AN
EXAMINATION
OF
a
Position
published
by
P.
R.
in
the
preface
of
his
treatise
,
tending
to
mitigation
,
concerning
the
lawfullnesse
of
the
Popes
Power
ouer
Princes
:
with
a
defence
of
the
oath
of
Allegiance
.
IT
pleased
the
Right
Honorable
the
Earle
of
Salisbury
,
in
his
exactly
written
,
and
necessary
published
answer
,
to
certaine
scandalous
Papists
prouoking
him
by
occasion
,
and
in
fashion
vnsufferable
,
to
protest
against
the
insolency
and
malignity
of
the
Romish
Church
,
out
of
the
bosome
whereof
so
many
Treacheries
,
Conspirases
and
Immanities
of
the
foulest
kind
,
haue
bin
vented
into
the
world
,
tending
to
ouerule
or
ruinate
whatsoeuer
authority
,
not
submitting
the
necke
to
the
yoake
of
that
vsurping
power
;
in
the
very
first
passage
of
that
his
Appologetticall
declaration
(
which
enuie
it selfe
could
not
passe
ouer
without
attribution
of
highest
praise
)
hee
was
carried
(
by
the
contemplation
of
so
many
dangerous
designes
,
and
complotting
practises
,
dayly
pretended
and
contriued
against
the
safetie
and
dignitie
of
temporall
Potentates
)
to
a
more
vehement
expressing
of
himselfe
in
the
zeale
of
words
following
.
I
haue
been
a
long
time
sorry
,
that
those
which
imploy
so
many
seditious
spirits
dayly
to
instruct
the
vnlearned
Catholikes
,
in
these
mysteries
of
deposing
Princes
,
haue
not
by
some
publike
&
definitiue
sentence
Orthodoxall
(
in
which
it
is
supposed
,
the
Pope
cannot
erre
)
made
some
cleere
explication
of
their
assumed
power
ouer
Soueraigne
Princes
,
as
not
onely
those
which
acknowledge
his
superioritie
might
bee
secured
from
feares
and
iealousies
of
continuall
treasons
,
and
bloody
assassinates
against
their
persons
,
but
those
kings
which
doe
not
approoue
the
same
,
and
yet
would
faine
reserue
a
charitable
opinion
of
her
subiects
,
might
know
how
far
to
repose
themselues
in
their
fidelitie
,
in
ciuill
obedience
,
howsoeuer
they
seem
to
be
deuided
from
them
in
point
of
conscience
.
To
which
his
Lordsh.
so
honourable
desire
,
this
good
father
offereth
and
endeauoureth
to
giue
satisfaction
.
Aman
(
if
we
mistake
not
his
sheepemarke
)
of
some
fame
,
and
note
of
that
side
,
placed
in
a
degree
of
preheminence
,
graced
with
more
then
ordinary
gifts
,
confidently
conceited
of
himselfe
,
and
daring
to
vndertake
matters
of
highest
nature
;
not
withstanding
,
obseruation
is
made
of
him
that
his
boldnes
much
ouerbalanceth
any
other
his
best
worth
.
His
said
preface
of
the
importune
exasperations
vsed
by
diuers
to
increase
our
diuision
and
disagreement
about
matters
of
Religion
is
very
presumptuous
,
and
altogether
censorious
,
wholly
spent
in
taxing
and
traducing
not
onely
the
particular
speeches
,
or
writings
of
some
especiall
men
of
excellent
desert
in
this
state
,
as
if
whatsoeuer
they
haue
vttered
out
of
the
abundance
of
iust
griefe
in
detestation
of
the
late
execrable
treason
,
did
wholly
proceede
from
exasperation
,
exulceration
,
aggrauation
,
exaggeration
and
calumniation
,
(
for
in
those
high
sounding
tearmes
he
beareth
his
stile
aloft
)
but
also
the
administration
of
iustice
,
the
vprightnes
of
our
regiment
,
the
newly
enacted
penall
lawes
,
as
making
the
state
of
English
Catholikes
vnder
Protestant
gouernement
more
miserable
and
intolerable
,
than
that
of
the
Iewes
vnder
any
sort
of
Christian
Princes
,
that
of
the
Grecians
,
or
Christians
vnder
the
Turke
or
Persian
,
or
that
of
bond
Subiects
,
vnder
the
Polonians
,
Suetians
,
and
Muscouites
,
onely
he
confesseth
that
in
two
mens
writings
he
findeth
more
moderation
.
The
one
is
his
Maiestie
in
his
speeches
,
both
in
Parliament
,
&
in
Proclamations
(
whereunto
yet
he
giueth
some
dash
or
wipe
of
exception
)
The
other
is
my
Lord
of
Salisbury
in
his
said
answer
,
to
that
fond
menacing
letter
,
or
rather
franticke
commination
which
yet
(
hee
saith
)
wanteth
not
his
sting
,
piercing
euen
to
the
quicke
.
After
hee
hath
thus
throughout
his
many
licentious
leaues
,
braued
it
with
exorbitant
and
exulting
phrases
,
at
the
last
,
he
falleth
in
hand
with
this
piece
of
doctrine
occasionally
drawne
thereunto
by
the
consideration
of
his
Lordships
said
desire
,
and
(
forsooth
)
he
is
the
man
that
must
instruct
and
settle
my
Lords
iudgment
by
his
profound
resolues
,
seeming
to
be
moued
with
pitty
,
that
his
Honour
(
in
a
matter
not
appertaining
properly
to
his
facultie
or
profession
)
hath
beene
misled
or
misinformed
by
his
diuine
.
Before
he
lancheth
into
the
maine
of
the
matter
,
he
disposeth
himselfe
malepertly
,
to
make
a
crosse
,
or
quaere
,
of
the
truth
of
such
threatnings
and
scandalls
expressed
in
the
said
leters
.
For
●
he
pauseth
vpon
the
matter
,
with
his
parenthesis
(
if
any
such
were
)
and
after
infinuateth
his
suspition
that
the
same
came
from
the
forge
of
some
such
as
(
altogether
with
a
blowe
,
to
be
thereby
giuen
to
all
Catholikes
)
had
a
desire
to
draw
foorth
from
his
Lordship
,
&c.
It
seemeth
that
these
laques
of
the
Romish
faction
are
very
frequently
acquainted
with
such
fictions
,
what
destinie
can
be
more
disasterous
then
that
the
credence
,
so
publikly
deliuered
by
so
honorable
a
person
of
his
place
,
and
eminency
in
the
state
;
and
of
such
vnspotted
integritie
,
in
the
carriage
of
all
causes
,
and
otherwise
to
bee
sufficiently
testified
also
,
by
the
concurrence
of
sundry
mens
particular
knowledge
,
must
vndergoe
the
girds
and
glances
of
his
misdoubts
and
questioning
curiositie
?
but
leauing
the
cauilling
fellow
to
his
maleuolent
surmises
;
I
will
now
come
to
his
other
presumption
,
whereby
hee
vndertaketh
to
assure
and
satisfie
my
Lord
of
the
doctrinall
position
,
of
deposing
Soueraignes
,
wherein
(
albeit
I
well
know
,
that
his
honour
is
most
able
with
his
sharpe
enquirie
,
and
iuditious
discerning
,
to
looke
into
all
the
secretest
corners
and
hiding
places
which
he
can
contriue
,
or
reserue
in
this
cause
,
Nequae
forte
lateat
intus
garrula
cornix
,
yet
not
knowing
whether
his
Lordship
out
of
his
many
other
most
waightie
affaires
can
affoord
vnto
this
vain
discourser
so
much
losse
of
time
,
as
but
to
read
his
so
idle
,
&
frothy
stuffe
.
I
humbly
aske
leaue
of
his
Lordship
,
〈◊〉
my
meanenes
,
and
weaknes
may
make
aduenture
to
take
him
in
hand
,
to
charge
him
,
and
combate
him
,
in
this
so
high
and
most
important
controuersie
.
But
before
we
come
to
the
core
of
the
question
,
let
it
be
obserued
what
good
cause
he
hath
to
pleade
for
mittigation
,
and
how
well
he
acteth
the
part
of
a
mittigator
.
In
the
mention
which
hee
maketh
of
the
late
powder
plot
for
the
suddaine
,
and
vnrecouerable
subuersion
of
our
gratious
King
,
and
the
whole
state
at
once
,
(
the
very
cogitation
whereof
,
is
as
full
of
horror
,
as
the
perpetration
thereof
,
would
haue
beene
of
treachery
,
and
atrocitie
)
what
fit
or
equiualent
tearme
hath
his
mild
,
and
mittigating
spirit
,
deuised
to
expresse
or
paint
forth
the
hainousnes
thereof
?
he
doth
twice
(
for
fayling
)
iterate
vnto
vs
that
it
was
the
temeritie
of
a
few
.
He
could
not
haue
chosen
a
more
easier
,
or
more
abating
word
,
if
he
had
beene
,
to
reprooue
them
for
some
small
misdemeanour
against
a
petty
Constable
:
can
it
be
otherwise
thought
,
but
that
this
Artist
,
and
Tradesman
of
words
,
did
out
of
his
inclination
,
and
tendernesseof
heart
,
sort
out
of
the
gentlest
tearme
he
could
find
,
lest
he
should
seeme
too
sharpe
and
sore
against
them
.
Doth
he
imagine
by
such
his
initigation
to
persuade
the
King
and
Realme
to
tolleration
?
the
kings
Councell
,
learned
at
the
law
,
in
the
dinotation
and
amplification
of
that
vnspeakeable
conspiracy
,
finding
it
to
conteyne
so
many
treasons
in
one
,
declared
the
same
to
be
,
as
Sine
exemplo
,
&
sine
mode
,
so
also
sine
nomine
.
Now
this
Rhetoricall
Father
could
haue
taught
them
all
to
haue
framed
the
inditement
vpon
his
so
proper
name
,
the
treason
of
temeritie
.
I
can
hardly
endure
his
other
word
(
few
)
sauouring
of
the
like
mittigation
also
,
yet
I
know
that
I
shall
euen
madde
him
,
in
telling
him
the
very
troth
of
my
thought
.
Hee
sayth
,
That
to
extend
and
draw
out
the
hatred
and
participation
of
that
fault
to
others
of
that
religion
,
yea
vnto
the
whole
multitude
,
is
a
matter
of
exorbitant
iniustice
and
vntemperate
malice
.
I
confesse
that
he
hath
herein
some
aduantage
,
both
by
the
admirable
goodnes
and
clemency
of
so
louing
a
Soueraigne
that
suffereth
not
Iealousie
to
out
trunne
proofes
,
and
by
the
deffect
of
discouerie
of
the
degrees
and
depths
of
that
designe
.
Yet
(
if
it
bee
but
to
crosse
him
in
the
conceit
)
hee
carrieth
,
fronting
the
same
in
the
stile
and
inscription
of
his
booke
.
That
it
is
not
vnpossible
for
Catholikes
and
Protestants
to
liue
together
in
dutifull
obedience
and
subiection
vnder
the
gouernment
of
his
Maiestie
.
(
I
will
let
him
know
)
that
for
my
part
,
I
did
long
since
make
it
euen
an
article
of
my
beleefe
,
that
the
like
plot
was
rightly
to
be
resembled
to
the
trayne
of
powder
;
wherby
it
was
to
haue
had
his
execution
,
for
as
one
corne
thereof
would
haue
fired
another
,
carrying
the
flash
along
,
till
the
whole
should
ioyne
together
in
full
force
.
So
vndoubtedly
,
the
maine
corps
of
Papacy
within
this
land
would
haue
beene
stirred
vp
being
laid
in
order
and
prepared
by
those
wicked
traynors
,
and
leaders
,
according
as
they
had
contriued
,
the
fire
of
their
treason
and
rebellion
to
catch
hold
,
&
flame
forth
.
And
it
may
sooner
be
feared
,
then
it
can
be
known
,
that
(
besides
the
few
powder
cornes
ditected
and
disappointed
)
there
was
a
longer
and
stronger
traine
,
yea
great
and
mighty
barrells
,
that
would
haue
beene
combined
to
haue
wrought
the
generall
combustion
,
and
dissipation
of
the
whole
state
.
I
will
rest
this
point
with
prayer
,
that
(
howsoeuer
there
may
be
vse
or
necessitie
to
trust
vnto
their
faithfulnes
)
yet
that
there
may
neuer
be
opportunitie
,
or
meanes
giuen
them
for
the
triall
of
her
infidelitie
,
and
disloyaltie
.
An
other
tricke
of
his
running
in
mittigation
,
is
shewed
in
the
mangling
and
mincing
of
the
sense
and
feruency
of
his
Lordships
speech
,
hee
wholly
pretermitteth
that
part
of
the
recited
sentence
,
which
by
charging
them
to
haue
imployed
so
many
seditious
spirits
to
instruct
the
vnlearned
Catholikes
in
the
mysteries
of
deposing
Princes
,
doth
the
more
vrgently
presse
them
by
a
iust
account
to
make
good
the
causes
of
such
their
mischieuons
and
detestable
proceedings
.
Shall
I
coniecture
at
his
conceite
in
concealing
or
withdrawing
of
these
words
?
be
felt
the
same
to
strike
into
his
sides
the
spurre
of
guiltines
,
by
the
remembrances
of
his
owne
notorious
offences
:
who
for
many
yeares
hath
beene
thought
a
busie
instrument
of
enkindling
the
simple
and
deuoted
Catholikes
with
the
spirit
of
sedition
,
and
hath
beene
a
detected
confederate
in
the
trayterous
agences
,
wherein
his
subordinate
Iesuites
hath
beene
so
disloyally
imployed
.
Wherefore
(
though
he
had
no
great
liking
to
heare
againe
the
sound
of
such
words
,
as
must
conuey
an
accusing
sting
into
his
conscience
,
yet
he
thought
to
lay
it
heauy
vpon
him
(
as
a
charge
that
hee
might
not
well
auoyde
)
to
set
forth
(
by
declaring
of
the
Papall
right
)
some
seeming
shew
in
iustification
of
his
owne
and
his
complices
,
vndue
&
disloyall
dealings
.
In
the
rehearsall
of
the
same
sentence
,
he
maketh
one
other
omission
of
these
words
,
inclosed
in
a
parenthesis
(
in
which
it
is
supposed
the
Pope
cannot
erre
.
)
This
prero
gatiue
point
of
the
Popes
new
erring
iudgement
,
hee
hath
slyly
passed
by
,
as
not
willing
to
rush
vpon
that
rock
,
vpon
the
firmenes
and
stabilitie
whereof
,
their
whole
Church
is
bailt
,
this
opinion
(
as
his
Lordship
truely
deliuered
)
hath
for
some
ages
passed
beene
receiued
,
and
stifly
maintayned
by
the
fawning
hindes
of
the
Pope
,
that
hath
beene
accustomed
,
Tribunat
Romanum
lambere
,
but
this
good
mitigator
,
finding
no
coulerable
defence
against
many
and
wayty
arguments
,
whereby
such
the
transcending
exaltation
bestowed
one
his
holinesse
,
is
vtterly
deiected
and
ouerthrowne
,
hath
no
great
liking
to
passe
his
affirmation
,
and
assent
to
that
doctrine
,
which
the
powers
of
his
wit
and
learning
,
is
not
able
to
vphold
.
Nay
hee
hath
in
this
controuersie
taken
an
head
,
and
singled
himselfe
from
the
common
Catholikes
,
closing
hands
in
conclusion
with
the
Protestants
.
For
in
this
very
treatise
,
he
That
albeit
the
Popes
,
as
Popes
may
erre
,
become
Apostataes
and
Heretikes
,
yet
that
God
(
as
Popes
)
will
neuer
permit
them
,
to
decree
any
hereticall
〈◊〉
,
to
be
held
by
the
Church
,
or
for
the
whole
Church
;
What
can
we
say
to
the
subtletie
of
this
distinction
?
It
is
like
to
the
buckler
of
Achilles
that
had
many
plates
ensolded
,
one
within
the
other
,
to
giue
the
more
assurance
against
all
blowes
or
thrusts
.
It
is
a
fertile
and
pregnant
distinction
,
it
hath
these
seueral
issues
of
his
body
begotten
.
First
,
that
Popes
as
men
may
erre
,
and
be
Heretikes
,
yea
and
decree
hereticall
doctrine
,
but
not
as
Popes
,
for
that
God
will
not
permit
;
It
is
pretty
,
but
what
sure
marke
or
token
doth
he
giue
,
whereby
it
may
be
knowne
,
what
hee
doth
as
Pope
,
or
what
hee
doth
as
man
?
they
say
that
God
permitteth
not
,
and
we
say
,
that
onely
God
knoweth
the
difference
Between
his
actions
,
or
enactings
as
Pope
,
and
his
decisions
as
man
,
and
so
the
Church
resteth
vncertaine
how
farre
to
be
bound
.
Secondly
,
God
may
permit
Popes
(
as
Popes
)
to
hold
hereticall
doctrine
,
but
not
to
decree
it
,
where
shall
wee
finde
consistendi
locum
?
if
in
their
consistory
,
they
shall
declare
,
pronounce
,
and
resolue
vpon
Heretical
doctrine
,
may
that
amount
vnto
a
decree
,
we
haue
had
many
such
decrees
reuersed
and
repeated
.
Thirdly
,
though
God
permit
Popes
(
as
Popes
)
to
decree
an
erronious
and
false
doctrine
,
yet
if
at
any
time
after
(
as
if
that
wild
beast
euen
the
Bore
of
the
forrest
,
had
reuertendi
animum
)
he
recall
or
reiect
the
same
,
or
doth
not
wittingly
(
as
against
the
known
Catholike
truth
)
oppose
himselfe
with
peruersitie
,
that
doctrine
is
not
to
bee
adiudged
hereticall
,
and
thereby
commeth
vnder
the
couert
of
the
first
distinction
.
Fourthly
,
though
God
permit
Popes
(
as
Popes
)
to
decree
any
hereticall
doctrine
,
yet
doth
this
distinction
affoard
one
hiding
corner
more
,
that
the
same
is
not
decreed
to
be
held
by
the
Church
.
Then
let
them
,
at
the
least
,
allow
vs
this
footing
against
the
Pope
,
that
the
Church
is
not
bound
to
maintaine
all
his
decrees
.
Fiftly
,
though
God
permit
Popes
(
as
Popes
)
to
decree
any
hereticall
doctrine
to
be
held
by
the
Church
,
yet
the
former
distinction
is
further
enriched
with
this
clause
,
(
taken
out
of
Canus
)
that
God
permitteth
not
that
decree
for
the
whole
Church
:
as
if
by
the
permission
of
God
,
the
Church
(
like
to
the
moone
)
may
bee
for
the
greater
part
thereof
,
darkned
and
seduced
by
such
hereticall
decrees
of
the
Pope
;
yet
that
the
whole
Church
,
and
euery
member
of
the
same
,
as
(
for
instance
)
the
Protestant
part
,
which
is
deuided
and
departed
from
the
abhominations
of
Rome
,
is
not
carried
headlong
into
heresie
by
any
sentence
or
decree
Papall
Sixtly
,
there
is
yet
included
and
reserued
in
this
distinction
one
question
more
,
as
conceiued
in
the
wombe
,
but
not
expressed
in
plaine
tearmes
,
which
(
at
times
of
exigent
when
they
be
pressed
)
they
forget
not
to
cleaue
vnto
;
which
is
,
that
the
Church
here
mentioned
,
is
,
and
must
be
the
Catholike
Romish
Church
,
as
if
that
particular
of
Rome
,
were
the
generall
of
the
world
,
and
that
the
Romish
alone
,
had
this
eminent
exception
,
aboue
all
other
Churches
,
that
the
members
thereof
were
not
to
be
concluded
or
enthralled
by
euery
decrees
of
their
Head
.
I
cannot
yet
haue
done
with
this
seauen-headed
subtle
serp̄et
,
this
deceitfull
distinction
.
Allow
it
in
his
perfectest
shape
,
and
close
it
together
in
all
his
ioynts
,
God
permitteth
not
the
Pope
(
as
Pope
)
to
decree
hereticall
doctrine
to
bee
held
by
the
Church
,
and
for
the
whole
Church
;
what
hath
all
this
more
then
an
equiualence
to
this
saying
?
God
permitteth
not
the
diuell
to
haue
power
to
destroy
the
elect
and
faithfull
?
And
as
when
the
Angell
Raphaell
bound
the
euill
spirit
from
hurting
of
Tobias
,
it
could
not
be
construed
to
bee
a
fauour
or
a
signe
of
loue
vnto
that
euill
spirit
:
so
the
not
permitting
of
the
Pope
to
decree
hereticall
doctrine
,
is
no
aduancing
or
aduantage
of
the
Papall
authoritie
from
being
restrained
,
or
not
suffered
to
doe
so
grieuous
hurts
.
This
may
suffice
for
his
distinction
,
and
subdistinctions
,
like
the
foxe
and
the
cubbs
,
vnto
which
I
haue
the
more
respectiuely
cast
mine
eye
,
because
I
find
this
matter
of
the
vnfallibilitie
of
the
Popes
decrees
so
closly
couched
euen
to
the
centure
of
our
question
,
of
his
power
ouer
Princes
.
If
I
haue
beene
too
long
in
examining
his
malam
〈◊〉
in
the
mittigations
and
omissions
before
mentioned
,
I
must
(
for
excuse
)
confesse
,
that
I
was
well
content
to
take
him
tardy
in
that
very
fault
which
hee
so
clamerously
vpbraideth
to
his
Antigonist
Master
Morton
,
carping
and
catching
at
him
throughtout
his
whole
book
with
a
triumph
of
phrases
for
the
very
same
corruption
,
(
as
he
tearmeth
it
)
though
I
nothing
doubt
but
hee
will
sufficiently
acquit
himselfe
of
all
those
friuolous
and
vniust
cauells
.
The
matters
that
we
haue
hitherto
met
with
,
haue
been
but
introductory
,
and
vpon
the
bye
.
Now
it
is
meete
we
look
into
the
maine
and
substantiall
point
of
doctrine
,
which
(
as
if
hee
were
closset-keeper
to
the
Pope
)
hee
confidently
deliuereth
to
be
Catholike
and
Orthodoxall
,
inducing
his
Lordship
to
set
vp
his
rest
vpon
that
vnreprooueable
resolution
.
I
protest
,
that
when
I
first
considered
how
to
redvce
the
question
to
a
true
discussable
state
,
I
found
that
I
could
not
draw
downe
the
right
proposition
,
which
is
to
bee
controuerted
betweene
vs
in
that
kind
of
language
which
hee
speaketh
,
I
found
that
hee
vsed
so
much
glosing
,
and
dilating
so
many
gay
shewes
and
pretences
,
such
cloathing
and
decking
of
the
cause
with
well
chosen
words
for
the
faire
carriage
of
the
matter
,
as
that
the
naked
and
plaine
sence
thereof
was
not
easily
to
be
discouered
.
But
after
scanning
more
aduisedly
,
and
breaking
the
ranke
of
his
words
,
to
looke
into
his
innermost
meaning
,
and
matching
the
same
,
with
that
hee
must
stay
if
hee
will
performe
his
vndertakings
,
I
discerned
at
the
last
a
sowre
pill
to
bee
wrapped
vp
in
a
leafe
of
gold
,
the
doctrine
of
conspiracy
and
rebellion
against
the
state
and
life
of
Princes
,
cunningly
couered
ouer
with
a
thicke
crust
of
sweet
Candie
,
to
relesh
the
better
with
the
simple
,
and
so
to
deceiue
them
with
a
fore-inducing
sweetnes
.
The
Proposition
must
be
this
,
The
Pope
may
depose
the
king
,
and
such
his
power
is
approoued
of
all
Catholikes
.
And
that
appeareth
thus
,
his
Lordship
speaking
of
the
seditious
spirits
,
that
instruct
the
vnlearned
in
the
mysteries
of
deposing
Princes
,
desireth
therein
some
publike
and
definitiue
sentence
Orthodoxall
for
cleare
explication
of
such
.
