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THE WILLIAM R. PERKINS LIBRARY
DUKE UNIVERSITY
POPE
OR, THE
Y:
Principles & Pofitions
Approved by the
CHURCH
O F
R O ME
QVben%eally "Believd and TraBsd) Are very Dangerous to all ; and (o 'Trotcjlant
^^j^-f-nnd Supreme Foivcrs^moxc efpccially Pcrnicidus :
And Inconfifl-ent with that Loyalty, \Yhich (by the.law
of NATURE and SCRIPTURE ) is Indifpenlably
due to SUPREME POWER. S.
InaLE TTE ^ to a ferfon of Honor ',
By r. V BiHiopof LI!K,COL^^.
Rev. 1 8. 4. Jcr. 15. 6. Come out of her my people, Ie.iji ye, be partakers of her Sins ami Plagues.
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Printed by T. "Nervcomb, and fold by James C'''^'-''''
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Received and read yout Letter , and thio corrif o to ^ brinc my humble Service, and) tcll you Co. In your Letter you tell me, Fnfi^ Of an Inhumane and Bloody De- %n and Popifli Plot,a Traitcrous and Roman-Catholick Confpira- cy C as you call it) againft the Sacred Perfon and Life of our Gracious King (whom God preferve ) and many more ( by theni) defign'd for Ruine, and for the Subverfion of the true Religion Eftablifli'd by Law, and introducing Papal Tyranny, Superfti- tion and Idolatry. A dcfign not onely Unchriftian, but Inhumane and Barbarous ', beyond all examples ofTurkiih or Pagan cruelty j nor has it C in any
B ftory)
[ 2 ] ^opiO) ^^inciples, &c.
ftory ) any parallel Impiety ; unlefs perhaps, that
(tf) Nuptis ParifmiE & La- Bloodv {a)' French Maffacre^ or the Gufi-powder-
nienaProteftantium ill Gallia, .-f. r (\ ^-'j j »i' i»«- c-
Anno 1 57 2. Vide Thuanum. Ireajon j all contriv d and carry don, by Men or
the fame defperate Principles, and ('though with the blood and mine of many thoufand innocent per- fons^ to advance the Papal Intereft. Secondly^ You . fay, That the Popifli Party decry this Impious Con- Ipiracy, as a State-Trick (without truth or rcallity) to make Catholicks ( as they commonly mifcali tJipmfelves ) odious to the People, and this whole Nation. This I beHeve (and know) they do. As their Plots and Confpiracies, fo their Iippudence to deny or lefTen them ( when difcoverd } is mon- ftrous, and ('were not their Perfons and Principles known ) incredible. So they did ( where , and (4) In an Almanack com- when they durft) and ft ill doe (h) call the Gun-
monly fold, fince His Majcftics j ^ r Ao^jr* "1 1.« *X.^^
YiA^^^-9^zt\avi;^'i!^'^d.cAien- -powder- Ireajon ^ A State-delisjn , to make tnem ^o'^erSSSLa^i'dfc": (though they Were innocent J)^feem guilty andCri- «H's coBfrtvme.it was prin- njjjjaJs. 'Thirdly. Laftljo y-'"^'*/ 5 That (cveral Pa- *^*^ ^"*' pifts tell you ( in excufe of Popery, and their Par-
ty^ That if indeed there be fiich a Plot and Con-r (piracy (" as is pretended ) yet it is the only fault of thofe perfons concern 'd in it, not of Popery or their Religion i the Principles and Doftrincof their Church, giving no ground or incouragement to fuch Impious and Anti-monarchical pra^^ices. This I believe too i becaufe I find thcfti making the fame Apology for themfelves, to take off the guilt of the Cun-po7vder-Treafon. For ( without all truth or (0 The afbrcraid Popifh modefty ) they tell us in Print ; (c) That the Gutr- cakndmmcMicnm or porpder-Trcafoft WOS MORE THEN SVSFECTEDy
eathoUck Almanack > at the x J „ ^ „ ., i • r% i- • •
en I of it, about Holy-days ^q lethe CONTRIVANCE tff Ced, the gteat Fohtici-
letapartbyAaofPailiamcnt. . ,/ ■ « ^^
^^cnuciottsf to |^;iotcftant i^jinces, &c. [ 3 ]
1
an, TO RENDEK CATHOLICKS ODI0VS;and that there n>ere but VERT FEW of that Religion (AND THOSE DESPERADOES TOO) dcteSied of it J Sec. All (d)fobcr Catholick^ detefliiigthat^and (i) And ^<tt sjbedineirt .
/ill I'tirU CnuChir/trief B^oWuj.&c. reckon thofc Gun-
ail jnct) LOnjpiraaeS. ^ powderTraytorsamonglt the
Now thefe things premis'd, you defire to know ^?"^'}' ^'"•'>" <"^r their
r II T 1- I L r I • All • t Church and Religion; as you
or me, whether I think theic their Allegations and <iia>' fee anon. And Father ApoIoe;ies true i orit 1 think them untrue and in- ted for High Treafon. and the iignificant (fas you may be fu re I do) that I would S^Ct^Sf L^L'fe--^ eive you fome reafons why I do fo. "^ In obedience ^"J"]''/ ; that he uved a
S X 1 1 r ■ n t ^t SAINTS Life.nndaccomplijh'i
therefore to your command, and to latishe that Ob- »*« P««f »«* an happt ligation that lies upon me (^o far as I am ablej to fence 'c/fvsT fee'. Vindicate Truth.and my Mother the Church of Efm- l^ ^\', ^?°^ '^'"iA^^r^'f
' fi r <Sot Allegiance; calld, Dijcuj-
landj ( thoueh I have httle time, and few Books /^'""'/'*^^''^'^''*/^'"- '♦'«'-
here (being ablpntrrom my own^ lave what I bor- u^
row ot friends) I fliall endeavour to {ay fomethine;, '
which may (I hope J be pertinent, towards the
convi£lion of our Adverfaries, and your fatisfa6l:i-
on. AnH here. I fliall plainly fet down, -^
I The Toption I undertake to make good. 11. The Troofs and Reafons of it.
•'■■T: The Pofition is this The DeSirine and Trinci^
pies of Popery, orvndby the Church of Rome (rvhen ^%
believed and praSiifed) are not onely dangerous, but pernicious to Kings ( efpecially thofe ivho are Prote-
ftants) prejudicial to the juji rights of Monarchy, and inconfijient with that Loyalty, which ( by the Laws iff Nature and Scripture) is due to them ; and parti- cularly to our Kings, by the eftablifi'd and kfwwn Laws of England , made antiently , e'ven by ^opijh.^
B 2 Kings
k
[4] * ^opiil) pmtij^its, &c,
Kings and Parliaments , againfl Tapal 'Vfurpationr and Anti-monarchical praSiices. And here ( bccaufc it is impoflible diftinffly to fliew, how PopiHi Prin- ciples are dangerous to our Kings, and prejudicial to their Juft Rights, and Royal Prerogative ; unlefs we firft know , what that Prerogative , and thofe Rights are ) 1 (hall inquire,
1. What the Jura Corona, the Rights and
Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of England are, as to our prefent con- cern.
2. How Popifli Do6lrines and Principles,
may be dangerous, or pernicious to them.
1. For the Firji 5 That England is a Monarchy ^ the Crmvn Imperial., and our Kings SZ^PKEME Governors, and SOLE .Si;PKFA/fF c<!»vcrnors of this Realm, and all other their Dominions, will ( I believe, I am fure it fliould^ be granted ^t feeing our Authentick Laws and Statutes do fo exprefly , and fo often fay it. In our Oath of Supremacy we Swear, that the King is, the ONELY SVFKEME Go'vernor. SVFKEME, fo none (fnot the Pope^ above Him : and ONELT Supreme : fo none co- ordinate, or equal to Him. So that by our known Laws , our King is, Solo Deo minor , invefted with fuch a Supremacy, as excludes both Pope and People . ("and all the World, God Allmighty ondy except^: ed , by whom Kings Reign ) from having any power, jurifdi^ion, or authority over Him. For thi?
Sowraignty
I^enucious to ^ioaitaiu ^.nnc:s, 8cc. [ ^ ]
^oiieraignty and Supremacy belonging to our Kings,
and the Imperial Crown oi Ef?gliiitd is ailertcd, not
onely by the Statutes of (e) CX. EU^ahctb^ (f) King c) vid. statut. r bw. cap.
James, and (g) Charles the Second ( Protcflant J^j,^ ,';'''• "p- '• ^"^ '^^'''•
Princes J) but even thofe Statutes made by Popifh (f) vid. i jac cap. 7. &
Princes and Parliaments , declare the fame : I In- ^ n"viJ*,tcar 2
fiance oncIy in (^fj^ Kichard the Second , Q) Henry in the Preamble.
rfie Eighth, and ({) <X.Mary (though all the Sta- ^''^ ^''^"^- '^R'^t^-^- «p.
tutes of Provifors, were pertinent to this purpofc.) c/) statut. 14 Hen. s. cap.
That KirW^ the Second and His Parliament were ?'J''i'^'!!'l'f-^ticf
37 Hen. o. cap, 17. c^ Z5 ucn.
Roman-Catholicks, is manifefi: ^ and it is as certain, 8"p. i. that Henry the Eighth and His Parliaments ( when .j^^^tpT.'""''""""'^"'" the Statutes cited were made; were fb too. For 'tis evident, that thofe Statutes were made Amw 24. and Anfio 2^. Hen.S. that is, Afim Dont. 1532. and 1533. when neither He, nor His Adherents, were Excommunicate , but a6lual Members of the Roman Church then, and for fome years after. For ttough Pope Panl the Third was angry, and about it, Amio 1^5';. yet he did not a«5tually Excommu- nicate Him or His Adherents.before the year TO i <a8. c ^^-' P^^""''y.'^ii't^A'«
^ ' .' V X J?"-" S. was Excommunicate, was
which was fix years after Hez/ry the Eighth, and His ^^^.. ^'""^. ""• cai. ^a-
Popifli Parliament had Vindicated the Rights of the v^"BuuJili!ncZm]ni!Tom.
Imperial Crown of £/;^Ar;;^, againft the irrational [S^"^'''"'' ^^"'- ^"^^""^
and unjuft Pretences and Ufurpations of the Pope ;
and declared , that the Supremacy (both in Eccle/i-
aftical and Civil Things) ever i^id (cle J ure) belong
to the Imperial Crown o'^ England, not to the Pope's
Mitre : He having no more to do in England, (jure
propr/o, or by any Law of God or Man) than Henry
^ the Eighth in Italy. And that Parliament of Queen
/ Afrf^j (ckcd in the Margent) alth6ugh a Popi(H
^ . Parliament,
\
[6 2 ^opiflj ^;tmcipics, &c
Parliament, yet declares fully for the Queen's Su- premacy Cwhich to fome may feem ftrange) for that Ad exprefly fays , i . That the IMPERIAL CROWN of this Realm^ with all its Prerogati'ves, Jit- rifdiBionf, Sec. mas defcended to the Otteen. i. That ihe was the SOVERAIGN and SVPREME Go- vernour of all Her Dominions, in AS FZ^LL, LARGE, and AMPLE MANNER, AS ANY OF HER PROGENITORS, (therefore in as ample a manner as Her Father Henry the Eighth.) 3 That by the MOST ANCIENT LA WS of this Realm, the punifl^ment of ALL OFFENDERS, againji the Re- gality and Lan>s of this Realni, belong d to the King, d^c. So that even a Popifli Parliament acknow- ledges and declares, the Kings of England poflefs'd of fuch a Supremacy, over all Perfons, and that by our MOST ANCIENT LAWS, that He may pu- nifli ALL OFFENDERS ( Clergy or J aity ^ againft the Laws, and His Regality. ( How contra diftory to this, the Trent Council and the Do£trine of the Roman Church is, you fhall fee anon.) But for the Supremacy of the Kings of England, according to our Ancient and Later Laxps , I refer you to the (w) Vid. cdkt\ Reports, f;;/) Learned in thofe Laws ; who will give you a aS; t^J oSoft !'; clear Declaration of this Supremacy , and a ;ufl: Report; ^r ?o*» -D^w his Vindication of it, from thofe impertinent (and fe-
Reports, in the Care ot iT*- ^i • o • i i - n. • ^ U C
mnirc^e. ditious ) Objections brought againlt it by tome,
who, inflaved to Rome , have caft off Loyalty to their King, and Love to their Country.
