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A04224	The vvorkes of the most high and mightie prince, Iames by the grace of God, King of Great Britaine, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c. Published by Iames, Bishop of Winton, and deane of his Maiesties Chappel Royall; Works	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Montagu, James, 1568?-1618.; Elstracke, Renold, fl. 1590-1630, engraver.; Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647, engraver.	1616 (1616)	STC 14344; ESTC S122229	618,837	614

and their deliuerance promised Their blessed estate in the meane time in the fift The day of Iudgement and the terriblenesse thereof in the sixt AFter this I looked to see when the Lambe opened the first Seale and loe I heard one of the foure beasts for they were appointed to assist me in the time of these Visions as the most excellent creatures of God and his voice was like a thunder making me awake with terrour to take heede to these great and terrible Prophesies which God was to declare vnto me and hee said Come and see 2 Then I looked and did see a white horse and he that sate on him had a bow in his hand Zach. 1.8 Zach. 6.2 3. and a Crowne giuen vnto him and hee came foorth a Victour to winne and ouercome This man comming on the white horse was the comming and incarnation of our Bright and Innocent Sauiour armed with a bow for euer since his comming till now and a space hereafter the dart and arrow of God to wit the holy Spirit by the preaching of the Gospel doeth subdue and bring the world vnder his subiection and taketh vengeance of his enemies His crowne is giuen to him by his Father in token of his victory ouer the second death and as King of the Catholike Church to crowne the faithfull Conuersion of the Gentiles and so he commeth foorth a Victour ouer Satan and to ouercome by once conuerting a great part of the world to the trew knowledge of God This mysterie is already begunne but is not yet accomplished 3 And when he opened the second Seale 4 Loe there came forth a red horse and there was power giuen to him that sate on him to take away peace from the earth that euery one might slay one another and there was giuen him for that purpose a great sword for with the spreading of the Euangel and rooting of the trueth in the hearts of the nations Persecution of the body by the Ciuill sword in the second Seale Continuation of trew pastors after the Martyres shall a bloody persecution of Tyrants by the ciuil sword be ioyned which is meant by the rider on the red horse but notwithstanding the Euangel shall spread and flourish for such is the power of God resisting the pride of man that vnder the Crosse the puritie of the trueth most flourisheth in the Church 5 And when he opened the third Seale the third Beast said vnto me Come and see and loe I did see a blacke horse and hee that sate vpon him had balances in his hand 6 And I heard a voice from among the foure Beasts saying A measure of Wheat for one peny and three measures of Barley for one peny but wine and oyle harme thou not for after that this first mysterie shall be accomplished not onely dearth and famine shall ensue the contempt of the trueth but God shall permit Satan to tempt and vexe his Church with a cloud of diuers and dangerous heresies which may be meant by the rider on the blacke horse for the blackenesse and darkenesse of them Heresies ment in the third Seale shall obscure the light of the Gospel but yet God to assure vs that hee will neuer forget his owne speakes from his Throne comforting vs thereby that although as the balances and measure signifies good men shall bescant who are the fine wheat and barley of his haruest Luke 3. yet some shall there be that shall not bow their knee to Baal no not in straighter times that shall come after and alwayes giues vs assurance that the word and trueth of God which is an eternall Oyle and comfortable Vine shall neuer be destroyed nor any wayes corrupted in spight of all the malice of Satan in his instruments 7 And when hee opened the fourth Seale the fourth Beast said vnto me Come and see 8 Then I beheld and loe I did see a pale horse and the name of him that sate vpon him was Death This is the greatest and heauiest plague for after that the persecutions and heresies shall take an ende and that infirmitie and coldnesse haue cropen into the Church The Popedom is meant by the pale horse in the fourth Seale of heresie and ciuil tyranny then shall God redouble his former plagues by permitting Satan to erect a tyrannie composed of both these former plagues for it shall be full of heresie like the one and full of ciuill and temporall tyrannie like the other and therefore because it brings with it al maner of death both of body and soule the rider is iustly called Death as the fountaine of all the sorts of the same and the palenesse of the horse is correspondent