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A Discourse Penned by a Romish Priest

Published: 1642
Length: 36,732 words
Reading: ~2 hours
Divisions: 22

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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 ...

London Imprinted by I. L. for Nicholas Bourne and Iohn Bartlet ... 1642.

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Title page
Notice to the readerAN ADVERTISEMENT TO the Reader, touching the Author and the Argument of the insuing Discourse, AND THE…
Table of contentsA TABLE OF THE SPECIALL CONTENTS.
ErrataErrata sic corrige,
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Preface to the readerA Preface to the Reader.
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Section 2§ 2. It is not unlawfull to goe to Church, because Recusancie is a distinctive signe. Which is the second…
Section 3§. 3. That it is not unlawfull to goe to Church for feare of danger of subversion or Blasphemy, which is…
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1 oath of allegiance
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1 oath of supremacy
Back matter
Appendix
Form of recantationEx Rotulo clausarum de Anno decimo nono Richardi Secundi — m. 18. dorso.
ResolutionDeclaratio Patrum concilli Tridentini, circa frequentationem Ecclesiarum, Eo tempore, quo hereticiritus…
Oath of supremacyThe Oath of Supremacie Enacted 35. Henrici octavi.
Oath of supremacyThe Oath of Supremacie enacted 1•. Elizabeth, cap. 1o.
ProvisoA Proviso in an Act 5 o. Elizabeth, c. 1o. for expounding this Oath.
AdmonitionThe Admonition annexed to the Injunctions Elizabeth 1o. followes with this Title.
To the readerThe Conclusion of the Authour of the Animadversions to the Reader.

A Discourse Penned by a Romish Priest

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