The
Popes
assumed
power
,
ouer
Soueraigne
Princes
,
therefore
if
this
smooth
mittigator
will
without
winding
away
by
circumlocutions
,
and
without
his
so
finely
framed
tendernesse
of
Phrase
,
speake
ad
idem
,
plainely
,
and
home
to
the
purpose
,
hee
must
auouch
this
to
bee
a
publike
definitiue
sentence
,
That
the
Pope
hath
lawfull
power
to
depose
Princes
,
but
how
doth
hee
expresse
and
pronounce
this
point
?
hee
is
so
nice
and
warie
,
that
hee
thinketh
not
good
to
name
the
Pope
at
all
,
doubting
belike
that
that
name
is
distastfull
,
but
in
stead
thereof
,
hee
bestoweth
on
his
holinesse
the
stately
stile
of
Supreame
Gouernour
and
Pastor
of
the
Church
and
Common-wealth
,
repeating
the
same
words
sundry
times
,
and
purposedly
auoiding
the
other
,
doth
hee
not
imploy
and
inferre
by
this
mounting
of
the
Pope
to
the
title
of
Supreame
Gouernour
of
the
Common-wealth
,
that
hee
is
the
king
of
kings
,
and
that
Princes
hold
their
scepters
,
as
Viceroyes
,
and
Lieutenants
vnder
him
?
I
vnderstand
not
else
how
he
can
close
the
Common
wealth
within
the
Popes
clawes
:
then
again
in
the
like
sort
,
he
shunneth
the
hatefull
tearm
of
deposing
,
and
vseth
in
the
stead
therof
,
restraining
,
repressing
,
censuring
,
or
iudging
.
And
lastly
he
doth
very
mildly
mittigate
the
rigor
of
deprauing
the
name
,
or
depriuing
the
person
of
the
Prince
,
by
applying
this
power
,
to
the
restraining
or
censuring
any
exorbitant
&
pernicious
excesse
of
great
men
,
States
or
Princes
,
would
not
any
man
iudge
,
that
(
being
so
mannerly
,
so
〈◊〉
,
and
cautulous
,
he
were
affraid
or
shamed
to
fall
so
fowle
vpon
Princes
,
as
to
maintaine
the
vsurpation
of
Papacy
,
in
deposing
of
them
?
hee
setteth
not
one
step
in
this
question
,
wherein
hee
doth
not
doubt
,
that
hee
treadeth
vpon
thornes
,
yet
trusting
vpon
his
two
great
gifts
,
facilitie
of
speech
,
and
boldnesse
of
face
.
Hee
spareth
not
to
tell
his
Lordship
that
his
Diuine
might
easily
haue
enformed
him
,
that
amongst
Catholike
people
the
matter
is
cleere
,
and
sufficiently
defined
,
and
declared
in
all
points
wherein
there
may
bee
any
doubt
concerning
this
affaire
.
Surely
,
his
Lordships
Deuine
,
may
perhaps
concurre
in
opinion
with
Master
Morton
,
and
most
euidently
discerne
the
consent
and
adherensie
of
Catholikes
in
the
execrable
practise
of
this
proposition
,
but
(
that
they
haue
not
agreed
in
the
iudgements
and
approbation
of
the
point
in
question
)
the
direct
renouncing
and
disclayming
thereof
by
some
of
the
best
learned
of
that
side
,
at
the
time
of
their
suffering
of
death
for
Treason
,
doth
cleerely
and
fully
make
knowne
vnto
him
and
all
the
world
.
I
will
not
take
vpon
me
to
search
out
and
lay
together
heapes
of
rapsodies
and
collections
,
culled
our
of
their
writers
to
demonstrate
their
differences
in
this
argument
,
thereby
to
disprooue
their
so
pretended
agreement
in
this
definitiue
sentence
;
but
I
trust
to
shew
the
same
to
be
so
false
,
so
weake
,
so
washie
,
and
of
so
little
waight
,
as
vpon
the
ripping
and
examining
thereof
,
it
will
euery
whit
of
it
fall
quite
asunder
,
fayling
altogether
of
all
ground
,
whereupon
to
stand
,
and
hauing
no
good
props
to
sustaine
or
support
the
same
.
In
the
meane
while
hee
may
perhaps
doe
vs
a
little
more
good
than
hee
wisheth
by
his
intimation
vnto
vs
,
That
among
Catholike
people
the
matter
is
so
cleere
,
for
we
are
thereby
to
take
notice
and
warning
,
how
little
wee
are
to
trust
Catholikes
,
seeing
they
acknowledge
this
L.
Peramount
,
aboue
the
Kings
,
&
must
yeeld
their
Omni-modā
obedientiam
to
that
supreame
Pastor
,
combining
themselues
at
his
beck
in
al
dangerous
designes
when
any
pretence
is
made
,
that
the
gouernment
of
spiritual
affaires
appertaining
to
the
Cath.
Church
,
is
letted
or
impugned
by
our
temporall
gouernour
,
for
in
such
case
(
saith
this
learned
Father
)
the
said
supream
Pastor
hath
authority
to
proceed
against
the
said
temporall
gouernor
,
for
defence
&
preseruation
of
his
spiritual
Charge
,
had
we
not
need
to
looke
about
vs
euen
with
Argus
eyes
,
when
wee
haue
so
many
hands
of
this
Briarius
to
fasten
vpon
vs
at
euery
turne
:
euery
let
of
spirituall
affaires
is
punishable
by
the
supreame
Pastor
,
and
such
lets
may
as
easily
be
imputed
or
imposed
for
a
crime
vpon
the
temporall
gouernour
;
here
is
a
good
gap
opened
,
and
a
way
made
wide
enough
for
the
firebrands
of
sedition
,
and
the
contentious
discontented
,
to
reuell
and
route
it
in
a
common
wealth
,
to
suggest
,
inform
,
obiect
,
and
oppose
against
all
magistracy
.
Here
againe
I
must
put
him
in
mind
of
his
mittigations
and
extenuations
,
in
sorting
and
vsing
the
gentler
,
and
more
pleasing
words
.
What
shall
we
think
he
meaneth
by
proceeding
against
the
Temporall
gouernor
?
might
he
not
as
well
haue
said
,
cite
him
,
censure
him
,
excommunicate
him
,
depose
him
,
and
beare
him
out
of
his
chaire
of
estate
with
the
horns
of
a
dreadful
Bull
?
If
Paulus
the
3
,
or
Pius
the
5
,
had
had
this
our
mealie
mouthed
mittigator
to
haue
bin
the
penman
of
their
Bulls
,
he
would
rather
haue
the
milder
words
of
proyning
or
repressing
,
then
the
other
of
extreame
and
violent
(
borrowed
from
the
Prophet
Ieremie
)
of
destroying
and
pulling
vp
by
the
rootes
,
yet
his
kindnesse
doth
not
hold
constant
,
for
in
after
reasonings
,
when
he
ioyneth
vp
issue
vpon
the
true
state
of
the
question
;
whether
the
words
of
the
Prophet
be
well
applyed
by
allusion
to
make
good
the
authoritie
of
Christs
successors
vpon
earth
,
and
whether
the
forenamed
Popes
by
such
their
arrogant
and
impudent
glosing
Is
this
so
great
an
impietie
thinke
you
?
Then
let
him
giue
what
allay
he
listeth
to
the
tartnesse
of
this
doctrine
,
by
his
well
seasoning
thereof
with
his
soft
and
supple
words
;
yet
as
in
the
practike
,
the
degrees
of
proceeding
against
Princes
doth
grow
in
order
(
or
rather
in
disorder
)
of
consequence
by
the
actuall
attempt
of
their
subuersion
and
destruction
,
so
in
the
disputatiue
to
allow
him
his
mittigating
tearmes
,
of
redressing
or
repressing
,
will
by
direct
inference
and
necessarie
extention
,
reach
to
the
crowne
and
life
of
Imperiall
Maiestie
.
Therefore
laying
aside
all
masking
and
mincing
of
the
matter
,
by
his
artificiall
vtterance
,
the
cause
in
controuersie
,
and
to
be
argued
is
all
one
in
the
words
as
we
put
it
,
whether
the
Pope
may
depose
the
Prince
,
and
in
the
words
,
as
this
shye
and
slye
discourser
will
needes
haue
it
,
whether
the
Supreame
Pastor
may
reftraine
the
exorbitant
and
pernicious
excesse
of
great
men
,
&c.
Now
that
we
haue
the
right
questioned
proposition
,
set
downe
plainely
,
and
stripped
of
that
Rhetoricall
array
which
dazled
our
eyes
from
discerning
the
true
vnderstanding
and
intention
thereof
,
wee
may
proceede
to
the
considering
and
sifting
of
the
reasons
,
deuised
and
alleadged
for
the
maintenance
of
this
assertion
:
Neuerthelesse
it
is
not
my
purpose
,
nor
standing
with
my
profession
(
being
no
Diuine
,
and
scant
a
Scholler
)
to
looke
into
all
the
sinewes
and
veines
of
this
question
,
to
the
vttermost
spread
and
extent
thereof
,
it
toucheth
vpon
some
principles
of
naturall
reason
,
it
also
runneth
through
the
course
of
Histories
of
all
ages
and
countries
,
It
is
triable
by
many
rules
and
examples
,
both
in
the
old
and
new
Testament
,
it
wanteth
not
the
censure
of
the
old
Doctors
,
and
Fathers
of
the
Church
.
It
is
handled
cunningly
,
and
mystically
,
by
the
Popes
Minions
,
the
Canonists
.
It
must
abide
a
canuasse
amongst
the
Sophisticating
Schoolemen
:
Finally
,
it
hath
beene
by
the
moderne
handlers
of
controuersie
,
argued
with
much
skill
and
strength
of
wit
.
I
haue
no
intent
to
leade
along
this
question
,
through
all
the
parts
of
learning
.
I
will
willingly
leaue
the
loade
,
and
tugge
off
such
multiplicity
,
or
rather
vniuersalitie
to
his
good
hand
,
and
dexterity
of
handling
,
who
is
already
interessed
and
engaged
thereunto
,
and
no
doubt
well
prouided
,
and
most
accomplished
,
I
meane
,
Mr
Morton
,
against
whom
this
Popish
volume
is
addressed
,
in
refutation
of
his
former
learned
and
religious
treatise
.
My
endeauours
in
this
cause
,
be
confined
onely
to
that
part
of
the
Preface
,
in
the
which
(
concerning
this
question
)
that
dissembling
Authour
,
hath
set
forth
the
Catholike
opinion
,
accompanyed
,
and
garded
with
some
reasons
,
to
confirme
and
strengthen
the
same
,
pretending
thereby
to
let
his
Lordship
know
,
that
the
point
whereof
hee
resteth
doubtful
,
is
amongst
them
reduced
to
a
generall
resolued
certainety
;
the
opinion
it selfe
what
it
is
indeed
,
or
what
it
ought
to
be
,
in
the
direct
opposition
,
or
(
as
he
presumeth
)
satisfaction
to
his
Lordship
hath
beene
already
sufficiently
debated
,
and
laid
downe
.
His
reasons
to
cogere
assensum
be
two
;
one
,
that
this
assertion
is
founded
in
the
very
law
of
nature
,
and
nations
,
the
other
is
also
maintainable
by
the
authoritie
,
prouidence
,
and
ordinance
of
our
Sauiour
Christ
:
for
declaration
of
his
first
reason
,
hee
setteth
forth
,
that
in
the
Common-wealths
that
are
not
Christians
,
all
Philosophers
,
Law-makers
,
Senators
,
Councellors
,
Historiographers
,
and
all
other
sorts
of
soundest
wisedome
,
prudence
,
and
experience
,
either
Iew
,
or
Gentile
,
haue
from
the
beginning
of
the
world
concurred
in
this
,
that
God
and
Nature
,
hath
left
sufficient
authoritie
in
euery
Common
wealth
,
for
the
lawfull
and
orderly
full
repressing
of
these
euills
,
euen
in
the
highest
persons
;
so
what
a
cloude
of
witnesses
hee
hath
brought
out
with
one
breath
,
and
yet
no
more
for
the
proofe
of
his
purpose
,
than
the
casuall
confluence
or
concourse
of
Democritus
his
motes
,
did
serue
to
make
solide
bodies
or
concreate
substances
.
In
this
obiection
he
and
I
are
as
sarre
a
〈◊〉
,
as
is
from
Rome
to
London
,
nay
,
as
farre
as
the
〈◊〉
is
from
the
West
,
where
he
saith
,
all
Common
wealths
Philosophers
,
Law-makets
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
hers
,
and
all
sorts
of
〈◊〉
dest
wisedome
,
Iew
or
Gentile
,
&c.
I
on
the
other
side
,
will
be
centent
to
make
the
like
pompious
and
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
:
of
all
Common-wealths
,
Lawn
published
or
professed
,
that
by
any
ordinary
authority
,
such
redresse
as
herein
is
meant
by
deposition
of
Princes
,
or
highest
persons
,
was
,
or
might
be
,
lawfully
,
reasonably
,
or
iustly
,
had
,
vsed
,
or
exercised
.
I
am
not
ignorant
,
that
hauing
in
this
challenge
put
my
felfe
vpon
the
negatiue
,
and
so
giuen
to
him
so
large
a
scope
of
aduantage
,
as
to
disprooue
my
generality
,
with
any
one
affirmatiue
instance
,
it
behooueth
me
to
hold
my selfe
close
to
that
very
point
which
I
require
to
be
fully
prooued
;
therfore
once
againe
(
so
he
will
take
in
for
a
fauor
that
I
doe
ease
him
of
the
great
taske
which
hee
hath
vndertaké
to
shew
,
that
all
Common
wealths
,
Philosophers
,
&c.
wherin
his
friends
may
pitty
him
for
presumption
,
in
proposing
impossibilities
)
I
redouble
it
vnto
him
thus
,
that
he
cannot
produce
from
al
the
infinity
of
learning
,
any
one
president
,
prophane
or
sacred
,
whereby
it
may
appeare
,
that
by
any
publikely
authorised
orders
,
there
was
euer
any
standing
and
ordinary
direction
,
and
power
,
for
the
deposing
of
lawfull
Princes
against
their
wills
from
their
inheritable
rights
of
Soueraignty
;
I
say
lawfull
Princes
to
meet
with
the
obiections
he
is
like
to
cloy
vs
with
,
of
some
Princes
,
who
by
reason
of
their
naturall
impotencies
,
were
accounted
vncapable
or
vnlawfull
,
&
of
other
some
,
who
acquiring
Kingdomes
by
the
sword
inuasion
,
may
be
deemed
vnlawfull
,
and
so
with
like
force
&
violence
,
to
be
repressed
and
expelled
.
Likewise
I
haue
added
(
inheritable
rights
)
as
well
because
that
fitteth
our
state
,
(
in
whose
bowels
this
debate
hath
so
dangerously
striuen
)
as
also
to
cut
off
from
him
the
feeding
supplies
of
his
error
,
which
are
the
electiue
governments
,
wherein
perhaps
now
&
then
vpon
breaches
of
contracted
condition
there
hath
ensued
deprauation
from
the
possessed
dignitie
,
(
yet
those
deprauations
for
the
most
part
)
haue
beene
in
tumult
,
violence
,
and
disorder
,
factiously
,
and
mutinously
performed
,
without
any
reguler
or
iuridical
course
,
agreeable
to
the
tenure
of
the
lawes
of
that
place
.
〈◊〉
added
(
against
their
wills
)
both
because
this
enforcement
from
the
Pope
is
of
that
nature
,
and
vpon
purpose
to
disfurnish
him
of
some
examples
,
wherein
I
foresee
how
triumphantly
he
would
haue
gloried
.
For
we
doe
not
deny
but
there
hath
beene
many
resignations
vpon
due
consideration
had
by
those
suppressed
Princes
,
of
the
many
acknowledged
,
and
vnanswerable
defects
,
or
offences
in
their
regiment
,
and
of
the
vndigestable
dislike
conceiued
by
the
subiects
of
such
their
misgouerning
and
abusing
superiority
.
Besides
,
I
must
〈◊〉
him
with
an
other
Caueat
,
that
neither
the
Romane
,
Turkish
,
nor
any
such
Emperours
will
serue
the
turne
,
for
instances
in
this
case
,
because
(
to
say
nothing
of
their
forceable
acquirings
for
the
most
part
of
such
their
Imperiall
feares
)
their
deposing
hath
bin
executed
by
strong
hand
,
&
rather
by
the
fury
of
armed
soldiers
,
than
by
any
ordinary
censure
,
or
proceeding
of
Law
or
Iustice
;
much
lesse
is
hee
to
alleadge
or
propound
any
〈◊〉
,
wherein
priuate
or
Phanaticall
spirits
,
out
of
humor
&
〈◊〉
reuenge
,
reward
,
or
glory
,
haue
attempted
or
〈◊〉
the
〈◊〉
of
Hostile
,
&
bloudy
assault
,
vpon
the
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
of
Soueraignes
.
Hee
must
(
for
very
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
the
mention
of
such
,
left
the
may
by
naming
vnto
vs
either
the
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
that
〈◊〉
K.
Henry
of
France
,
was
by
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
with
〈◊〉
and
Acclamations
,
or
the
English
〈◊〉
,
who
of
a
deuotion
to
the
Pop
〈◊〉
faction
,
poysoned
King
Iohn
of
England
:
yea
,
he
might
so
bring
in
diuers
Popes
&
Cardinals
,
that
haue
in
such
good
zeale
destroyed
and
made
away
Princes
and
Emperors
.
I
am
yet
to
〈◊〉
him
a
little
shorter
,
I
must
take
from
him
,
his
discoursing
vaine
of
mitigating
,
and
blanching
the
matter
,
in
a
disguise
of
some
selected
phrases
,
whereby
hee
intendeth
to
aduantage
himselfe
.
For
example
,
when
we
are
at
this
issue
,
whether
there
hath
euer
beene
in
any
Common-wealth
,
any
sufficient
Authoritie
left
by
God
,
and
Nature
,
for
the
lawfull
and
orderly
deposing
of
Princes
,
hee
inserteth
the
repressing
of
euils
,
euen
in
the
highest
persons
,
so
that
when
hee
shall
bee
put
to
it
,
and
the
weight
of
his
vndertakings
is
likely
to
breake
his
backe
,
or
his
braine
;
then
will
hee
take
the
benefite
of
this
shift
,
of
repressing
of
euills
euen
in
the
higeest
,
and
rather
then
faile
of
matter
,
tell
vs
a
stale
tale
of
the
Ephori
,
or
Tribuni
,
and
such
like
politike
Constitutions
tendering
the
liberties
,
or
safety
of
the
people
,
against
the
cruell
oppressions
,
or
encrochments
of
the
mightie
placed
in
Authoritie
:
neither
is
it
yet
my
mind
at
this
time
,
against
the
vniuersall
affirmatiue
of
all
Countries
,
all
Philosophers
,
&c.
or
the
Decrees
of
Law-makers
,
or
the
sage
sayings
of
Senatoricall
States-men
,
or
the
Reports
and
Obseruations
of
Historiographers
,
Poets
,
and
Orators
,
〈◊〉
and
proouing
the
trueth
of
our
contradiction
.
All
the
worthy
Sentences
and
examples
in
〈◊〉
of
best
acccount
,
either
expressing
the
excelencie
,
and
Maiestie
of
Soueraigntie
,
or
the
〈◊〉
and
submissiue
demeanour
of
Subiects
,
are
aplyable
to
this
Theame
,
and
would
easily
bee
wrought
,
and
as
it
were
,
embroydered
into
the
contexture
of
a
Treatise
vpon
this
Subiect
.
To
that
which
resteth
in
this
Assertion
,
auouching
that
GOD
and
Nature
hath
left
sufficient
Authoritie
in
euery
Common-wealth
,
&c.
I
pleade
ignorance
of
his
meaning
,
not
vnderstanding
(
except
hee
meaneth
the
Creation
,
in
which
sense
hee
should
haue
said
,
God
in
Nature
,
or
by
Nature
)
how
God
should
leaue
or
institute
any
such
authoritie
,
but
by
his
reuealed
word
.
I
trust
hee
will
not
obtrude
vnto
vs
,
any
long
concealed
or
closited
Tradition
,
or
any
iuggling
tricke
of
Reuelation
,
and
vnwritten
Veritie
,
wherewith
the
Christian
world
hath
beene
so
notoriously
〈◊〉
;
and
I
am
sure
,
that
in
the
written
Law
of
God
,
there
is
not
any
sillable
sounding
so
harshly
(
or
rather
horribly
)
as
to
giue
any
order
or
rule
,
to
dispoyle
Princes
of
their
Diadems
,
or
to
depose
the
Anoynted
of
God
.
Now
for
Nature
,
if
shee
haue
any
part
in
the
frame
and
workemanship
of
the
publique
body
of
the
State
,
as
shee
hath
in
the
particular
and
naturall
bodies
of
men
,
certainely
shee
hath
allowed
the
like
right
to
the
Head
of
the
Common-wealth
,
as
shee
hath
done
to
the
head
of
this
fleshly
Fabrifacture
.
Doeth
not
the
inferiour
members
,
patiently
,
and
without
repugnance
,
beare
all
the
offences
and
surcharges
,
descending
vpon
them
from
the
head
?
Is
there
in
Nature
any
so
much
as
desire
(
much
lesse
meanes
)
of
remoouing
or
repressing
of
the
Head
?
I
acknowledge
that
Medicines
are
often
applyed
for
the
curing
of
the
griefes
and
diseases
of
the
Head
but
what
more
ready
course
is
either
deuised
in
〈◊〉
,
or
assented
vnto
by
Nature
,
for
the
cure
of
the
infirmities
and
faults
of
the
head
,
then
to
vnload
the
annoyances
thereof
vpon
the
subiected
parts
of
the
body
?
Will
you
examine
another
degree
of
the
opperation
of
Nature
?
Next
vnto
the
body
it selfe
,
is
the
issue
and
off-spring
of
the
bodie
,
what
bounds
of
dutie
hath
nature
made
of
the
children
towards
the
Father
?
Hath
shee
left
any
such
Law
or
libertie
,
that
in
any
respects
the
childe
may
renounce
or
disclaime
his
parents
?
yea
,
though
the
father
should
(
as
oft
as
out
of
iudgement
hee
doth
)
cast
off
or
disinherite
his
sonne
?
Let
vs
now
but
applyingly
remember
,
that
the
Prince
is
Pater
Patriae
,
the
Father
of
the
Countrey
;
then
will
our
cogitations
aptly
accommodate
this
similitude
in
Nature
,
vnto
the
dutious
dependancy
of
the
Subiect
vpon
the
person
of
the
Soueraigne
,
with
a
true
naturall
relation
and
recognition
of
all
loue
and
obedience
,
hauing
from
nature
(
out
of
the
resemblance
of
these
two
paternes
)
no
other
Law
,
then
parendi
&
patiendi
.
Where
shall
we
find
more
representatiue
obedience
of
Natures
intentions
and
operations
,
then
in
these
originals
and
fountaines
of
Loue
?
Then
from
what
stepdames
milke
hath
hee
sucked
this
impuritie
of
opinion
,
That
Nature
hath
left
some
sufficient
authoritie
in
euery
Common-wealth
for
the
repressing
&c.
I
will
not
deny
but
that
there
be
some
axioms
of
Reason
,
ingrauen
in
our
nature
,
which
perhaps
(
being
not
rightly
vnderstood
)
hath
occasioned
this
imputation
and
slander
against
Nature
,
Omnis
natura
est
conseruatrix
sui
quisque
sibi
melius
vult
quam
alteri
,
f●●●e
nequimus
eum
qui
infert
iniuriam
,
and
the
like
;
which
as
they
argue
a
sense
and
sting
in
Nature
,
to
vpholde
our
owne
welfare
,
to
feede
our
owne
humour
,
to
further
our
owne
desires
,
to
hate
our
enemies
and
wrong
doers
;
so
they
must
admit
the
brideling
limitation
and
exposition
of
reason
,
which
also
Nature
hath
giuen
to
rule
the
rest
,
that
all
the
foresayd
priuate
,
and
indiuiduall
respeets
,
must
haue
no
place
in
the
question
of
our
naturall
obligation
to
Superiours
,
as
Fathers
,
and
of
our
naturall
vnion
in
the
communitie
of
humane
Societie
;
for
the
preseruation
whereof
,
Nature
hath
ordeined
Gouernment
,
and
the
Soueraigntie
thereof
to
bee
sacred
and
inuiolable
.
The
want
of
vpright
consideration
heercof
,
hath
oftentimes
been
cause
of
precipitation
in
vntempered
and
ill
gouerned
natures
,
when
seeking
to
serue
their
owne
purposes
in
matters
of
affection
or
faction
,
they
will
easily
make
pretences
of
wrong
to
become
auengers
thereof
against
whatsoeuer
lawfull
authoritie
.