And laflly, As for the Supremacy of Kings, (fa far as it concerns the Laws of God, (Natural oV Politive) and Divines to determine it) I refer you
to
pernicious to ^^otcftaut ^?iuccs, &c. [ 7 ]
/
tCi the Jnfn^^er of the (n) Z^twvcrfuy of Oxoti^ to <« C»)VidiiterasAcad.oxon.
c ., I- I? • I L • • 1 • T 1 Hen. S. Dat. 17 Jul. 15,4.
Letter ot tienry the highth , requinng their Judg-
uientin that Point : To the (<?) Articles of Edward WArt.Ed.<j.ifyi.Art3^j
the Sixth -t Oi Queen (p") Eli'z,abethj The Articles Cf)Art.yEiiz.ijf2.Art.37.
(^^ of Ireland j The (r) InjunSiiotis of Eli-zaheth ; CfMrticuiiHibcrnia-.Kfij.
The (/) Canons of i. Jacohi ; And the (t) Canof?s ^'^' ^^: ^
(fnb Carolo Martyre ) 1^40. (bcfidcs the Writings injunftioncmZ/j.'
of many particular Learned Men:} In which you (/)Canoncsi«o3.can.i.».
may fee the Judgment of the Church of England, ^'^ ^*"- '''"' c^'"- '•«==•
concerning Supremacy, and the Loyalty due to our
King , clearly and fully exprefs'd ; and ( in the
late unhappy Rebellion ) more truly profefs'd and
praftic'd by Her Sons, than Papift, Presbyter, or
Fanatique f though fome of them vainly brag of their
Loyalty) can, with any jufl: reafon pretend to. If
you defire further fatisfa£i^ion and evidence, for the
Supremacy of Kings^ T particularly of our Kings, and
the Roman Empcrours ) even in Ecclcfiaflical Mat'
UfSy you know, and (at your leiTurc) may con-
fult, the Colledions of (7«y (n) Saxon, and the Cn^J («) Scc ourSaxon Lawsby L;tperial Laws i where you may have fufficient Sm'rwhcio^ir&S"""'* and abundant evidence , that (as to Matter of Fa(^, (w) vid. cod. TheodoRa- never queftioned in thofe daysj thofe Emperours S""/S'-£totiii' and Kings, made many Laws and Conftitutions, in Comiitut. juiHniani. Ecclefiaftical Matters, (which concerned the Church) as well as Civil, ("which concern'd the State.J And (if you defire- itj) I can fliew you, an Original MS. (agreed upon, and appro'ved by the Convocations of both Provinces , ( Canterbury and Yorh^) and fub- fcribed by both Archbifliops , and fevcral of each Province) wherein it is clearly (hewn , ( fo far as Scripture , and other Records of thofe times men- tion
[ 8 ] i^opift) ^jmciplES , &c.
~ tionthem^ that-Kings (from the beginning of the
World, till our Blefled Saviours time ) did, and de Jure , might exercife an Ecclefiaftical , as well as Civil Jurifdi£lion and Supremacy j efpecially the Kings of the Jcw^s, his own People ; which Monar- . chy was of Gods own, fand particularly DivineJ In- ftitution. Thefe things premis'd , I come now to fhew you , (in the fecond place J how dangerous, and (when, and where they have power to put them in execution) how pernicious Popifli Principles are, to the Perfons of Kings , and their juft Rights and Prerogatives. And here, I fay,
I . That many of their Popijh Principles^ and ge- nerally approved and recei'vedDoSirims^^re. not only dangerous, but dcftrudive to, and inconfiftent with the juftSoveraignty and Supremacy of Kings. Be- caufe they generally fay, and ( in a thoufand Books Writ to that purpofe ) induftrioufly endeavour to prove it, That all Kings and Empcrours, are fo tar from being Supreme , that they are Subjed to the' Pope, as to their Superiour Lord , to whom they owe Service and Fidelity. That this may appear, confider, j:x)oA.-, «tfWffl«mrM- ^ The Emperour. (x) when he comes into the cApiTE^genuTE R^K^AM ^otes trefencc^ as foon as e'ver he fees him. he mufi C5' iurm , cum approfrnjuet ii ( tits Hat ojf^ and bare-headed J bow^ till ms liinee^ ^L!:i'cS&^- touch the ground, and rvorjhip the Pope; and coming £[:r2rarum cc!^Zl nearer, muft how again ; and when he comes to tlj^ sanctxRom. EccieCs. Lib I. Pope, he mufl bow a third time . and DEVOVlLT
Tit, 5. Pag. li. Col. J. Edi- ^^ •« , i », -^ »-i r^i t, /\ xxt/^t*
tionisRoni. Anno 1560. Rifs the Popes Foot. The Empcrour mult VVUK-
SHIP the Pope, with the Incurvations, or bowings of Body , even to the ground, and then (bare- headed.
f
Idcrninous to ^^orrftant princes, &c. [p] i1
headed, and on his Knees ) DEfWJLT Kifs the
Pope's Foot. Execrable and prodigious Pride I The
Pope ( without all truth or probability ) vainly and
ridiculoufly, only pretends to be Chrift's Vicar, and
fo ( if it were true) is lefs than his Mafter ; and
yet our blefled Saviour never rcquir'd, nor had fucli
Adorations, Incurvafjons , or Kifiirgs of his Toe,
of any, much lefs of Kings or Emperors. Nor would
any Man requite fuch, but the {y ) Man of Sin j who ■ (.0 i Ttc/r. i. vcrf. 3 4.
exalts binifelf (takes that greatnefs which God ne- ver gave him ) abo've all that is caWd God , or n-or- fiiped : That is , above all Kinjrs and Emperors.
Well , but does not the Pope ( in this Cafe ) fliew
fome refpeiH: and civility to the Emperor? Does he not uncover his head, or bow his body, c>c. Noe i for the fame Authentick Book, of the SACKED Ce-
remomcs.oi the HOLl Roman Church , tells us (-z.) c^) rowf.x i{^cm,nu> ke-
TJjat the Pope ne'ver oi'ves atiy re'verence, to ANY MOK- ^^'^-^ T"" T"''T '"' lAL whomjoe'ver^ either by rifinc up apparently, or bv ^'M^- "ffw'""!"-^*. imde- unco^ering, or Imving his head. Oncly (fiycs that ramu^oMtumiSumSEDEKs Ceremonial) tvhen the Emperor has l^jsd the Foot of $1"?^.^^; ' the Tope fitting tn his Chair he rtfelh up, A J'ERY ^^.JSSt ^;;^;^ HI ILt to him., and Jo he docs fi)mctimes to CKEaT ^^^t in rosTiiic^unvs^ 1 PRIKCES. Whether this can ftand with that ^u- J^"v^'^'"'"'^-fSm /i^'^"' premacy, which ( by Divine Law, Natural and Po- ^£''ui^^!^;''?:,.u ,, litive) IS due to Kings , to be fo far fub;c£^ , and ^"'- '' flaves to the Pope; let Kings ( who are moft con- cerned ) and the World Judge. And it is to be cdnddcrcd, that the Book I eke for thofe paflaecs concerning the Pope, is no Apocryphal, or Kon-li- cenc'dTamphlct.coma'in'mg the inventions of fome pri- vate perfon^but it contains the 5"^C/v.£D Cc>vw^///ej- of
C the
[lo]
^opiQ) ^;tuKipUis, &c.
(t) liber yJLDE PI{p- BATVS , fayes Tojfevin : III Apparatu facro 5 in Chrill. Marcello.
(i) He muft execute Strnmu Icfficium ( be Yeoman of the iStirrup) fayes Card. Baronius. iAnnal.Tom.iz. ad Ann. 1177. Sedl ^8.
(c) Difto Sacrarum Ccre- moniarum, lib. i . Tit. J • P« i^« iGol. ;.,
i5g.Neullrix,p. j88.
(^e)'BiroriiUS hnrai. Tom.12. aa Annum. 1177. Scdl.124.
(J) Idem Anna!, Tom. ii. 5(1 Annum. II 5 5- num. 13, ,14.
^) J^ii.. num. 13..
0iylhii,vxa.i'h
the ROUM CHVKCH, colkdcd by MarceUm JRCHBISHO? of Covcyra, dedicated to TOTE LEO the Tenth, printed at ROMEy and highly approved , and (a) commended by their eminent tVr iters.
2. But this is not all i the poor Emperor mu/l do (the Pope) his great Superior and Mafter, more fer- vice , and be Jiis Groome , or (at beft) Gentleman (/>) of his Horfe. He muft hold the Popes Stirrup till he get on Horfeback , and then lead the Horfe
for fome paces (c) Cccfar (traditis fceptri) (^ po-
mOy uni ex fuis) prxvenit ad equnm Tontifcis , ^ TENET STATHJM, quoad Tontifex eqitnm afcen- derit \ ^ deinde accepto equi frxno , per aliquot paf-^ fus ducit equum Tontijicis : and the Emperors have (r/e faSio ) executed this mean Office ( which was impious and prodigious pride in the Pope, recjuiring or permitting \ and degenerous in the Emperors, in performing it :) So the Emperor {d) Sigifmund held the Stirrup of Pope Martin the Fifth. And the Em-- peror (e) Frederich^^ of Alexander the Third , ^c. And the fame Frederick^ had done the fame to Pope
Adrian the Fourth ( if (/) Baronius fay true ) In
confpeSlu exercitus fui, F rider icus OFFICWM STRA- TORIS cumjVCVHDlTATE imple'vit,&' jireguam FORTfTER temtit. And, that it might be remem^ ber"d, (Baronim has put this Note in the Q) Mar- gent." Vt Reges S^ Jmperatores INSERVUHT. ,
FA TM. And in the Margentof thenext Paragraph-
« Reximplet (hmnnm STRATORIS Tap£.
. 5. Nor is this all j the Emperor muft Swear Fe- alty to the Pope j and that he will' be his Pro(^or , ,, $a< defend and maintain all his Rights and Honors, V
\^>cniictous to ^zoteftaut id;miceS5 &c. [ 1 1 ]
dNf. In this form (ij E^o Kex Romafwrnm fittu- 0) sucnr cctcmonhvun
'-^ / • r^ S.Rom. Lcdclir. lib, i.Tit. '
rus lmperatoi\ fromitto Q)^ juro^ me de cstero TroteSio- ?• *3- 'j
re?ii d^ Froairatorcm fore fumnii Tontijicis^ in omni- |j
bhs ISLcajfitatibHS a^ litilitatibuf fnis^ Ciijiodtendo ^
cofifcwaNdo pojfejpofief , hoiwrcs^ J^'^'h ^'C- Thus
Pope hmocent the Third made our King John Swear
Fidelity and Allegiance to him, in this forme (10 £*- (0 Hen. de K^Agkon, dcE»
rr ; /D 4 I- rj i t~ i r ^n ventibus Anglijc lib 1.0.14 ic«
go Johannes <J^x Angliie.......jidelis ero Ecclefice %o- &Mati.. Wcilmonatt. ad .-va^
man<e ac DOMlhO MEO, Inmcentio T.rp.e 3, &c. """>'^'3.P-»7^. (
A nd before this, Pope Gregory the Seventh ( that
Prodigy of wickcdncfs and Papal Tyranny ( fends
Hubert us to '/ illiam the Conqueror,(/ ) requiring him (nvtfti^ fucceforiU
to Srvear Allegiance and Fidelity to him and his Snccef- ^^delitatem facetet.Wi-
r 'T- L 1 /> w.i.i.i.fcy ronius Annal. Tom ii. ac
Jors. lis true, that the Conqueror had under- Annum 1079, num. ly, 1 ftanding enough to know His Royal Rights, and^he ]
Popes injuft pretences , and fo (as well became a King) peremptorily refufed to take any fuch Oath. !