in all points to the qualitie of the rider for as the rider is called Death so the colour of palenesse represents the same and as the riders qualities are composed of heresies and tyrannie so the colour of pale is composed chiefly of blacke and red And hell followed after him to the vtter damnation of him and his followers And power was giuen him ouer the fourth part of the earth to wit the rest who are not ouercome by the other three riders for all they who were not marked by the white horse nor killed in body by the red nor killed in soule by the blacke are killed both in body and soule by this last And as he hath power of destroying thus giuen him ouer the fourth part of the earth so by foure plagues specially doeth he execute the same to wit by Sword Hunger Death and the Beasts of the earth These plagues allude to the plagues mentioned in the Canticle of Moses for this tyrannie shall begin with persecution Scarcitie of trew Pastors and worshipping The cruelty of the Popes tyranny this persecution shall cause a hunger and great scarcitie of the true worship of God this hunger shall breed a second and eternall death and this tyranny shall then end with a crueller and bloodier persecution of the bodies then euer was before which shall be so barbarous that it is compared in this Vision to the execution vsed by wilde beasts vpon offenders and shall spare no degree sexe nor aage no more then beasts doe 9 But when he opened the fift Seale I did see vnder the Altar the soules of them that were slaine for the word of God and for his Testimonie which they maintained 10 And they cryed with a lowd voice saying How long wilt thou delay O Lord since thou art holy and trew to reuenge iudge our blood vpon them that dwel on the earth for this last persecution did enter so fiercely into the world and did make so great a number of Martyrs that their soules lying vnder the Altar to wit in the safegard of IESVS CHRIST who is the only Altar Hose 14.3 whereupon and by whom it is onely lawfull to vs Hebr. 13.15 to offer the sacrifice of our hearts and lips to wit our humble prayers to God

On the other side without any such Rhetoricall outcries I simply affirme It is a reproach a scandall a crime of rebellion for a subiect hauing his full charge and loade of benefits in the new spring of his Kings tender aage his King-fathers blood yet reeking and vpon the point of an addresse for a double match with Spaine in so honourable an assembly to seeke the thraldome of his Kings Crowne to play the captious in cauilling about causes of his Kings deposing to giue his former life the Lye with shame enough in his old aage and to make himselfe a common by-word vnder the name of a Problematicall Martyr one that offers himselfe to fagot and fire for a point of doctrine but problematically handled that is distrustfully and onely by way of doubtfull and questionable discourse yea for a point of doctrine in which the French as he pretendeth are permitted to thwart and crosse his Holines in iudgement prouided they speake in it as in a point not certaine and necessary but onely doubtfull and probable THE THIRD INCONVENIENCE EXAMINED THe third Inconuenience pretended by the L. Pag. 87. Cardinall to grow by admitting this Article of the third Estate is flourished in these colours It would breed and bring foorth an open and vnauoydeable schisme against his Holinesse and the rest of the whole Ecclesiasticall body For thereby the doctrine long approued and ratified by the Pope and the rest of the Church should now be taxed and condemned of impious and most detestable consequence yea the Pope and the Church euen in faith and in points of saluation should be reputed and beleeued to be erroniously perswaded Hereupon his Lordship giues himselfe a large scope of the raines to frame his elegant amplifications against schismes and schismatikes Now to mount so high and to flie in such place vpon the wings of amplification for this Inconuenience what is it else but magnifically to report and imagine a mischiefe by many degrees greater then the mischiefe is The L. Cardinal is in a great errour if hee make himselfe beleeue that other nations wil make a rent or separation from the communion of the French because the French stand to it tooth and naile that French Crownes are not liable or obnoxious to Papall deposition howsoeuer there is no schisme that importeth not separation of communion The most illustrious Republike of Venice hath imbarked herselfe in this quarrell against his Holinesse hath played her prize and caried away the weapons with great honour Doeth she notwithstanding her triumph in the cause forbeare to participate with all her neighbours in the same Sacraments doeth she liue in schisme with all the rest of the Romane Church No such matter When the L. Cardinal himselfe not many yeeres past maintained the Kings cause and stood honourably