There
bee
too
many
such
combinations
in
all
Countreys
,
wherein
euery
Sect
or
side
(
with
intention
to
aduaunce
that
part
whereunto
it
is
〈◊〉
)
doth
dreame
of
these
redresses
and
repressings
of
their
opposites
,
extending
their
strength
,
and
endeauour
euen
to
the
highest
persons
.
Such
,
actions
or
pretences
haue
no
more
ground
in
〈◊〉
,
then
if
any
adulterer
should
maintaine
his
〈◊〉
by
the
〈◊〉
pronenesse
of
appetite
;
The
Thiefe
by
the
naturall
instinct
of
prouiding
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
or
the
Murtherer
,
by
the
naturall
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
of
reuenge
:
But
we
stand
assured
,
that
whatsoeuer
nature
by
her
vncorrupted
rules
,
doth
induce
or
perswade
vs
vnto
,
touching
our
duties
in
Morall
actions
,
the
same
,
as
it
was
written
by
the
finger
of
God
,
in
the
heart
of
man
,
at
the
Creation
,
so
was
it
also
reduced
,
and
comprised
by
the
Wisedome
of
God
,
into
the
Tables
of
the
Morall
Law
,
in
the
which
for
as
much
,
as
we
haue
an
expresse
commandement
,
of
honor
and
obedience
to
gouernors
that
must
remaine
fixed
in
our
hearts
,
to
hold
vs
firme
in
the
Bond
of
allegiance
:
Then
let
P.
R.
and
all
his
conjoyned
Catholikes
,
(
as
hee
vaunteth
)
make
it
plaine
vnto
vs
,
that
eyther
Nature
hath
implanted
,
or
the
Commandements
of
God
haue
enioyned
,
therepressing
or
deposing
of
such
Princes
,
vppon
any
exceptions
,
surmizes
,
or
accusations
whatsoeuer
:
As
for
the
Law
of
Nations
,
because
that
is
but
secundary
and
derivatiue
,
from
the
other
,
what
hath
beene
averred
of
the
one
,
holdeth
the
same
respect
and
certainty
,
as
doth
the
roote
it selfe
,
from
whence
it
issueth
,
yet
before
wee
depart
from
this
Argument
of
Natures
working
,
I
haue
to
note
that
this
cunning
and
curious
Composer
of
Bookes
,
and
Contriuer
of
cases
,
doth
in
this
his
chiefe
proposition
,
worke
himselfe
quite
out
of
the
question
,
and
putteth
the
Pope
cleane
out
of
the
doores
,
for
the
question
being
of
the
power
of
the
Pope
,
that
is
of
the
power
,
authority
,
and
iurisdiction
of
a
Forraine
Commander
,
and
Iudge
,
he
telleth
vs
,
that
God
and
Nature
,
hath
left
some
sufficient
authority
in
euery
Common-wealth
,
&c.
which
directly
maketh
the
Popes
preheminency
with
vs
altogether
needelesse
,
and
a
very
nullity
,
sith
(
by
his
owne
sayings
)
and
that
more
agreeable
to
reason
,
there
is
sufficient
authority
within
the
Land
,
(
not
requiring
any
his
〈◊〉
or
vsurpations
)
to
the
gouerning
of
that
body
,
which
is
of
it selfe
compleate
and
liueth
by
the
vigor
,
spirit
,
and
powerfull
opperation
of
his
owne
soule
,
his
lawfull
Soueraigne
:
Thus
is
the
Pope
(
as
touching
the
first
reason
,
drawne
from
the
Law
or
Right
of
Nature
,
or
Nations
)
either
left
out
by
him
,
or
cast
out
by
me
,
from
repressing
of
Princes
,
or
〈◊〉
himselfe
within
these
our
Countries
or
Territories
.
The
second
reason
bringeth
a
better
Commission
,
that
will
make
way
through
all
repugnances
,
it
is
inforced
in
the
name
and
authority
of
Christ
himselfe
,
and
it
is
thus
chayned
together
for
impregnable
strength
,
Christ
was
to
found
is
Common-wealth
of
Christians
the
farre
more
perfection
,
then
other
states
had
before
been
establishe
,
subjecting
temporall
things
to
spirituall
,
and
appointing
a
Supreame
Vniuersall
gouernour
in
the
same
,
with
a
generall
charge
to
looke
to
all
his
sheepe
;
without
exception
of
great
or
small
,
people
,
or
Potentates
:
Therefore
hee
inferreth
that
the
Supreame
care
,
iudgement
,
direction
,
and
censure
,
of
the
matter
in
question
,
was
left
by
Christ
vnto
the
sayd
Supreame
〈◊〉
or
Pastor
of
his
Church
,
and
Common-wealth
:
But
it
was
doubted
whether
this
power
was
committed
to
the
supreame
Pastor
directly
,
and
immediatly
,
or
indirectly
,
and
by
consequence
:
The
Canonists
out
of
the
Commission
vnto
St.
Peter
,
Pose
ones
meas
,
do
hold
the
direct
and
immediate
authority
,
charge
,
and
ouersight
,
in
temporallities
.
The
Catholike
Diuines
(
vpon
whom
the
brunt
and
pressure
by
〈◊〉
,
must
bee
sayed
)
haue
thought
it
safer
,
to
chuse
the
indirect
and
consequentiall
,
which
they
expresse
in
this
manner
:
When
the
gouernment
of
spirituall
affaires
,
is
impugned
by
any
temporall
Gouernors
;
so
as
the
sayd
spirituall
Commission
,
cannot
be
executed
without
redresse
or
remedy
,
〈◊〉
and
in
such
cases
,
the
said
Supreame
Pastor
,
is
to
haue
authority
to
proceede
against
the
temporall
gouernors
;
Also
,
for
the
defence
and
preseruation
of
his
spirituall
charge
,
but
both
parts
fully
are
agreed
,
that
there
is
such
authority
left
by
Christ
in
his
Church
,
for
remedy
of
vrgent
causes
,
otherwise
he
should
not
haue
sufficiently
prouided
for
the
necessity
thereof
.
Here
is
goodly
building
of
Castles
in
the
ayre
,
Castles
did
I
say
?
Nay
,
of
the
Tower
of
Babell
,
in
the
steede
of
the
City
of
God
,
Christ
(
sayth
hee
)
was
to
found
his
Common-wealth
of
Christians
,
in
farre
more
perfection
then
other
states
,
&c.
why
Christs
intentions
,
erections
and
perfections
were
all
to
saue
sinners
,
and
to
bring
them
vnto
Heauen
,
what
proofe
is
this
that
hee
was
to
found
the
Popish
Hyerarchy
,
or
the
Antichristian
Monarchy
?
and
what
is
this
farre
more
perfection
,
&c.
Is
it
an
outward
pompe
or
power
,
to
chayne
and
fetter
Princes
,
vnder
a
temporall
obedience
of
a
Spirituall
Vsurper
?
What
is
this
same
subjecting
of
temporall
things
to
spirituall
,
is
it
to
make
a
Minister
or
Bishop
of
Heauenly
matters
,
tyrannous
and
rampant
,
ouer
the
temperall
states
,
setting
their
imperiall
feete
vppon
the
neckes
of
Lyons
and
Dragons
?
what
is
the
nature
,
end
,
and
eminency
,
of
the
spirituall
Kingdome
of
Christ
,
is
it
any
other
then
the
Preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
the
way
of
salvation
,
and
the
possessing
of
euerlasting
life
?
Then
what
straightnesse
,
what
extractions
,
doth
the
Limbeckes
of
their
braines
(
bewitched
with
temporall
vanities
)
make
of
a
worldly
rule
,
and
Dominion
?
He
was
to
appoint
one
Supreame
and
〈◊〉
Gouernor
,
&c.
we
on
the
other
side
constantly
denying
this
their
principle
,
doe
easily
bring
them
to
the
end
of
their
wits
;
yet
wee
will
pocket
vp
one
confession
in
this
place
,
which
hee
is
likely
to
forsake
,
and
not
acknowledge
another
time
:
In
more
perfection
(
sayth
hee
)
then
other
states
had
before
beene
established
,
acknowledging
thereby
,
that
vnder
the
Law
,
and
in
the
old
Testament
,
the
temporall
was
not
subject
to
the
spirituall
.
Hath
hee
not
well
collected
and
conected
his
propositions
to
bring
out
this
grand
conclusion
of
superiority
ouer
Princes
?
doth
he
not
neede
a
distinction
of
proofe
,
to
make
these
parts
that
cleaue
like
sand
to
hold
together
,
against
the
breach
which
wee
are
to
make
vppon
him
?
His
distinction
of
direct
,
or
indirect
,
shal
be
directly
anoyded
and
his
great
Mace
,
which
hee
beareth
vp
in
his
March
of
state
,
of
Ordine
ad
Deum
must
bee
directed
and
ordered
to
a
better
sence
;
and
his
commission
of
pasce
,
shall
bee
examined
how
farre
it
can
authorize
him
to
assume
the
pretented
power
:
If
hee
will
but
thanke
me
for
it
,
I
will
befriend
him
a
little
with
my
directions
:
I
will
chalke
him
out
his
way
,
with
a
straight
line
,
by
the
which
hee
must
be
brought
and
passe
along
,
if
he
desireth
to
come
right
vppon
the
conclusion
.
I
will
distribute
his
journey
into
seuerall
baytings
,
or
reposes
,
otherwise
called
common
places
:
I
doubt
it
will
prooue
a
long
labour
,
and
very
troub
esome
to
carry
his
commission
along
with
him
,
hee
is
like
to
venture
himselfe
in
many
straights
,
and
hazardable
passages
,
and
will
be
often
stayed
by
the
Kings
Watch
,
but
more
often
foundred
by
the
rubs
,
and
roughnesse
of
the
way
,
which
hee
is
to
walke
through
:
He
must
begin
and
set
forth
at
this
poynt
.
1
That
Christ
purposing
to
found
his
Common-wealth
of
Christians
in
farre
more
perfection
&c.
hath
appoynted
the
same
to
be
an
absolute
Monarchy
,
vnder
one
supreame
and
vniversall
Governour
,
visible
,
eminent
,
and
knowne
as
the
head
on
earth
,
in
all
causes
of
Christs
kingdome
.
2
Next
who
that
individuall
person
is
,
whom
Christ
appointed
to
be
such
a
Monarche
,
and
by
what
commission
is
he
assigned
thereunto
,
and
by
what
words
thereof
can
he
challenge
the
obedience
of
all
the
subiects
or
Christians
in
that
Common-wealth
?
3
Whether
if
St.
Peter
be
affirmed
to
be
the
said
Monarche
,
what
can
be
alledged
for
his
Superiority
,
that
is
not
equally
communicable
to
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
ioyntly
or
severally
,
by
the
like
authorizement
?
4
Whether
St.
Peter
was
more
especially
appointed
the
chiefe
Apostle
for
both
Iewes
and
Gentiles
;
If
for
the
Iewes
,
how
came
it
,
that
St.
Paul
reproved
him
for
misleading
the
Iewes
?
If
for
the
Gentiles
,
why
was
St.
Paul
by
a
publike
consent
and
Counsell
nominated
to
be
the
Apostle
of
the
Gentiles
,
who
at
Rome
planted
the
Church
,
and
from
whom
the
succession
is
most
proper
.
5
Whether
St.
Peter
ever
came
at
Rome
?
sith
there
is
evident
demonstration
by
computing
the
times
and
places
of
his
abode
,
during
his
life
after
Christs
ascension
,
that
he
could
not
be
there
at
all
by
any
coniecture
,
as
by
the
Epistles
of
St.
Paul
is
evicted
.
6
Allowing
that
St.
Peter
was
at
Rome
,
was
he
not
there
as
an
Apostle
and
so
no
more
appropriate
to
that
place
then
to
the
whole
world
?
7
Being
an
Apostle
,
how
came
he
to
be
chiefe
,
yea
the
vniuersall
Pastor
over
both
Iewes
and
Gentiles
?
except
such
his
Pastorship
were
rather
Apostolicall
then
Episcopall
?
If
his
〈◊〉
were
Apostolicall
,
then
all
the
Apostles
had
interest
thereunto
as
well
as
he
:
If
Episcopall
,
did
he
renounce
or
relinquish
his
Apostleship
to
erect
a
new
state
or
seate
of
an
〈◊〉
Bishop
,
neuer
mentioned
in
the
Scripture
,
and
of
a
larger
extent
and
dominion
then
the
Apostleship
,
and
by
what
warrant
and
authoritye
did
he
so
?
8
If
he
did
found
any
such
Episcopall
eminencie
vniversall
over
all
the
Churches
of
the
world
,
and
that
invested
in
his
owne
person
,
why
may
it
not
be
thought
,
that
such
his
Episcopall
function
was
setled
vpon
him
rather
at
Antioch
,
where
his
chiefest
abode
was
(
after
his
departure
from
Ierusalem
)
then
at
Rome
?
9
Whether
in
case
he
preferred
Rome
before
Antioch
,
Ierusalem
and
other
places
,
(
whereof
there
is
no
apparant
proofe
or
certainty
,
)
is
that
successive
seare
established
at
Rome
,
of
the
like
and
the
same
power
,
vertue
,
and
veritie
,
as
was
conferred
on
his
owne
person
?
10
Whether
such
supposed
succession
were
afixed
to
the
place
,
or
aplied
to
the
persons
?
11
Whether
if
the
succession
were
applied
to
the
place
,
was
it
not
cut
off
and
discontinued
when
there
was
no
vniuersall
Bishop
refiant
at
Rome
?
which
for
some
hundreths
of
yeares
after
Christ
,
and
since
the
vsurpation
Papall
for
a
long
time
together
hath
come
to
passe
?
12
If
the
succession
were
in
the
persons
,
did
not
the
abominable
wickednes
of
life
,
or
the
open
profession
of
Atheisme
,
Arianisme
,
Coniuration
,
and
contracting
with
the
Deuill
,
damnable
doctrines
of
all
sorts
,
and
hereticall
positions
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
by
such
persons
;
yeain
their
Cathedra
,
dissolve
the
said
succession
?
and
what
〈◊〉
they
make
for
Pope
Ioane
,
whose
stay
standeth
vnrefuted
?
13
Moveover
he
〈◊〉
me
what
became
of
this
〈◊〉
;
and
where
that
Common-wealth
of
Christians
(
as
they
will
needs
calbit
,
that
they
may
make
themselues
common
wealths
men
)
could
finde
there
one
〈◊〉
and
〈◊〉
Governor
,
when
there
were
two
,
three
,
or
〈◊〉
such
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
at
once
?
14
Yet
we
haue
not
done
questioning
with
him
,
This
great
〈◊〉
of
doubts
must
resolve
vs
how
it
commeth
to
〈◊〉
that
the
〈◊〉
persian
,
〈◊〉
Russian
,
〈◊〉
,
and
other
〈◊〉
Churches
,
haue
not
beene
made
〈◊〉
with
this
〈◊〉
mentall
part
of
doctrine
,
that
Christ
hath
ordayned
the
Bishop
of
Rome
the
supreame
and
vniuersall
Pastor
of
the
whole
Common-wealth
of
Christians
,
which
he
hath
〈◊〉
and
founded
?
15
He
is
also
to
〈◊〉
himself
of
an
answere
to
another
question
,
Whether
the
succesors
of
S.
Peter
(
were
it
once
agreed
vppon
)
who
they
were
,
Clement
,
Linus
,
Cletus
,
or
〈◊〉
,
did
over
hold
or
exercise
any
ditivation
of
authority
from
St.
Peter
over
〈◊〉
and
other
Apostles
that
survived
St.
Peter
in
the
Church
or
did
they
or
any
of
them
striue
for
Superioritye
with
them
,
yea
rather
did
they
not
yeeld
vnto
them
?
16
Besides
,
this
〈◊〉
diving
determinor
in
Divinity
doubts
,
must
take
into
his
consideration
what
warrantize
of
any
lawful
vocation
,
election
,
and
ordination
,
the
succeeding
Bishops
of
Rome
can
avow
or
maintain
,
sith
no
man
may
take
on
him
any
〈◊〉
ministery
or
〈◊〉
but
in
that
regular
and
〈◊〉
manner
.
And
whether
such
their
calling
to
their
Ministeriall
offices
,
and
Pastorall
charge
,
were
ordinary
,
or
extraordinary
,
the
difference
in
the
admissions
and
choyce
of
such
Bishops
which
sometimes
was
by
substitution
of
the
proceeding
Bishop
,
sometimes
by
election
of
the
people
,
and
in
later
times
by
the
suffrages
of
Cardinals
,
and
sometimes
by
meere
intrusion
,
giveth
cause
to
move
this
question
.
17
What
reasons
can
be
pretended
or
alledged
,
why
if
both
Christ
and
St.
Peter
intended
the
succession
of
Bishops
onely
in
that
Sea
of
Rome
,
〈◊〉
there
hath
new
Titles
beene
taken
vp
,
of
Patriarke
〈◊〉
,
and
then
of
Supreame
head
of
the
Church
,
and
then
of
Papa
or
Pope
,
which
seemeth
to
inferre
an
alteration
,
or
else
an
augmentation
of
the
power
or
charge
,
first
conferred
by
Christ
or
St.
Peter
vppon
that
Sea
?
and
so
consequently
a
question
,
whether
the
latter
diuised
Titles
be
likewise
authorized
from
Christ
?
18
Doth
it
not
behoue
that
this
so
pregnant
a
Patron
of
Papacy
,
doe
cleare
all
causes
touching
the
interruption
and
discontinuance
of
the
supposed
succession
of
Popes
;
whereof
(
some
hauing
before
beene
propounded
)
it
shall
not
be
amisse
to
cast
him
one
bone
more
,
to
whet
his
teeth
or
witt
vppon
,
I
would
know
whether
(
after
cannons
,
and
constitutions
made
by
his
Holinesse
,
and
ratyfied
by
Councells
,
touching
the
lawfull
election
,
and
admittance
of
the
Bishop
of
Rome
)
if
a
Pope
enter
vnduly
,
and
contrary
to
such
orders
and
Cannons
,
by
simony
,
bribery
,
faction
,
yea
with
strong
hand
,
or
any
other
corrupt
courses
,
may
notwithstanding
be
held
and
reputed
a
lawfull
Pope
?
and
the
acts
by
him
done
,
the
carnalls
by
him
made
,
and
the
decrees
or
trans-actions
of
his
time
,
shall
bee
adiudged
as
to
stand
in
the
right
of
Christs
Vicar
on
earth
?
Are
not
in
such
cases
,
the
linckes
of
the
chaine
tying
together
the
succession
broken
,
or
let
loose
sith
in
the
particulers
(
in
whom
the
same
should
be
continued
)
such
elections
and
ordinations
,
are
adiudged
intrusions
and
vsurpations
,
yea
vtterly
voyde
and
very
nullities
?
19
Yet
I
must
make
him
a
little
more
worke
with
other
questions
,
what
is
the
cause
that
for
so
long
a
space
of
600.
yeares
after
Christs
Assention
,
this
position
of
the
Romish
Supremacy
,
and
vniuersall
head-ship
,
(
if
it
were
so
evident
and
demonstratiue
from
Christs
owne
appointment
,
as
this
bold
bragger
would
haue
vs
to
beleeue
)
was
neither
by
the
Fathers
of
the
Primitiue
Church
,
nor
by
any
generall
Councels
,
approoued
or
ratified
.
20
I
am
disposed
to
offer
him
another
objection
like
a
blocke
to
stumble
at
,
which
neuer
any
Papist
yet
well
passed
ouer
,
but
he
brake
his
shin
against
it
;
and
that
is
the
opinion
and
censure
of
Gregory
the
great
,
Bishop
or
rather
Patriarke
of
Rome
,
how
did
hee
inuey
against
that
tytle
of
vniuersall
Bishop
,
as
an
arrogant
stile
,
calling
Iohn
Patriarke
of
Constantinople
,
the
fore-runner
of
Antichrist
for
assuming
of
such
a
title
or
authority
:
may
it
not
stagger
this
stout
Champion
of
Popery
to
heare
from
the
mouth
of
a
successor
of
St.
Peter
,
such
a
detestation
of
that
stile
,
as
Antichristian
,
which
is
auouched
to
haue
beene
the
ordinance
of
Christ
,
yet
did
Bonifacius
that
succeeded
him
,
ambitiously
affect
and
accept
the
very
same
appellation
giuen
to
him
from
Phocas
the
Emperour
600
yeares
after
Christ
,
as
is
sayd
before
.
21
Here
,
if
I
should
let
in
vpon
him
a
sea
of
proofes
,
that
the
Pope
is
clearely
convicted
to
be
not
a
fore-runner
(
as
Gregory
speakes
)
but
the
very
same
Antichrist
described
by
so
many
particularities
in
Daniel
the
Appocalips
,
in
St.
Paul
and
other
places
of
the
Holy
Scripture
,
he
would
neuer
be
able
to
scape
drowning
,
but
would
be
so
over-whelmed
in
those
depthes
,
that
hee
could
neuer
more
get
forth
,
yea
,
or
stirre
either
hand
or
foote
,
for
his
swimming
to
any
shore
;
and
the
great
disputant
could
then
hold
his
breath
no
longer
in
this
question
euen
sinking
downe
to
the
bottome
after
all
his
strength
spent
in
vaine
,
by
striuing
to
hold
vp
his
head
.
22
Now
,
to
draw
to
the
issue
in
hand
,
wee
must
trouble
him
to
make
manifest
vnto
vs
,
what
is
the
true
extent
of
this
so
high
power
and
vniuersall
charge
in
St.
Peter
,
or
any
other
his
successors
,
and
whether
the
same
do
include
any
temporall
iurisdiction
,
and
entermedling
in
civill
causes
,
to
the
deciding
,
iudging
,
or
ordering
thereof
?
23
Lastly
,
to
bring
him
home
to
his
rest
,
and
to
the
ground
whereupon
hee
must
reare
his
foundation
,
hee
must
euict
by
proofe
,
that
the
Supreame
,
Vniuersall
,
Romane
,
Bishop
,
by
force
or
tenor
of
any
Commission
giuen
by
Christ
,
and
transferred
vnto
St.
Peter
,
and
so
diriuatiuely
and
successiuely
conueyed
ouer
to
him
,
may
censure
,
iudge
,
or
depose
Princes
,
taking
vppon
him
the
decision
of
Regall
rights
,
assayling
of
Subiects
from
obedience
,
animating
at
home
rebellion
are
from
abroad
invasion
,
and
that
vnder
protext
of
aduancing
of
the
Ecclesiasticall
regiment
of
soules
,
and
the
good
of
Catholike
Religion
.
This
is
the
highest
ladder
of
the
Popes
eminency
,
to
the
which
exaltation
,
hee
cannot
otherwise
assend
then
by
these
stayres
and
steps
,
before
rehearsed
,
which
must
lead
him
vp
to
his
lofty
consistoriall
Chayre
:
If
any
of
these
stayres
bee
loose
and
faile
him
,
hee
falleth
vnrecouerably
,
and
shall
neuer
bee
able
to
assume
the
power
,
which
hee
pretendeth
himselfe
to
bee
lawfully
possessed
of
.
But
when
of
all
these
exceptions
and
interruptions
cast
in
his
way
,
hee
can
cleare
or
assure
not
any
one
,
his
presumption
in
taking
so
much
vppon
him
,
will
but
argue
his
all
daring
boldnesse
;
and
his
striking
close
to
the
conclnsion
,
when
the
premises
runne
another
way
will
make
euen
Children
to
scoffe
at
the
want
of
judgement
in
his
so
great
vndertakings
.
By
these
few
indissoluable
questions
(
amongst
infinite
others
)
for
all
the
world
knoweth
what
a
world
of
doubts
,
and
what
a
sea
of
controuersies
,
is
encompassed
in
this
cause
.
This
P.
R.
or
rather
R.
P.
(
if
hee
would
be
better
knowne
)
that
would
seeme
to
bee
so
iudicious
in
his
resolues
,
and
so
modest
and
moderate
in
his
assertions
,
might
haue
beene
put
in
minde
to
stay
his
confidence
in
concluding
so
Magistraliter
,
that
case
,
with
his
peremptory
est
amen
,
which
hath
so
many
stopps
,
windings
,
and
euen
breake
necke
passages
,
as
hath
hetherto
perplexed
,
and
plunged
the
whole
Alphabet
of
their
owne
Authors
.
