And fynally some fyue yeares after this agayne in the
sixt Councell of Toledo, being gathered togeather in
the same Church of S. Leocadia, the said Bishops, togea∣ther
with the Nobility, did make this law, and pre∣scribed
this forme of Oath to all Kings of that nation,
Vt quisquis succedentium,Conc. Tol. 6. ca. 3:temporum Regni sortitus suerit
apicem, non anteà conscendat Regiam Sedem, quàm inter
reliquas conditiones, Sacramento pollicitus fuerit, hanc se Ca∣tholicam
non permissurum eos violare fidem. That whatsoeuer
future King,An Oath prescribed by the Councell to Kings. shall obtayne the height of this King∣dome,
he shall not be permitted to ascend to the
Royall seate therof, vntill he haue sworne, among
other conditions, that, he will neuer suffer his
subiects to violate this Catholicke faith, Marke
that he saith (this) which was the Catholicke faith
then held in Spayne, and explicated in those Councels of
Toledo; the particulers wherof do easely shew, that they
were as opposite to the Protestant faith, as we are
now.XIX. So as, all this is against the Apologer: for
that in these Councells no particuler forme of any Oath
was set downe, or exhibited at all to Subiects, that
we can read of, but only in generall, it is commanded,
That all do keepe their Oath of Allegiance sworne to their
Princes, at their first entrance, or afterward. Which
thing, no Pope did euer forbid, and all English Catho∣licks
at this day do offer willingly to performe the same
to this Ma.tie; and consequently, all that ostentation
made by the Minister before, That this Oath is no new in∣uention:
That it doth take the example from an Oath of Allegiance
decreed a thousand yeares gone, by a famous Councell: That the
Councel prouided in particuler for the poynts of Equiuocation: That
almost euery poynt of that action hath agreeance with this of ours,
sauing only in this, that the Councell was carefull, & straite in
commanding the taking of the same, and Pope Paulus carefull and
strayt in the prohibition &c.0
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