A reply to the ansvver of the Catholiqve apology, or, A cleere vindication of the Catholiques of England from all matter of fact charg'd against them by their enemyes
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A reply to the ansvver of the Catholiqve apology, or, A cleere vindication of the Catholiques of England from all matter of fact charg'd against them by their enemyes
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Castlemaine, Roger Palmer, Earl of, 1634-1705.
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[London? :: s.n.],
M. DC. LXVIII [1668]
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Lloyd, William, 1627-1717. -- Late apology in behalf of the papists.
Catholic Church -- Apologetic works.
Catholics -- England.
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"A reply to the ansvver of the Catholiqve apology, or, A cleere vindication of the Catholiques of England from all matter of fact charg'd against them by their enemyes." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A31234.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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REPLY IV.
Is not this pretty, that no body died in England for Religion, but for Treason? and yet many hundred of Priests have been executed for no other crime, but being Priests. Nay, Lay-men have been han∣ged for being converted, and others for letting a Priest say Mass in their houses; when as to hear Mass on Festivals every Catholique is in Conscience obliged, if he can. Besides, have not many Catholi∣ques also suffered for believing the Pope to be Head of the Church? By this Argument then, if the Parliament should make it Treason (as who knows but they may?) to hold Episcopal Ordination only valid, or that the King cannot give Orders; it might then be as well said, that they (that are executed in pursuance of that Law) died for Treason, and not for their Religion.
But lest the Minister (that has the bold∣ness in almost every Paragraph to deny apparently known things) might to decei∣ve his Acquaintance still say, I have not proved what I assert: Not to trouble my Reader with many citations, take this one
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example out of aJohn Stow, that down∣right & plain Historian. He tells us, That fourteen Papists were at a clap executed; six only for being made Priests beyond Sea, and remaining here; four Lay-men only for being reconciled; and four more, only for abet∣ting or relieving the others. Now if that be sufficient for the justice of the procedure, to say there are Laws to this purpose en∣acted, then most certain it is, that the Pri∣mitive Christians were all Traytors, being banisht by the lawful Magistrate from se∣veral places where they taught, and kno∣wing also many particular Injunctions against their Preaching and seducing the Emperors Subjects, as the Ethnicks were pleased to call it. Nay, the Great St. Alban our famous Proto-Martyr was executed (as may be seen in the Martyrology) for being (contrary to Dioclesians Laws) con∣verted to the Faith, and abetting or enter∣taining in his House the Priest Amphiba∣lus, which Priest was his Spiritual Instruc∣tor, according to Mr. Cambden in his fa∣mous Treatise b of Brittain.