Fidclitatem facere mini (fayes he in his Letters to I
the Pope) fiec 'voio. However, hoc Ithacns 'vellet ; this power they pretended to, and (as they had abi- lity and opportunity) required it, and (we may be furc) when they have an advantage and power, they will both require, and feverely (by Interdijfls Ana- thema's and Excommunications ) exaft it. And well they might, if they had that va ft Power and Jurifdiaion over Kings, which the Canonifts, Jefu- its , Schoolmen,Cafuifts, Summifts, and their greateft Writers generally give them. I fliall ( of many ) give you fomc few Inftances. tf 4. Cardinal Pool^ (w) after he had faid, and (as he <'») LibroadHcn.s.fro £f. thought) proved. Uat the Kin^ wasfhe/>r.^//a<R££tpu?rroni?^^^^^^^ tUTopea^idrpeople; by them creahd^nd madeKwg ; ^XX'i^^'^ '
C 2 and ^'''''^'-diiotcxprds'd. ;
[12] 4^opiii) phiicipifs, &c.
and that the Office of the 'Tope and Trieji^ was the Of- fice of a Father J the King being his Son. He adds
That Offciiim^alris eft <p(Iip(^VS MJJ'VS
(KEGIO ET DIVINIVS. And then he has put thefe words (that they might be taken into fpecial
iMsjcERDosinfuowi- confidcration) (/;) The Trieft COMAfjNDS THE
^-'o-4fvr '>ib?deni'. KING, hut the KING CMNOTCOMj\fAND THE
f6. coi.i/ ' ^(J^EST. The ^Pr/eft then is fnperior, and the J^ing
his fnbjeSi : and Co good night to the Kings Supre-
(0 Benric^s %x LvciFE^ macy. And a little before, he fayes ( o ) Hcwy
^LfiU^r^/c^^A Z'''^v'm ^^^^ ^J^hth imitated the ^(RIVE of UVCIFE^, when :fi}{jsTJ coftpuit. Ibid. p. Ijf; ,;;ade himfelf VICJ%^ of Chrift. This is pretty ^''^"'^* well ^ but as the Pope defires, fo the Cardinal (and
(fjPoiusCard.deConciiio, ©thcrs generally) give him more [f) ^ctri Cathe-
. ,x.Eduionhia8o. ^^^^^^ SVfE^ OMNIA m^E%,4T0(^M foUa ,
& OMNIA <^EGVM tribunalia CONSTITVIT
CEJ^ISTVS. The Pope(by their DiYinity)is Jure di-
finOj fuperior to all Kings and Emperors : And yet
(q) I, Cor. ii.5.&i.Cor. St. i^aiil {q) {cqiial to St. Teter, and far above any of
%y Aft. 2 J. 10,11. his fucceffors ) acknowledges that the Emperor (r)
arid he a Pagan) was his J iidge^s^ndi legal fuperior j2inSi
(as fuch ) Appeals to him. A'x,orim ( a great and
learned perfon) confirms the Cardinals Opinion ;
nfjr/7:vsv%t?vs and tellsus (/) That the Emperor, BT THE LAW
tnamin TEMPoii-!L>Bvs: Qf COD, is' SV3j ECT to the TOTE , z'vcn IN
Azoruis Iiiiritut. Moral. Tom. ' , J ii-ik*-'
a.iib.io.cap. 6. p.1041. TEMfO%ALS. And fince him, a learned Man,
vs'^ ^oKTifEx %'£i- ^^^ Pi-^'^1" General of his Order, tells us (f ) That the
VDf, hktsvMM.^Aj f,L- f^p^s EM^TME is o'ver ALL THE WO^D (Pa--
v^.s- nj-GEs c? rrnci- o^u and Cnriltian) and that HE is the uNELI y L- >(
^"^iSif^EcdSxSlnt' CJ.K OP GOi), who has SVfliEME pwer and EM-
. .bus. Traa.^7.p.8i. ,pj^£^ ^^^^ ^^^ J^INGS and T^INCES OF THE
t («) //i</. p. 84. EA^H.- And again («) , SicHt wins eft Vens,
! • ptonarcha
4^ecmcious to \&?oteitatu ^^uic.i», &c. [ i^ ]
moHjyrha omnium j fic inter homines , ^JISlZJS DE- 'BETeffe TKJKCETS & MONA'^CHJ, qui OU- NISVS UO^AUBZJS prxfic & DOmXE^ rV^, VEI falicct V1CA%WS. Non igitnr Pc~ tritf SVB 1{EGE , fed (l{liGES SVB TETI(p effc DEBENT' fihiquc CN ptis SVCCESSO%IBVS iKCZ%VA1{I TENENlZ^'ll, & COLL A SVB-
UrrrE%E, And a little after {x) Vnus Dei .. ^^.^
Vicarins OXfNWM TyNCETS & DOMINVS.Cm ''
I\fPE%ArO%ES (I{EGES, & 'Tow flutes OMNES- HUMIUiE% OBEDUKr.fintquc SVBjECTlAnd good rcafon they fliould be lb (if he fay true) for Princes have all their power, and Authority from
the Pope Siciit Inna accipit lumen a folc, fic %E.-
CJA poteflas rcccpit authovitatcm^ KON ALWNDE
nifi A 4^ AT A. And for the proof of this, he cites
two great ()i)l_ awycrs ( and might have cited an hun- 0) ibid p. sj.
drcdmore) Johannes Anc!yeas,:,adHoftienfis....(f)M>t!- cif/Aitr?™: Tc^: f.
tas ratiofjcs jff'crunt Johannes Andreas (^N Hofticnfls ^^^^-^^
quibiis probant , ^apjm effe Trincipcm CN M0NA1{^
CHAM, d^ SV?E<lQO^M' Laicomm owmnm (^
& Ckricomm. Nay, 'tis THE DUTY OF ALL ^
KINGS, to fiiftjr the Pope to domineer over them
(X,) VEBET ^htcUas SpiritiulisTemporali BOMI- , ^:) G'°|f ^Jl "P;^!'^*
JX'i^RT. NaT, tliev arc damn a it they do not fub- iutxtiavag. oommun. vcrbo. mit : tor io riic Lemma , or l itle to that impi .)us gumcntum. Extravagant of Pope Boniface the Eigth. Omncs Chri- \
fii f deles (the Text and Glofs expreOy iay ic ) T>E ^_,^ . , ^ ^^ ^^^_ NECESSITATE. SALVTlS SVBSZJNT (}{mrA- .lot .ppca." thac7vt,;hadche,n. N9 TONTlflCI. Qui Htntmqne {a)<rladiHm habet, givai him bya./i.' ,. \ ,• ' dN OMKES Judkat, & A KEUlkE judicatur. "^'f^^^^J^^ The Pope has both Swords that is (as their Infal- nvghri.fcthembyth xshouas
r * «. t 1 vcrclv comiemn a for uliug
lible one. /^Jfdtiii, i6. J J, 5 2.
\
[ H ] i^opifl) ^^mcipics;, &:c
lible Judge, the Pope, falfely and ridiculoufly ex-?
pounds it) both the Spiritual and Temporal Power ;
and is SVf(^}^fB MONARCH y abo've all l{ings. ' Nay further, they blafphemoufly fay, that our Blef-
fed Saviour had not done DISC'^ETELY^ unlefs he f had left fuch a Supreme Monarch over his Church
f (b) Giofla ad diaum Cap. at his Afccnfion, to govern the World {h) Non
^^mscnd^m, <videretur 'Domimf fiiiffe mSC^^TVSy nifi unicmt
! P^ft fi talem Vicarinm rdiquijjet.
And ( to fill up the meafure of their Blafphemy
againft God, and their fordid and impious flattery
of the Pope.) Hence it is, that they declare the Pope
to be more than Man,
I (c) Giofla verbo Papa ad f^\ (p^p^ (Inpor mutjdt....,.Qm maxima rernm
Nec Vem^Mc homoyquaji neuter es inter utrumqiie*
So the Glo{5 upon the Clementines^ in their Canon-Lam. And the famous Infcription (if I forget not) on aiv^ Altar at (I^owe, is as blafphemous (or rather more) as the former. The words thefe •, "P^k/o 5° F/CE- DEO , ^Pontifici^ OMNITOtEKTlJE 'vindici acer- rimo , &c where , although VICE-VEZ^S, fignifie fomething lels than God •■> yet Omnipoteme blafphe- i moufly attributed to the Pope, mufl: fignifie, that he
was more than Man. But there is another Glofs ,
which does not mince the matter, but in plain words,
f <«) Giofla ad Cap. cwM ;V fpeaks down-right blafphemy: in which it is {d)
^rt vJ«Yf 'in^ExtravaH 1^- Dominm VEUS no/ier Tata. So that thefe GlofTes,
'( Verb. Signif. m txtravag. J o J. _ * , i i i i r l
; han.it, though they agree m Impiety, and are both blalpne-
i^ mous ; yet they contradift each other ^ the one fay-
ing , that the Tope is CQd\ the other, that he is mi-
ther
pernicious to ^:otfftant ^zmccg, &c. C ' 5 ]
tier God nor Mm. Now, if this be tnie, I delTre
fome of their Canonifts would inform me , what
they think the Pope is. For if ( according to their
Law) he mither he Cod nor Man ; feeing ( I fuppofe)
it will be granted, that he is a rational Creature,
and no good Angel, he muft be ( by their Law and
Logick) an incarnate De'vH. I do not call him fo ;
but only fliew, what ( by the ;uft conlequences of ^
their impious and blafphemous Glolles ) he muft *
be.
5. And here, it may not be unworthy of our ob- fervation, that although 1 homos Manriqne ( Mafter of the 1 acred Palace) in the year 1572. tlmt<^ht {e) fit (o Ccnftira in Gioflas juris to have this impious Glofs left out, and has^in Print) f;.T;t ^°'^"- '"^- ^- '^ publifli'd his opinion: yet Pope (f) Gregory the (/) vide suuam. ejus datar
«, T¥T 1 11 -r 1 J /Y- Ronifc i.Jul. 1580. pneflxani
XIII. thought otherwne, and approves and pailes ]unCmoiui'ari[.i6ii.
this blafphemous Glofs {with fuch others) and fo it
fiill remains in the {g) ^Koman and {h)Tariftan Editi- to Anno 1580.
©ns. Now although the Congregatio Indicts , and
their Inquifitors , in their Indices Expurgatorii , take
particular notice of, and Damn fuch Sentences as
thefe ( though Principles of Chrifiian Religion evi- -^ (,
dently contain'd in Scripture) (/) Abraham fide jn- o index Expurgat.Hirpa:
ftns (l{)ChriJlffs credentibusfaUt^. {l)Juflitia noflra Ju^taExempur.MadritM^s?
Chriftus. 0 nines im) fmmis peccatores. I fay, though (o ibiicm^p. m. coi.
1 /\ 1 T>. r \ , 1 r^ t ■' 1 ^ f^-m) Ibidem.
they conltantly Damn iuch Sacred Truths, and com- mand them to be expung'd •■, yet this impious Glofs ( making, as they think, for the Popes abfolutc Mo- narchy) ftands untouch'd, in their lafi: and beft E- ditions of their Canon-Law. Onely they have in the laft Edition (1 have yet feen) addedthis Note in the c„) Edit. Ju^, canon. Pari, Margent, over asainft the Glofs In) Hxc 'verba i.<5> ^element, coi. 4. in mar
^ ♦-' ^ ' ^ fuic.adl'roscraimn Ckmcnti-,
lane narum. '(
Ci6]
JDoptil) \&jmc;iplcs , &c.