By
that
time
,
that
he
hath
runne
through
the
explication
and
proofe
of
the
particuler
difficulties
before
propounded
,
hee
will
somewhat
slacke
,
the
heate
of
his
audacious
affirmations
,
and
to
let
him
know
that
this
poynt
,
(
as
wee
now
propound
it
and
debate
it
)
is
not
amongst
the
Catholike
wrighters
themselues
,
so
clearely
and
generally
agreed
vppon
as
hee
avoucheth
(
for
hee
sayth
)
that
in
this
there
is
no
difference
of
opinion
,
or
beleefe
in
any
sort
of
Catholikes
whatsoeuer
,
(
so
they
bee
Catholikes
)
I
must
remember
him
(
if
hee
forget
not
his
owne
name
,
yea
and
his
nick-names
too
,
)
that
in
the
bitter
contentions
,
and
fiery
conflicts
,
betweene
the
Priests
and
the
Iesuites
,
a
principall
matter
of
their
variance
was
this
,
That
the
Priests
vtterly
condemned
this
Turbulent
,
and
Sedicious
opinion
of
the
Iesuites
.
That
the
Pope
might
and
ought
to
intermeddle
in
the
temporall
rights
and
preheminencies
of
Princes
,
and
that
he
had
a
powre
to
depose
and
deiect
them
at
his
pleasure
.
Doth
not
William
Watson
the
Priest
in
his
booke
of
quidlibets
bestow
a
whole
Chapter
with
much
earnestnes
of
spirit
,
and
variety
of
arguments
,
vpon
this
very
subiect
,
making
in
the
same
this
R.
P.
the
obiect
of
his
scornings
and
revilings
?
Doth
he
not
in
many
places
of
that
worke
impute
all
the
causes
of
the
many
troubles
and
extremities
which
they
vndergoe
in
England
to
the
violent
spirits
,
and
treacherous
practizings
of
the
Iesuites
,
who
neglecting
or
despising
the
Ministeriall
function
,
are
become
meere
Statists
,
and
negotiating
factors
of
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
disturbing
the
quiet
of
all
Countryes
where
they
be
entertained
,
and
working
wicked
stratagems
and
damnable
devices
against
Soveraigne
Princes
?
Hath
hee
so
soone
forgotten
,
or
can
hee
so
bold'y
dissemble
,
in
what
sort
the
said
Priests
vncased
and
discovered
him
for
his
many
notorious
and
scandalous
intermedlings
in
〈◊〉
?
Perhaps
he
will
say
that
they
be
no
Catholikes
,
for
so
he
enterposeth
(
if
they
be
Catholikes
)
he
dareth
not
to
lop
away
at
once
so
many
chiefe
lims
,
so
many
strong
armes
,
yea
such
stocks
and
plants
of
the
popish
religion
,
though
the
said
Priests
doe
not
feare
or
spare
to
affirme
,
that
the
Iesuites
are
not
any
certaine
order
or
vocation
in
the
Church
,
being
rather
to
be
reckoned
(
as
their
vse
and
imployment
is
)
to
be
Lay-men
,
States-men
,
busie-bodies
,
pragmaticall
agents
beyond
all
limits
of
any
spirituall
calling
)
yet
it
is
necessary
,
(
if
he
will
constare
sibi
)
to
stand
to
it
,
that
(
seeing
they
vary
from
him
,
in
this
part
of
doctrine
)
they
be
no
Catholikes
,
because
in
this
refusing
and
refuting
of
his
Majesties
distinction
of
the
difference
of
Papists
,
he
expresly
affirmeth
,
that
he
that
holdeth
not
all
and
every
Article
assented
vnto
and
established
in
the
Church
,
he
is
not
to
be
accounted
Catholike
,
acording
to
St.
Augustine
.
Catholicum
is
constered
to
be
secundum
totam
,
and
not
secundum
partem
,
I
will
leaue
the
Priests
to
defend
that
they
be
better
Catholikes
then
he
,
notwithstanding
this
discrepance
and
my selfe
will
revert
to
the
parting
place
where
occasion
was
taken
to
make
this
digression
.
There
is
offered
for
plea
the
words
of
the
institution
,
and
the
very
authenticall
enstallment
made
by
Christ
himselfe
,
Pasce
oues
me
as
which
words
include
(
say
they
)
acording
to
Catholike
exposition
,
not
only
authority
to
feede
,
but
to
governe
also
,
direct
,
restraine
,
cure
,
represse
,
and
correct
when
neede
is
.
Allow
that
these
words
doe
appoint
and
institute
a
pastorall
charge
(
which
is
a
geminall
vnderstanding
thereof
)
yet
such
charge
is
not
thereby
more
appropriate
to
Peter
,
then
to
other
Apostles
,
but
if
they
so
far
tender
out
the
same
,
to
make
them
beget
vnto
vs
a
Pastor
,
of
Pastors
,
a
Bishop
,
of
Bishops
,
a
supreame
and
soveraigne
governor
of
the
whole
Church
,
I
may
not
yeeld
their
logick
such
libertie
,
as
to
conclude
so
vnconsequently
.
Againe
allow
that
in
this
commission
and
charge
every
Pastor
were
required
not
only
to
instruct
the
sheepe
of
his
fold
with
wholesome
doctrine
of
faith
,
but
also
to
have
an
eye
to
their
life
and
conversation
to
reprove
them
,
admonish
them
,
and
censure
them
with
ecclesiasticall
discipline
,
what
is
that
to
the
governing
in
secular
affaires
,
or
to
the
claime
of
such
an
vnlimmited
power
by
the
Popes
intrusion
?
I
may
not
yeelde
to
their
Rhetoricke
,
such
a
preuayling
or
perswading
power
,
as
that
where
they
cannot
shape
so
much
as
a
shadow
,
there
they
shall
erect
and
create
the
true
substance
,
of
a
more
then
Monarchiall
principallity
:
It
is
heere
auouched
,
that
Catholike
exposition
includeth
within
this
worde
,
Pasce
the
commission
of
gouerning
also
.
Therefore
many
Catholikes
that
will
rather
hazard
the
exclusion
of
his
(
if
they
bee
Catholikes
)
then
they
will
condiscend
to
this
interpretation
.
A
graue
and
profound
Catholike
,
one
of
the
pillers
of
papacy
,
Cardinall
Baronius
being
to
animate
and
confirme
his
Holinesse
proceedings
,
against
the
Venetians
for
their
great
sinne
,
of
executing
Iustice
,
against
men
of
clericall
habit
,
in
causes
criminall
,
and
ciuilly
punishable
,
passed
ouer
this
Text
of
Pasce
,
as
not
sufficiently
seruing
the
turne
,
to
prooue
the
Popes
right
of
jurisdiction
in
such
t̄eporall
affaires
;
and
thereuppon
interpreting
and
applying
the
same
restrictiuely
,
to
the
teaching
function
,
made
choyce
of
a
fitter
peece
of
Scripture
,
to
accommodate
vnto
that
case
,
and
to
put
into
the
Popes
hand
,
for
the
justification
of
that
excesse
of
his
authority
:
Hee
maketh
the
office
of
St.
Peter
to
be
two-fold
,
the
first
of
feeding
and
teaching
,
comprised
in
the
word
,
Pasce
,
the
other
of
correcting
,
and
chastifing
contayned
in
the
words
of
Christ
,
vsed
in
the
vision
of
the
beasts
presented
to
Peter
,
occide
et
manduca
,
kill
and
eate
:
You
see
that
hee
was
content
to
leaue
that
leane
and
pining
application
of
Pasce
,
and
to
finde
out
a
more
stinging
Text
,
that
might
pierce
to
the
very
quicke
of
the
cause
,
doth
not
this
same
(
occide
et
manduca
)
giue
authority
to
draw
blood
,
putting
the
Sword
into
his
Holinesse
hand
,
to
execute
at
his
will
and
pleasure
,
such
as
hee
shall
recon
,
Beasts
without
exception
of
great
and
small
,
people
or
potentates
,
Is
it
not
made
evident
thereby
that
all
sorts
of
people
whatsoever
,
cleane
or
vncleane
,
high
or
low
,
friend
or
foe
,
are
as
it
were
tyed
and
bundled
vp
together
,
and
so
subiected
and
abiected
at
his
feete
,
to
feed
vpon
,
and
satiate
his
devouring
appetites
?
It
maketh
no
matter
for
the
proper
sense
of
the
text
,
(
figuring
and
signifying
Iew
,
or
Gentile
)
the
wrest
and
streine
thereof
serveth
best
to
his
purpose
,
cutting
even
to
the
core
of
this
question
.
Old
Father
Barronius
in
his
dreame
,
espied
more
then
young
S.
Peter
could
apprehend
by
vision
:
He
hath
found
and
inferred
out
of
that
place
,
that
which
St.
Peter
if
hee
lived
to
this
day
(
except
his
successors
did
teach
him
)
could
never
have
gessed
at
,
the
Excommunication
,
and
further
degradation
of
States
and
Soueraignes
.
In
the
same
his
encoraging
advice
to
his
Holinesse
(
which
I
rather
recount
,
because
it
so
evenly
matcheth
with
their
moderne
divinity
)
hee
stirreth
vp
the
fainting
spirit
of
the
Pope
with
a
Memento
te
positum
esse
in
Petram
,
Remember
that
thou
art
placed
for
Rocke
,
whosever
rusheth
against
thee
shall
be
crushed
all
to
peeces
.
Therefore
where
his
Holinesse
layeth
a
heavie
hand
to
his
fulminating
censures
,
there
no
resistance
,
rescue
,
or
reliefe
,
can
availe
to
defend
from
destruction
.
For
this
Prophesie
is
as
fitly
appliable
to
the
Viear
of
Christ
,
as
it
was
directly
and
properly
referred
to
Christ
himselfe
.
Thus
this
learned
Cardinall
bestowed
vpon
his
Holinesse
as
he
were
the
very
image
and
character
of
Christ
vpon
earth
the
self-same
attribute
,
and
exaggeration
vsed
in
scripture
,
to
set
forth
the
might
and
dignity
of
our
redeemer
.
Nay
further
,
hee
will
needs
comfort
the
Pope
with
the
application
of
that
to
his
person
in
perticuler
,
which
Christ
assured
to
his
whole
Church
in
generall
,
that
the
gates
of
hell
shall
not
prevaile
against
him
,
and
will
earthly
Princes
then
persume
to
shut
his
Holinesse
out
of
dores
?
Hee
that
hath
a
power
over
Hell
it selfe
,
shall
not
he
commaund
and
over-rule
the
earth
?
These
beeing
the
proude
and
prophane
conceits
which
they
have
of
that
Idoll
of
Rome
(
their
imagined
Lieutenant
of
Christ
)
they
draw
not
only
from
the
Spouse
of
Christ
the
rich
ornaments
of
her
glory
to
deck
that
bewitching
Harlot
with
,
but
also
hold
it
no
robberie
,
to
enrobe
the
man
of
sinne
with
the
gracefull
and
blessed
titles
of
the
Sonne
of
God
,
for
which
so
Luciferian
and
blasphemous
arrogatings
,
I
doubt
it
will
not
be
made
good
and
verified
,
that
the
gates
of
hell
shall
not
be
shut
against
him
.
I
must
confesse
,
that
I
like
better
of
the
simplicitie
of
our
mitigator
,
in
misliking
vpon
the
poore
probability
of
reason
picked
out
of
the
word
(
Pasce
)
and
that
rather
by
a
consequence
,
then
by
any
direct
induction
,
then
I
doe
of
the
affected
and
vnserchable
subtilty
of
this
Cardinall
,
and
some
others
,
who
studying
for
vnwonted
straynes
,
and
forcings
,
doe
cast
beyond
the
Moone
to
magnifie
or
dignifie
his
Holinesse
aboue
the
Sunne
,
I
will
be
bold
to
set
downe
some
more
of
these
deepe
digged
and
far-fetched
argum̄ets
,
not
with
any
purpose
to
vouchsafe
them
any
time
,
or
paines
for
answere
,
but
euen
to
admire
,
if
not
exclaime
at
the
impious
and
presump
tuous
absurdity
,
of
such
their
so
frivolous
and
most
strange
inferences
;
Pope
Bonifacius
the
eight
(
that
layd
the
first
stone
of
this
Babilonian
building
)
out
of
the
words
of
Christ
vnto
his
Disciples
,
in
the
twenty
two
of
St.
Luke
(
they
sayd
vnto
him
,
behold
here
are
two
Swords
,
Christ
answered
it
is
sufficient
.
)
By
these
two
Swords
(
sayth
Boniface
)
Christ
meaneth
the
spirituall
and
temporall
,
both
the
which
are
left
by
our
Sauiour
,
for
the
defence
and
preseruation
of
his
Church
;
and
because
there
would
be
no
order
,
but
mutiny
,
tumult
,
and
confusion
,
if
these
swords
should
not
well
agree
,
therefore
there
must
needes
be
employed
,
and
intended
by
Christ
,
a
subjection
,
and
subalteration
of
the
one
sword
vnto
the
other
,
and
both
depending
vpon
one
Supreame
Command
.
From
this
supposed
authority
of
Christs
leauing
and
recommending
both
Swords
vnto
his
Church
,
Boniface
tooke
vppon
him
the
power
of
both
Swords
,
and
caused
to
be
passed
as
an
Article
of
Faith
that
the
Pope
is
supreame
,
ouer
both
estates
,
spirituall
and
temporall
,
and
shortly
after
in
a
Iubile
,
publikly
shewed
himselfe
,
with
a
key
in
one
hand
,
and
a
sword
in
the
other
.
And
that
hee
may
the
better
maintaine
,
the
taking
of
the
sword
,
hee
further
argueth
,
that
one
of
the
swords
,
was
his
prodecessors
St.
Peters
sword
,
(
it
being
well
knowne
that
Peter
had
a
sword
;
because
Christ
sayd
vnto
him
put
vp
thy
sword
(
shall
I
neede
to
make
any
refutation
of
this
collection
,
or
assertion
?
being
declared
not
as
positiue
out
of
the
word
,
but
expository
,
by
a
sence
which
the
Pope
assumeth
?
Let
me
yet
gather
vp
this
note
by
the
way
,
that
it
was
good
fortune
,
that
Christ
did
command
St.
Peter
to
put
vp
his
sword
,
else
perhaps
the
sharpenesse
and
weight
thereof
,
had
long
since
light
vppon
the
heads
,
and
neckes
of
Princes
,
as
well
as
it
cut
off
the
eare
of
Malchas
:
for
the
same
pretence
which
occasioned
him
to
draw
vppon
Malchas
in
rescue
and
maintainance
of
his
Maister
Christ
might
incite
the
high
courages
of
his
supposed
successors
to
bee
as
actiue
with
their
blades
and
forces
,
for
the
support
and
furtherance
(
as
they
alledge
)
of
the
Christian
faith
and
religion
,
impugned
,
or
impeached
by
temporall
Potentates
.
I
would
now
know
of
Maister
P.
R.
whether
hee
accounteth
the
exposition
and
decree
of
Bonifacius
the
Pope
,
to
bee
Catholike
and
Orthodoxall
,
if
hee
doe
not
,
wee
also
will
take
(
by
his
example
)
the
like
liberty
of
acceptance
or
dislike
in
any
the
Articles
of
Faith
,
concluded
and
adiudged
by
his
Holinesse
:
If
hee
doe
,
then
what
neede
hee
bee
so
slye
and
mistrustfull
in
affirming
the
same
Doctrine
,
absolueth
also
,
without
any
distinctions
and
cooling
quallifications
,
as
if
hee
were
either
ashamed
of
confession
or
afraid
of
conviction
?
when
hee
hath
such
an
argument
ab
authoritate
to
a
rest
him
to
stand
vnto
it
?
Why
should
hee
(
I
say
)
runne
about
the
bush
,
with
a
Commission
direct
and
indirect
,
when
hee
cannot
but
know
that
Bonifacius
was
resolute
in
opinion
,
that
his
power
ouer
Princes
,
and
in
temporallities
was
absolute
without
any
oblique
consequence
,
or
respectiue
dependency
,
jumping
therein
plainly
,
and
fully
with
the
Canonists
,
Papa
est
Dominus
totius
orbis
directe
in
temporalibus
.
How
would
this
so
well
tempered
and
timorous
mitigator
bee
brought
to
iustifie
the
hautinesse
of
Pope
Clament
the
fifth
,
successor
to
Bonifacius
,
who
not
satisfied
with
the
rule
and
command
ouer
temporall
and
earthly
states
,
did
brauely
adventure
,
by
his
papall
Bull
,
expressely
to
enioyne
,
and
command
Angels
to
execute
his
will
:
Me
thinketh
I
should
aske
him
also
whether
hee
will
hold
consonancy
of
iudgement
with
his
owne
Country-man
,
and
good
friend
the
renowned
Cardinall
Allen
,
who
in
his
Appology
for
the
English
Catholikes
,
out
of
the
miraculous
working
of
St.
Peter
mentioned
in
the
fifth
of
the
Acts
,
of
sentencing
to
suddaine
death
Ananias
and
Saphira
,
doth
no
lesse
miraculously
wring
out
this
great
Ministery
of
excommunicating
,
censuring
,
and
other
proceedings
against
Princes
.
There
is
no
parcell
of
Scripture
wherein
any
mention
is
made
of
St.
Peter
,
but
if
it
can
be
racked
to
affoord
them
any
patterne
or
patronship
for
either
their
deedes
or
decrees
,
it
is
miserably
torne
,
and
tormented
to
vndergoe
that
seruice
:
Not
so
much
as
the
power
of
Keyes
;
but
it
must
needes
bee
made
a
picke
locke
,
to
possesse
prisons
,
Castles
,
and
Towers
:
The
Key
of
knowledge
for
the
sauing
of
soules
,
is
turned
to
a
Key
of
powre
to
deprive
Princes
,
the
binding
and
loosing
of
sinnes
,
is
but
a
very
legerdemaine
of
fast
and
loose
at
the
Popes
pleasure
,
the
fishing
for
men
to
bring
them
to
eternall
life
,
is
made
a
pretence
for
spreading
his
nets
,
to
catch
and
conquer
whole
States
and
Dominions
:
The
Pastorall
Sheep-hooke
,
subdueth
Kingly
Scepters
,
Saint
Peters
Aurum
&
argentum
non
habeo
,
doth
now
glitter
in
all
the
pompious
and
copious
varietye
of
riches
,
and
the
promise
of
Christ
,
Dabo
tibi
claues
regni
caelorum
,
is
not
so
much
esteemed
,
as
the
offer
of
the
Devill
,
Dabo
tibi
&c.
All
these
things
will
I
giue
thee
,
if
thou
wilt
fall
downe
and
worship
mee
.
If
the
Pope
will
needs
enioy
a
right
of
succession
of
all
that
Christ
sayd
vnto
Saint
Peter
,
let
him
not
refuse
also
(
Get
thee
behinde
mee
Sathan
,
)
and
,
O
thou
of
little
faith
.
Nay
,
the
denying
of
Christ
,
so
expressely
imitated
in
the
declining
,
degenerating
,
and
sliding
away
from
the
sinceritye
of
the
Gospell
,
is
apparently
branded
vpon
this
Antichristian
iniquity
,
where
Saint
Peters
either
example
,
or
precept
,
fitteth
not
their
turnes
,
there
they
will
not
vse
,
or
rather
cannot
relieve
it
,
and
could
be
well
pleased
that
it
were
put
over
to
their
Ezponctorius
his
charge
and
admonition
,
that
they
subiect
themselves
vnto
all
manner
of
ordinance
And
likewise
his
beseeching
of
the
Elders
,
as
his
fellow
Pastors
,
that
they
feede
the
flocke
not
Christ
refused
to
be
made
a
Iudge
in
a
Civill
or
Temporall
cause
,
the
Pope
maketh
himselfe
Iudge
of
any
debates
,
that
by
any
pretext
can
be
conceived
to
be
fit
for
his
cognizance
:
Christ
bad
,
Giue
vnto
Caesar
that
which
was
Caesars
:
The
Pope
robbeth
Cesar
,
of
his
treasure
,
of
his
honor
,
of
his
power
,
of
his
rights
,
and
of
his
subiects
.
Christ
declareth
his
kingdome
not
to
be
of
this
world
,
the
Pope
(
besides
his
owne
Temporall
Soveraignity
,
will
haue
an
Oare
,
and
commaund
in
all
the
States
of
Christendome
.
In
which
part
,
of
the
Temporall
kingdome
of
Christ
in
this
life
,
P.
R.
is
much
cumbered
,
and
put
to
his
shift
,
to
finde
out
an
even
cutting
distinction
,
to
saue
the
repugnancye
of
Christs
sayings
.
The
Canonists
,
and
some
other
Catholikes
,
out
of
these
words
,
All
power
is
given
vnto
mee
in
Heaven
and
in
Earth
,
doe
conclude
,
that
besides
his
Spirituall
government
of
our
Soules
,
he
hath
a
kingly
Dominion
also
vppon
our
bodies
and
goods
,
and
vppon
all
the
Kingdomes
of
the
earth
,
and
might
iustly
haue
exercised
all
actions
,
of
temporall
iurisdictions
,
as
casting
into
prison
,
appoynting
new
Offices
,
Kings
,
and
great
Monarckes
.
Marke
how
they
compell
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
to
sallogize
against
himselfe
?
All
power
is
giuen
to
mee
in
Heauen
and
in
Earth
,
but
my
Kingdome
to
bee
of
this
World
is
such
a
power
,
Ergo
,
my
Kingdome
is
of
this
same
World
.
Now
obserue
also
his
witty
and
substantiall
reconcilement
,
hee
had
a
Kingly
temporall
power
in
this
life
,
but
hee
renounced
the
vse
and
priuiledge
of
the
same
:
Or
thus
,
hee
had
no
direct
Dominion
vppon
temporall
things
,
yet
indirectly
,
for
preseruation
of
his
spirituall
Dominion
hee
had
and
might
haue
vsed
the
same
,
and
in
that
sence
left
it
to
his
successour
:
Is
not
this
most
shamelesse
,
and
direct
abusing
of
Christ
,
and
his
most
Sacred
Word
?
When
hee
sayd
at
another
time
,
that
the
Foxes
had
holes
,
and
the
Birds
of
the
Ayre
had
nests
,
but
the
Sonne
of
man
,
had
no
place
to
hide
his
head
:
If
these
expositors
had
then
beene
knowne
to
his
Apostles
,
they
would
haue
replyed
;
Sir
,
you
haue
places
of
refuge
,
but
you
renounce
the
vse
and
priviledge
thereof
,
or
albeit
you
haue
not
any
place
directly
,
yet
indirectly
for
the
necessity
of
your
function
,
you
haue
all
palces
at
your
Command
,
or
if
you
haue
not
in
your
owne
indiuiduall
person
,
yet
in
your
Successors
,
you
must
needes
haue
,
else
how
should
they
maintayne
the
hauing
and
inhabiting
of
such
Royall
and
Magnificent
edifices
,
wherein
they
keepe
such
stately
and
more
then
imperiall
Courts
?
What
is
this
else
;
then
to
tell
Christ
hee
wotteth
not
what
hee
sayth
,
and
to
enter
him
like
a
Novice
in
their
new
Schooles
of
equiuocation
,
to
learne
their
falatious
mentall
preseruations
?
But
admit
it
to
be
incident
into
their
Offices
,
to
interpret
Christ
as
themselues
listeth
,
How
doth
it
happen
,
that
the
rightfull
successors
of
Christ
doth
not
also
succeede
him
in
his
modestye
,
humilitye
,
povertye
,
and
meekenesse
(
especially
beeing
commaunded
to
learne
of
him
)
and
so
(
in
like
sort
as
Christ
did
)
renounce
the
vse
and
priviledge
of
Temporall
Power
,
or
whence
haue
these
successors
their
so
plenarye
and
direct
preheminence
,
when
from
Christ
they
could
convey
it
but
indirectlye
,
and
by
consequence
:
Or
can
they
make
any
demonstration
or
playne
proofe
of
the
stint
and
circuite
of
time
,
at
the
periode
or
expiration
whereof
,
that
Temporall
Dominion
which
in
Christ
was
Indirect
and
Potenticall
,
should
become
vnto
the
Pope
,
Direct
,
and
Ordinarye
?
Or
was
there
not
as
vrgent
cause
that
Christ
,
(
in
respect
of
the
many
letts
,
impeachments
,
and
impediments
which
he
met
withall
)
should
for
the
preservation
of
his
Spirituall
Dominion
,
directly
,
or
indirectly
,
in
some
sort
or
other
,
betake
himselfe
to
his
Temporall
Authoritye
?
