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<P>THE CAVALIERS Catechi&s;me: OR, The Reformed Prote&s;tant catechi&s;ing the Antichri&s;tian Papi&s;ts, Malignants, Incen|diaries, and other ill-affected Per|&s;ons under the name of <HI>Cavaliers.</HI></P>
<P>WITH <HI>Their di&s;tinct An&s;wer thereunto.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Wat&s;on.</HI> 1643.<ADD>May .3.</ADD></P>
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<HEAD>The Cavaliers Catechi&s;me.</HEAD>
<P><LABEL>Que&s;tion.</LABEL>
_WHat is your name?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Cavalier.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> Who gave you that name?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> My &s;educers and deceivers, in my innocency, wherein I was made a member of the Church of Rome, and con&s;equently a limb of Antichri&s;t, an enemy to all goodne&s;&s;e, the child of the divell, an inheriter of the king|dome of darkne&s;&s;e, among&s;t the infernall &s;pirits that rule in the ayre of this terre&s;triall globe.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> How were your Witne&s;&s;es denomi|nated?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Lack-wit and Ignorance: for if they had wit and knowledge, they would not have gi|ven the title of a Gentleman to a clowne or Corydon.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> What did your Witne&s;&s;es promi&s;e you &s;hould perform when you came to maturity and ripe age, when you received your name?</P>
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<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> That I &s;hould for&s;ake all Piety and godli|ne&s;&s;e, all vertue and purity, the true and Apo&s;to|lique Religion, grounded upon the verity of Gods word, that I &s;hould per&s;ecute all profe&s;|&s;ors of the &s;ame, envy all goodne&s;&s;e and good men, promote the Romi&s;h Religion and King|dome of Antichri&s;t, by any manner of meanes what&s;oever, be it by trea&s;onable plots again&s;t Princes or States, or by ray&s;ing publike Warre and &s;edition in Common-Wealths, and the like.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> Art thou able to doe the&s;e things of thy &s;elfe, that were promi&s;ed for the?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> No verily, but by the helpe of the re&s;t of my fellow members received into that Con|gregation, I doubt not to be inabled and &s;treng|thened to performe all that was promi&s;ed on behalfe.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> What is meant by your name Cavalier?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Knighthood, very unfit for me, for as I am told, it was a name fir&s;t given to Gentlemen as an augmentation of honour, by the French|men in the Warres, the word being derived of the French word Chivall, a Hor&s;e, by which Troopers or Hor&s;emen in battaile were called Chevaliers, by corruption of &s;peech in the pro|ce&s;&s;e
<PB REF="3">of time, called by the Engli&s;h Cavaliers, now Cavallers, or Cavaleers, but by the better &s;ort Cavaliers, by all which the&s;e particulars, may be collected, that as the world is now de|generated from the true pronunciation of the o|riginall word, &s;o the naturall di&s;po&s;ition of men are degenerated to the word now in u&s;e, Caval|lers, or Cavaliers, for in our actions there is no &s;olidity, nor in our &s;peeches &s;obriety, nor in our hearts integrity, but all our arguments are main+tained by cavelling, and our actions defended by be&s;tiallity, and rude di&s;orderly behaviour, like unto untamed hor&s;es, from whence we re|ceived the fir&s;t denomination, who&s;e order is altogether to di&s;order and confound the warlike Rancks in Battaile, and to bring to confu&s;ion and de&s;truction, is the onely &s;ence they have of their pre&s;ent actions.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> Doe you conceive that the way you have been trained up and educated in from the time of your birth to this pre&s;ent, is to be defended by tho&s;e meanes as you have bin taught?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yis truely, for the&s;e rea&s;ons,
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<ITEM>1. In re&s;pect of the Commandements I have received from the Church&punc; wherein I was received a member.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 2 In re&s;pect of the danger I am told I &s;hall fall into, and puni&s;hment I am worthy of, if I de&s;ert the &s;ervice of that cau&s;e to which I have been devoted, and which my Witne&s;&s;es inga|ged them&s;elves for me in my infancy, that I &s;hould uphold and maintain when I &s;hould come to age?</ITEM>
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<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> What are the commandements you have learned, and that you conceive your &s;elfe bound to ob&s;erve and keep?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> The&s;e following.