(o) Abrah. Bzovius de Pon- tificc Romano. Colouiae Agrip. 1619. layes,
I. Fipi ejl Chrijlianorim Monirchu, csp: i. ^ 2. Monniiiim fiipremus ,
cap. 3. ' i- A ^uo rrovo(atio mlla, cap. i^. 4. ^udex cceli, tf in yudicio i wreno fuprfmis, cap. ? i, J-. Arbilir Orlis, cap. 45.
y^wo wo(^o fmit accipienda. And that is ( according to the meaning of Johannes Andreas^ the Author of that Glofs ) thofe words mull: be taken fo. as they make moft for the Popes Supremacy : for fo it im- mediately follows Trolata enimfunt ad oftendcfidam
amplijfimam cffe Tontijtcis ^^tnani potejiatem.
Now this Supremacy of the Pope being granted, (which their Lawyers, ft uthentick Laws, their Cano- nifts and Councils, and all their greateft Writers, Jc~ fuits efpccially, generally contend for ) it evidently follows, that the Pope is the fole and oncly Supreme Power on Earth j and fo all Kings and Emperors are, and mufl: be his fub)e£l^s, and fo muft lofe that Su- premacy, which ( by the Laws of Nature and Scrip- ture ) does de Jure belong to thenx ; For they fay, and induftrioufly endeavor to prove this Abfolute Supreme Power and Monarchy of the Pope, over all Kings and Emperors in the World. I fhall, to fatisfie you , bring two or three more WitneiTes to prove it. •
L Abraham {o) 'B'z^oz'if^ tells us, i . That the Tope is MONARCH of ALL CHilSTlANS (Kings and Emperors included.) 2. That he is SU- (p^EME ever ALL U0<I(TALS. 3. That there lies no JTfEALE from him. 4. That he is JUDGE of HEAVEN , and in all EJXTHLI JUDGMENTS SUf^EME. 5. That he is, THE A1{BIT\Aro^ of THE If'O^^D. Thefe (and many more fiich) 'B-z.o- c?W induftrioufly indeavors to prove out of all their Popifli Authors. Nor is his Book any
funeptitious work
clandeftinely publifli'd,
fuch
m
^etntctous to ^iot itaut idnuccs, Sec. [17] 1
fuch as ^/ue would not own i for it comes out, with all the Solemn Approbations and Commendations of his Superiors, and the A- pojiolick^ Jffquifilor ; who thus approves £!:i(?7//- U'S his Book ( and fo all the above-mention'd Extravagant and Antimonarchical Pofitions )
{p) Seci/jg it fnfficicfjtly appears^ by the AF- (^f) vide Approbationcs u-
^(lipBAJIONS of the DOCTORS, and the t^^:(:^^:6^\\ Authors FAMOUS NJm ; that the Learn- "oVT^J^SfS-IV^: ing of this prefent Worh^ is SING liLA\, and the %^^^^J f^lff^"^ ;
SOLI- ACMO-
DOCT(}{INB SOLID , both IN FAITH and Kibvs doctrjsta, um « MA'NNEKS'-, therefore I think^it fit to be pub- quam ex Audits AiEsi^tl
- lifl^d, L0\ THE COMMON UTlLUr, So ^JiS'^jTo^;^^^ that this Do6irine of the Popes Supremacy, ^^^^^^-^^^-^ *w«'<^w. &c. above all Kings and Emperors, is not B'z^o'viifs his private Opinion, but hs the Approbation of the Roman Church ( at Icafi: in the Judg- ment of thofe who approved it ) beine; at- . tefted by thofe, who ( by that Church) are impowercd for that purpofe.
II. My next Witnefs is Ifiodorn^ Mofconius (Vi- ^ car-General to the Archbilliop of foW<?»w, and
a learned 1 awyer ) who tells us {q) That c-/)ifioJ. Mocomns, d^ "
0^, thc^opezs vHivEXSAL JUDGE. KING ^S:?;'J^S^wS:':.o':
m OF KINGS, andLO%D of LO%pS,b.anife ";::;:}- ^I^J^^IZ-
1^ hjS ponder is of Cod; That GODS TlilBU- ^^ Demir:xr.mm, eo quod e\ns , •\-f Aj ; I ' /-^/^^T-r-, I > potejhs a Deoejl,^ Kiillum ha-
JXAL and the TUThS, is one and the SAME !■'>:' i'uperwrm ,uf, Dcum-. ep- ■ and that they haz>e the SAME COXSISJOXT: f^'pjr ^Srinv;.
and therefore ALL other powers are HIS' SUB- t:%l!c!:!f;:fjT^:Z . jECTS , a fid that the 'Pot^e is JUDGED £,f «* ^"S"]''"""" ^^S'^^.'W'i
. .'NONE BUT GOV, not of THE EMPE%0% M^r^lndp.pa.flon.nmmrm.
' or.KIKCS, or ,f the CLE^GT or LJltT. ">"'^^---^'^' *^-
D And i
[.8J
^Oplll) ^ttiicipies, &:c
I (r) Mancinus loco citato,
j air. I. r^px efiTOTlVS 0I{-
BIS DOMISVS. T. TAVA
(ht rapa) kabet TOTESTA-
TEM TEMPOI^ALEM. 3.
rotejias Papa temporalii , efi
OMNIUM aliirum roteflatum
< BMJKENTJSSIMA . aUs-
. que ffiteftates OMNES ab illo
i J?£P£NJ>£NT.
And he cites many of their Canons and Coun- cils, which ( as pofitively as he ) fay and prove the fame thing. III. fe//W Manchim (De Juribus Principatuum Romae i 596. lib. 3. cap i. 2.) is not far fliort, in attributing an abfolnte fupreme ^orver to the Pope^ even in Temporal things. For (in the place cited ) he tells us Three things ( which he fully proves , out of their befl: Authors.) (r) I. That the ?ope is LO^ OF THE WHOLE WO^LV. 1. That the Tope ( as Tope) has TEMT0%4L FOWE%, 3. That this temporal power of the Tope, is , of ALL OTHE% TOWETS in the World MOST E- MINEHT; and ALL other Towers DETENTf on the TOTE. But let this pafs •, I fliall cite you a greater Authority which will not onely, tell you, that the Papal Power is greater then Regal and Imperial , but how much it is
(/) Innoc-ntius j. cap. Je- licitit, 6. Extra dc Aiajcr. t? Otedkmm.
(i) Vo3iitiici!ii diguitas qua- d'»^us fffties J{tqciii mijor. So the irarncd CloJi.
i
greater ,
for
IV. Pope Innocent the III. ( as Infallible as any of his SucceiTors ) tells us, that the Papal (/) Power, is as much greater than the Imperial, as the SUN is greater than th MOON. And the Glofs there ( t ) fayes , that is .47 ti/ftes greater. He who put the Note in the Mar- gent there, thinks this too little '■, and there- fore he fayes, Quinqnagies fepties i The Papal' Power is (according to his Arithmeiick) i^jt.. times greater than the Imperial. A man would think , that ( by thcfe accounts ) the Popes Power were great eHough. But there
is
|Drrniciou0 to ^^otcftant J&nncfS, 8cc. [ip] '^
is an Addition there ( who was the Author of it, I know not ) in which we are told ( you may believe To far as you think Ht ) that the ^apal T)i^uty exceeds the Imferial^ no lels than ^
yy^\- ^o inconfiderable a thing (in thefe me^js %
account) is Regal and Imperial Majefty, in re- fpeifi: of the Vaft greatnels of Papal Supre- ■, \
macy. In fliort ; if you compare that Decretal of htm- ceyit the Third (but now cited) with that famous j
Extravagant of Pope ( « ) Bo?iiface the Eighth ( both f« ) Bonifacius. «, cap.ii- i
„,L • I -J'^^LLJ r*L*/~« nam Sanilam. i. De majori-
wnich are received mto the body or their Ca- tatc&obed.Extrav.Com. non>Law ) you will find them cite feveral places of Scripture ( miferably mifunderftood ) and bring rea- fons to prove the Papal Power above the Regal and Imperial. But the confcquences they draw from thofe Texts they cite, are fo far from being Infal- lible , that they are ( like thofe who cite them ) evidently falfe ^ and what other Arguments they bring, are not onely unlikc-reafon, but ridiculous : yet although neither the Reafons, nor the Authori- ty of their Popes, nor the general confent of the ableft Writers ^me has ( who all endeavour to eftablifli the fame Pofrtion , and the Popes extrava- gant Supremacy ) can prove that he really has fuch power ( nor are they cited by me to any fuch pur- pofe ) yet they clearly prove that they own that do6lrine ( which is all I aim at ) and ( though they cannot ) gladly would make it appear probable,and have us and all others to believe it.