for the Kings right against the Popes Temporall vsurpations did he then take other Churches to be schismaticall or the rotten members of Antichrist Beleeue it who list I beleeue my Creed Nay his Lordship telleth vs himselfe a little after that his Holinesse giues the French free scope to maintaine either the affirmatiue or negatiue of this question And will his Holinesse hold them schismatikes that dissent from his opinion and iudgement in a subiect or cause esteemed problematicall Farre be it from his Holinesse The King of Spaine reputed the Popes right arme neuer gaue the Pope cause by any acte or other declaration to conceiue that he acknowledged himselfe deposeable by the Pope for heresie or Tyrannie or stupiditie But being well assured the Pope standeth in greater feare of his arme then hee doeth of the Popes head and shoulders he neuer troubles his owne head about our question More when the booke of Cardinall Baronius was come foorth in which booke the Kingdome of Naples is descried and publiquely discredited like false money touching the qualitie of a Kingdome and attributed to the King of Spaine not as trew proprietary thereof but onely as an Estate held in fee of the Romane Church the King made no bones to condemne and to banish the said booke out of his dominions The holy Father was contented to put vp his Catholike sonnes proceeding to the Cardinals disgrace neuer opened his mouth against the King neuer declared or noted the King to be schismaticall He waits perhaps for some fitter opportunitie when the Kingdome of Spaine groaning vnder the burthens of intestine dissentions and troubles hee may without any danger to himselfe giue the Catholike King a Bishops mate Yea the L. Cardinal himselfe is better seene in the humors and inclinations of the Christian world then to be grosly perswaded that in the Kingdome of Spaine and in the very heart of Rome it selfe there be not many which either make it but a ieast or else take it in fowle scorne to heare the Popes power ouer the Crownes of Kings once named especially since the Venetian Republike hath put his Holinesse to the worse in the same cause and cast him in Law What needed the L. Cardinall then by casting vp such mounts and trenches by heaping one amplification vpon an other to make schisme looke with such a terrible and hideous aspect Who knowes not how great an offence how heinous a crime it is to quarter not IESVS CHRISTS coat but his body which is the Church And what needed such terrifying of the Church with vglinesse of schisme whereof there is neither colourable shew nor possibilitie The next vgly monster after schisme shaped by the L. Cardinall in the third supposed and pretended inconuenience is heresie Pag. 89. His Lordship saith for the purpose By this Article we are cast headlong into a manifest heresie as binding vs to confesse that for many aages past the Catholike Church hath bene banished out of the whole world For if the champions of the doctrine contrary to this Article doe hold an impious and a detestable opinion repugnant vnto Gods word then doubtlesse the Pope for so many hundred yeeres expired hath not bene the head of the Church but an heretike and the Antichrist He addeth moreouer That the Church long agoe hath lost her name of Catholike and that in France there hath no Church flourished nor so much as appeared these many and more then many yeeres for as much as all the French doctors for many yeres together haue stood for the contrary opinion We can erect and set vp no trophey more honorable for heretikes in token of their victory then to auow that Christs visible Kingdom is perished from the face of the earth and that for so many hundred yeres there hath not bene any Temple of God nor any spouse of Christ but euery where and all the world ouer the kingdom of Antichrist the synagogue of Satan the spouse of the diuel hath mightily preuailed and borne all the sway Lastly what stronger engines can these heretikes wish or desire for the battering and the demolishing of transubstantiation of auricular confession and other like towers

signifie that in two sorts of men chiefly Satan shall vtter himselfe to wit hypocrites and auowed or open enemies to God It is said then that Satan shall in the latter times rule a new ouer the world who shall stirre vp the nations vnder the banners of these two enemies to God the hypocriticall and open to spread themselues in great multitudes vpon the earth Thirdly they shall ascend vpon the plaine of the earth presumptuously and proudly bragging of their number and force and thinking none shall be able to resist their rage They shall compasse and besiege the campes of the Saints and beloued Citie that is the handfull of the faithfull beloued of the Lord against whome trusting in their vntellable number like the sand of the sea they shall make a cruell and vncessable warre The elect