Except
they
will
say
,
that
hee
was
in
his
owne
person
militant
and
suffering
,
but
in
these
his
successors
triumphant
and
glorious
.
Let
mee
then
bee
answered
,
Whether
such
a
Succession
hath
any
image
or
representation
of
that
first
type
or
patterne
which
sayde
(
Learne
of
mee
.
)
To
manifest
yet
more
discerningly
,
the
idlenesse
,
the
fraude
,
and
vnfit
applying
of
this
distinction
,
let
them
know
,
that
is
not
to
be
trusted
vnto
,
because
it
will
serue
their
adversaries
as
well
as
themselues
,
for
where
the
question
may
be
propounded
and
disputed
,
whether
temporall
Princes
may
suppresse
or
remooue
Popes
,
(
if
the
authorities
alleadged
out
of
Gods
Word
,
and
the
Histories
of
the
Church
shall
not
suffice
to
giue
in
evidence
for
any
such
direct
and
vndoubted
preheminence
in
Princes
)
then
we
may
make
bold
of
this
their
make-shift
distinction
,
that
Princes
haue
euer
had
such
a
power
annexed
,
and
proper
to
their
governing
charge
,
though
they
haue
forborne
the
vse
and
preuiledge
thereof
,
or
that
indirectly
and
by
consequence
(
for
the
vpholding
of
their
states
,
and
keeping
of
their
people
in
obedience
,
which
by
so
many
Popish
practises
is
dayly
perverted
)
they
may
and
ought
to
exercise
and
execute
the
same
.
Moreouer
,
let
it
be
examined
,
how
and
from
what
originall
this
distinction
draweth
his
pedigree
,
what
bosome
or
heate
did
first
hatch
it
,
and
what
causes
of
weight
doth
still
nourish
and
continue
the
same
,
Mr.
P.
R.
hath
fully
acquainted
vs
with
the
certainty
thereof
.
For
if
Christ
(
sayth
he
)
should
not
haue
left
such
an
authority
in
his
Church
for
remedy
of
vrgent
causes
,
hee
should
not
haue
sufficiently
provided
for
the
necessity
thereof
.
It
is
maruaile
that
this
our
Moderator
,
and
mollifying
Mittigator
did
not
vse
the
word
of
conveniency
,
in
the
stead
of
necessity
,
to
haue
avoyded
the
disadvantage
of
the
stricktnesse
of
that
word
,
can
there
(
concerning
the
subsistance
,
and
stability
of
the
Church
)
any
more
vrgent
causes
to
be
imagined
for
the
vpholding
thereof
,
then
there
was
in
the
first
times
of
the
primitiue
purity
?
or
is
the
vsurping
power
of
the
supreame
Pastor
,
his
ouer
awing
or
over
peering
of
Princes
,
his
correcting
and
repressing
of
them
,
by
alienating
subiects
,
and
egging
enemies
against
them
any
constitutiue
causes
or
essentiall
necessities
of
the
Church
?
I
will
not
deny
but
that
the
height
and
eminency
,
wherevnto
the
Bishops
of
Rome
,
haue
aspired
,
by
encroching
vpon
the
rights
and
vndermining
the
states
of
temporall
Gouernors
,
as
indeede
to
be
provided
for
,
and
maintayned
by
this
presupposed
necessity
:
But
the
purity
,
the
poverty
,
the
simplicity
,
the
feruency
,
of
the
first
fathers
,
and
propagators
of
the
faith
and
Church
of
Christ
needed
none
of
these
humaine
and
worldly
additaments
,
none
of
these
temporall
encountrings
,
or
conflicting
with
Potentates
,
no
such
foreseeing
perpecations
,
to
affront
all
occurting
causes
,
nor
any
such
politiciall
circumventings
,
and
fortifications
for
defence
and
offence
against
Princes
:
They
conquered
powers
and
principalities
,
but
with
the
spirituall
Armor
of
God
,
they
beate
vppon
them
with
the
hammer
of
the
word
,
they
cut
deeply
into
the
secrets
of
their
soules
,
with
the
sword
of
the
spirit
they
prayed
for
their
peace
,
and
prosperity
,
they
embrased
the
very
persecutions
with
obedience
,
and
for
the
countenancing
fauours
,
(
by
giuing
them
respit
from
affliction
,
and
the
sunne
shine
of
liberty
)
they
honoured
them
as
the
nursing
fathers
of
the
Church
,
(
when
I
contemplate
the
composute
and
frame
of
the
Popish
Monatchy
,
and
the
linking
together
of
so
many
cunningly
contrived
positions
,
tending
(
all
of
them
)
to
the
encrease
of
gaine
and
advance
of
Honor
to
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
I
wish
that
some
excellent
Scholler
extraordinarily
endued
would
out
of
his
many
obseruations
collected
,
exhibite
vnto
the
world
(
in
imitation
of
Matchauell
,
who
made
the
shames
and
vices
of
the
house
of
Florence
,
the
patterne
of
a
perfite
Prince
)
this
Antichrist
of
Rome
as
a
true
president
of
Tyranny
and
Vsurpation
by
publishing
with
an
apt
resemblance
,
as
well
the
vilde
and
vnchristian
practises
,
as
also
the
false
and
pernicious
articles
,
whereby
he
hath
atchived
so
strange
matters
,
and
attained
vnto
so
vnmeasurable
greatnesse
,
which
my
desire
is
the
more
increased
,
the
more
I
consider
,
how
the
webs
of
that
worke
,
hath
ensuared
,
if
not
enthralled
Christian
people
,
euen
in
the
carriage
of
this
controversie
.
I
haue
traced
the
foot-steps
of
many
politicke
reaches
,
and
now
in
the
closing
vp
of
the
matter
,
a
faire
traine
is
layd
,
to
catch
and
lay
hold
vpon
an
easie
follower
,
which
we
must
not
so
suddenly
passe
by
,
as
not
to
discerne
the
sleight
thereof
,
he
speaketh
plainely
in
honest
and
oyly
words
:
That
that
authority
temporal
is
to
be
moderated
by
many
perticularities
to
be
considered
,
There
must
be
iust
cause
,
graue
and
vrgent
motives
,
formall
proceedings
,
great
deliberation
,
lawfull
meanes
,
and
other
circumstances
,
to
concurre
,
requiering
great
discretion
;
what
a
goodly
displaying
he
maketh
,
in
tearmes
of
the
best
shew
,
when
yet
(
howsoeuer
occasins
shall
alter
their
intentions
)
there
is
no
more
conteyned
or
propounded
thereby
,
then
what
is
vsually
requisite
in
all
Benches
of
Iustice
,
erected
for
tryall
of
common
rights
,
But
our
question
is
,
Whether
the
Pope
be
a
competent
Iudge
,
vpon
or
against
Temporall
Gouernours
,
let
the
matter
be
caried
neuer
so
presizely
and
circumspectly
,
that
maketh
him
no
title
for
enterposing
his
vsurped
Authority
.
Therefore
hee
might
well
haue
spared
his
paines
,
in
making
this
the
third
question
which
neither
in
this
,
nor
any
other
iudiciall
power
is
any
question
at
all
.
But
he
conceived
,
that
this
orderly
course
and
discrect
cariage
which
hee
would
haue
vs
to
presuppose
in
the
Pope
,
would
carry
vs
along
in
all
conformity
,
to
condiscend
to
any
his
presumptious
and
vsurping
iurisdiction
.
Let
him
tell
whether
the
publicke
denunciation
,
or
rather
execration
made
euery
Maundee
Thursday
against
the
Hereticks
whatsoeuer
,
doth
not
also
enwrap
the
Princes
of
our
religion
(
especially
if
they
haue
made
and
executed
feuere
lawes
against
the
Popish
)
within
the
danger
and
rigor
of
that
sentence
,
which
if
it
do
,
then
these
flourishing
and
superfluous
words
,
of
the
cognition
of
the
cause
,
of
due
proceedings
,
of
vrgent
motiues
,
of
aduised
consultations
,
of
lawfull
meanes
of
preambles
and
circumstances
are
but
snares
to
beguile
the
simple
,
seeing
that
his
Holinesse
(
for
the
most
part
)
acteth
his
solemnities
,
and
ceremonies
of
Excommunication
,
both
generally
and
personally
,
without
the
obseruing
of
the
particularities
.
Beyond
all
this
the
pondering
of
such
seuerall
considerations
,
to
whose
brest
,
or
trust
are
they
recommended
?
are
they
not
euery
one
wholly
and
absolutely
in
the
Popes
discretion
?
Let
vs
but
remember
the
course
of
proceedings
by
these
perticularities
,
against
our
late
Queene
,
his
Holinesse
tooke
knowledge
,
as
well
by
publicke
fame
,
as
by
complayning
relacions
,
of
the
afflicted
and
distressed
Catholikes
,
and
of
Queene
Elizabeths
hard
vsage
of
them
in
this
Kingdome
,
there
is
the
vrgent
motive
and
importing
cause
,
what
were
the
consultations
,
what
the
meanes
,
and
what
the
proceedings
,
a
Bull
of
Excommunication
publickly
deprived
her
,
of
her
Royall
Dignity
,
setteth
free
her
Subiects
from
their
Allegiance
,
enioyneth
all
Catholikes
to
endeavor
her
deposing
,
and
so
exposeth
her
to
continuall
Treasons
,
and
bloody
Assassinates
;
This
is
the
short
Epitome
of
this
all
presuming
Papacy
,
Then
let
any
other
Prince
take
to
himselfe
the
like
scantling
,
by
the
measure
offered
to
Queene
Elizabeth
,
(
bethinking
himselfe
whether
the
enumeration
of
so
many
good
poynts
,
of
aduisednes
,
and
the
cautilous
respects
set
forth
by
glosing
words
,
may
sufficiently
secure
him
from
feares
and
iealousies
.
One
other
doubt
(
of
great
consequence
and
preiudice
)
may
much
perplex
Princes
,
which
is
the
vndistinguished
and
vnlimited
nature
of
the
causes
,
triable
by
the
Popes
authority
,
for
what
cause
can
be
supposed
so
meerely
Ciuill
,
as
hath
not
some
mixture
of
cases
in
Conscience
,
and
so
to
be
referred
in
order
to
a
spirituall
end
,
becomming
(
as
in
that
regard
)
of
a
spirituall
cognizance
.
And
then
his
Holinesse
(
holding
himselfe
onely
in
his
owne
element
)
beeing
the
supreame
Iudge
in
spirituall
doubts
,
how
extendable
is
the
amplitude
of
his
power
to
any
manner
of
debates
or
variences
,
which
(
by
complaint
or
appeale
)
vnder
a
colour
of
devotion
or
religion
shall
be
presented
to
his
holy
decision
?
But
the
deadliest
poyson
that
lyeth
in
the
Dragons
Tayle
,
is
the
disposition
and
ordination
of
the
meanes
,
of
giuing
to
such
Popes
Iudgements
,
the
full
blow
of
execution
.
For
where
the
spirituall
blast
of
his
indignation
,
is
not
much
regarded
,
there
(
as
the
inferior
rout
of
the
Clergy
,
doth
)
his
holinesse
will
not
sticke
to
implore
the
ayde
of
the
secular
arme
,
be
it
forraine
,
be
it
domesticall
,
be
it
directly
for
the
same
cause
,
or
indirectly
(
I
am
in
loue
〈◊〉
that
distinction
)
vpon
the
fore-plotted
quarrells
,
be
it
by
the
sedicious
tumult
of
insurrection
,
or
by
any
〈◊〉
audaciousnesse
of
〈◊〉
.
Surely
,
when
I
consider
the
desperate
〈◊〉
.
of
some
particular
men
,
who
abandoning
all
care
or
respect
of
themselues
,
and
instigated
onely
with
a
seeming
zeale
of
religion
,
do
with
violent
hands
of
blood
,
enterprise
the
distruction
of
Prince
.
I
am
induced
to
beleeue
,
that
they
haue
some
direct
Commission
,
or
some
indirect
incitation
so
to
compell
and
precipitate
their
ill
gouerned
mindes
,
into
the
horror
of
so
vild
an
action
:
Neverthelesse
,
I
may
not
dissemble
,
that
concerning
any
priuate
exployts
,
in
this
kinde
,
they
disclayme
the
approbation
thereof
;
though
I
am
well
assured
,
that
experience
to
the
contrary
doth
make
it
manifest
,
that
they
dissemble
.
This
authority
(
sayth
this
our
satisfying
mittigator
)
doth
not
onely
not
allow
the
wicked
and
vnlawfull
attempts
of
priuate
men
,
but
also
doth
expressely
and
publickely
condemne
the
same
,
as
in
the
Councell
of
Constance
,
the
wicked
article
of
lawfull
killing
of
Princes
,
by
private
men
(
holding
them
Tyrants
)
is
rejected
and
condemned
.
Euery
man
seeth
how
resolued
a
case
he
maketh
it
,
both
by
the
Catholicke
Divines
,
and
by
the
Cannon
of
the
Councell
of
Constance
,
that
no
priuate
attempts
though
of
neuer
so
magnanimous
a
spirit
against
the
life
of
a
Prince
,
though
neuer
so
much
tainted
with
Tyranny
,
insuffieiency
,
infidellity
,
or
heresie
can
be
in
any
sort
iustifiable
.
But
that
it
may
the
better
be
knowne
,
that
these
be
but
fallacious
and
gay-coated
words
,
Ad
faciendum
populum
,
I
will
(
for
bearing
any
mine
owne
refutations
,
encounter
and
contradict
this
smoothing
P.
R.
with
one
of
his
owne
fellow
Iesuites
,
that
goeth
more
roundly
,
and
plainly
to
this
poynt
:
Such
a
one
as
whether
he
bestowed
his
skill
and
faculty
,
with
any
mischiefeuous
intention
to
animate
wicked
enterprises
,
(
for
his
Booke
was
Printed
about
the
very
time
of
our
last
so
memorable
plots
of
Treason
)
my
charity
will
suspend
my
iudgement
,
he
casteth
no
colours
,
nor
feareth
to
deliuer
boldly
his
resolutions
,
and
encouragements
to
all
Catholikes
.
It
is
Iohannes
Mariana
,
a
Spaniard
and
Iesuite
,
and
a
Diuinity
Reader
,
his
Booke
is
intituled
,
De
Rege
et
Regis
institutione
,
published
in
the
the
yeare
1605.
Dedicated
to
the
King
of
Spaine
,
and
printed
Per
missu
superiorum
,
yea
and
Regia
authoritate
.
Now
if
Mr.
P.
R.
will
allow
this
great
Scholler
,
comming
foorth
in
lucem
et
oculos
hominum
,
accompanied
with
such
estate
of
attending
approbations
,
to
be
a
Catholike
,
hee
shall
heare
him
speake
,
and
then
set
him
blame
his
temerity
,
for
telling
tales
out
of
the
Iesuiticall
Schoole
.
The
sixe
Chapter
of
his
first
Booke
,
is
wholy
bestowed
vpon
this
question
,
of
the
lawfulnesse
of
deposing
or
slaying
Tyrants
.
The
particularity
of
killing
the
French
King
is
argued
,
the
reasons
on
both
sides
produced
,
pondered
and
enforced
:
His
determination
decideth
,
and
adjudgeth
the
fact
to
haue
beene
just
,
prayse
worthy
,
and
agreeable
to
the
Catholicke
grounds
.
He
further
setteth
foorth
,
the
receiued
opinion
of
the
Church
,
to
be
that
it
is
lawfull
for
Subiects
,
when
the
King
resuseth
to
be
reformed
,
and
after
sentence
against
him
,
to
renounce
their
Obedience
,
to
consult
for
the
leuying
of
a
necessary
Warre
,
to
taxe
the
people
,
with
the
charge
thereof
,
and
with
armed
force
and
weapons
,
(
in
such
case
of
necessitie
)
to
set
vpon
him
,
to
kill
him
,
and
destroy
him
,
and
then
descendeth
to
this
conclusion
Eademque
facultas
esto
,
cuicunque
priuato
,
qui
spe
impunitatis
abiecta
,
neglecta
propria
salute
,
in
conatum
iuvandi
rempublicam
,
ingredi
voluerit
;
Let
any
private
man
,
which
(
casting
aside
all
hope
of
impunity
,
and
carelesse
of
his
owne
safety
)
will
adventure
to
enterprise
his
endevors
to
relieue
the
Common-wealth
,
take
vnto
him
the
same
liberty
,
Hath
he
not
soundly
and
definitively
declared
the
doctrine
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
the
very
secresies
and
misteries
of
the
Iesuites
profession
;
to
the
apparant
conviction
of
this
Mittigators
fained
attestations
?
And
to
the
foresaid
Councell
of
Constance
,
(
which
is
produced
to
impugne
this
position
of
the
practises
,
or
attempts
of
private
men
against
lawfull
Soveraignes
)
hee
also
maketh
answere
in
this
manner
,
First
,
that
no
Decree
of
any
Councell
standeth
good
and
holy
,
without
the
consent
of
his
Holinesse
thereunto
,
Then
,
that
this
Decree
was
neuer
approved
by
Pope
Martin
the
5th
,
neither
would
Eugenius
or
his
successors
euer
ratifie
the
same
,
and
after
declareth
also
,
that
the
Fathers
of
that
assembly
did
chiefly
intend
that
their
Session
and
consultation
against
the
Hussits
who
maintained
that
Princes
,
for
crimes
by
them
committed
,
did
forfeit
their
estate
,
and
that
thereupon
they
might
lawfully
be
by
any
man
deprived
of
that
power
which
they
vniustly
held
,
or
obteined
.
Againe
,
that
in
perticuler
and
properly
,
they
then
purposed
to
opugne
the
proposition
of
Iohannes
Parvus
,
a
Divine
of
Paris
,
who
vnder
colour
of
this
defence
,
that
it
was
lawfull
by
private
authority
to
kill
a
Tirant
,
endeavored
to
justifie
the
fact
of
the
Duke
of
Burgundie
in
slaying
of
the
Duke
of
Orleance
,
In
which
case
there
were
these
diversities
from
that
rule
.
Here
was
betweene
these
persons
equallitie
,
and
no
inferioritie
,
there
was
a
solemne
oath
violated
and
broken
,
and
here
was
no
attending
for
the
sentence
,
or
direction
of
the
Superior
.
Here
we
see
two
Iesuites
in
two
different
opinions
in
a
matter
of
greatest
moment
,
both
of
them
founding
vpon
the
faith
of
the
Church
,
both
approved
permissu
superiorum
by
the
allowance
of
the
superiors
.
Thus
hauing
buckled
together
two
principall
Iesuites
to
lugg
and
tugg
each
other
by
the
eares
,
I
will
only
thus
far
giue
my
verdit
of
their
variance
,
That
the
Spanierd
Mariana
dealeth
plainly
and
constantly
to
the
practize
of
Popery
,
and
the
ratificacions
and
afirmacions
of
the
Popes
themselues
,
who
will
not
endure
any
abridging
of
their
prerogatiue
power
of
proceeding
against
Princes
in
what
sort
soeuer
,
And
our
English
P.
K.
hideth
the
sting
,
would
conceale
deepe
dissembled
treacheries
by
protesting
termes
to
secure
vs
from
suspicions
,
till
the
venome
of
malice
hath
pierced
all
the
veines
of
the
state
,
and
seazed
our
very
hart
and
life-blood
,
by
surprizes
vnthought
of
,
hauing
brought
vs
into
a
carelesse
and
deceitfull
securitie
;
P.
R.
hath
beene
very
curious
and
copious
in
trying
,
and
examining
his
aduersaries
allegacions
,
interpretacions
,
falsificacions
,
translacions
,
and
applicacions
,
seeming
so
watchfull
and
diligent
in
that
kind
of
animaduersion
,
as
if
he
accounted
it
a
shame
,
and
foile
,
to
omit
any
line
or
sillable
vnanswered
,
for
indeede
,
the
whole
bulke
of
his
booke
in
this
businesse
,
is
fraught
with
no
other
stuffe
then
with
such
wrangling
matter
,
of
misavouching
,
and
misconsterings
of
quoted
allegacions
.
But
that
it
may
appeare
how
his
deadly
hooke
resting
in
the
beliefe
of
his
heart
,
is
covered
over
with
an
honied
bait
beguiling
vs
with
fairer
speach
,
I
shall
be
bold
to
trouble
him
with
one
question
.
What
is
the
cause
that
Mr.
Mortons
publication
,
of
the
solemne
Oration
made
by
the
Pope
Xixtus
the
5.
in
the
Consistory
of
the
Cardinalls
,
in
the
commendation
of
the
notable
,
rare
,
and
memorable
act
of
the
braue
Monke
that
killed
the
French
King
,
and
the
inferrence
by
him
made
and
vrged
against
the
Pope
,
for
his
maintenance
of
Conspiracy
,
and
Treason
,
is
both
by
the
modrate
answer
first
,
and
after
,
by
this
mitigating
replier
layed
aside
in
silence
,
and
not
once
handied
,
or
glanced
at
by
any
seeming
answer
.
The
truth
is
,
they
were
enwrapped
with
a
dilemna
to
allow
the
fact
was
against
their
pretence
in
their
position
,
and
to
disallow
the
Pope
,
was
against
their
faith
in
their
religion
they
must
defend
by
argument
,
what
for
outward
carriage
is
giuen
them
in
charge
,
sith
it
tendeth
to
their
aduantagious
purpose
:
and
they
may
not
(
without
dispensation
)
either
presume
to
censure
,
or
vndertake
to
oppugne
,
what
his
Holinesse
approveth
,
lest
they
betray
and
shake
the
foundacion
of
their
Supremacy
.
By
this
time
,
I
trust
his
well
cloaked
dubble
iniquity
is
discovered
to
his
very
nakednesse
;
were
it
not
now
very
strange
that
hee
and
I
(
whom
our
former
contencions
haue
so
farr
devided
afunder
)
should
part
reconciled
,
and
well
accorded
?
In
his
sixt
Chapter
(
of
corruptions
and
falsificacions
)
hee
taketh
hold
of
Mr.
Morions
exposition
,
That
the
Imperiall
and
Kingly
Authority
in
Spirituall
causes
,
reacheth
no
farther
then
as
to
outward
preservation
,
and
not
to
personall
administration
:
Hereupon
he
assureth
vs
,
that
if
this
be
really
ment
,
all
the
Catholikes
of
England
will
presently
take
the
oath
of
Supremacy
,
requiring
with
an
earnest
challenge
that
as
this
is
publikely
printed
,
and
that
by
Authority
,
so
it
may
have
publike
allowance
&
performance
to
make
it
good
,
whereby
as
touching
that
poynt
there
may
be
an
attonement
.
I
feare
that
the
man
in
the
heate
of
his
sudden
apprehension
,
and
without
the
wary
consideracion
which
his
pen
hath
been
accustomed
vnto
,
doth
overshoote
and
forget
himselfe
.
Shall
I
thinke
that
he
hath
never
read
,
or
vtterly
forgotten
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
?
He
hath
so
scanned
and
canvased
the
Statutes
of
Henry
the
eight
,
Edward
the
sixth
,
and
Queene
Elizabeth
picking
at
every
mote
thereof
,
and
making
a
beame
of
the
same
(
though
with
a
left
eye
,
and
a
left
hand
)
that
I
cannot
so
much
as
surmize
but
that
he
hath
had
every
threed
of
this
question
betweene
his
fingers
.
Therefore
(
if
his
former
subtillity
hath
not
suddenly
betrayed
him
,
and
exposed
him
to
derision
)
as
I
must
admire
that
he
is
so
easily
reformed
in
Iudgement
,
so
,
I
shall
be
content
to
embrace
the
occasion
of
a
well
gained
agreement
.
And
will
P.
R.
the
Iesuite
,
and
the
rest
of
the
English
Catholikes
of
the
Romish
faction
abide
by
this
word
in
good
earnest
?
that
if
the
Kings
Maiestie
doe
not
claime
or
assume
vnto
him
personall
administration
in
cause
Ecclesiasticall
,
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
shall
no
further
be
stood
vpon
,
or
refused
.