6. And further, from this unlimited Supremacy of the Pope, they conclude ('and publickly profefs )
D 2 hlG
[.o]
p>opiU) ^;iinfipics, &c
his povpcr to depofe Kj»gs^ ablblve their Subje(5]fs from all Oathes of Allegiance, and difpofe of their King- doms. That this may appear, I conlider,
I. That to cite particular Popilh Writers, would be endlefs, and necdlcfs \ that Bdlarmine, Emanuel Sa^ Snares^ Mariana^ Turrecremata^ &"c. that the Ca- nonifts, Cafuifts, Schoolmen, Summifts, Jefuits, c^f. are generally ( if not univerfally) of this opinion, ■( ^hat the Tope may de^ofe Kjngs , &c. ) is notori- oufly known to all, who know them. 1 iliall one- ly inftance in two or three ( to give you a tafte of that impious do5:rine, which all of them profefs, affert, and (fofaras they are able) vindicate ,c^f. J And here , i . Celfus Majichms ( a learned Canon- Regular of the Order of St. AHgiifiiiie) tells as,that (X) con!pcmmeaoMm. ^ ^y^it is EVIDENT To ALL, THAT.EMTE- i'^N^V^PWiunmfera^ (^oi^S J^E DEPOSED and DET^VED by th& 7It7o»'eeorumqu"adFWEM, Topc j and that iiot ONELY FO^ things pertaining t'^li ZTBst ^vTcl TO FAITH, hm ALSO for things pertaining FILE fpeaan. ceiius Man- f^ MANNERS and the CIVIL LAW. And Abra-
cinus De juribus Pnncipatn- , _ . , r n \ r ,' 11 l
um.iib.j.cap-s.pag. 76. Ro" ham B%o'L'iHS ( motc tullyj layes, ( as generally the
"""o/fzovius DC Pont. Ro- reft doe. ) I . ( > ) That the fecular power IS 5WB-
crAS:f6f;'^::pl/.^ 7^^ '<^ f^^ S^mrUAL ; fo that It is no Hfurpa^
featiarisfubdiuejifpiritudi.iu fj^„ if the Spiritual JUDGE the Sccfilar. 2. the
pteftaiffirituai^^dctemforaiibus Tope has- SUTT^ME T0WE%^ over ChrifliatT
' CV-''^-^^'"^^-'^' KI^GSand TTJNCES, who may CO<^\ECT DE-
^ S^r£fc;^!"^1« ^OSE, and TUT OTHERS zn their TLACE^,
loco tomn alia conjlituat. 3. 3 77,^ f^p^ ^^y DET^VE a KJNG of hlS T^yal
^ r'J^'jrh|i'cn^/»?»t7/erJi- Dignity for HETfiST, SCHISUE, for any intoUera-
>' ;;2r|';rSS«:tt bU mme, mgUgeme, ar la-z.inefs , if in great matters ^
''^Z^::^^:!::;^,^^^!^- ^^ ^^k^^s Oath, or ol^prefsthe Chnrch, &c. So that
NiTATE K^GiA ExvE- j^ all tJjcfe cafes ( by him there mention d, and they
■'^^* are
>
_ ■ — _1
pernicious to 0;jotcfl:aut ^^Mticcs, &c. [ 21 ] ^
f
,are Eight or Nine ) \ht IPops may depofe a Supreme Prince j and the Pope himfclf is SOLE JUDGE both of the CRIME and Condemnation. And to make all this good, i. He gives us a (x) Catalogue c^)Biov;Msioco citato. pag- of above Thirty Kings and Princes, who have (de '^"" "'*■ '^''• faBo) been Depofed , or (by Excommunications and Anathema's) Damn'd by the Pope. 2. And then he cites the Canon of a (*; General Council r)ibid.pjg.^ii>, <?io,^ii. X)f their own, ( of which anon ) and abov^ an hun- dred eminent Authors of their own Church, who afTert and juflifie that Impious Opinion. :^. And then he further adds, that AN INNUMERABLE company of ENGLISH MJ<}(TrRS ( following their Captain Edmujid Caspian , a Villain Condemned and Executed for (*|-) High Treafon) did with their (t) c<<wf ;j« jufliv cxecutedj Pens and Blood maintain the fame Opinion— /N- ms. 'i.I"ciV:s1/£^ 7<[UME(I{A<BILES etiam Anglicani MMT^XES DU- ^'''" ^' ^'^- '^^' ''"' CEM Edimindnm CAMTiJNUM featti , pro T (^I- MJTU lip ff rani Potitificis^ ab Hen. 8. &- Elitabetba Ctiefi, Sanguine frofufo , ^ flilo 7xerto^ idem dome- runt. So that we may fee , the Do£l-rine of the Pope's Power to DEPOSE KINGS, mv^Clhc dc jide, an Article of Divine Truth, and They Martyrs who Die in Defence of it : for Campian is with them
a 0 Moji FJMOUS MMTTli. ' (») m^i{tt!{, chkisti
VC Tor- /r 1 1 1 • I I , . jncljtvs,^ fmfeculicLA^
^ he\e foUuons J ailertcd publickly and m Print, KJ^siMvs.Pct.K^had'^ndTn
by Popifli Authors , with fo much confidence, and ^^^^i^^^^i^^]:^^. without any check of the Romifli Church, of which "'""5'op"'P*^"°: /'''^/i''''H
, xi I "1 ' '^^ »viji»_ii Jefuitelaysasnnichfor G^rwrt, 1
they are Members ; may jiiftly feem impious and 'nhisDifcuiiionofthcAnuv|r j horrid to any fober Chriftian, who wiOics well (as °^**'-^ ^'^ '-^3. j
all good Subjc^s fliould) to Kings and Monarchy : yet I fhall iliew you greater Abominations. One
of .
i
["]
laapiflj ^jmtipus , &c.
(a) Gafp. Scioppius, in hit
Ecc.c'aflicum Jacobo Magna; Britannia Regi Oppofitum, cap.*35. pag. )0i, Edic. j6n.
Hi) Venis Tsp/ttn in V.cckjts 'SVMMVM 1MPEI{IV', Potelia SVM.M A, tjm diri- grniiqiumCOG ENVI , yM eii- gm yiT^A:. (5 t^EClS refiiet. Ib.dcm, cap. ijS. pag, 4^6.
re) rjfi rjl SVMMVS DEI riCAI{IVS, Ca^irfumrn-J-iEc cl fxJDroCATVS., quo Nl-
HONORJFIC EKTIVS. Pat's. CAPVT fj! Corpru Cbnjii, I Cfftr ac I{EGES jtint B^A- '. CHlA j'-u 'MANVS. hique inlania iji dicure, nullum Capi- tu in Bruhii Imperium ejfe. J'tpa ' qui fj} Ciiput CS" vertex )-.cchfii\Uci corpora) Spiritus • ian U irfyiratione regitur. BRjl- CHlA NIHIL ficerc pnfunt, nifi qucd ad corporif f^tHum, amiRum ic protedwnera perti- net ; quorum omnium J{egir>ten ac prefcriptum , quin penes Co.- fut fix, C5' inde oA Brachia deri- vetur , Dubitare P^uIm veut. Col.i. 19. luqueft lieges non nutriiAX, neque vejtiant Corpm. ■ — Si BracHi aut Minui mu- fieri non fungantur, nee teneant
Caput. Vt membrum inutile,
CAPITIS IMPEJiJO AMPV- TEN'CVl{. Ibid. Cap. 24'- pag. ?i I. If you dclircto fee more of the Popi's Depoiing Kines, Card. Btironiui (in an hundred places) vindicates the Power, and approves and com- mends the practice. See his Annals 2d An:-.\tm 595. num.8. C^ id Anr.utn 7 jo. num. ?•
of their (tf) Authors^ writing againft King James^
(of happy Memory) tells us,
I. That the Pope's Power (in the BELIEF of CATbOLICKS) k mt barely Minifterial, hnt IMPERIAL. CALHOLICl (fays he) mn tan- turn MINISJERIO, fed &- IMPEKIO Papam pr^fidere CKEDUNT. And this Papal Power is (/>) SVPKEME., fo that there refides in the Pope a Right to direSi and COMPEL , and a <POWE% of LIFE AND VEaTH. And to (liew the reafon of this, he adds 5 (c) That the TOTE is the SUTl{EME VIC A\, of GOD, the Emperor Supreme ADVOCATE of the Church, than which NOTHING can be ?nore HONOU- %A'BLE for any KJ N G : (Surely Kings are much bound to him for that Honourable Of-
• fice.) The TOTE (as he goes on) is THE HEAD ofChriJVs Tody:, The Emperer and Kjngs- arc ATQAS and HANT>S : And therefore it is. MADNESS To fay, That the HEAD has not EMTIT(E o'ver the ATQAS, The Tope, who is the Head and Top of the Ecclefiaflical 'Body. is governd by the INSTITJTION of the Holy Ghoft. The A^^MS can do nothing, but what pertains to the Food, Tiayment, and TroteSiion of the Body. And St. Paul forbids us to doubt, that the Go'vernment and Trefcription of all thefe, belongs to the Head, and from thence is ■deri'ved to the JTJAS. And therefore if Kjngs do not feed and cloath the Body, if the A'RMS or HANDS do not do their Office, they may (by the Command of the HEAD) be CUT OFF, as
unprofitable
I^ccmcious to ^^otcftdut; p);iucfS, &c. [25 j
unprofitable Members. Tliefe are his words,
or the Enghfh of them.
So that (by this PopiHi Doftrine) the Pope, being
Head of the Body, may, when he pleafes, (for he
is Supreme and Sole Judge in the cafe) cutofFKings
and Emperors, who arc but the Hands- or Arms of
that Body. And yet fohard is the Forehead of that
Author, that he is not afliamed to fay, (and put it
in the Margent , that all might take notice of it}
Tfjat this prcat Torver of the (pope. is (d) NOT AT ('') •^'""'»« ^''P-' P"'^'?*
JT T I ■ t t m ■ TT NIHIL r^K^Ds i'i--K.'-
ALL dangerous or prejuaiaal to Trinces. How cv>li AviEur r^gibv^-
dangerous this Do^rine of this Papal Supremacy, ^'^'^"^•/"'- ^"^•''*' has been to Princes, the many Excommunications and Depofitions of Kings and Emperors, in the fix laft Centuries, are evident and fad VVitncfles i and what mifchief (if not carefully prevented) it may do for the future , it will concern Princes , and all who arc Loyal, and love Them, and their own Pre- fervation , ferioufly to confidcr. It was a Wife- Man's faying, That Proteftant Princes may be too fecure, but never faft*, while any Jefuite dwells in their Dominions. Thitamts fpeaking of the fatal, aiid (by them, too fecure) not fear'd Tragedy of Hen. 5. and 4. of France, he fccms to blame tlieir too crcat Security, and then adds : MJ S E(\0 S ^^IKCJTES, 'QllIBUS VE CONjZJ\^TlONE NON C<^EDrru\, NISI OCCISIS. But to pro-
^^^^' Cf) Jacobus Siiiunca EncliiV, ,
% Another of their Authors, and he a Learrncd ^X^^^'^XS::^^:^ Bifhop, (Jacobju(e)Simanca by Name) tcUs ^f^^^ ^^_^;^ us that, which concerns all Proteftant Princes '"f. ^ eo^m svs/t/ ab to confidcr, and what they muft expcd . from GE\\^'^h!Tuu>TjJu,'S.'i.
*L comftelKBdit, .
Cm]
^opiil) ^zmciples, &c.
(/)Cap.-Abfolutositf. Ex- tra, de Hxrctki*.
(g) Alph. aCaftro, de ^ujfd flxreticor. Tunit. Lib. 2. Cap. 7. ^c.
(h) Valie utikm ejfe cenfso ad TOTIVS argumenti fufccfti cogrtitionem, CS' PI{AXIM, Nl- HlLQyE cerainere quod. CA- THOLIC AM FWEM nffen- ddt: ideoque DIGNVM ]udico, M ad MVITOKJJM VTILI- TATEM. TE^TIU, ^ etUm SJiFlVS e.i.iiur : So are the words in A'M Mowtmui his licence of tliac Booi<.
the Pope, when he has Power to put their Trayterous Principles in execution. The thing he tells us, is this : Heretiqms (fays he, and we know who are meant by that hard word)' are aSinally DETKIFED of ALL mUTRlON and JU^SJSVia^ON , and their SZ>BjECTS FKEEn EKOU THEI\ OBEDIENCE : and this comprehends lQNGS,and OTHE^LOKDS. So Simanca. Nor is this his private or fingular Opinion : For, i. He proves it exprcfly out of a Decretal of Pope Gregory the Ninth, ex-, tant in the Body of their .(f) Canon-Law. 1. He cites (g^ Jlphonfus a Cajira^ who alfo. proves the Pofition of Simanca , by evident Teflimonies of many and eminent Popidi Au- thors, g. It is to be confidered too, that Si- fjia?icas Book is Priviledg'd , and Licenc'd to be Printed by Publick Authority, and with; the Approbation and high Commendation of the Cenfor Librorum ^ the Learned Ben. Arias' Montanus ; who tells us, that he had read it, I (h) And judged it HlOBLt TKOFlTABLE,i for the I^iowiedge and ^^ACTlCE of the. WHOLE ArQiimcjit undertaken., and that it con' tain'd NOTHTMG OFFEKSJVE to the CA- TFIOLICK. FAITH, (then, in that great Man's Judgment, that RebellioiK Roman Doflrine, of Depofine; Heretical Kin^s , and Abfolving. their Snb)e61:s from all Oaths of Allcgiaiice, is not offenfive to their CathoHck Faith.) And therefore I JUDGE it WOKTm ..iiat ^FOK. THE fROFir OF MANX, ithcAJFilKD
TIME
Idcrniciouai to ^.jorcftftnt 0;nicf5, &c. [25]
TIMB , and OFTKBK , ^Vublijljed, So that this VoSirhie , (That Heretical Kjffgs are Df- ■privd of all their 'Domifiion, and their SuhjeSls Jbfolved from all Oaths of Allegiance^ is tiot only approved by Simanca , Alfonfus a CajlrOy Arias Mbntanus , ( all great and 'very learned ^erfons in the Church of Rome ) but by their Canon-Law, and' the Decretal of Pope Gregory the Ninth. And it is further confiderable, that this Doftrine ( though Impious and Tray- terous ) is not ( in any Index ExpurgatoriuSy I have yet feen } condemned either in Simanca^ or any other of all thofe, who generally aflert and vindicate if. . One more I fliall only cite, ( though an hun- dred fuch might be cited) and he a famous Jefnite , who plainly tells us, ( what their So- ciety conftantly profefs ^ and many of them ha'vcy and do praSiice ) (i) that if a CLERGY- CO curid rtheSio in ^««»; MJK R^bel againft his KJKG, it is NO ^. ^LS^lt^ jS^: TREASON, becanfe CLE^GY-MEN are not the 'y^^^a.^.^^f'^i^^t^ {QNGS SmjECrS. Nor is this the fingular •^*^- Opinion of Emanuel Sa ■-, for it is appro'ued and highly commended ( by their Cenfores Li' brorum) both at the (k) bepinmmr ^ and fl) (^) opm rieoiogu . omni-
J C ll. n I J/ .. 11 SVSQVE atiimtrum cur am ha-
end or that Book , and ( as an ( m ) excellent *^«"A« vtile m neces- and learned Pedpn tells me ) it was highly ap- ""l^r^^ u rnnr^r proved and commended at %ome too. So that •'''"" ;"' p"- ^i-tamuve (if iuch a multitude of eminent PopiHi Au- '^'ZZ''^lU„ opcrum thors may have that credit they deferve in this pag-4-i- Edit. Paris ksj*. particular ) we may be fure, that this impious and trayterous Do£lrine is approved and re-
E ceived
[.^]
\mpi[\) ^juiciplfS, Sec.
fji) Phil.Maynardusde Pri- filegits Ecclefiall. Dedicated to l^ope Paului 5 . and printed
at yiUOM 1607.