are called Saints and beloued The Elect are the Saints and beloued Citie of God because they are in the loue of God selected and seuered out and by grace engraffed in Christ in whom they are counted and found iustified sanctified worthy of loue and endlesse glorie Their faithfull fellowship is compared to Tents and to a Citie beloued to signifie their continuall warfare in the earth against Satan and sinne with all his instruments their mutual amitie and friendly coniunction in loue among themselues and ioyning together to maintaine the good cause that their God hath clad them with but chiefly to signifie the mightie and al-sufficient protection or defence in prosperity and aduersity flowing from God for their iust aide against all powers that can pursue whereby they also become faire as the Moone pure as the Sunne terrible as an armie with banners Cant. 1.6 9. Yea as a defenced Citie and yron pillar and wals of Brasse against the whole earth Ierem. 1.18 The summe then of Satan his doing after he is loosed The summe of Satan his doing after he is loosed is this hee shall deceiue the nations he shall gather an infinite number of hypocrites and open enemies together inflamed with crueltie and these shall in pridefull presumption fiercely bend themselues against the chosen of God and his trewth professed by them But what at last shall the successe be surely most vnhappy for fire shall come downe from heauen and deuoure them and the diuell that deceiued them and all his instruments chiefly the Beast and false Prophet shall be cast in a lake of fire and brimstone The vnhappy successe of Satan and shall bee tormented day and night incessantly for euer and euer that is how greatly soeuer their brags be how neere soeuer they shall appeare to be to obtaine their purpose God from heauen as the pallace and throne wherefrom hee giueth proofe of his mercie towards his owne and of his iustice toward his enemies shall send plagues and destruction as well ordinary as extraordinarie vpon them Ordinarie by reuealing their wickednesse by the thundring mouthes of trew pastors which is oft called fire in the Scriptures Extraordinarie by all corporall plagues to their vtter destruction and vntellable torment for euer in the hels Thus farre for the exposition or paraphrase of the words THE SECOND PART NOw followeth the interpretation of the sentence according to the order vsed in the first part The putitie of the Gospel induring stayeth the Antechrist his rising And first we must know what time these thousand or many yeres was in and when and how Satan was loosed This time is to be found in the sixt Chapter in the opening of the first three seales of the secret booke of God his prouidence by the Lambe to wit the time when the white red and blacke horses had their course in the world And to speake more plainely the Diuell his power did lurke which is called his binding and the Gospel did flourish in a reasonable puritie many hundreth yeeres after Christ as the Ecclesiasticall histories beare witnesse For in great puritie the Gospel did continue long which is signified by the course of the white horse albeit the professors were vnder the crosse signified by the red horse and troubled wonderfully by heretickes signified by the blacke horse by wormewood that fell in the Fountaines of waters in the third trumpet and by waters that the dragon spewed out of his mouth in the vision of the Dragon and the woman chap. 12. This time did endure from Christ a space after Augustine his dayes when the bloodie Sword of persecution ceasing the whole Church began to be defiled with diuers heresies which comming vnto a mature and ripe heape did produce or bring foorth the Antechrist signified by the pale horse in the fourth seale by the king of the Locusts in the fift trumpet by Babylon in the 11 and 18. Chapter by the second Beast rising out of the sea in the 13. Chapter and by the woman clad with scarlet in the 17. chapter The arisings of the heresies and the Antichrist breeding of their smoake is in this place called the loosing of Satan Now followeth after this his loosing what he doeth The Gospel being hid the Antichrist beginneth to breed tend to his height He deceiueth the nations vniuersally he gathereth Gog and Magog with vntellable armies to fight he climeth vpon the plaine of the earth he compasseth the tents of the Saints and the beloued Citie about These are his doings Now because these actions are most liuely declared in other places of the same booke I will shortly alleadge them to make the matter cleere by conference of places expounding euery one another It is said in the ninth chapter that the Antichrist shall send out his locusts or Ecclesiasticall orders by faire allurements to entice the world to yeeld to his and their abominable heresies and shall preuaile ouer the most part It is said in the 11. chapter that he shall