Then
let
him
bethinke
himselfe
of
this
part
or
clause
of
the
Oath
,
That
no
forraigne
Prince
,
Person
,
Prelate
,
State
,
or
Potentate
,
hath
or
ought
to
haue
any
iurisdiction
,
power
,
superiority
,
preeminence
,
or
authority
Ecclesiasticall
,
or
Spirituall
within
this
Realme
,
if
he
digest
this
,
then
see
how
one
thing
draweth
on
another
:
all
our
former
differences
are
at
once
,
and
in
this
one
compounded
:
also
,
for
if
the
Pope
(
being
a
forraigne
Prelate
or
Potentate
)
be
excluded
,
from
hauing
any
Ecclesiasticall
power
or
Spirituall
authority
within
this
Realme
.
Then
our
question
of
his
preheminency
or
jurisdiction
in
repressing
the
exorbitant
and
pernicious
excesse
of
great
men
,
as
an
Ecclesiasticall
Iudge
,
or
Supreame
Pastor
,
direct
,
or
indirect
,
is
at
an
end
clearely
determined
:
I
doubt
not
but
his
excellent
Majesty
of
his
Princely
care
to
bring
home
so
many
lost
sheepe
,
and
to
bosome
them
againe
in
his
dearest
loue
,
will
affoord
them
that
fauorable
interpretation
which
this
there
Aduocate
and
Orator
,
requireth
in
their
behalfe
.
In
the
meane
space
(
not
to
loose
what
we
haue
got
)
I
returne
vnto
P.
R.
the
like
charge
of
making
good
of
his
word
,
touching
the
Oath
of
Supremacy
,
in
the
sence
and
distinction
afore
mentioned
,
and
therewithall
might
thinke
it
not
reasonable
,
any
further
to
stricke
a
yeelding
aduersary
,
that
by
so
voluntary
an
offer
cleareth
the
cause
from
any
further
controuersie
.
But
remembring
the
nature
and
quallity
of
our
adversary
and
the
many
winding
and
intricaking
trickes
he
is
vsed
vnto
in
the
canvassing
of
this
or
the
like
controversies
,
I
feare
that
this
our
reconciliation
is
rather
seeming
then
substanciall
,
and
will
suddainly
vpon
a
small
touch
,
fall
a
sunder
againe
to
as
great
a
discrepance
;
for
howsoeuer
he
doth
so
franckly
yeeld
vnto
his
Majesty
,
a
supremacy
,
of
the
Church
in
Ecclesiasticall
causes
,
as
touching
outward
preseruation
onely
,
let
him
be
but
sifted
a
little
in
his
meanings
,
it
will
breake
from
him
that
he
neuer
purposed
to
strengthen
the
state
and
authority
of
our
Soueraigne
,
with
any
such
power
of
absolute
defence
and
protection
,
which
shall
presently
appeare
by
ministring
vnto
him
some
few
questions
:
I
pray
you
Sir
,
what
Church
,
and
what
Ecclesiasticall
causes
,
doe
you
consent
to
be
within
the
Kings
Royall
preseruation
?
is
it
incident
and
appropriate
to
his
Princely
Scepter
,
to
mayntaine
the
religion
now
established
in
his
Dominions
?
by
making
Lawes
for
enforcing
subjects
,
to
an
vniforme
allowance
,
and
profession
thereof
,
by
punishing
Recusants
according
to
Iustice
,
and
by
employing
all
his
powers
to
suppresse
the
oppugners
,
or
Conspirators
against
the
same
?
Dareth
he
to
abide
by
this
?
will
he
henceforth
justifie
this
preseruation
,
and
that
by
his
religious
oath
,
which
hitherto
the
impoy-soned
pens
of
these
Iesuited
spirits
haue
not
spared
odiously
to
tearme
a
cruell
persecution
?
wee
haue
shaked
him
already
from
his
attonement
,
with
vs
in
this
poynt
,
He
will
tell
vs
plainely
,
That
the
Church
and
Ecclesiasticall
cause
which
he
authorized
the
Prince
to
protect
and
preserue
,
is
onely
the
Catholike
Church
,
and
Religion
,
and
then
(
as
if
orbs
,
and
vrbs
,
were
all
one
)
that
the
Catholike
is
the
Romish
,
so
that
vnlesse
the
King
will
turne
Leigeman
,
with
a
kinde
of
vazilage
to
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
his
right
of
Supremacy
in
the
outward
preseruation
of
the
Church
,
(
which
this
man
dareth
assure
vs
that
all
Catholikes
in
England
will
easily
accord
vnto
)
must
be
denied
him
,
as
not
due
and
proper
to
the
Title
of
his
Regality
,
Papacy
is
the
pole-starre
of
all
their
contemplations
,
It
is
the
Centure
whereunto
are
carried
and
cleaueth
fast
all
their
drifts
and
disputations
.
And
no
further
shall
any
Prince
hold
power
(
especially
,
in
Ecclesiasticall
causes
which
are
all
bosomed
vp
in
the
breast
of
his
Holinesse
)
then
the
same
shall
serue
in
a
sub-ordination
to
the
advancing
and
exaltation
of
that
most
imperious
Romish
Hyerarcy
.
Nay
their
temporall
authority
,
also
must
be
kitbed
,
stinted
,
and
subjugated
by
that
vntollerable
yoake
of
Popish
vsurpation
,
except
it
should
be
made
plyant
,
ranged
,
and
accommodated
,
In
ordine
ad
dominum
Papam
,
Then
(
not
regarding
P.
R.
his
assurance
of
the
voluntary
submissions
,
and
subscriptions
of
all
Catholikes
of
England
,
to
the
Kings
Supremacy
,
according
to
the
limitation
or
interpretation
aforesayd
)
we
may
well
assure
our selues
that
no
English
Papists
,
(
finding
this
supremacy
of
defence
and
preseruation
to
tend
to
the
subversion
and
extirpation
of
their
idolatrous
Religion
)
will
euer
yeelde
oath
to
keepe
fayth
thereunto
:
Yet
(
hauing
closed
with
him
in
a
full
consent
vnto
this
position
,
that
euery
Prince
hath
Iure
divino
,
the
supremacy
of
outward
preseruation
of
the
Church
,
and
Ecclesiasticall
causes
within
his
Territories
and
Dominions
)
let
it
be
remembred
that
he
neuer
hereafter
scandalize
the
proceedings
and
execution
of
Iustice
in
England
against
the
refractaries
and
treacherous
oppugners
of
the
Religion
established
in
this
Realme
,
sith
the
same
is
the
lawfull
and
necessary
act
of
a
well
warranted
and
acknowledged
Supremacy
;
from
which
our
publicke
profession
of
Fayth
is
to
receiue
protection
and
preseruation
;
I
cannot
but
conceiue
that
this
Clearke
P.
R.
wil
be
shent
,
and
receiue
some
checke
for
his
Doctrine
:
For
out
of
question
if
his
Holinesse
,
and
Cardinall
Bellarmine
,
haue
enkindled
their
displeasures
against
Mr.
Blackwell
,
the
Arch-Priest
for
allowing
the
Oath
of
Alleagiance
(
which
contayneth
onely
an
acknowledgment
of
the
hereditary
rights
of
temporall
Soueraignity
,
whereunto
naturall
duty
,
(
in
respect
of
relation
)
doth
bind
each
subject
:
How
much
more
heynously
will
it
be
taken
,
that
this
Arch-Iesuite
(
as
if
both
their
Arches
,
had
slipped
from
them
at
once
)
should
so
confidently
condiscend
to
this
artickle
of
Spirituall
Supremacy
,
in
the
sence
,
qualification
,
or
moderation
,
before
expressed
?
He
cannot
escape
the
blame
,
of
forgetting
or
forsaking
of
his
principles
,
neyther
can
he
euer
salue
his
offence
,
by
any
wily
Interpretation
or
beguiling
distinction
.
His
direct
,
and
indirect
,
his
absolute
and
conditionall
,
his
mediate
and
immediate
,
his
simpliciter
and
secundum
quid
or
quatenus
,
and
the
like
(
which
in
all
his
discoursiue
argumenting
doth
make
his
way
for
him
through
many
Obstacles
,
whilst
he
treadeth
out
vnto
vs
his
maze
of
Circuler
shifts
,
and
manifold
euasions
)
can
touching
this
his
confession
or
protestation
haue
no
place
or
serue
him
to
any
stead
,
because
knowing
aforehand
how
the
case
standeth
in
euery
circumstanciall
or
considerable
perticularity
,
he
hath
to
the
King
of
England
within
his
seuerall
Dominions
adjudged
the
Supreame
gouernment
of
causes
Ecclesiasticall
,
as
in
the
office
and
care
of
preseruing
the
Church
,
with
the
fayth
and
Doctrine
thereof
,
from
all
wronges
or
corruptions
Forraigne
or
Domesticall
.
I
encroach
not
vppon
him
by
inferences
and
constructions
,
I
onely
take
that
which
he
so
fully
and
clearely
gyueth
;
and
do
challenge
him
that
what
he
hath
deliuered
vnto
vs
for
his
judgement
and
resolution
,
(
and
that
in
high
termes
and
vanting
and
flaunting
of
his
aduantages
therein
.
)
He
will
(
notwithstanding
any
reprehension
or
retreite
from
the
Pope
or
Bellarmine
)
still
with
the
like
brauery
and
constancy
mayntaine
vnto
the
end
;
but
shall
I
disclose
a
secret
or
rather
a
wonder
vnto
the
World
?
What
if
the
very
same
Author
who
so
boldly
assumeth
and
assureth
at
this
time
for
all
Catholikes
the
Title
of
Spirituall
Supremacy
,
to
appertayne
to
the
Crowne
Imperiall
of
this
Land
,
doth
after
in
another
set
Treatise
,
published
purposedly
,
or
rather
maliciously
,
to
traduce
and
discredit
our
gouernment
,
and
to
vphold
the
Popes
and
Cardinall
Bellarmines
censures
concerning
the
Oath
of
Allegiance
,
like
a
very
Changling
,
fall
quite
away
from
this
his
former
so
earnestly
proferred
and
promised
conformity
,
declareth
himselfe
,
to
be
so
farre
from
affoording
his
Majesty
by
oath
his
supremacy
of
preseruation
in
causes
Ecclefiasticall
,
as
that
he
holdeth
it
vnlawfull
for
a
Catholike
conscience
to
take
the
oath
of
Temporall
Allegiance
,
as
repugnant
to
the
Religion
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
will
not
euery
man
of
vnderstanding
admire
,
how
the
same
person
can
refuse
to
sweare
Allegiance
Temporall
,
that
hath
so
readily
and
hotly
,
granted
a
Supremacy
Spirituail
?
To
induce
me
to
beleeue
that
it
is
all
one
person
that
hath
so
vndertaken
to
act
vnto
vs
two
so
repugnant
parts
,
I
haue
(
besides
fame
and
report
)
and
a
kind
of
idempnity
in
the
phrase
and
stile
,
some
very
approveable
probabilities
,
That
it
was
never
the
meaning
of
such
Catholikes
as
tooke
the
Is
not
this
the
very
same
water
of
the
same
Cesterne
?
He
yet
goeth
further
for
better
proofe
and
confirmacion
of
his
said
supposall
by
the
selfe-same
reasons
set
forth
Verbatim
:
for
that
they
should
thereby
contradict
the
generall
consent
of
all
Catholike
Divines
,
and
confesse
that
Gods
providence
for
the
conservacion
and
preservacion
of
his
Church
and
kingdome
vpon
earth
,
hath
beene
defectuous
,
for
that
hee
should
haue
left
no
lawfull
remedy
for
so
great
and
excessive
an
evill
as
that
way
might
fall
out
.
I
had
set
the
print
of
my
fingers
vpon
all
and
every
of
these
words
before
,
so
that
by
that
brand
they
were
presently
knowne
vnto
mee
,
and
their
Author
or
owner
apparantly
discovered
,
howsoever
as
a
Iesuite
he
stileth
himselfe
Gent.
who
bound
to
no
order
may
assume
any
shape
.
Then
presupposing
vpon
these
likelyhoods
,
that
in
the
pursute
of
this
my
slippery
adversary
(
Iesuite
or
Gent.
)
I
haue
met
with
him
againe
as
at
a
new
turning
,
I
must
not
let
him
escape
vntill
hee
make
mee
a
good
answere
,
how
he
can
affirme
for
the
King
a
Supremacy
Ecclesiasticall
for
preserving
of
the
Church
,
and
yet
alledge
against
the
oath
of
allegiance
a
more
supreame
power
in
the
Pope
,
to
suppresse
and
annihilate
that
Supremacy
,
and
that
in
a
course
of
Temporall
Supereminency
?
I
ever
tooke
Supremacy
to
be
such
a
superlative
,
as
admitteth
no
superior
:
I
never
heard
of
any
subalternate
supremacy
,
it
hath
too
harsh
and
absurd
a
sound
;
but
that
any
temporall
Prince
absolute
of
himselfe
,
vndependent
vppon
any
higher
on
earth
,
immediate
to
God
Almighty
should
be
over-awed
or
over-topped
by
the
pretended
primacy
of
a
Luciferian
Prelate
,
and
that
by
the
brandishing
of
a
temporall
sword
,
and
imploying
forces
,
coercians
temporall
,
what
can
be
more
vnsensible
to
be
conceaved
,
more
vnreasonable
to
be
maintayned
,
or
more
impious
to
be
practized
?
Yet
the
only
cause
and
couler
why
the
Pope
commandeth
,
and
the
Cardinall
adviseth
,
the
Catholikes
of
England
,
to
forbeare
and
refuse
to
take
the
oath
of
allegiance
,
is
this
,
That
in
the
said
oath
is
couched
and
included
the
derogation
,
and
renunciation
of
the
sufficiency
and
absolutenesse
of
the
Popes
authority
over
or
against
his
Majestie
,
claymed
by
vertue
of
his
high
office
of
supreame
Pastor
,
whereby
he
is
enabled
to
proceed
against
any
Prince
whatsoever
temporally
for
his
restraint
and
amendement
,
or
to
permit
other
Princes
to
do
the
same
:
So
that
the
question
of
the
lawfulnesse
of
this
oath
,
and
the
question
argued
in
these
few
leaves
of
my
labor
concerning
the
Popes
arrogant
Vsurpation
,
hath
not
any
threed
of
difference
sorting
both
alike
to
one
and
the
same
purpose
.
Therefore
if
vnto
my
former
refutation
of
the
Mittigators
,
immoderate
attribution
of
power
vnto
the
Pope
,
I
shall
ioyne
some
few
animadvercions
vpon
the
epistoling
Gentlemen
:
also
(
an
alter
idem
of
P.
R.
)
for
the
better
observing
and
discovering
of
his
deceitfull
and
disloyall
cariage
,
in
the
reproving
of
that
oath
,
it
will
be
a
continuance
of
the
same
skirmish
,
and
the
like
battering
of
the
same
bulwarke
which
the
pride
of
Rome
hath
erected
and
endeavoreth
to
fortifie
against
the
dignity
of
Kings
and
the
truth
of
God
.
First
I
observe
that
howsoever
he
vndertaketh
in
generall
tearmes
to
make
good
the
Popes
desision
touching
the
refusall
of
that
oath
on
the
part
of
his
Maiesties
Catholikes
subiects
,
yet
in
his
perticuler
arguing
thereupon
,
(
as
if
he
were
also
another
Pope
,
whom
as
a
iudge
,
it
becommeth
not
to
dispute
)
he
discusseth
not
the
severall
parts
to
be
disliked
in
the
oath
,
or
setteth
forth
plainly
and
contradictorily
the
words
which
hee
will
hold
or
maintaine
to
be
vnlawfull
or
cumbersome
to
the
squemish
conscience
of
their
pretended
Catholikes
,
whereby
a
true
state
or
issue
of
the
matter
in
question
might
be
taken
in
consideration
,
but
in
stead
of
such
expresse
and
positiue
mentioning
of
the
disliked
parts
of
that
oath
,
glideth
away
in
his
glosing
fashion
wiht
bare
affirmation
of
dangerous
doctrinall
clauses
,
conteining
matter
of
faith
craftely
conioyned
together
,
with
the
exacting
of
civill
duty
,
preiudiciall
to
the
integritie
and
purity
of
Catholike
religion
.
This
kind
of
handling
a
controuersie
,
is
rather
resoluing
then
reasoning
,
and
more
Pope
like
in
determining
as
a
Iudge
,
then
Scholler
like
in
demonstrating
as
a
Disputer
:
Why
doth
hee
not
to
euery
branch
,
of
the
sayd
oath
affixe
and
oppose
his
negatiue
,
without
any
such
faynt
plea
,
or
fumbling
and
broken
speeches
,
cut
of
with
&c.
Will
the
distinction
of
direct
,
and
indirect
,
as
he
maketh
it
to
serue
the
Pope
for
actions
and
authorities
,
so
serue
his
turne
also
in
speaking
and
argumenting
?
standeth
it
with
any
Logicall
rules
,
to
induce
or
inforce
conclusions
,
indirectly
by
conception
and
application
,
which
ought
to
be
produced
directly
,
in
a
full
opposition
to
the
questioned
proposition
.
Then
where
the
oath
hath
these
plaine
words
,
that
the
Pope
hath
not
any
power
or
authority
to
depose
the
King
,
or
to
dispose
any
his
Maiesties
Kingdomes
,
or
Dominions
,
or
to
authorize
any
Forraigne
Prince
to
invade
or
annoy
him
in
his
Countries
,
or
to
discharge
any
of
his
Subjects
from
their
allegiance
and
obedience
to
his
Maiesty
,
or
to
giue
Licence
or
leaue
to
any
of
them
to
beare
Armes
,
rayse
Tumults
,
or
to
offer
any
violence
,
or
hurt
to
his
Majesties
Royall
person
,
state
,
or
government
,
why
doth
not
he
in
justification
of
the
vnlawfulnesse
of
this
oath
,
by
as
playne
,
full
,
and
broade
termes
,
tell
vs
that
the
Pope
,
by
the
capacity
of
his
omnipotency
,
is
indued
with
so
plenary
a
power
,
as
that
he
may
depose
the
King
,
dispose
his
Kingdomes
,
authorize
Forraigne
invasions
,
discharge
his
Subjects
from
allegiance
,
licence
them
to
offer
violence
to
his
Royall
Person
,
state
,
or
gouernment
?
And
that
for
that
regard
the
conscience
of
the
Catholikes
may
not
be
obliged
by
any
such
prophane
oath
,
impyous
against
the
Pope
,
and
the
amplitude
of
his
Pastorall
primacy
?
But
doth
hee
in
any-one
line
of
his
whole
Volume
,
let
slippe
any
word
expressely
declaring
,
naming
,
or
mentioning
any
power
of
this
nature
,
and
that
Lawfully
may
produce
these
effects
,
to
be
invested
or
bestowed
vpon
his
Holinesse
?
I
am
perswaded
that
the
igniculi
of
naturall
duty
,
the
morsus
of
an
acknowledging
conscience
,
and
the
pudor
of
his
face
(
which
perhaps
yet
retayneth
some
remnants
of
modesty
)
would
not
suffer
him
so
far
to
degenerate
from
naturall
notions
,
so
farre
to
be
alienated
from
his
dutious
recognicion
,
or
so
farre
to
passe
all
the
bonds
of
shame
,
as
directly
,
and
roundly
to
deliuer
vnto
the
World
any
sentence
so
monstruous
,
and
so
full
of
horror
and
heynousnesse
.
Neuerthelesse
hee
hath
taken
such
a
taste
of
the
sower
grape
of
Rome
,
and
is
dipped
so
deepe
into
the
venome
and
malice
of
that
imperious
and
persecuting
Church
,
as
that
yet
indirectly
,
and
by
a
subtile
conueyance
of
his
meaning
,
hee
giueth
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
his
inward
soule
,
hath
pronounced
this
doome
and
judgement
against
his
annoynted
Soueraigne
,
and
therefore
that
soule
,
must
not
be
entangled
,
stayed
,
or
bound
,
by
any
brideling
or
restrayning
oath
to
the
contrary
.
But
how
doth
his
outward
man
manage
these
difficulties
?
Iust
in
the
same
manner
to
an
hayres
breadth
,
as
Mr.
Mittigator
(
whom
hee
may
call
his
ille
ego
)
doth
that
is
closly
,
dissemblingly
,
timorously
,
and
treacherously
:
In
the
place
of
the
Pope
,
hee
vseth
the
entitleings
of
Supreame
Pastor
,
the
deposing
and
killing
of
Princes
,
hee
compriseth
,
and
couereth
vnder
the
words
of
proceeding
against
,
and
restrayning
of
them
,
what
is
done
by
inuasion
,
insurrection
,
or
force
of
armes
,
is
included
in
the
word
temporalty
,
the
stirring
vp
and
appoynting
of
other
Potentates
,
to
partake
,
in
the
quarrell
,
is
brought
in
very
gently
in
this
good
shew
of
permitting
other
Princes
,
&c.
Now
fie
vppon
this
blaunching
and
disguising
Oratory
,
If
hee
could
passe
away
cleanly
with
these
easie
and
fauouring
phrases
,
hee
would
steale
out
against
vs
,
(
as
not
suspecting
his
harmefull
intentions
)
his
deadly
writ
of
execution
:
This
one
word
of
restrayning
would
(
like
to
a
ball
of
wild-fire
)
disclose
it selfe
,
and
breake
a
sunder
,
into
censuring
,
depriuing
,
deposing
,
destroying
,
and
murthering
of
Soueraignes
,
and
would
haue
no
meane
,
or
end
of
oppression
or
Tyranny
.
Next
,
admitting
him
to
this
liberty
,
as
not
to
single
out
any
speciall
,
or
particular
clauses
of
the
oath
,
let
vs
examine
how
hee
prooueth
that
there
bee
enwrapped
within
the
sayd
oath
,
poynts
of
religion
as
well
as
of
〈◊〉
obedience
;
he
maketh
reckoning
to
haue
shewed
it
by
foure
seuerall
distinct
wayes
:
I
will
beare
him
witnesse
that
the
wayes
be
seuerall
;
for
onely
one
of
them
hath
shewe
of
leading
vs
to
the
scope
and
conclusion
fore-intended
,
the
rest
are
all
straggling
pathes
,
quite
from
the
purpose
,
for
are
not
these
I
pray
you
good
arguments
?
The
Pope
telleth
the
Catholikes
that
hee
hath
heard
,
that
they
are
compelled
to
go
to
the
Churches
and
Assemblies
of
Heretickes
,
and
to
be
at
their
Sermons
,
Ergo
,
the
oath
of
Allegiance
contayneth
matter
of
Religion
,
as
well
of
ciuill
obedience
.
Againe
,
Bellarmine
compareth
the
oath
to
the
crafty
composion
and
commixture
of
the
Images
of
the
Emperor
Iulian
,
and
the
Pomim
gods
,
all
coupled
and
combined
together
in
this
Imperiall
banner
:
Ergo
,
by
an
argument
ab
authoritate
,
there
be
in
that
oath
poynts
Spirituall
and
Temporall
conjoyned
together
.
Lastly
,
the
good
Gentleman
doth
kindly
make
this
reall
offer
for
satisfaction
of
his
Majesty
,
that
hee
will
sweare
vnto
him
,
as
much
Loyalty
as
euer
any
Catholike
Subject
of
England
did
,
vnto
the
lawfull
Kings
in
former
times
before
the
change
of
King
H.
8.
Ergo
,
there
lurketh
articles
of
sayth
in
the
sayd
oath
,
vnder
the
pretence
of
ciuill
duties
.
The
first
of
the
foure
,
seemeth
to
shute
faire
,
and
and
at
the
least
to
sticke
in
the
Butt
,
though
farre
enough
from
the
marke
;
and
thus
it
speaketh
,
from
the
plaine
expresse
words
,
sence
,
and
drift
of
the
oath
it selfe
,
That
besides
the
acknowledgment
of
our
Soueraigne
to
be
true
King
and
rightfull
Lord
ouer
all
his
Dominions
;
and
that
I
will
be
a
true
loyall
Subject
vnto
him
and
such
other
clauses
,
whereat
no
man
sticketh
or
maketh
any
difficulty
,
the
sayd
oath
contayneth
further
,
that
I
must
sweare
in
like
manner
some
poynts
,
concerning
the
limitation
of
the
Popes
authority
,
to
wit
,
what
hee
cannot
doe
towards
his
Majesty
,
or
his
Successour
in
any
case
whatsoeuer
?
Which
question
brought
vnto
the
Thesis
of
all
Kings
toucheth
(
sayth
he
)
a
poynt
of
Doctrine
and
Catholike
beliefe
,
concerning
the
sufficiency
of
of
Pastorall
authority
,
left
by
our
Saviour
in
his
Church
vnto
St.