\ ( 1 ) rmperator fubeft Pap^,
• ( 2 ) Tmperator ^ I{ex rati-
i fs^jit .» P<Jp<z defoni i^ privi- I rii ibid. Scdt. 23.
C 3 ) P^F ^"'^'' fotefl^item in _ We Orbs, in Sfirituiilibia (S I XemporalibM ; ^ in Temporali- iy^.moio digniori, fuperiori, t? ferfeS^iori quum bibenl Prin- eipes feculires. Ibid Art. 6. Sea. I. & Sea. 11.
. ( 4 > Staiuta Likorum non ob-
Ji^atit CleTicos,An. 1 3. Sea.9..
( 5 ) fnariui Dei Omnibia
■ TctsHatibuipritpovitiir, SICUT , W^E DEUS, C? PAPit SUB- I S£*T OMNIS CREATURA, Ubid. Art. <5. Sea. n.n.
. f" (6) P/jp^ /ttie/e. e/J DE NE-
'' cess; r A IE SALUTIS. C?
smtrttriuM affcrens, NON PO-
■ TFS DICI CHRISTIANUS. AbickmScit. I 3k
(o) Cap. tlnam Sana. Dc Wa or. & Obedientia. Int- Extrav. Comimincs^
ceivcd in the Church of ^me. And though I fa id I would cite no more inch Tefti monies, to manifefl: fo certain and clear a Truth 5 yet I fliall add two more , ( not unworthy your Confideration) which are ( if thatbe pofllble) more h'ghly impious than the former. > I. Then, a great Popifli (;;) Lawyer, (in averting the Papal Power) has, and endeavours to prove thefe erroneous and dcfperate Portions.
1. The Bmperour and Kings are the Topes Sub- jeSts.
2. The Empo'or and Kings may he Depofed by the Tope, for tierefie and any great Sin.
5. The To^e hcis Tower in the whole World, in Spi- rituals and TEMPOTJLS ; and this TEMPORAL Tower he hiis in a more Worthy, a Superiour and ^erfeSi wanner, than Secular Trinces.
A. Statutes made by Laymen, do not bind the Clergy..
It. The To^e is Vicar of Cod, and Treferred before all Towers, cis GOD. BimELF ; and EFEXY CREATVT^ IS SmjECT TO HIM.
6. It is neceffary to Salivation to be SubjeB to the Tope, and he who affirms the contrary, IS KG CBRISlun.
This he has out of the (0) Canon-Law , and the Decretal of Pope Honiface the Eight. So that by this impious and uncharitable Do- ftrine, all Troteftant KJWy ^^i"^^^ ^"'^ Teople, are denyd to be Chrifiians, and abfolutely damned, without all hope or poffibility of Sahation..
And
1
pcniicious to ^;ioffltaut p^incfS, Sec. C 27 ]
And yet their (/>) Canofufts (to fay nothing of cp) vid. Gioffam addiflum others; and Qj) Jefuites generally, (nay^Cr) ^Z^^Z^llZn^^^lt \ iiniverfally) approve and defend it, and the c'e'ia.Lib.4. Part i. rag jo?. ,
I yr\^ t r 1 n 11 n (^) VkI Bdlarmm. de Pont.
Pope and (f) Cr7«;;fz7 conn rm and citabhfli it. Roiii.Lib.5.cap.7.bca,itcm.& Thcologia h.ac dafmiatoria^ Tfcudo-Cathofica, (^0- (o vid. Apoiogiam Jcfuita- ,;;a,;afit licet, tamcn mn eft ChnJ1ia,;a. Let [rT^ulo'^z^r.^^^X them bracT ('as ufually they do ) of their Ca- c/) vid. sanaion. Pragmat.
, ,. I T^^ r r t 1 (Pans 16 1 3. Ill Quarto) pag.
tbolu\ taitb ■■) tor my part, i can nave no great '°4i & concii. latcran. uib Opinion of their Faith, who have little Cha- niTml^Tomfp.co'ndS'g.in"
rirv anH ffimn all Caxo rhpmfrlvf><; ^ ^^'^ ^'^^' OBEDlEkriA
rity, anaaamn ail idAC cncmici\es. rj?/(y^(andfoJ-«AK.'7;M;isduc
Once more, (t^ Staiiiflam O'x.icho'vius Avhile ^"•' ^° ^^ p':*^" ?</" ^'"'i^^
. . , ' ^ / ■' ii'r« 1 f icario Potitipci l{onu)io, is ait
he magnihcs the Pope and his Papal Great- Article ofthdr new creed,
r 'Ll'L ^ ^ C 1^- I (contrived at Trim) EXTRA.
nels, with high contempt ot Kings, and svam nullus sal^vs BlafphemyagainftGod) hath this padage, un- ^SJVS'^^"^. fit to fall from the Pen of any fober Chriflian, '■•^'^'^s roiemniy rwear. vid.
N -m r-^ r^ r r^ ~r^ r i /-r- Rullatn r//4. fupcr ^ormaPro-
{u) Ihe T^A^ILSJ (lays he) excels THE feiriomsFidei.inConciiioTri- i\JKG, as much ds a MAN. excels a 'BEAST. '^(O 'staniflaJs Ozichovius in
bes-
ert Sa-
IM <tH~
is flrange Doarine;and yet approved ^^(]^^„,,^.'^P<>"i^'^^^^^ojuMociuto. at leafi: not condemned there, (as Antimonar- chical Pofirions, which decry Royal, andmag- nifie Papal Power, feldom, or never are) the rcafon why I fiy and believe this, is; Becaufe ■ I find in the (x) SpafiifJj Expur^atary hjclex, (x) index Expurpatorlns fomeothc things of //.« ^.fW ccnfnr'd ; but ""l'^-"- ^^ ^»"'"^° ^zichovio. thi^palfage now cited, is neither medl'd with, npr once mcntion'd.
But to pafs by particulir Teftimonies of finqle Po- pifli Authors, (who publicklv allcit, and induftri-
E a oufly
J
[.8]
V3opiil) i^niicipies, &c.
oLifly endeavour to Vindicate this Rebellious Do- dirine , That Kings may be depofed and murdered by the Tope or People.) I fliall give you greater, and (to the Church of ^me ) more Authentique Authori- ty. As for inftance,
I. Their (y) Canon-Larp, approved, received, u- fed and obey'd in their Church , as a Rule of Ju- ftice in all their Courts and Confiftories. I fhall quote their beft Edition '■, Correfted, Approved,and Publifli'd by the Popes Command, ( and he Infalli- ble no doubt ) for fo he himfelf tells us ( x )
ISlos providere <volentes , ut hoc Jm Canonicnm , jic EX'?V<I{GJTVM, ad OMNES CH^STl FIDE^ LES SASJ^'VM per'veniat , ac ne cniquam liceat operi QVJCQVAM ADDEi(_E, 'vel IMUVTA^Ey attt 1RVE^E'J(E , fed prout in nrbe mfira {?^<?wi HHper imprejfmn fnit, perpetuo integrum (^ TISICO^ <]^TtijM conftruetur. Now in his Canon-Law , fo purged and correBed^ that it might come to ALL THE FAITHF7JL, ( as the ^Po^e himfelf tells us , who, if he were infallible could not, and if he were but an honeft man, would not publifli an untruth) we are told.
(j 0 Dccrctum Gratiani T.- MENDATVM, julFu Grego- 5 rii. i3.Editum, juxta. Exem- " plar I^OMANVM , DlLl- jl GESTEJl J^ECOGNJTVM. i Pai'ir. i6ii.
\ (.z) Grcgorius Papa 13. in ' Bulla Corpori Juris Canonici prapfixa Dat. Roma?, i j 80. [j Anno Pontificatus fui. ^.
x
fa) Vid. Can. Authorita- tcm. J. Caul". I J. Qusft. <?. Part. a.
I. That the Pope may depofe Princes, and then abfolve their Sub)eds from their Oathes of
Allegiance (a) A FIDELlTATlS etiam JV-
RJMENTO , ^manm <Pontifex nonnuUos A'B- SOLVIT, cum aliquos A SVA T>IGNITATE tfEFOnrr. And having fet down this for Law, it immediately follows,
II. That
^Etnicious to ^<ioteitaiu ^^mcrs, &c. [29]
r
n. That (h) another Tope (^Zachary by name ) (b) jim mm Kpm. lon- depofed the Kin;' of France ■-, not fo much for HIS & ^'''"''^' i""^'"'-"' ^'- INIQVITIES ; but that he vv as VK^^kOFTTA- ^'•'i"''''t'tusi qu^m fro eo, quod
!BLE for Jttcb a power And then he A'BSOLV- Kecno veposvit . om.
ED ALL THE F<^ENCH from their Oath of '^T^'o'lWs/j/If/'
FIDEDirr; And then adds That the H.ly g/lte'L^Sf^rJ'
Church ( he mcanes the Pope ) does ( by an «- ^^ tiiE^EKi-ifjcit ec- fual authority) fo abfohe Subje&s from their Oathes '*'*' ' ' "* '"^ ^' to their Superiors.
Now concerning this memorable Canon, give nic leave to obferve,
1. That the Glofs tells us ( John Semeca , a fa- mous Canonift, was Author of it^ that Pope Gelafius maintain'd the do6lrine of depofing
Emperors (" c ) Gelafms Papa fcribens (o Giofr. .h .naum Cano.
rontra Anajiafium Impcratorem, dicit , QVOD "'""" "'^«^'»» ^POTEST EUU DE90nE<iE <pipPTE\ 1
malitiam fnam. Sec 2. Fn the Lemma^ or Title of this Canon ( in the
(d) old Editions of the Canon-La\V") It awA-. v, r
was {jelajms Tapa Anaflafio Imporatori.
But mlater {e ) Editions the Title is this (o Editaugduni.istfi,^,
Tontifcalis Anthoritas A JZ)%AMEKTO FI~ DELITaTIS nonnullos ABSOLVlT , unde GregoriHs fpapa. The (f) Annotator tells (/) vid. Notam ,i dia.m us truly ; that Gelafius could not fpeak of the t^j^'-^^"'*'in£diwccciitiari. French Kings depofition ; feeing Gelafitfs i
was dead, above 240 years before Chilpericus {^ or Childericus, they write him both way cs j)
came
i
Cao]
^opill) ^ziacipics, &:c
(g ) Gregorius. 7, Regift, t lib.S.EpiH. Ji.