persecute the Saints kill the two witnesses and shall reioyce with the kings of the earth for their killing as hauing beene the onely lets to his full glory It is said in the 13. chapter that he shall blaspheme God in vsurping his power that by the aduice and assistance of the false Prophet or false Church hee shall send out his Images or Embassadours through the world persecuting and destroying them that will not obey him and them and acknowledge his supremacie yea none shall be suffered to buy or sell or vse ciuill societie that acknowledgeth not his supreme power and dignity It is said in the 16. chapter that God plaguing him for these foresaid abuses he shall be so farre from repentance as by the contrarie he shall finde out a new sort of vermin that is a new Ecclesiasticall order which are called their frogges who shall mooue and entice the Princes of the earth to ioyne with him and make warre against the faithfull pressing vtterly to destroy them and of that battell and the end therof doeth this place make mention Now shortly ioyne all these together and so obtaine the meaning There

why Christ bade Pater pascere oues and also what a cloude of witnesses there is both of Ancients and euen of late Popish writers yea diuers Cardinals that do all agree that both these speeches vsed to Peter were meant to all the Apostles represenred in his person 1. Cor. 5.4 Otherwise how could Paul direct the Church of Corinth to excommunicate the incestuous person cum spiritu suo whereas he should then haue sayd cum spiritu Petri And how could all the Apostles haue otherwise vsed all their censures onely in Christs Name and neuer a word of his Vicar Peter wee reade did in all the Apostles meetings sit amongst them as one of their number And when chosen men were sent to Antiochia from that great Apostolike Councel at Ierusalem Acts 15. Act. 15.22 23. The text saith It seemed good to the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church to send chosen men but no mention made of the Head thereof and so in their Letters no mention is made of Peter but onely of the Apostles Elders and Brethren And it is a wonder why Paul rebuketh the Church of Corinth for making exception of Persons because some followed Paul some Apollos some Cephas if Peter was their visible Head 1. Cor. 1.12 for then those that followed not Peter or Cephas renounced the Catholike faith But it appeareth well that Paul knew little of our new doctrine since he handleth Peter so rudely Galat. 2. as he not onely compareth but preferreth himselfe vnto him But our Cardinall proues Peters superioritie Galat. 1.18 by Pauls going to visite him Indeed Paul saith hee went to Ierusalem to visite Peter and conferre with him but he should haue added and to kisse his feet To conclude then The trweth is that Peter was both in aage and in the time of CHRISTS calling him one of the first of the Apostles In order the principall of the first twelue and one of the three whom CHRIST for order sake preferred to all the rest And no further did the Bishop of Rome claime for three hundred yeeres after CHRIST Subiect they were to the generall Councels and euen but of late did the Councell of Constance depose three Popes and set vp the fourth And vntill Phocas dayes that murthered his master were they subiect to Emperours But how they are now come to be Christs Vicars nay Gods on earth triple-crowned Kings of heauen earth and hell Iudges of all the world and none to iudge them Heads of the faith Absolute deciders of all Controuersies by the infallibility of their spirit hauing all power both Spirituall and Temporall in their hands the high Bishops Monarches of the whole earth Superiours to all Emperours and Kings yea Supreme Vice-gods who whether they will or not cannot erre how they are now come I say to the toppe of greatnesse I know not but sure I am Wee that are KINGS haue greatest neede to looke vnto it As for me Paul and Peter I know but these men I know not And yet to doubt of this is to denie the Catholique faith Nay the world it selfe must be turned vpside downe Bellar. de Rom. Pont. li. 1. cap. 17. and the order of Nature inuerted making the left hand to haue the place before the Right and the last named to bee the first in honour that this primacie may bee maintained Thus haue I now made a free Confession of my Faith And I hope I haue fully cleared my selfe from being an Apostate and as farre from being an Heretike as one may bee that beleeueth the Scriptures and the three Creedes and acknowledgeth the foure first generall Councels If I bee loath to beleeue too much especially of Nouelties men of greater knowledge may well pitie my weakenesse but I am sure none will condemne me for an Heretike saue such as make the Pope their God and thinke him such aspeaking Scripture as they can define Heresie no otherwise but to bee whatsoeuer Opinion is maintained against