"Important Considerations," Or A Vindication of Queen Elizabeth from the Charge of Unjust Severity Towards Her Roman Catholic Subjects |
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Page xlix - Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them; wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
Page 35 - IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS, WHICH OUGHT TO MOVE ALL TRUE AND SOUND CATHOLICS, WHO ARE NOT WHOLLY JESUITED, to acknowledge without all equivocations, ambiguities, or shiftings, that the proceedings of her Majesty, and of the State with them, since the beginning of her Highnesse raigne, have been both mild and mercifull.
Page xlvi - Captain, — if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant, you shall find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon, and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...
Page 86 - Thou art taken in thy own snare ; for, after the consecration, the mystical symbols lose not their proper nature : they remain in the former substance, figure, and appearance (or rather, in the shape and form of the former substance)/™) to be seen, and to be felt, as before ; but they are understood to be what they have been made ; this they are believed to be ; and as such they are adored.
Page 76 - A particular declaration or testimony, of the undutifull and traiterous affection borne against her Maiestie, by Edmond Campion Jesuite, and other condemned Priestes, witnessed by their owne confessions...
Page 1 - Catholikes, who are not wholly lesuited, to acknowledge without all equiuocations, ambiguities, or shiftings, that the proceedings of her Majesty, and of the State with them, since the beginning of her Highnesse raigne, haue bene both mild and mercifull.
Page 3 - ... is written to move all true and sound Catholics who are not wholly jesuited to acknowledge without equivocations, ambiguities or shiftings, that the proceedings of her Majesty and of the State with them since the beginning of her Highness' reign have been both mild and merciful ; and is dedicated to all dearly affected of both sexes, of all three ages, in every degree, state, and condition of life, as well for the gifts of graces given them as Catholics, ' as also for the gifts of nature given...
Page 40 - And when was that our great Monseigneurs ? Surely whensoever it was : (to answer for you) we ourselves (certain Catholics of all sorts) were the true causes of it. For whilst her Majesty and the State dealt with the Catholics, as you have heard, (which was full eleven years, no one Catholic being called in question of his life, for his conscience, all that time :) consider with us, how some of our profession proceeded with them.
Page 78 - Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestic, dwelling in Pater Noster Rowe at the signe of the Tygreshead Anno 1579.
Page 52 - If the pope do by his bull or sentence pronounce her Majesty to be deprived and no lawful queen, and her subjects to be discharged of their allegiance and obedience unto her, and, after, the pope or any other of his appointment and authority do invade this realm, which part would you take, or which part ought a good subject of England to take?