(h ) VidcBullamGrcgorli. ij. Dat.Romx. 1. JuIii.ijSo. Corpori Jur. Can. praEfixam.
(i) Eginhardus in Vita Ca- roli Magni, p. i.s- tdit Co- lon. 1 ji I . %vho fayes Bil-
dericus }{ex. fVSSV STE- THAISII, J^omuni PontificU, de- fofm ejt. This impious Fad of Pope Stephen, has been ap- prov'd, ai.d(in praflice) imi- tated by many of hi> fullowcrs. Bzovms ( before cited ) gives us a lilt of above 30 Kings and Princes, thus depo- fed by Popes, and Anathema- Ui'd.
came to be King of France. But they fay, the words of this Canon are found in the ( ^ ^ £- piflles of Pope Gregory the Seventh, and there- fore they do rightly refer them to him, as the true Author of them. Now, whether it were Gelafuis^ or Gregory the Seventh, it is all one, ( as to my prefent bufinefs ) it is by them confefs'd, that a Pope was Author of that ^- bellious pajptge^ Gratian refers it into the ^ody of their Ca?ion-Litw , and Pope (h ) Gregory the Thirteenth approves, and (" together with the whole Body of the Law, the Glofs and Annotations) confirmes and ratifies it. Whence vie may rationally conclude, that this do(!nrine, of the ^o[)es porter to depofe Kjn^s , and ab- foive their ftibjeSls from their Oathes of Jllegi- ance ("though impious and rebellious) is (b far from being diforviid^ or deleted by all Ta- fijis ( as fome now pretend ) that the Su- preme power of that Church has not onely approved, but eftablifli'd it for Law. By the way •■) though you fee, that Gratian and Pope Gfegory fay, that Pope Zachary was the Man who depofcd the French King HUdericus ^ yet (i)an Hijiorian of more Antiquity and Cre- dit than either of them ( notwithftanding Gregories Infallibility ) tells us , that it was Pope Stephen (Zacharies Succeflbr ) who de- po/ed him. So that all agree, that A ^ope ( it matters not which ) was Author of that im- piety.
3. When
pernicious to ^ictrfVant ^;iincf s, &c. [31]
i^
5. when the Canon faycs, that the French King was depofed by the Pope, becaufe he was INVriLIS, '&c. the Glofs gives you the
meaning of that word ; Non vitelligas ,
INVriLlS , id eft INSVFFICIENS , tufic enim ei dari debuit Coadjutor j fed quia VIS-
SOLVrVS erat, cum ( f ) MVLIE^IBVS, ^t) /,/. r.,. nur r.rum ^ EFFOEMINAIVS ■■, fo that C by this Pa- ?«'•"' '■''^^^, fi''orum rsi^vs
IT \ r I /•■~lnir\ ^•'^■'^ •■ 9"<"'' 4"' .^■fpo*" ejus,
pal Law/ we ice, that ( ir the rope plcalej omes norunt. u Npotifmo, the greatefi: Prince may be depofed for a ve- ^^^ ry finall matter. 4. When this Canon faycs ; the Po[jc def.iofedthe
Ktf7g of France ; the { h^) Glofs notes £r- c^) cioiTa a.i diaum.CaQ.
^(? /"^r/j^ de^onit Imperatorem. And ( leafl: we ^''"'- ^- '^"''^' '^^i?"'"''- ihould not take notice of it ) thcfe words (in their bcft Editions of the Canon-Laws (I) ( j ) cnm kis qa^ tb impus correSied, purged , rcvifcd^ and rvhate'ver wich^ v7fr!^rl Jy^r/r/He^LTSo^ ed men had put into the Text or M ardent ^ contra- J''^^^'"f''>.trarUnviie„ii,
ry to the Catholich Faith, by Tobe Greeories »"«'^-'"'-''"« ?^'^^ totvm
commanct^ ixpiinged ) I lay ( notwjthltandmg lididUGrcgoni 13. ;|
all this ) thcfe words are put in the Mareent '
imB\ArO% POTEST A <PJTA X>E- \
H^ <PON/. Whence it is evident, that in Pope 1
^^^' Gregories Opinion , this impious do5irine and *
Pofition ( though contrary to the true Chri- ;
Jiian ) is not contrary to THEIll l^pMJN *■
FAHH i being exprefly in thofe Glolles and Canons; in which, their ^-uprcme and Infal- lible Judtre fayes , There is NOTHING CJ- THOLICM VE%ITATI COKTXA\WU. Nor is this Pope Grcgories fingular opinion '-, that the 'Pope may depofc Kjngs, For fceino
ic i
[?']
Popill) l&jintiplrB , See.
f w ) One Article of the
Trent-CrceA is this., ./tern OA/-
NIA a Sacris CANONIBVS
ZS Oecumetiicu ConciliU definiu,
I^^DVBITANTE1{^ recipio £5^
profiteer. ...Hanc Cathelicam fi- ,
dem , extra quirtt non ejl SA-
LVS profiteer, C? nbALIIS te-
tieri, (quantuM in me eji ) ca-
. nio. Itahabent verba Pro-
If fcfllonis fidd , in Bulla difta
, Pii Paps. 4, Concil. Tridcn*
!i
it has been approved by their Popes , and their General Councils (us you (hall fee anon) . and for fome ages received amongfl their 5^- '^^:red Canonr ( as they call them ) it is become a neccffary part of their Creed ( and no falvati- cn without the beliefe of it) to which all their Secular Clergy ArcbhiJhopSy ^iJhopSy and w^hoever has any Cure of Souls ; and all their ^^gitlars Cat lea ft: the Heads and Goz>ernors of them ) are folemdy ( ^ ) Sworn. For they frvear^y promifey and I'ow, withont all donbtings , to receife, and prof efs ALL THINGS defined and declared in the SAC<^T> CANONS, andCe^ neral Councils i and ( fo far as they are able) to make others recei've them too. So that all their Ecclefiaftiques ( efpecially all who have any Cure of Souls ) do not onely believe this im- pious doSirine of ^opes power to depofe Kinvs ,' but they Swear, both to BELIEVE and ?^0- FESS IT, and (as far as they are able) make others do (b too. How pernicious to Kings and Princes, fuch Principles , and fuch per- fons (Sworn to Profefs and Promote them ) ' heretofore have been -, the many fad and Tra- gical examples of depofed Princes, in the fix laft Centuries, can abundantly witnefs , and afliire us : And how pernicious ( for the future) they maybe, unlefs ( with care and prudence ) they be prevented , we , or our poft:erity may unhappily , and too foon fee. hirum omen ! mifrecors, quifolus poteji, averrun-
at Deus,
5. Laftly,
' pvrusfioiis to i^ajtiitaat iDiiucfs, Sic. [35]
5. Laftlyi. Ifwe confiik Cardinal (n) Tnyrea-^^ C») Johan. cai-d dc Turre- mata (a very great and learned perlbnj who 7-'^^^t^;Si well imdcrdood their facred Canons, and in E^^'^^'i'J.i'b.i.cap.H.t;??. j what fenfe the Roman Cliurch received them) he, in his Commentary on the Canon before- cited, aflirmes, and endeavpuis to p^^pyp flief?
follovvins ( (? ) PropoficionS. (o)ThcCardinalsowii words
*^ . '^ iTc chcle wliich follow,
I. T/jc Tope Mijy DETOSE the Emmor-^ or a Kin(r i- p^f j potej} defome im- not Jubjca t^ the E;upem; , S^^^^Z!}^'""' ^"' ^"
II. The Pope may LJlfFULLT ahfohe SnbjcSh ,, ,,,, ucrn-,.^
frOVl their Oath of AlieTiatlCe. ab{uhere fubJuos d jurunumo
ifr T^/ r^ ^t r r' -w-^ 1 t 1 fdilitat^f.
III. i he Tope viaydeiioe Counts. Duhcs. and Other ,„ „
J} . I 1 r- r ^ I T^ , r I^^- rafa poteft defonere Co-
Daroiis^ without the ioiijoit of the b/nberor^ or thofi mites, vucesi^aiwrjiarores,/:-
J\jf7,{^SynijoJeJithjetts they are. gumiuibus [ukmt. ^
IV. Suhjcas {tf they ha^je the Topes confent) which jy. ,„,,,,, ,^,,,,,,, ,^,„. they arc lure to have ( it it make lor his intereft) /'""J'-'F) f«i7"« K':s»r^ '^.^po- May dcpoje their J\m<rs. This he hirther proves, j^^%etjcvs, ptcjl J £c- and adds That if the {{ino- he a manifift Heretic^ '^'^' '^'^'"^
C as all Protcfiants are with them ) then 7HE^ CHllT^H way depofe him.
The Premifes conlider'd , it will highly concern all ProtcAant Kings and Princes to look to it, who (as Hereticks ) arc all damned, and (p ) Anathe- (f)Vid. Pniiam riiaar manz'doiKe every year, on Manndy-Thurfday , in ^Spl'SlS" then- [Bulla La:nt' Domini. For, had they of T{pme '■ i"i^"";'r,'"Rc""-tugdi: power to 3(51: according to their Principles, Preten- '^^^- ^'•''''* ^^'^•'' ces, and Intercft, they^ would make fliort work , a fpeedy and thorough Reformation ; and compel all Protciiant (or as they conftantly mifcall them, * j
F Heretical) l'
^
[34 3 \aopUl) ^^inciplCjg) &:c
Heretical ) Kings and Princes , to quit their Religi- on , or their Realms and Kingdomes.
Be it concluded then ; that ( according to the Approved and Received Do6^rine of the ^ma?t Church^ Kjngs and primes may be depofed^ and their /nhjeBs ahfolved from their Oaths of Allcfriance, And for the truth of what I here fay •-, we have the Accept and TraSlicc of three Popes ( Zachary, Gre- gory the Seventh, and IJrhan the Second ) and three C^) vide Gratian. Can. ^/i- (</) G/w^^/zj grounded on that 'P^/W authority^ receiv- oL''?«r^//T'cauf.';^ ed into the ^^o^^ of their Qanon-Larv : which, when ^^^■^' you have occafion, you may ( for further fatisfa^ti-
on) confult.
Now if you inquire, for v>hat Crimes Kings may be depofcd by the Pope i whether for Here fie onely (for thats univerfally agreed on) or for other Crimea alfo ? 7o/;» Sewers (Author of the Glofs on Gr4f/<?;;) gives us a full and Categorical Anfwer. For i . He (r) Giofla ad dn. fi Tafa. { r ) propofcs the Queftion : Tro qtio peecato poteft 6.'c\i\.^o.V':xho. Aide ie- if„pgfator deponi ? For what Sin can the Emperor be
depofed P ( That he may be depofed, is (in that L aw) no Queftion, but an undoubted truth ; the Qyefii- on onely is, for what Crimes it may be done.) And
(/) Tiio ^OLIBET fee- the Anfwcr is (/) That he may be depofed for
M feTnSUir'TbS^' m7 Sm, if he be mCOmjOIBLE-, andnotonely
' ..;:LTJ.'rp;r;«?S for his fas, but if he ( t ) UNTm^TjBLIE ;;/.-
,, fuitttibM, quam quod untxpo- ^^^^ ffjjf (Pgoal Toiper : Aud thjs bc proves out or
fuit. can.Aiius, i.cauf.ij. another CanoH. This is thQ jad condition oi J\jngs
'^^■^- and Emperors (by the ?opi([\ Canon-Lan?) they may
he depofed ( if they be incorrigible ) for JHT SIN , and fometimes for ns fin ; at leaft as the principal caufe of their depofitioiu Whereas ( by the fam3
Latp)
L
pernicious to ^^oteftant Verniers, &c. [ 35 ]
r
Law ) if the Tope be fo (it) [irodigioujly itnpious ^ C«) DiaoCaa. CPapa.o. that he not onely damn himfclf, but carry []/N- °'"'*°* NUME%JBILES (POTULOS^ imimmrable people to hell with him^ yet there is f/o depofif/o^^ or Jndg-- ino^ him. This not only the Cafwn in Gratian , but a long A'lfiotation (lately added, fince Gratiafis time) appro'z/es^ and coniirnics : and Tope Gregory the Thir- teenth approijcs both, the Ca/ioft, and Annotation ^ m his (x) Bull, I have lb often mention'd. So that (x) Bulla Gregorii. ij ( according to this Law ) If the Emperor , or any Corp. jur. can prefixa. King, will not be good Boyes, and obey their Grand Maijler ( Vominiun DEUM KOSTTiVM, as they call him ) the Pope ^ if they will notZ't^ correSiedby hiw, and amend what he thinks amils ( for he is Supreme and Sole Judge of the C rime and pu?iipj~ went ) Then the Tope may^ and ( if he have ability and opportunity , we may be fure) he rvill depofe them.
