Virtumnus romanus, or, A discovrse penned by a Romish priest wherein he endevours to prove that it is lawfull for a papist in England to goe to the Protestant church, to receive the communion, and to take the oathes, both of allegiance and supremacie : to which are adjoyned animadversions in the in the [sic] margin by way of antidote against those places where the rankest poyson is couched / by Daniel Featley ...

Title

Virtumnus romanus, or, A discovrse penned by a Romish priest wherein he endevours to prove that it is lawfull for a papist in England to goe to the Protestant church, to receive the communion, and to take the oathes, both of allegiance and supremacie : to which are adjoyned animadversions in the in the [sic] margin by way of antidote against those places where the rankest poyson is couched / by Daniel Featley ...

Author

Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.

Publication

London :: Imprinted by I. L. for Nicholas Bourne and Iohn Bartlet ...,

1642.

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Catholics -- England.

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"Virtumnus romanus, or, A discovrse penned by a Romish priest wherein he endevours to prove that it is lawfull for a papist in England to goe to the Protestant church, to receive the communion, and to take the oathes, both of allegiance and supremacie : to which are adjoyned animadversions in the in the [sic] margin by way of antidote against those places where the rankest poyson is couched / by Daniel Featley ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A41019.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 29, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• order
• title page
• AN ADVERTISEMENT TO the Reader, touching the Author and the Argument of the in∣suing Discourse, AND THE REASONS FOR WHICH it is thought fit to be published to the view of the world.
• A TABLE OF THE SPE∣CIALL CONTENTS.
• Errata sic corrige,
• title page
• A Preface to the Reader.
• A SAFEGARD FROM Shipwracke to a Prudent Catholique.
  • § 1o. That Scandall makes it not unlawfull to goe to the Protestant Church.
  • § 2. It is not unlawfull to goe to Church, because Recusancie is a distinctive signe. Which is the second branch of the Minor.
  • §. 3. That it is not unlawfull to goe to Church for feare of danger of subversion or Blasphemy, which is the third and last branch of the Minor to be proved.
• Appendix.
  • Ex Rotulo clausarum de Anno decimo nono Richardi Secundi — m. 18. dorso.
  • Declaratio Patrum concilli Tridentini, circa frequentationem Ecclesiarum, Eo tempore, quo hereticiritus exercen∣tur, aut praedicatur haeresis.
  • The Oath of Supremacie Enacted 35. Henrici octavi.
  • The Oath of Supremacie enacted 1•. Elizabeth, cap. 1o.
  • A Proviso in an Act 5o. Elizabeth, c. 1o. for expounding this Oath.
  • The Admonition annexed to the Injunctions Elizabeth 1o. followes with this Title.
• The Conclusion of the Authour of the Animadversions to the Reader.