the Popes definition of faith And I will sincerely promise that when euer any point of the Religion I professe shal be proued to be new and not Ancient Catholike and Apostolike I meane for matter of Faith I will as soone renounce it closing vp this head with the Maxime of Vincentius Lirinensis Libello adnersus hareses that I will neuer refuse to imbrace any opinion in Diuinity necessary to saluation which the whole Catholike Church With an vnanime consent haue constantly taught and beleeued euen from the Apostles dayes for the space of many aages thereafter without any interruption But in the Cardinals opinion I haue shewed my selfe an Heretike I am sure in playing with the name of Babylon and the Towne vpon seuen hilles as if I would insinuate Rome at this present to be spiritually Babylon And yet that Rome is called Babylon 1. Pet. 5.13 both in Saint Peters Epistle and in the Apocalyps our Answerer freely confesseth As for the definition of the Antichrist I will not vrge so obscure a point as a matter of Faith to bee necessarily beleeued of all Christians but what I thinke herein I will simply declare That there must be an Antichrist and in his time a generall Defection wee all agree But the Time Seat and Person of this Antichrist are the chiefe Questions whereupon wee differ and for that we must search the Scriptures for our resolution 2. Thes 2. As for my opinion I thinke S. Paul in the 2. to the Thessalonians doeth vtter more clearely that which Saint Iohn speaketh more mystically of the Antichrist First that in that place hee meaneth the Antichrist it is plaine since hee saith Verse 3. There must bee first a Defection and that in the Antichrists time onely that eclipse of Defection must fall vpon the Church all the Romish Catholikes are strong enough otherwise their Church must be daily subiect to erre Verse 3 4. which is cleane contrary to their maine doctrine Then describing him hee saith that The man of Sinne Filius perditionis shall exalt himselfe aboue all that is called God But who these be whom of the Psalmist saith Dixi vos Dij estis Psal 82.6 Bellarmine can tell In old Diuinitie it was wont to bee Kings Bellarmine will adde Churchmen Let it bee both It is well enough knowen who now exalteth himselfe aboue both the swords And after that S. Paul hath thus described the Person he next describeth the Seat 2. Thess 2.4 and telleth that He shall sit in the Temple of God that is the bosome of the Church yea in the very heart thereof Now where this Apostolike Seat is I leaue to bee guessed And likewise who it is that sitting there sheweth himselfe to be GOD pardoning sinnes redeeming soules and defining Faith controlling and iudging all men and to be iudged of none Anent the Time S. Paul is plainest of all For hee calleth the Thessalonians to memorie Verse 5. That when hee was with

Germanic c. 32. TORTVS Pag. 88. 5 Adde heereunto that Cuspinian in relating the history of the Turkes brother who was poysoned by Alexander 6. hath not the consent of other writers to witnesse the trewth of this History CONFVTATION The same History which is reported by Cuspinian is recorded also by sundry other famous Historians See Francis Guicciardin lib. 2. Histor Ital. Paulus Iouius lib. 2. Hist. sui temporis Sabellic Ennead 10. lib. 9. Continuator Palmerij at the yeere 1494. THE NOVEL DOCTRINES WITH A BRIEFE DECLARATION of their Noueltie NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 9. 1 IT is agreed vpon amongst all that the Pope may lawfully depose Hereticall Princes and free their Subiects from yeelding obedience vnto them CONFVTATION Nay all are so farre from consenting in this point that it may much more trewly be auouched that none entertained that conceit before Hildebrand since he was the first brocher of this new doctrine neuer before heard of as many learned men of that aage and the aage next following to omit others of succeeding aages haue expresly testified See for this point the Epistle of the whole Clergie of Liege to Pope Paschal the second See the iudgement of many Bishops of those times recorded by Auentine in his historie lib. 5. fol. 579. Also the speech vttered by Conrade bishop of Vtretcht in the said fifth booke of Auentine fol. 582. And another by Eberhardus Archbishop of Saltzburge Ibid. lib. 7. p. 684. Also the iudgement of the Archbishop of Triers in constitut Imperialib à M. Haimensfeldio editis pag. 47. The Epistle of Walthram Bishop of Megburgh which is extant in Dodechine his Appendix to the Chronicle of Marianus Scotus at the yeere 1090. Benno in the life of Hildebrand The author of the booke De vnitate Ecclesiae or the Apologie for Henry the fourth Sigebert in his Chronicle at the yeere 1088. Godfrey of Viterbio in his History entituled Pantheon part 17. Ottho Frisingensis lib. 6. c. 35. praefat in lib. 7. Frederick Barbarossa lib. 6. Gunther Ligurin de gestis Frederici and lib. 1. c. 10. of Raduicus de gestis eiusdem Frederici Vincentius in speculo historiali lib. 15. c. 84. with sundry others NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 51. 