 2. 8. heritage vpon earth for such is his Church vnto him and so call●d in holy Scripture yea It were directly to charge the Prophets the Apostles and euen Christ himselfe either with vntrueths or absurdities The Prophets because these words are read

of the Prophet is verified Thy friendes ô God Psal 138. 17. are very much honoured of mee Likewise that saying of Ecclesiasticus fulfilled Nations shall declare his wisedome and the Ca. 39. 14. Church speake forth his praise and also the rites of friendship and true loue obserued which is to loue our friends friend for our friendes sake and incomparably more the Saintes of God for their and our loue towards God 17. A religion whose refuse and reuolted priestes are deemed lawefull and sufficiently ordered to preach the worde of God to minister Sacraments and to exercise all spirituall iurisdiction in the protestant and Puritane Congregation A proofe which seemeth vnanswerable that our Church is the true Church for were her doctrine false she teaching in many pointes as she doth it must needes followe that shee is the synagogue if not the arch-synagogue of Sathan and consequently ●e hath nor can possibly haue God and the diuell being so contrary authoritie to initiate and make lawfull and compleate Ministers for exercising spirituall faculties in the true Church Neither is the Protestant Minister or Bishop comming to our Catholike fraternitie as many come of the first sorte reputed other then for meere lay men without orders 18. A religion to whose antiquitie and veritie of most parte of her doctrine controuersed the fashion of euery Church Chappell and Chancell the recordes of euery Hospitall Colledge and Abbey decayed yea euery auncient sepulchre church-window and graue-stone do bring and giue apparant euidence as thinges all wearing her badges and contestifying her elder childrens faith deuotion and pietie 19. A religion whose groundes and foundation are so rockie and sure and the proofes and testimonies alike infinite ample aboundant and vnanswerable as the Protestant himselfe assayled by the Puritane and other sects knowes not how to defend positions encountred but by flying to the strengths and impregnable arguments of the catholike Romane church and her doctors 20. A religion that teacheth not a Mat. 7. 13. the broade and large but the narrow and straite way such as holy writte affirmeth the way to heauen to be as annuall b Ioh. 20. 23. confession to a Priest c Psal 6. 7. Matth. 32. and 11. 21. Mar. 1. 15. Luk. 13. 3. 2. Cor. 12. 21. Act. 1. 38. and 26. 20. pennance d Leuit. 5. 16. Luk. 19. 8. restitution e Ezech. 8. 30. Ioel. 2. 12. Matth. 3 8. Luk. 3. 8. 1. Cor. 11. 32. satisfaction prescript fasting dayes set times of abstinence f Leui. 23. 21. Psal 75. 12. Eccles 5. 3. 1. Tim. 5. 12. performance of vowes g Ephes 4 5. one vniforme stinte of faith h Rom. 8. 13. Colos 3. 5. mortification of the old man and the like Iniunctions neyther obserued nor imposed by other Religions but rather libertie in their stead and yet all of them directly and plainely prescribed in holy Scripture except onely the appointment of prescript time for confession fasting and abstinence a power and prerogatiue left to the wisedome and ordering of the Catholike Church of whose Prelats our Sauior himself saith i Luke 10. 16. He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me Which authoritie also was giuen to the Bishops of the olde Lawe and of consequence more to the chiefe Prelates of the new Law He that Deut. 17. 12. shall waxe proude refusing to obey the commandement of the Priest shall die by the decree of the Iudge 21. A religion for whose defence the Title of Defender of the Faith was first giuen to the Kinges of our Nation the Title of Most Christian to the kings of Fraunce of Most Catholike to the kings of Spayne the still retayning of which Titles doth argue the allowance of her iurisdiction And there is no one of the auncient Fathers who doth not vnderstand these wordes of the Prophet to be onely meant of this Church The Nation and Kingdome that will not serue thee shall Esa 60. 