Peter
,
and
his
Successours
,
for
redressing
of
all
inconueniences
that
may
fall
out
;
and
this
to
forsweare
hath
perill
of
euerlasting
Damnation
.
There
must
be
a
monstrous
strayne
,
nay
,
hee
must
breake
through
and
steale
,
before
his
Holinesse
with
his
predominate
power
,
can
get
into
the
Creede
.
〈◊〉
haue
before
set
in
his
way
crosse
barres
,
and
obstacles
●●
nough
,
which
hee
will
neuer
be
able
to
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
impeach
his
assention
into
any
such
height
,
as
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
our
consciences
,
The
article
of
Catholica
Ecclesia
,
〈◊〉
be
no
cloake
or
conductor
for
him
,
nor
shall
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Canopy
over
his
high
estate
of
●
,
〈◊〉
callity
.
The
Argument
wherewith
this
Gent.
doth
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Pope
to
so
eminent
a
place
of
power
,
and
reputation
that
his
prerogative
is
past
questioning
,
and
that
vpon
paine
of
〈◊〉
,
is
this
,
every
oath
that
conteyneth
poynts
concerning
the
limitation
of
the
Popes
Authority
,
is
an
oath
belonging
to
Religion
;
but
this
oath
expressing
what
the
Pope
cannot
doe
towards
his
Majestie
,
or
his
successor
in
any
case
whatsoever
,
is
an
oath
concerning
the
limitation
of
the
Popes
authority
,
therefore
this
oath
is
belonging
to
Religion
:
If
the
Maior
propofition
be
vntrue
or
vncertaine
,
all
the
rest
tottereth
and
falleth
,
as
without
foundation
:
I
will
examine
the
same
by
the
pondering
of
the
particuler
words
thereof
.
First
,
(
belonging
to
Religion
,
in
a
generall
sence
may
comprehend
all
the
actions
and
resolues
of
men
:
yea
ciuill
duties
,
also
are
within
the
spaciousnes
thereof
,
because
a
true
Christian
is
governe
his
whole
life
and
carriage
by
the
rules
of
his
Religion
:
but
this
Disputor
must
narrow
the
signification
thereof
more
precisely
,
tying
and
applying
the
same
onely
to
the
articles
of
Payth
.
Secondly
,
the
Popes
authority
must
vndergoe
the
like
distinction
as
themselues
haue
propounded
vnto
vs
,
(
that
is
to
say
)
what
he
may
doe
as
Pope
,
and
what
he
hath
accustomed
to
doe
by
other
acquiered
titles
,
or
by
meere
vsurping
intrusion
.
Now
then
to
say
,
that
euery
limiting
of
the
Popes
authority
whatsoeuer
the
same
be
,
or
howsoeuer
obtayned
or
exercised
belongeth
to
the
Articles
of
beleefe
,
I
for
my
part
will
neuer
beleeue
it
,
and
I
do
not
thinke
,
that
any
of
their
owne
Secritaries
will
be
so
much
besotted
,
I
will
explayne
my
meaning
by
instances
and
cases
of
the
like
condition
;
suppose
that
the
Pope
would
pretend
and
pleade
that
the
King
doth
hold
of
him
the
Crowne
of
this
Land
,
and
therefore
as
Superior
Lord
,
will
require
homage
or
trybute
,
and
in
default
of
rendering
the
same
,
will
invade
his
Dominions
with
sword
and
force
:
If
in
this
case
the
King
shall
for
more
security
of
his
Imperiall
State
,
aske
(
vppon
Allegiance
)
the
oathes
of
all
,
or
any
his
Subjects
in
detestation
of
that
claime
,
may
the
Catholikes
make
scruple
of
conscience
concerning
such
an
oath
,
because
the
same
seemeth
to
limmit
and
abridge
,
the
Popes
pretended
right
and
authority
?
making
in
the
meane
time
no
Religion
of
the
limitting
,
lessening
,
and
detracting
from
the
Soveraignes
Title
and
pre-eminence
?
perhaps
they
will
say
that
this
is
a
question
of
civill
right
,
and
that
the
Subject
is
cleerely
bound
to
maintaine
the
Prince
.
But
how
if
the
Pope
pretend
withall
his
Pastorall
care
,
and
preservation
of
matters
spirituall
,
then
I
trust
(
in
ordine
ad
spiritualia
)
his
temporall
attempts
must
bee
supported
,
by
his
spirituall
Children
,
against
the
King
and
Country
.
Againe
,
let
it
be
conceiued
that
the
Pope
much
mooued
with
indignation
,
at
the
execution
of
Iustice
ministred
in
this
Kingdome
,
against
the
Treacherous
Conspirators
of
the
Popish
faction
,
should
vpon
that
gnawing
grudge
towards
the
Iudges
of
this
Land
,
take
vpon
him
by
solemne
Censure
,
to
depriue
and
displace
them
from
their
Iuridiciall
offices
,
wherein
(
though
he
can
assume
no
ordinary
or
rightfull
power
)
yet
in
ordine
ad
spiritualia
and
for
the
generall
releefe
,
and
necessity
of
the
Catholike
cause
hee
adventureth
as
from
his
pastorall
charge
,
to
pronounce
them
from
henceforth
to
be
incompetent
Iudges
,
commanding
all
Catholikes
also
to
reckon
of
them
,
and
the
iudgements
by
them
giuen
:
Now
the
question
is
,
whither
to
make
a
constant
asseueration
that
the
Pope
hath
no
such
authority
,
be
vnto
a
Catholike
conscience
a
poynt
of
Faith
or
Religion
,
because
of
such
limiting
bounds
,
disabling
the
Pope
in
his
supposed
sufficiency
of
his
generall
function
for
the
good
of
the
Church
?
If
the
denying
or
abating
of
the
popes
authority
over
these
inferior
minifters
of
Iustice
be
not
accounted
cumbersome
to
the
c̄osciences
of
Catholikes
(
wherein
I
thinke
they
will
make
no
doubt
)
why
should
the
abjuring
of
this
papall
power
ouer
our
Supreame
Magistrate
touching
the
〈◊〉
and
destroying
of
him
,
be
thought
so
dangerous
,
and
damnable
,
or
repugnant
to
their
owne
Religion
?
will
Religion
allow
him
more
liberty
against
the
highest
,
then
against
the
meaner
Substitutes
?
or
if
hee
haue
such
a
Rule
ouer
Princes
themselues
,
why
not
also
ouer
the
Subordinate
Officers
of
the
Kingdome
?
to
command
,
direct
,
authorize
,
or
suppresse
them
,
to
the
best
auayle
and
aduancement
,
of
the
Catholike
side
,
that
so
hee
may
become
more
then
Monarchiall
,
by
an
absolute
and
vnlimited
Dominion
?
This
Gent.
saith
that
touching
the
acknowledgement
of
our
Soveraigne
to
be
true
King
and
rightfull
Lord
over
all
his
Dominions
,
no
man
sticketh
at
that
:
But
,
I
aske
,
whether
if
the
Pope
haue
already
enwrapped
his
Majestie
within
any
of
his
generall
sentences
,
or
shall
declare
by
any
especiall
means
,
that
he
is
not
to
be
acknowledged
King
,
will
not
then
the
Catholikes
sticke
at
that
?
must
not
they
refuse
to
sweare
vnto
that
clause
of
recognition
also
?
for
feare
that
his
Holinesse
be
questioned
and
limited
in
his
owne
powre
and
preeminence
?
I
will
not
feare
to
affirme
,
That
the
true
allegiance
,
and
obedience
of
a
naturall
subject
,
cannot
dwell
together
in
the
corrupted
heart
of
a
devoted
&
dissembling
Papist
,
and
therefore
no
marvell
that
the
heart
preposessed
with
Papacy
,
doth
cast
such
doubts
,
of
offending
his
dearest
love
,
especially
having
plighted
faith
,
and
vowed
his
service
,
by
all
constant
endeavors
thereunto
.
This
contrariety
of
Masters
,
must
needs
breed
iealousies
on
both
sides
,
for
as
the
Pope
forbiddeth
Papists
,
to
sweare
their
allegiance
and
fidellity
to
the
King
,
(
fearing
lest
himselfe
should
thereby
be
excluded
and
renounced
)
So
the
King
can
never
thinke
himselfe
secure
and
assured
of
those
subiects
,
who
(
from
their
acknowledgement
of
the
Popes
superiorship
over
the
King
,
and
that
in
such
a
degree
as
may
indure
no
limiting
)
dare
not
be
affianced
by
oath
to
the
safety
of
the
King
against
the
decrees
and
designes
of
their
Dominus
dominancium
.
Then
what
will
they
say
,
or
do
,
to
free
his
Majestie
from
feares
and
ielousies
?
Doth
this
supple
Gent.
thinke
to
make
or
bring
confidence
,
which
I
hope
in
Gods
goodnesse
that
the
Pope
will
never
attempt
any
thing
in
preiudice
of
his
Majestie
.
Surely
Sir
,
your
hope
is
too
weake
a
stay
for
our
state
to
rest
or
trust
vnto
:
For
what
if
the
same
great
important
and
vrgent
cases
,
concerning
Christian
religion
doe
fall
out
wherein
yee
averr
the
Popes
authority
over
Princes
:
Then
in
that
case
I
perceive
the
best
answere
wee
shall
expect
from
you
will
be
the
fooles
proverbe
,
non
putarem
.
For
here
againe
you
feede
and
foppe
vs
one
with
another
of
your
hopes
(
which
wee
hope
will
never
be
betweene
our
Soveraigne
and
the
Sea
Apostolike
.
)
Is
it
not
more
then
strange
that
this
so
provident
coniecturer
of
future
events
,
should
hope
that
that
matter
will
neuer
be
;
which
long
hath
beene
,
continually
is
,
and
I
trust
perpetually
will
be
,
seeing
,
that
these
same
great
,
important
,
and
vrgent
cases
concerning
Christian
Religion
haue
done
,
and
doe
dayly
fall
out
,
betweene
our
Soveraigne
and
the
Sea
of
Rome
,
called
by
him
Apostolike
,
Therefore
it
appeareth
that
the
man
hath
lost
his
wits
,
whilest
he
would
obtrude
his
hopes
.
The
true
conclusion
is
,
that
for
as
much
as
these
great
and
important
cases
are
in
continuall
conflict
and
question
betweene
the
Pope
and
his
Majestie
,
and
that
consequently
the
Authority
of
the
Pope
lyeth
prest
in
dayly
readinesse
to
represse
and
suppresse
his
Majestie
vpon
all
occasions
,
as
it
concerneth
his
Royall
person
,
for
the
preservation
of
his
Life
,
State
,
and
Dignity
,
to
assure
himselfe
of
the
vnviolable
faithfulnesse
of
his
Subiects
,
so
that
must
needs
be
accounted
a
disloyall
and
vnnaturall
part
for
any
subiect
to
be
so
seduced
,
by
hipocriticall
pretences
,
as
to
adhere
to
a
forraine
and
fained
clericall
Primacy
,
against
his
alleagiance
,
love
and
duty
,
towards
his
true
Soveraigne
Lord
and
King
.
The
Gent.
vseth
many
glorious
and
plausible
speeehes
of
the
humble
acknowledgment
of
all
temporall
dueties
to
his
Majestie
,
and
iumpeth
with
the
Mittigator
in
opinion
,
that
it
is
not
vnpossible
for
the
Catholikes
to
conforme
in
Subiection
to
the
Civill
goverment
,
and
yet
to
reserve
their
consciences
to
the
religion
of
Rome
,
if
this
were
affirmed
of
such
Countries
only
where
the
Prince
is
of
the
Romish
faith
,
or
of
this
Nation
whilest
the
Pope
had
some
hold
,
and
prevalency
in
the
same
,
then
perhaps
we
might
come
neere
to
an
agreement
in
this
poynt
,
but
where
the
Prince
and
Pope
are
of
religion
so
repugnant
and
opposite
,
where
the
Pope
is
quite
secluded
and
expelled
from
any
power
Eccleslasticall
or
Civill
,
and
where
the
Prince
as
in
the
right
of
the
Crowne
,
is
the
defender
and
preserver
of
the
faith
within
his
Kingdome
,
there
we
are
taught
by
experience
,
and
directed
by
reason
,
that
the
entertayning
and
professing
of
Papacy
,
is
the
renouncing
and
repressing
of
regallity
.
I
weigh
not
the
allegation
that
is
made
,
of
the
long
continuance
for
well-neere
a
thousand
yeares
,
of
the
admission
and
permission
of
the
Popes
Superioritie
in
this
Realme
,
and
how
the
same
for
all
that
space
stood
vn-offensive
vnto
this
state
,
for
whilest
there
was
either
subiugaiton
,
or
coniugation
of
the
two
powerfull
commands
,
their
contrarietyes
and
repugnances
could
not
be
so
apparently
discovered
,
as
they
be
now
manifested
,
by
the
distinguishment
and
finall
dissevering
of
them
into
their
proper
natures
,
rights
,
and
limitations
.
I
haue
read
diligently
that
great
Volume
,
avouched
Edward
Cooke
.
by
this
Gent.
written
with
much
labour
to
this
poore
purpose
,
of
declaring
the
Papal
pre-eminence
within
this
Cuntry
,
ever
since
the
first
conversion
thereof
to
Christianity
,
vntill
the
reigne
of
King
Henry
the
eight
.
The
Authors
sedulity
and
devotion
may
amongst
the
Birds
of
the
same
feather
,
receiue
his
reward
,
(
at
the
least
)
of
commendation
,
but
I
will
vndertake
with
one
short
answere
,
(
consisting
but
of
two
parts
)
to
runne
my
pen
through
every
line
of
that
huge
Bulke
,
blotting
and
putting
out
whatsoeuer
he
hath
painted
,
foorth
for
the
best
shewe
.
First
,
(
forbearing
to
refute
their
Fables
,
and
taking
their
owne
accompt
of
time
,
which
they
make
of
the
entry
of
the
Romish
Religion
into
this
Land
,
)
it
is
euident
that
the
mystery
of
iniquity
,
and
the
Antichristian
arrogancy
of
the
Romish
prelacy
,
was
then
reuealed
and
exalted
into
worldly
pompe
:
So
as
they
then
sending
of
Factors
into
these
parts
,
was
but
to
Conquer
the
simple
people
,
of
that
vninstructed
age
to
the
bondage
and
yoake
of
Rome
.
'
And
therefore
no
maruaile
,
if
they
were
still
held
in
the
same
,
or
the
like
subjection
in
the
succeeding
times
,
wherevnto
they
were
at
the
first
surprized
by
politicall
handling
,
and
with
much
simulation
of
piety
trayned
one
for
intromitting
,
and
acceptation
thereof
;
and
I
cannot
invent
a
fitter
resemblance
whereby
to
represent
the
cunning
carriage
of
that
plot
in
those
dayes
,
then
that
which
Cardinall
Bellarmine
hath
vsed
and
applyed
in
this
question
.
Which
is
the
crafty
composition
and
commixture
of
Images
set
by
Iulian
the
Emperour
of
himselfe
and
the
panim
gods
coupled
and
combined
together
,
in
his
Imperiall
banner
,
for
as
that
Emperour
vnder
the
shew
of
reuerence
due
to
be
performed
to
himselfe
,
though
to
haue
seduced
those
good
Christians
to
the
honoring
of
Idols
,
so
in
those
darke
and
vndiscerning
times
of
our
fore-fathers
,
by
the
tempering
and
ioyning
of
the
Christian
Religion
,
and
the
Antichristian
vsurpation
,
their
simplicity
was
abused
,
and
they
by
subtile
practises
,
wrought
vnto
such
a
credulity
,
as
that
together
with
the
sweete
comforts
of
Christ
,
they
sucked
in
at
once
the
poyson
of
Romish
Idolatry
,
and
the
oppression
of
papacy
:
The
second
part
of
my
answere
is
,
that
notwithstanding
such
encroachment
of
the
popedome
vnto
this
Kingdome
,
wherein
by
stealing
steppes
and
sundry
Hypocriticall
passages
that
had
gotten
good
footing
,
keeping
in
the
meane
while
both
Prince
and
people
in
an
ignorant
devotion
,
and
a
dread
of
damnation
:
Yet
did
the
Kings
of
England
,
from
time
to
time
,
feele
themselues
and
their
Soueraigne
state
to
be
enthralled
and
wronged
by
the
ouer-awing
,
and
busie
intermedling
of
that
vniversall
pastorship
,
and
therefore
omitted
not
,
vppon
all
occasions
,
to
make
knowne
their
dislikes
and
reluctations
,
to
vphold
the
course
,
and
force
of
the
ancient
Common
Law
,
to
defend
and
put
in
practise
the
Imperiall
prerogatiues
of
their
Crowne
,
and
to
restrayne
the
exorbitant
ambition
of
the
sea
of
Rome
,
by
prouiding
statutes
,
vnder
grieuous
penalties
against
the
Subjects
of
this
Land
,
that
in
derogation
of
the
Iustice
,
gouernment
,
and
regall
rights
,
of
the
King
,
did
make
recourse
vnto
Rome
,
by
way
of
appeale
,
impetration
,
or
other
pretences
contrary
to
the
naturall
obligation
of
their
faith
and
allegiance
.
But
it
will
be
sayd
,
how
came
it
to
passe
then
,
that
the
Subjects
held
on
their
former
orders
,
and
no
whit
refrayned
from
Rome
,
yeelding
still
to
the
pope
the
same
their
dependency
,
and
acknowledgments
:
That
shall
I
also
tell
you
,
the
pope
and
Councell
of
Rome
(
knowing
right
well
,
how
fully
they
had
possessed
all
sorts
of
people
,
with
a
blind
zeale
,
carried
after
idle
Ceremonies
,
and
well
pleasing
superstitions
,
and
remembring
that
they
had
so
seazed
and
fastned
vpon
their
Conscience
,
as
that
euery
one
held
the
saluation
,
or
damnation
of
his
soule
,
to
consist
in
his
obedience
,
or
disobedience
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
)
did
crosse
and
avoyde
the
execution
of
such
states
by
decreeing
and
sending
foorth
their
Ecclesiasticall
execution
,
of
suspending
,
and
excommunicating
,
of
all
Ministers
of
Iustice
,
or
other
ministeriall
persecutors
whatsoeuer
,
that
should
attempt
to
enforce
,
or
execute
any
such
〈◊〉
;
by
this
meanes
of
denouncing
such
terrors
to
the
soule
,
the
mightinesse
and
authority
of
the
pope
,
grew
dreadfull
and
powerfull
,
vntill
it
pleased
the
Almighty
God
,
by
the
revelation
of
his
truth
,
and
discouery
of
Popish
falshoods
,
to
inspire
with
courage
and
magnanimity
the
heart
of
that
Right
Noble
King
H.
8.
who
finally
without
any
feare
of
his
thunderbots
,
accomplished
that
worke
of
freeing
this
Realme
from
the
grieuous
butthen
,
and
heauy
yoake
of
the
popish
Supremacy
,
which
diuers
of
his
prodecessors
Kings
of
England
,
had
often
,
and
much
endeauoured
,
and
desired
to
do
,
if
their
illightnings
with
grace
,
and
enablings
with
meanes
,
had
serued
them
thereunto
;
Thus
it
is
made
cleare
,
that
the
Popes
authority
,
neither
at
the
first
landing
thereof
vppon
the
Coast
of
this
Kingdome
(
which
was
not
in
the
purer
times
,
but
600
yeares
after
,
Christ
as
themselues
confesse
,
when
the
Church
of
Rome
was
falne
from
sincerity
)
neyther
in
the
continuance
and
exercise
of
the
same
was
lawfull
,
allowable
,
or
beneficiall
,
but
rather
intruded
,
offensiue
,
and
prejudiciall
vnto
this
state
;
and
for
his
motion
of
sampling
our
proceedings
to
the
practise
vsed
in
other
Countries
ouer
Catholike
Subjects
,
in
this
poynt
of
excluding
the
Pope
for
intermedling
temporally
against
Princes
,
shewing
that
they
will
be
ready
to
answere
as
much
duty
and
allegiance
to
his
Majesty
,
as
any
such
Catholike
Subjects
in
any
other
Kingdome
doth
,
or
is
bound
to
doe
:
He
must
know
that
he
must
then
make
and
take
his
patterne
,
from
the
Protestant
Princes
,
who
haue
resumed
their
ancient
and
originall
rights
,
and
not
from
them
whom
he
calleth
Catholikes
,
that
honoreth
the
best
,
and
dishonoreth
themselues
;
wherefore
the
Gent.
may
hold
his
hand
from
the
booke
,
his
kind
offer
of
swearing
vnto
his
Majesty
as
much
loyalty
as
euer
any
Catholike
Subject
of
England
did
vnto
the
lawfull
King
in
former
times
and
ages
,
before
the
Change
of
King
H.
8.
will
not
be
accepted
as
a
suffring
seruice
or
duty
;
Then
was
both
King
and
people
made
drunke
with
the
Popish
cup
,
of
spirituall
Fornications
,
the
Kings
then
were
but
halfe
Kings
,
and
the
Subiects
but
halfe
Subjects
;
his
Holinesse
had
pared
away
so
much
from
the
one
,
and
gayned
so
much
vppon
the
other
,
the
one
could
not
be
absolute
in
commanding
,
for
feare
that
his
Superior
should
enterpose
,
the
other
could
not
be
absolute
in
obeying
,
because
there
might
come
a
stronger
countermaund
;
then
what
hath
this
offer
more
then
thus
?
We
haue
beene
filthy
and
will
be
filthy
still
.
And
why
should
not
his
Maiesty
require
of
his
Subiects
such
obedience
,
as
by
the
rules
of
the
true
reformed
Religion
,
which
hee
professeth
he
lawfully
may
doe
?
Or
is
there
any
reason
that
he
should
still
be
held
to
the
former
wrongs
,
and
disaduantages
,
which
ignorance
,
hypocrisie
,
pride
,
and
other
manifold
corruptions
did
beget
and
produce
against
his
Crowne
,
and
Soveraignity
:
Is
it
to
be
reckoned
a
poynt
of
Fayth
and
Saluation
to
lay
forth
a
limitation
of
that
power
which
hath
beene
heretofore
so
infinitly
extended
,
and
so
vniustly
claymed
?
and
what
is
this
limitation
?
Forsooth
that
the
Pope
cannot
make
Kings
no
Kings
,
or
Subiects
no
Subiects
,
that
his
spirituall
Sheephooke
may
not
subdue
the
Princely
Scepter
,
nor
order
and
dispose
of
temporall
rights
;
why
may
not
the
Pope
be
limited
with
some
clauses
?
Of
what
he
may
do
,
and
what
he
may
not
doe
?
The
Gent.
dogeth
me
,
with
P.
R.
his
distinction
of
directly
,
and
indirectly
,
which
importeth
thus
much
,
that
in
plaine
,
true
,
and
in
direct
course
,
to
his
Pastorall
office
,
there
be
fixed
bounds
,
which
he
cannot
passe
,
but
in
an
vndue
vnproper
,
and
indirect
course
,
he
may
goe
where
he
listeth
,
neyther
hedge
nor
ditch
can
hold
him
,
neyther
can
there
any
matter
of
cause
be
conceiued
,
wherevnto
this
indirect
and
outstretched
power
may
not
be
carried
,
we
reckon
in
the
Common
acceptation
of
speech
,
vndirect
dealing
to
bee
fraudulent
and
vniust
dealing
,
and
why
shold
it
not
likewise
be
vnderstood
,
that
this
indirect
authority
is
a
wrong
vsurping
,
and
mis-begotten
authority
?