2 In our supernaturall birth in Baptisme wee are to conceiue of a secret and implied oath which we take at our new birth to yeeld obedience to the spirituall Prince which is Christes Vicar CONFVTATION It is to bee wondred at whence this fellow had this strange new Diuinitie which surely was first framed in his owne fantasticall braine Else let him make vs a Catalogue of his Authors that hold and teach that all Christians whether infants or of aage are by vertue of an oath taken in their Baptisme bound to yeeld absolute obedience to CHRISTS Vicar the Pope or baptized in any but in CHRIST NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 94. 3 But since that Catholike doctrine doth not permit for the auoidance of any mischiefe whatsoeuer to discouer the secret of Sacramentall confession he Garnet rather chose to suffer most bitter death then to violate the seale of so great a Sacrament CONFVTATION That the secret of Sacramentall confession is by no meanes to bee disclosed no not indirectly or in generall so the person confessing bee concealed for auoydance and preuention of no mischiefe how great soeuer Besides that it is a position most dangerous to all Princes and Common-wealths as I shew in my Praemonition pag. 333 334. It is also a Nouell Assertion not heard of till of late dayes in the Christian world Since the common opinion euen of the Schoolemen and Canonists both old and new is vnto the contrary witnesse these Authors following Alexander Hales part 4. qu. 78. mem 2. art 2. Thom. 4. dist 21. qu. 3. art 1. ad 1. Scotus in 4. dist 21. qu. 2. Hadrian 6. in 4. dist vbi de Sacramen Confes edit Paris 1530. pag. 289. Dominic Sot in 4. dist 18. q. 4. art 5. Francis de victor summ de Sacram. n. 189. Nauar. in Enchirid. c. 8. Ioseph Angles in Florib part 1. pag. 247. edit Antuerp Petrus Soto lect 11. de confess The Iesuites also accord hereunto Suarez Tom. 4. disp in 3. part Thom. disp 33. § 3. Gregor de Valentia Tom. 4. disp 7. q. 13. punct 3. who saith the common opinion of the Schoolemen is so NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 102. 4 I dare boldly auow that the Catholikes haue better reason to refuse the Oath of Allegeance then Eleazar had to refuse the eating of Swines flesh CONFVTATION This assertion implieth a strange doctrine indeede that the Popes Breues are to be preferred before Moses Law And that Papists are more bound to obey the Popes decree then the Iewes were to obey the Law of God pronounced by Moses NOVEL DOCTRINE Pag. 135. 5 Churchmen are exempted from the Iurisdiction of secular Princes and therefore are no subiects to Kings yet ought they to obserue their Lawes concerning matters temporall not by vertue of any Law but by enforcement of reason that is to say not for that they are their Subiects but because reason will giue it that such Lawes are to be kept for the publike good and the quiet of the Common-wealth CONFVTATION How trew friends the Cardinall and his Chaplen are to Kings that would haue so many Subiects exempted from their power See my Praemonition Pag. 296 297. Also Pag 330. 331. c. But as for this and the like new Aphorismes I would haue these cunning Merchants to cease to vent such stuffe for ancient and Catholike wares in the Christian world till they haue disprooued their owne Venetians who charge them with Noueltie and forgerie in this point A DECLARATION CONCERNING THE PROCEEDINGS WITH THE STATES GENERALL OF THE VNITED PROVINCES OF THE LOW COVNTREYS Jn the cause of D. CONRADVS VORSTIVS TO THE HONOVR OF OVR LORD AND SAVIOVR JESVS CHRIST THE ETERNALL SONNE OF THE ETERNALL FATHER THE ONELY ΘΕΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ MEDIATOVR AND RECONCILER OF MANKIND IN SIGNE OF THANKFVLNES HIS MOST HVMBLE AND MOST OBLIGED SERVANT IAMES BY THE GRACE OF GOD KING OF GREAT BRITAINE FRANCE AND IRELAND Defender of the FAITH Doeth DEDICATE and CONSECRATE this his DECLARATION THat it is one of the principall parts of that duetie which appertaines vnto a Christian King to protect the trew Church within his owne Dominions and to extirpate heresies is a Maxime without all controuersie in which respect those honourable Titles of Custos Vindex vtriusque Tabulae Keeper and Auenger of both the Tables of the Law and Nutritius Ecclesiae Nursing Father of the Church do rightly belong vnto euery Emperour King and Christian Monarch But what interest a Christian King may iustly pretend to meddle in alienâ Repub. within another State or Common wealth in matters of this nature where Strangers are not allowed to be too curious is the point in question and whereof we meane at this time to treate For our zeale to the glory of God being the onely motiue that induced