12. perish 22. A religion into whose societie and profession whosoeuer truely entreth by and by liueth in more awe of God and feare of sinne and changeth his former life to the better and of the other side whosoeuer leapeth out and departeth from her fellowship and communion beginneth incontinent to leade a worse life then whiles he liued her childe and frequented her Sacramentes Of both which there bee store of examples and of the latter too many verifying what is sayd and not vnknowne to thousands yea the case is so familiar as it is now growen into a Prouerbe with many That the Protestant religion is good to liue in but the Papist religion good to die in 23. A religion which now hath and had in all ages the most famous men for wit learning reading iudgement vertue and true pietie qualities of all other likeliest to discerne and abandon error to her Teachers and Doctors and euer enioyed the like store of such lights as our Oppositors had neuer reason to compare with or if they do the extant monuments in schoole positiue mysticall diuinitie and in all other literature will quickly shewe the inequalitie and disproportion of the comparison 24. A Religion whose publike and Church seruice is executed with that maiestie honorable grauitie and reuerence and the seuerall parts and ceremonies thereof so aptly and admirablie composed and ordred for annuall commemoration and representing of our Sauiours incarnation birth life passion buriall resurrection ascension of the comming downe of the Holy Ghost of the mysterie of the Trinitie and of other passages as well of Christ our head as of his members the Saincts as it begetteth feedeth and reneweth singular deuotion in the actors and hearers and is also so comfortable in her Sacraments especiallie so easing and acquieting soules in the Sacrament of Penance as no testimonie or demōstration vnder heauen is or can be of like feeling proofe for the real goodnes and veritie of that Sacrament as is the supernaturall sweetest and diuine consolation tasted therein and in the Sacrament of the Eucharist 25. A Religion whose secular and religious Cleargie liue without wiues free from care of prouiding for children and the later sort no way distracted with the affaires and encumbrances of the world but encloistered passe their whole time in prayer watching fastin in continuall studie of scriptures and in daily exercise and dispute for full and perfect vnderstanding of them Helps that do most further the attaining of truth and such as are not found in the aduerse partie and which in common reason Catholick Diuines being not inferior to other Diuines in wit or other talents shew that our teachers God being no acceptor of persons are more likely to haue vsing fitter meanes for the same the true intelligence and vnderstanding of scripture then are our aduersaries or contradictors 26. A religion of which the foure acknowledged Doctors of holie Church were both professors and stout defenders as their owne works

the reclaiming of the lapsed l Circiter A. D. 1150. Ranulphus li. 7. ca. 22. Hungarians In the twelfth age the Pomeranians the Noruegians by Nicholas an English Moncke employed in that holie worke by Pope Eugenius the third The which Nicholas was afterwarde chosen Pope of Rome and named Hadrian the fourth and gaue the dominion of Ireland to king Henrie 2. Stow in anno 7. Henrici 2. with condition of propagating the Christian faith there of preseruing the rights of the Church entire and inuiolated and of paying a yeerely pension of a penny for euery house in the Kingdome In the 13. age the a Anno Dom. 1205. Liuonians by b Crantzius lib. 7. cap. 13. S. Medardes the c An. Dom. 1230. Lituanians by d M●rtinus Chromer lib. 8. the knightes of S. Marie the e Anno Dom. 1270. Sabellicus G●ili●lmus de Nangiaco Emperour Cassanes with innumerable Tartarians In the four●teenth age f Anno Dom. 1300 Niceph. Gregor Histor. lib. 4. Azatines Emperour of the Turkes the Isles of the Canaries the g Anno Dom. 1344. Bozius lib. 4. cap. 5. reuolted Lituanians the h Anno Dom. 1346. Sebasti●nus Munsterus in Cosmograph Cumans the Bosnians the Lipnensians the Patrinians and other Sclauonian nations by Pope Clement the 6. and Lewes king of Hungarie In the fifteenth age the i Anno Dom. 1350. Michael Rit lib. 2. Bonfin deca 2. lib. 10. Samogetians the kingdomes of Bentonine Guinea Angola and k Anno Dom. 1412. Martin Chrom lib. ●8 Congo In the sixteenth and last age to speake in generall without descending to any particulars more 〈…〉 inces Nations and numbers of rich Kingdomes and Empires were brought to the knowledge of Christ and embracing the catholike Romane faith by the labours of the Dominican and Franciscan Friers and the fathers of the societie of Iesus God attesting his cause and trueth by seuerall miracles then all Christendom twice yea perhaps more then thrice tolde contayned before which beside the record of all Cosmographies and Histories of this subiect may plainely bee demonstrated in that before the last Centenarie or not many yeeres different the Christian Religion extended not it selfe beyond the riuer Ganges Eastward and the