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<ITEM>1 That I &s;hould ob&s;erve the will and plea|&s;ure of his Holine&s;&s;e of Rome in all matters touching &s;alvation, without the u&s;e of the Scriptures, they being by him counted defici|ent, and have not &s;ufficient in&s;tructions contai|ned in them to lead a pious life, and bring to fu|ture happine&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2 To commit trea&s;on again&s;t Kings that op|po&s;e his Holine&s;&s;e, and reject his doctrinall tra|ditions.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3 To commit fornication, adultery, rapine, and the like.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4 To reject the Chri&s;tian Sabbath, and pre|ferre the Jewi&s;h.</ITEM>
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<ITEM> 5. To admit of no le&s;&s;e then &s;even Sacraments nece&s;&s;ary to &s;alvation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. To &s;weare, and for&s;weare, for the defence of the Catholique cau&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. To cozen, deceive, and circumvent, our Neighbours for our own advantage.</ITEM>
<ITEM>8. To acknowledge no god greater, or more to be reverenced, and wor&s;hiped, then the Pope of Rome.</ITEM>
<ITEM>9. To wor&s;hip and adore Images, as much as Chri&s;t him&s;elfe.</ITEM>
<ITEM>10. To beare fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e again&s;t our neigh|bour, for any occa&s;ion what&s;oever.</ITEM>
<ITEM>11. For all which the Popes indulgent pardon is &s;ufficient to pre&s;erve from damnation.</ITEM>
<ITEM>12. That there is no greater damnation, then the Popes cur&s;e, and excomumcation.</ITEM>
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<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> Doe you believe all the&s;e precepts?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yis, and have and will to the lo&s;&s;e of my life and fortunes, (if I had any) ob&s;erve and keep them.</P>
<P><LABEL>Qu.</LABEL> What is a Sacrament according to the in|&s;truction of your Church?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> It is a &s;igne of a thing &s;ignified, which we cannot di&s;cern with the Eye, but by the &s;igne.</P>
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<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> Explain the &s;ame, according to your &s;ence and knowledge?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Then thus, by the &s;igne of the Cro&s;&s;e is &s;ignified the cuncifying of &rindx;, by the picture of the Virgin Mary, we are taught that &s;he was the Mother of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1 word"> and queen of heaven, by the picture of the Apo&s;tles, we are taught to remember that they were the founders of the Church, &amp; of that &s;anctity &amp; power, that they are now in heavan able to cure the di&s;ea&s;es of living Saints on earth, as they did when they were on Earth, and therefore we are us much bound to pray to them for helpe upon any oca&s;ion, as to God, they knowing our wants, by a fellow feeling of our miferies when they lived with us, many other ex|amples I could give, by which you may under&s;tand what we mean by Sacraments,</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> Then every Image or Picture, whether of Saints departed, Patriarkes, Prophets, or Apo&s;tles, are Sacra|ments, and to be &s;acredly ob&s;erved and kept?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yis verrily, and as much in e&s;teem as the two Sa|craments of Bapti&s;me and the Supper.</P>
<P><LABEL>Q.</LABEL> Are the&s;e the things you now take up Arms for, again&s;t your Country, and &s;eeke to bring the &s;ame to ut|ter confu&s;ion and de&s;truction?</P>
<P><LABEL>A.</LABEL> Yis, and will never give over &s;o long as life la&s;teth till we have re&s;tored the u&s;e of the&s;e things in the Church of England, or loo&s;e our bodies in the enterprize, for our &s;oules we have a&s;&s;ured hope to have them &s;aved after we have felt &s;ome &s;mall time of puni&s;hment in Purgatory, and his Holine&s;&s;e, our chiefe&s;t hope and defence, come to heaven before us as a great Saint, and by his mediation and interce&s;&s;ion, redeem us from that place of pain.</P>
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