The
temporall
is
subordinate
to
the
spiritual
therefore
(
in
ordine
ad
Spiritualia
)
he
that
hath
all
spirituallity
,
may
in
that
regard
,
as
occasions
be
ministred
,
rule
,
and
order
any
temporall
thing
,
or
businesse
whatsoever
;
this
is
the
reach
&
strayne
of
their
(
indirectly
)
which
can
be
no
lesse
then
a
direct
and
shamelesse
illuding
shift
,
for
maintayning
whereof
,
and
iustifying
of
that
infinity
of
doing
and
determining
,
so
many
English
Subiects
,
must
forsake
and
abandon
their
obedyence
,
breaking
a
sunder
all
the
chaynes
of
loue
and
allegiance
,
which
Nature
,
Lawes
,
Diuine
,
and
humane
,
and
necessity
it selfe
doeth
tye
them
with
,
alas
,
that
vppon
so
slender
proofe
,
not
contayning
so
much
as
a
shadow
of
any
probability
,
our
deare
Country-men
enjoying
the
benefits
of
the
same
soyle
,
and
pertaking
the
protection
of
so
gracious
a
Prince
:
whereby
their
liues
and
estates
are
preserued
in
peace
and
good
repose
,
should
bee
bewitched
to
their
owne
woe
,
and
seduced
to
the
stirring
of
sedition
:
Yet
it
is
not
vnknowne
that
diuers
of
them
moued
more
with
the
true
zeale
of
rendring
to
his
Maiesty
,
their
dutious
respects
,
then
carried
with
that
head-strong
,
and
blind
zeale
,
of
attending
the
pleasure
and
commands
of
their
great
Dragon
,
haue
willingly
(
and
as
wee
are
to
judge
)
faithfully
taken
the
oath
aforesayd
,
to
the
exceeding
comfort
and
(
as
he
entertayneth
the
same
with
an
acceptable
construction
)
to
the
assuring
of
his
Maiesty
,
of
their
vnfeined
fidellity
.
But
this
cauilling
Gent.
taketh
exception
vnto
,
and
maketh
considerations
vppon
the
words
,
(
willingly
and
faithfully
.
)
First
,
for
shew
and
proofe
that
they
haue
not
done
it
willingly
or
freely
:
hee
alledgeth
that
the
statute
imposing
such
a
paine
vppon
the
refusors
,
doth
make
a
kinde
of
restraynt
through
feare
;
and
so
depriueth
them
both
of
liberty
and
freedome
;
I
appeale
to
the
parties
themselues
,
that
haue
taken
the
oath
,
who
speaketh
more
truely
and
honestly
of
,
then
he
,
or
I
,
when
I
finde
it
a
branch
of
their
oath
,
that
they
doe
sweare
willingly
,
I
doe
beleeue
them
,
not
taking
them
to
be
so
Reprobate
,
as
in
any
such
〈◊〉
rate
manner
forsweare
themselues
:
Neither
doe
I
〈◊〉
,
so
〈◊〉
of
them
,
as
that
the
passion
of
feare
could
so
farre
transport
them
as
to
make
them
sweare
〈…〉
:
He
(
belike
knowing
them
better
then
I
)
〈◊〉
against
them
,
that
they
haue
not
taken
the
oath
willingly
,
and
therefore
they
be
directly
〈◊〉
,
yet
he
thinketh
he
hath
pleased
them
againe
,
and
falued
the
matter
by
laying
the
fault
vpon
the
enforcement
of
feare
,
wrought
in
their
hearts
,
by
the
rigiour
of
the
Law
:
In
the
meane
time
hee
maketh
them
in
their
Religion
to
be
very
faint
,
and
of
little
faith
,
if
worldly
respects
and
dread
of
Calamities
.
can
so
farre
stagger
them
,
or
preuaile
ouer
their
infirmities
,
as
to
make
them
feare
man
more
then
God
;
and
so
in
an
vnbeleefe
and
prophannesse
,
hazard
saluation
by
forswearing
;
but
because
he
so
carpeth
at
the
carriage
,
and
composure
of
that
oath
,
and
the
enterlacing
of
those
words
,
I
would
aske
his
opinion
whither
it
be
not
lawfull
and
reasonable
that
any
Magistrate
may
,
yea
ought
,
to
charge
the
conscience
of
him
that
sweareth
,
that
he
shall
doe
the
same
willingly
,
and
faithfully
?
Or
doth
he
know
any
oath
,
wherein
the
same
are
equall
thereunto
,
to
expresse
the
trueth
and
sincerity
of
the
heart
,
be
not
eyther
directly
vsed
,
or
necessarily
imployed
?
His
supposall
of
feares
,
troubles
,
or
losses
,
is
as
applyable
to
the
taking
of
any
other
oath
,
and
by
any
other
persons
aswell
as
to
this
,
by
them
taken
,
seeing
that
there
is
no
oath
prescribed
to
be
required
or
exacted
of
any
subiect
,
but
the
refusall
thereof
doth
occasionally
,
and
consequently
,
draw
dangers
and
losses
to
the
partie
so
refusing
.
And
doth
hee
thinke
it
fit
to
infert
thereof
that
all
the
oathes
that
are
propounded
with
such
condition
,
or
likely
to
breed
such
inconvenience
to
the
refuser
,
are
not
taken
freely
and
heartily
?
I
wish
his
wits
more
freedome
,
and
his
heart
more
loyalty
then
so
to
judge
.
If
the
oath
had
stayed
at
the
recognition
of
his
Majesties
right
vnto
the
Crowne
,
and
had
not
mentioned
the
Popes
Authority
,
or
any
restrictions
concerning
the
same
,
the
heauinesse
and
extreamitye
of
the
penaltye
appoynted
against
the
refusors
,
and
so
much
aggrivated
by
this
Gent.
had
not
beene
charged
as
a
compulsarie
cause
,
or
any
privation
,
or
impediment
to
the
freedome
of
the
Catholikes
consciences
,
whereby
it
is
made
evident
,
that
not
the
manner
,
but
the
matter
of
the
said
oath
,
it
is
,
that
stingeth
and
offendeth
them
so
much
,
for
otherwise
they
will
not
deny
,
but
his
Majestie
may
lawfully
,
either
by
oath
(
which
putteth
vpon
their
Soules
an
awe
and
obligation
spirituall
)
or
by
propounding
correspondent
punishment
temporall
(
which
often
worketh
a
suppression
of
outward
attempts
)
secure
himselfe
so
farre
as
he
may
of
good
affection
,
or
at
the
least
of
no
aversion
in
his
Subiects
.
As
touching
the
other
word
(
faithfully
)
howsoever
he
comments
vpon
the
same
either
by
way
of
interpretation
of
the
sense
and
meaning
,
which
his
Catholikes
reteyned
to
themselves
,
when
they
tooke
the
said
oath
,
or
by
way
of
direction
vnto
such
as
shall
hereafter
be
pressed
thereunto
,
what
cautelous
reservation
they
may
make
by
a
mentall
conceit
,
(
for
surely
by
giuing
his
judgement
what
the
former
haue
done
,
he
intendeth
to
instruct
the
rest
what
to
do
)
yet
for
my
part
,
I
will
still
hold
my selfe
in
my
rule
of
charity
which
before
I
haue
obserued
,
That
for
as
much
as
they
haue
sworne
,
that
the
words
by
them
spoken
were
sincerely
acknowledged
,
according
to
the
plaine
and
common
sense
and
vnderstanding
of
the
same
,
without
any
equivocation
or
mentall
evasion
,
or
secret
reservation
whatsoever
.
I
doe
not
beleeue
,
that
any
of
them
haue
vsed
any
such
damnable
deceit
,
or
haue
so
apparently
and
grossely
foresworne
themselues
.
Can
this
Gent.
be
so
hard-hearted
towards
his
beloued
,
as
when
he
seeth
and
rehearseth
the
very
words
of
their
religious
asseverations
,
and
protestations
,
and
that
with
this
concluding
clause
(
by
the
faith
of
a
Christian
)
yet
to
iudge
that
they
tooke
the
said
oath
in
the
same
lawfull
sense
and
interpretation
which
might
stand
with
the
true
Catholike
doctrine
,
making
them
thereby
equivocators
,
and
mentall
Iugglers
,
yea
,
expresse
periured
,
if
they
haue
secretly
reteyned
any
others
meanings
then
as
the
common
and
plaine
sense
of
the
words
affordeth
.
But
how
doth
he
convey
and
conster
that
part
of
the
oath
as
concerning
the
Popes
Authority
,
in
dealing
with
temporall
Princes
?
What
moderate
meaning
hath
he
found
for
the
safegard
of
the
Catholike
consciences
that
haue
taken
that
oath
?
Truly
this
devise
and
exposition
is
so
sleight
and
simple
,
as
that
I
am
verily
perswaded
he
propoundeth
and
publisheth
the
same
,
meerely
for
the
instruction
and
practise
of
the
simple
and
vulgar
Catholikes
:
The
learned
amongst
them
would
be
ashamed
of
so
meane
and
vnschollerlike
a
shift
,
to
wit
,
that
in
swearing
,
that
the
Pope
hath
no
authority
to
proceed
against
Princes
,
they
should
subunderstand
(
without
good
cause
)
for
this
inperpretation
(
saith
he
)
is
agreeable
to
the
integritie
and
sinceritie
of
the
Catholike
doctrine
,
quia
illud
possumus
quod
iure
possumus
,
And
I
pray
the
Gentlemans
worship
,
to
tell
me
whether
non
possumus
etiam
quod
iure
non
possumus
,
is
not
power
for
the
most
part
extendeable
beyond
right
and
iustice
?
But
in
this
case
the
question
it selfe
being
De
jure
,
Whether
the
Pope
rightfully
and
lawfully
(
as
incident
into
his
Pastorall
place
)
may
exercise
power
and
authority
over
Princes
temporally
,
how
frivolously
,
and
ridiculously
,
is
this
evasion
devised
,
that
hee
may
not
doe
it
without
good
cause
,
which
is
as
much
to
say
,
hee
may
not
doe
it
lawfully
,
except
hee
doe
it
lawfully
.
Why
?
the
question
is
not
what
hee
may
doe
vnlawfully
,
for
then
wee
might
give
to
some
one
Pope
an
exemption
,
and
dispensation
for
more
sinnes
,
then
there
were
vertues
among
them
all
.
But
when
it
is
asked
what
this
supreame
Pastor
may
doe
,
or
what
he
may
not
doe
,
in
the
right
of
his
ministeriall
office
,
this
same
(
jure
)
hath
reference
to
the
authority
generall
,
and
not
to
the
exercise
thereof
in
any
vnlawfull
particularitie
.
Yet
I
may
not
so
haue
done
with
this
his
so
foolish
conceit
,
lest
if
I
let
him
passe
therewith
,
hee
may
gather
vpon
me
another
absurdity
,
that
(
with
good
cause
)
the
Pope
may
take
vpon
him
the
power
,
which
we
absolutely
deny
him
,
who
knoweth
not
,
that
the
cause
and
offence
may
be
such
as
may
moue
and
provoke
the
dislike
of
all
men
?
yet
the
correction
,
reformation
and
restraint
belongeth
not
to
all
men
,
but
only
to
a
competent
and
authorized
Iudge
,
which
the
Pope
over
Princes
can
never
be
,
especially
in
temporall
affaires
,
neither
directly
,
that
is
truly
and
by
commission
,
nor
vndirectly
,
that
is
coulerably
by
any
devised
or
fained
pretence
,
wherfore
if
he
can
invent
no
better
an
hiding
corner
for
dissembling
swearers
,
I
hope
there
is
no
Catholike
will
make
vse
of
his
so
fond
a
reservation
and
favorable
interpretation
,
which
indeed
is
all
one
,
as
if
he
asked
leave
to
speak
senselesly
,
to
meane
deceitfully
,
and
to
practize
treacherously
;
presently
after
this
out
of
his
charity
he
had
conceaved
this
escape
by
construction
,
for
the
consciences
of
Catholikes
,
forgetting
(
as
it
seemeth
)
that
the
said
oath
had
by
speciall
words
provided
against
such
reserved
meanings
,
he
remembreth
himselfe
better
acknowledging
that
as
this
case
standeth
,
they
may
not
well
induce
themselues
to
equivocate
,
or
sweare
in
any
other
sense
then
from
his
Maiestie
is
proposed
,
and
concludeth
it
to
be
lesse
hurt
plainly
to
deny
to
sweare
,
then
by
such
swearing
to
giue
no
satisfaction
neither
to
God
,
the
King
,
himselfe
,
nor
his
neighbors
,
thereupon
falleth
into
a
deepe
grave
invective
against
this
great
pressure
laid
vpon
mens
consciences
,
shewing
that
howsoever
we
recken
it
a
godly
devise
&
intent
,
and
that
God
did
accordingly
blesse
the
same
,
yet
that
no
violence
or
oppression
whatsoever
is
like
to
this
,
and
that
the
devising
of
this
new
oath
was
no
blessing
,
but
an
vnspeakable
affliction
and
augaraciō
of
mind
(
his
angry
passion
forging
vnto
vs
that
new
word
)
and
in
this
fuming
fashion
he
preceedeth
,
not
forbearing
to
tell
vs
that
by
such
extreame
vexing
of
men
,
we
shall
gaine
nothing
,
and
giueth
vs
further
to
vnderstand
,
that
such
forcing
of
men
against
their
consciences
may
make
vs
more
doubtfull
of
their
good
will
after
they
haue
sworne
,
then
we
were
be-before
;
and
that
iniury
receiued
,
must
needes
stirre
them
to
more
auersion
of
heart
,
working
contrary
effects
to
that
which
is
pretended
;
Nay
,
he
dareth
also
to
adde
hereunto
some
threates
and
terrors
,
Setting
foorth
that
amongst
all
other
passions
,
none
is
more
strong
then
that
of
reuenge
for
oppressions
receiued
,
and
therefore
would
haue
vs
conceiue
,
and
apply
it
,
that
such
as
do
not
sticke
to
sweare
against
their
consciences
,
for
feare
or
other
passions
,
will
as
easily
breake
that
oath
vppon
like
motiues
if
occasion
serue
:
In
this
boyling
manner
doth
the
fervency
of
his
spirit
inkindle
the
inclinable
hearts
of
the
male-contended
,
Catholikes
,
by
the
memory
of
their
wrongs
,
and
with
vehemency
of
words
,
making
incitations
,
to
sedition
,
and
insurrection
;
his
Theologicall
resolving
that
wee
commit
a
grieuous
sinne
,
when
wee
force
and
presse
men
to
sweare
against
their
consciences
,
making
the
same
the
highest
degree
of
scandall
actiue
,
tendeth
to
no
other
end
,
then
to
scandalize
the
Iustice
of
our
state
,
and
to
animate
their
mutining
and
factious
complices
,
to
some
desperate
vndertakings
.
And
because
hee
sayth
,
that
such
their
Catholike
Doctrine
,
will
not
be
denyed
of
the
learned
Protestants
themselues
:
He
forceth
for
answere
a
declaration
of
the
truth
,
positiuely
mayntained
amongst
vs
in
that
behalfe
;
wherein
(
first
absolutely
denying
that
de
facto
we
inforce
any
so
to
sweare
)
or
that
the
tenor
of
the
Statute
,
or
any
rigor
contayned
in
the
penalty
thereof
,
doth
presse
them
to
any
repugnancy
,
against
their
consciences
,
we
confesse
that
amongst
priuate
men
in
particuler
neccssities
,
for
discouering
of
some
truth
,
which
otherwise
cannot
be
made
knowne
this
course
of
giving
and
taking
satisfaction
by
a
voluntary
oath
is
held
in
vse
,
and
that
needfully
and
lawfully
;
and
that
in
such
debates
of
priuate
nature
,
it
belongeth
to
the
discretion
,
honesty
,
and
conscience
of
any
well
aduised
man
,
not
to
require
or
accept
of
the
oath
of
any
such
as
hee
by
vehement
presumption
mis-doubteth
will
forsweare
himselfe
.
But
when
for
the
publike
good
,
and
by
publike
authority
of
the
Law
,
the
publike
officer
or
Magistrate
is
enioyned
to
vrge
an
oath
,
or
to
be
satisfied
by
the
same
,
he
therein
(
for
performing
and
executing
of
the
direction
and
command
of
the
Law
)
is
not
to
be
blamed
,
neyther
committeth
any
sinne
,
though
in
his
priuate
opinion
hee
shall
suspect
that
the
party
so
brought
to
his
oath
,
will
falsly
or
corruptly
forsweare
.
For
heerein
hee
is
but
a
Minister
of
the
Law
,
and
must
leaue
the
searching
into
the
secrets
of
the
heart
,
to
the
Almighty
all
seeing
,
and
all
iudging
God
,
his
duty
and
office
both
worketh
and
endeth
in
the
act
of
the
Law
,
saving
that
piety
and
charity
may
mooue
him
zealously
to
admonish
him
that
so
sweareth
,
to
haue
God
and
his
Christian
faith
in
remembrance
,
and
to
beware
of
all
precipitation
into
the
danger
of
hell
fire
.
This
godly
and
charitable
aduisednesse
,
(
I
am
well
assured
)
is
duely
obserued
by
the
Magistrates
of
this
Realme
,
not
suffering
any
to
passe
so
carelesly
,
as
not
with
louing
tendernesse
to
admonish
them
,
of
the
important
poynts
,
of
that
oath
,
and
to
adhort
him
to
plainnesse
,
and
willingnesse
in
taking
of
the
same
,
that
their
consciences
may
not
after
be
combred
,
and
confounded
with
scruples
,
conflicts
,
or
reluctations
.
He
affirmeth
a
likely
obiection
to
be
made
on
our
side
,
for
defence
of
the
enforcing
of
Catholikes
to
this
oath
,
which
is
by
way
of
justification
,
of
our
doings
therein
,
to
be
agreeable
to
the
practise
of
the
Romish
Church
,
or
in
a
course
of
recrimination
that
the
Popish
authority
is
more
or
equally
culpable
of
the
same
offence
,
because
in
the
tribunalls
of
inquifitors
,
men
are
forced
to
abiure
their
opinions
,
and
that
vnder
paine
of
death
,
or
other
most
grieuous
punishments
.
Now
what
is
his
answere
,
and
what
is
the
difference
which
he
findeth
out
,
to
convince
our
constraynings
to
be
dissauowable
,
and
theirs
(
much
more
violent
and
Tyrannous
)
to
be
approueable
?
marry
,
because
the
Catholike
Church
hath
Ius
acquisitum
ouer
Heretickes
,
as
her
due
subiects
,
though
now
gone
out
of
her
,
and
departed
from
her
;
doth
this
answere
beseeme
a
Gent.
that
professeth
learning
,
who
well
knoweth
that
wee
will
presently
deny
the
Popish
to
be
the
Catholike
Church
?
that
we
haue
not
departed
from
the
Church
?
but
from
the
abhominations
of
Rome
,
that
we
be
neither
Heretickes
,
not
subiects
to
that
Antichristian
Supremacy
,
and
that
their
Ius
acquisitum
is
not
obtayned
by
any
derivation
or
substitution
from
Christ
,
but
it
is
intruded
and
vsurped
,
and
so
rightly
termed
acquisitum
,
beeing
neither
Datum
nor
Legitimum
,
but
gotten
by
fradulent
contriuings
,
and
strong
illusions
;
in
which
cases
it
is
not
vnlawfull
to
shake
of
the
yoake
of
bondage
,
and
Tyranny
,
so
vniustly
brought
vppon
vs
,
so
soone
as
any
meanes
and
opportunity
shall
be
offered
.
And
the
rather
because
we
haue
(
to
front
this
Ius
acquisitum
with
)
an
old
and
strong
opposition
in
our
Law
,
that
nullum
tempus
occurrit
Regi
,
whose
Royall
pre-eminence
and
supreame
power
,
God
hath
in
due
time
redeemed
,
from
that
great
captiuity
of
the
Romish
Babell
;
and
was
it
not
high
time
,
and
most
requisite
that
the
dignity
,
and
Maiesty
of
this
Kingdome
should
be
exempted
from
the
seruitude
of
that
Ius
acquisitum
?
Doe
you
not
note
that
all
such
as
be
or
haue
beene
brought
vnder
the
same
,
are
by
this
Gent.
called
the
subiects
of
the
Catholike
Church
?
such
is
the
haughtinesse
of
that
high
built
Tower
of
pride
.
The
Pope
is
here
made
a
Soveraigne
,
St.
Peters
nets
catcheth
more
Kingdomes
,
then
Fortune
cast
into
the
nets
of
the
Athenian
Captaine
.
The
Monarchies
of
Europe
must
be
come
the
acquisites
or
perquisites
of
the
Court
of
Rome
.
Hath
not
then
the
Pope
some
reason
thus
to
contend
for
the
retayning
of
his
subiects
in
his
obedience
,
by
barring
of
them
from
swearing
themselues
subiects
to
his
Majestie
,
and
by
performing
of
the
duties
of
allegiance
requierable
of
subiects
?
I
shall
be
driven
to
avouch
in
earnest
,
that
which
Cardinall
Bellarminegathereth
against
vs
as
a
great
absurditie
,
that
is
,
That
no
man
can
professe
vnfeinedly
his
civill
obedience
,
and
detest
treason
and
conspiracy
,
but
hee
must
bee
forced
also
to
renounce
the
Primacy
of
the
Sea
of
Rome
.
The
headship
of
the
supreame
Bishop
which
beareth
away
in
his
streame
the
service
and
devotion
of
so
many
reputed
Catholikes
,
is
the
headspring
of
treacherie
and
sedition
,
which
by
claiming
amongst
vs
so
many
subiects
,
draweth
from
vs
their
affection
and
obedience
.
The
distinction
of
Spirituall
subjection
and
civil
obedience
,
is
become
idle
and
of
no
vse
,
because
the
Pope
doth
not
keepe
his
quarter
,
but
will
needs
breake
forth
of
the
rayles
and
limits
of
that
distinction
,
taking
vpon
him
to
be
authorized
also
temporally
,
and
that
,
for
the
suppression
and
subversion
of
the
Civill
Soveraignity
,
and
so
vpon
that
occasion
(
hauing
his
sheepe
as
by
his
pastorall
charge
to
attend
his
call
and
heare
his
voyce
)
maketh
at
the
lest
a
scruple
,
and
distraction
,
if
not
a
full
declination
in
the
wills
and
dutyes
of
the
people
of
this
Kingdome
,
whence
must
necessarily
arise
either
privie
complottings
,
or
open
attempts
,
in
favour
of
their
opinions
,
and
in
furtherance
of
their
defires
,
which
how
farre
it
will
extend
,
and
into
how
deepe
degrees
it
vseth
to
grow
,
many
sorowfull
and
fearefull
examples
hath
in
this
Realme
demonstratively
declared
vnto
vs
,
to
every
whereof
Papacy
hath
beene
the
stirrer
and
instigator
.
I
scant
dare
to
mention
that
late
most
memorable
example
(
beyond
all
examples
)
of
the
Powder-Treason
,
this
Gentleman
is
so
tender-eared
,
as
that
he
cannot
indure
to
heare
of
that
,
he
findeth
fault
with
the
appolloger
for
the
odeous
and
often
repetition
thereof
.
I
cannot
blame
them
if
the
repetition
of
that
purpose
bee
thought
odeous
,
which
maketh
them
odeous
to
all
true
Christian
hearts
,
and
putteth
all
the
world
at
gaze
,
in
admiring
at
a
designe
so
diuellish
and
detestable
.
And
because
he
asketh
whether
there
be
no
end
of
reprobation
,
I
will
end
with
a
wish
,
That
there
were
in
that
hollow
vault
some
shrill
and
screeching
Eccho
,
that
might
never
cease
,
by
continuall
resounding
out-cryes
,
to
beate
and
fill
the
aire
,
with
the
memorie
of
that
hellish
enterprise
,
that
a
Treason
so
extraordinarie
,
hatched
vp
with
the
heate
of
Papacy
,
should
even
from
forth
of
the
stones
themselves
receave
for
ever
in
all
succeeding
Ages
,
a
most
iust
reproofe
and
exprobation
.
My
position
wherewith
I
will
conclude
is
this
,
That
albeit
I
doe
not
hold
all
popish
opinions
,
or
Papists
seduced
with
such
errors
,
to
be
culpable
of
Treason
,
knowing
that
many
simple
and
vninstructed
people
,
may
in
some
perticulers
be
misled
,
and
neverthelesse
,
remaine
allowable
subiects
,
and
perhaps
not
forsaken
Christians
:
Yet
such
and
so
many
of
them
,
as
directly
,
and
compleatly
,
maintaine
Papacy
,
that
is
,
the
Supremacy
of
the
Popes
power
and
Authority
in
the
sense
,
and
to
the
purpose
,
as
this
Gentleman
and
P.
R.
hath
expressed
and
advanced
the
same
,
and
in
vpholding
thereof
,
deny
their
Faith
,
Allegiance
,
Assistance
,
Subjection
,
and
Adherence
vnto
their
Soveraigne
,
doe
carry
Treasonable
hearts
,
and
are
thereby
apted
for
the
like
Actions
,
as
opportunity
shall
allure
or
enable
them
thereunto
.
FINIS
.