Isles of the Canaries in the West which scope and space is counted no more then of an hundreth and twenty degrees but the circuite of the world which is now sailed and euery or most where portes of Christians found therein is of three hundred and threescore degrees which is full out thrice l Anno Dom. 1485. as much The fewe precedents most renowmed Prince collected out of many that might be added doe very cleerely shew not onely that the aboue-rehearsed and other prophesies and promises of God of dilating the place of his Tents and of spreading Esa 54. ● out the curtaines of his Tabernacle that is the boundes of his Church Christs Spouse and temporall Kingdome are to the eye fulfilled in the encreasing societies and continuance of our religion but that also the Word of wisedome and the Worde of knowledge graces giuen by the testimonie of Saint Paul 1. Cor. 12. ● in the Church by the holy Ghost to the profite of others haue their residences in the teachers of our religion and that in how eminent and most powerfull manner the conuersion of the former Nations beareth most apparant witnesse for there can be no doubt made but that some if not the most parte of the foresayde Nations and sortes of people were of excellent dexteritie and iudgement and therefore very vnlike that they were ledde away specially from the religion and rites they were bredde and borne in without store of solide and substantiall reasons mouing them thereunto And it is as little questionable whether some of them were not also of a knotty vntractable or vntameable nature of a prowde obstimate and hawtie disposition drowned in vncleanenesse and delighting in the varieties of libertie lets and strongest impeachments of imbracing the discipline purenesse and austeritie of our Christian catholike religion and the conquering of them a plaine demonstration that their Conuerters all stoute professors of the Romane religion ●aught that doctrine which the Prophet calleth a lawe conuerting soules and the Apostle the liuely Psal 18. 8. Heb. 4. 12. and forcible word more piercing then any two edged sword Likewise that they fought not with the leather sheathe the letter onely of Scripture but with the letter and true sense which onely is the Sword of the spirit that reacheth vnto the diuision of Ephes 6. 17. Heb 4 12. Luke 1. 79. Esa 30. 23. the soule The bright Candle Luke 11. 37. that illuminateth those that sitte in darkenesse And the seede to which God promiseth to giue rayne for the rich fructifying thereof And finally that they were also true imitators of the Apostles in doctrine and office as becomming Fishers of m●n drawing them out of Matth 4. 1● Mark 1. 17. the Sea of infidelitie into the harbour of Christianitie a badge or attribute giuen to the Apostles and verified in none but in catholike teachers Neither did then nor doth now the word of wisedom● and knowledge a gifte proper to Gods Church 1. Cor. 12. 8. worke in our catholike teachers vpon Infidels onely but the same extended and still extendeth his power and diuine efficacie to the bringing forth of as rare or more rare effectes vpon beleeuing Christians namely in exciting men and women of all ages and estates euen a ●amba King of Spaine Hugo King of Prouince Rachis King of Lombardie Sigismundus King of Burgundie V●remundus King of Castile Ranimirus King of Aragon Ethelred and K●neredus Kings of Mercia Sigebert Kings of Northumberland A frod Ceolulphus Egbert S●bba Kings of England Offa and Ina. Henry he fourth King of Denmarke Carlomannus King of Almaine Trebellius King of Bulgarie Cazimirus King of Poland and others Kings b Radegund Queene of France Margaret Queene of France Brigit Queene of Sueden Etheldreda Queene of Northumbers Sexbarga Q. Q. of Westsaxons others Ethelburga Queenes c Lotharius Earle of Romans and others Emperours d Richardix wife of Carolus Crassus Emperour Chunegundis wife of Henry Emper. and others and Empresles to relinquish the world renounce the pleasures and delights thereof and deuote and binde themselues to a poore chast and obedient life vnder the command and direction of others Of which religious companies some eate no flesh but in time of sicknesse only or other necessitie and obserue both silence and solitarinesse as do the Benedictines some neuer eate flesh at all weare alwayes shirts of haire go not forth of their Cloysters nor speake to their fellowes but with leaue as doe the Carthusians some neither eate flesh egs nor whit●-meates and fast three parts of the yere as do the Bouhomes Some discipline themselues sundrie times in the weeke or daily go barefoote touch no money haue