Thus much (and may be too much J for the Canon-L aw i that Sink of Forgeries, Impiety, and Difloyalty. For I fcarce know any Book, where- in are more forged writings ( under good names fomctimcs ) for bad purpofes :, or more Impious Doftrines and Pol7rions own'd and authoriz'd for Law, and that by one who pretends ( though with- out, and againft all rcafon ) to he Chrift'l Vicar, and Infallible ; or any Book which has more Sedi- tious and Rebellious Principles of Difloyalty. This >^J onely fay now , but when I have ( what now I want) time, and opportunity ; I can, and (2'tMJ 0i«5) will make it good. How dangerous , and ( when
F 2 believ'd
[35] ^opiii) ^^aiCi^us, &c
believ'd and pradis'd ) haw pernicious to Kings and Princes , the Principles of that Law are, you may (in part) fee by the premifes : if you defire more, you may (at your leafure) confult, and con- fider thofe Places here mention, d in iheMargenf (i)vidcGratian:Di!!.95.in r^\ ^jfj-j ^j^^ Gloffe and Cafe upon them ^ togei
Lcmm<tte,&;Can.i.758,9,io,ii. ^, -^ . , _, ',. , t , ^^ °
cujus Lemma ell, ^orf/Mpew- fhet With Cardinal litrrecrematas Commentary on
tores debsnt Ponlificihus SV3- ^^ . ~^ in ■, ^1 -r\
^ £ssE,7!onFii^:EssE. Can. Crat/a'is Dccree , and ranormitan on the DecrC"
cr."-cg£:^ai'l^i: tab (to omit aH other Canonifts (you will find
^ cow;rfK««on(w. 47. cauf.23. Evrdcnce, more than enough, to convrnce you, out
p •Qiirell5.& cap. Vergentisio. ' __ ^.. .1 1 Ti • • 1 c
' & cap, Excommunic. 1 3. & of thcit own Telhmomes , that the rrmciples or ^)dlrci\ds^S\il%ravlm.il tlieif owH l.aw, as cxplaitt'd by their greateft, and jSll'D?fSf&?e1uto'r beft Interpreters, are not onely Dangerous, but ta.in 6, & 7. Decree, lib 2. Deftruftive cTf the Right of Kings , and incon-
Tit. i.cap.i.CujusLcmmaclt. ■ . , ■ 1 ■ -t t i *"•' L ■ /^ L U
LAicis iackrkos NVLLA filtent ^ tvith that Loyalty , whfcfi ' ('. by the ' ^.ul^^i^Z^X Laws of -Nature and Scnpnre ) are really due.
Tit 3. De Hxreiicii ^ Scbij- 1 <.U„^
>B«t«:«.cap.9.t5'<r. Et cap. M- "-^ t"Cin.,
OT/V 50. Extra De ^itreiurarJo.
Cuuis Lemma eft. Ckrici .1. ,./-, 1. /'r^.n- ' r ^ ^- T
,^rcnte>,e,MrLaki>pr4are^u- 2. But befidcs thefe Tcltimonies ot -particular \ S?:To//i.f 'f'ISaf r1 Writer, of their own Church, and their Approy- 1 i^qgr.^okdientii.. ^j^ 3P^^ ^ l^y Poblick Authonty ) EftabliHid ,
and Recei'v'd Canon-Law , we have greater and more Authentick^ tejiimonies ^ that in the Popifli' Church, they both profcfs ami fra^ke this im'pibus )j' and rebellious doflrine, of J?rathemat}%vfg, and De-^
pofivg Kjngs and Emperor s ^ of giving ^/p^j) their Kingdoms'^ to others , and Jhfohing their SuhjeBs. from their Oathes of Allegiance ^n& Fidelity. For rheir Pbpes (who are their Supreme and Infallible Judges) teftifie as much, in their Sre^'ej" and Bulls j and thofe not forged , or corrupted by Heretic}^ i Ijut Fiibljfli'd by therafelves, and Printed at <^me;m
theiu
. — r — 1
^^ciuiaous CO ^^;oaitauc p^inciS, Sec. [^7_] ^
^i;;ir;;;;r( ^ ) ratican <^nfs. Where ( to omit ^ « :;:f-^szX::^
others) we have,- SKS^S!""'"'""
I. The %iU of TiM the fifth againft Qiiecn E//- ^aheth. The T///e prefixed to that impious Bull, ic t^K • Z'^) VAS^NATIO , 'iT' Exconnunnicatio Eli- (x) Diai BuiLnii. Tom. i.
IS luiB . v.'V •'. jTsTJr 21? (Tit: \ I 'T*/1J\r pag. 120. and in the tditioa •
%abcth^, (iUoitie Au(dt.f^ cique ADH/t.'iiEN UliM idions.Amio .65?.pag..;oj. • Where ( intone breath and I^hU) he Damns that |^';£i'-;St'?;:- ''thI inm^e.t Ojiccn , and all her Loyal S,d>jcSis, (Trote- ::;^J^^^^^- .fiafits and fapifts.) Where (by the way) it ts •!
to be confidcrcd, Tiiat if any Tapifis be Loyal, ( as by the law of God and Nature they ought) to any fierctical King or Prince, (and at %owc, our Graci- ous King, and all Proteftants are fuch) it is rcpnted their Crhfte, and they Damn'd at ^mc for it. For ins not only (OMKES (i>l<'^ S'NGULOSH^- _ »«=K^i»»c|™;;.i.
Tuqi) All and finaular Hcrctiqucs, of what fort L^'f-ni i.^Mom. 5. i .:
ibevcr, but alfo all thoie, ivho RECEIUE, FAVOU^^
or DEFEND thetn. So that if any Kontan-Catholich^
Favour, or (according to his Natural, or Stvorn At-
Ic^rance) Defend his Tn/fce, who is a frotejiant, ( and |i
fo a Declared Hereti.pie^ he is under the fame>4/w-
^/)ew4 and Condemnation, And this Anathema and
Condemnation of rf// Heretiques , and j// //j»/e who
Faz'our or Defend them, is folemnly renewed every
(c) year at Iv'''^'^) ^"'^ lately referred into the Body (f)inBuiiaCKr.iD.^r.iii.;.
of thei.: (^) Canon-Law. C-0 y^J^-J. Drcrc: Lb . '
^ , , i-nlirn iD-,^; lie. 3. C<ip. 1, 6^ y. pig. 1.
':ut to proceed: In this Bull ot Pope tiih the &203.i:dicLuga.i66u . Fifth, which contains the Anathema and Damnation (as 'tis called in the Lemma prcfix'd to that Bull) of Qiicea Elizabeth ; which proved B d^ U TV. Ai
FIV.LMENy. ,
A
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^iOptO) ^jmcipics, Sec.
FVLUEN,(thQ good and moft gratious GOD blef- fing what the Pope impioufly curkd) we have thefe Particulars very confiderable.
I . The extravagant Power the Pope aflumes j when he tells us , That our Biclfed Saviour did Con flit ute Peter, and by confequence (e) Him, (as Sr. Peters Succeflbr.) . . . . SU?E%^ OUHES CENTES, <sr OMNIA %es,na T^ilN^ CIPEM, ut EVELLAT, DESTIipjT, DIS- SITET, VISfEKDAT, &c. Thefe are the words of God to ( f) Jeremy, (not Peter or his Succeffors) miferably mifunderftood and mif- applyed by this Tope and {g^ his Predecejfors, Here is a pretence to a 'vafl and deflruSii've Torver ; and though it be a bare pretence, and ("without any juft ground ) irrational and ri- diculous ; yet let Princes look to it. For when the Popes had Power, they did 5 and when they have, they will make ufc of it.
{e)Chr:\his — ^1 KOSin hoc SVPI{EMO JVSTITI.^ TBJ{pSO voluhcoltcire. Di- ctiBullr.Scft.j.
(/) Jcr, i.io,
ig) By Innocent. 3. and yet it goes fur Law. Cap. Solicits. 6. Extra De Ma]OT- C Obcd. and by Bcmiface the 8. cap. Vnam Sanitam 8. codcra Tit. Extravag. Com. &c.
(hi iVoj /pojhVicx p()Jf]?Jt»» flcnitudi. e dieltnmus, pr^diSam £liZibethim H^treticd eique ad- hareti'es, Jnathematu fextenutm . incurrijj'e , ejfeque A CHRJS- Tl COSJU^IS VNJTATB rR^.TClsOS. Didx Bull*
%
2. This premifcd, he proceeds to his Damnatory Sentence, in thefe words : (/^) JVe (faith he) by the TlenHude of Jpoflolical Porver , declare the /aid Elizabeth afi Heretick^, and both her, and her Adherent f, to hai>c incurr'd the Sentence of Excommunication , and to be all cut off" from the Vnity of the 'Body of Chrift. But this is not all j He proceeds ( very unlike a Chriftian, and what he would be thought, Chrift's Vicar) to Depofe her , from all her Royal Dignity, and all that Dominion, to which (he had (by
Birth,
I&ctmciotts to ^;!otf(taiu ^;ince5, &c. [ 39 ]
1
Birth, the Law of God, and the Land) a juft Right, in the following Form —
3. And we (i) 'Depri<ve her of her pretended T{py a I jj2^^"nRE'fanlToi ^ioht. and all 'Dominion , Dignity and Trifi- -""^^ ^ quoa,^ue pomisio,
■I J I ^r U 1! •. LJ DPT- DIGSITATE , pivilegioque
'Viledge ivhatjoe'z/er. He calls it, Her P K E- i'/yr>ir^Ar. ibkt. scdt. 4, TEH'DEV Royal Right, bccaufe (accord- ing to their Rebellious and Impious Principles) (he being an Heretick, ( as they mifcall'd her ) ' for that Crime Ihe had loft her Royal Right, even before her adual Excommunication. Noi' is this all j he proceeds. —
4. Jnd further, (k) we Abfohc all the Nobility. i^y'^rnjm^res.siSdr.csiS
SuhjeSiSj and Teople of Ennhnd. and all others omses , q,„ in idvoMo- II C.I } r I n .1 DocvsevE fv^ArE-
wbo ha've atiy way owofn to her^ from jnch Oath j hjjst, afv^AMEi^Tokw
and we declare them E0(^ EVER -Jl^fohedfrom Sgf ^i'.'.^f^^^J^Jli t \ any Obligation of Allegiance or Obedience to her ; SKS,;:?^S./^iK ? and we da (^by thefe Trefents') Abjohe them, scft-5-
So that here, ( fo far as was able ) he Abfolves '.
all her Subjc^s , from the Obligation of the
Oaths ^ in which they had fwoni Allegiance.
But becaufe there is, ("as the Lawyers truly
fay) A Natural^ as well as A Swcrn Allegiance 3
(for, by Birth, they who never Iwore it, . owe
a Natural x\Ilcgiance to their Prince , being
born vSubjefts) left, (after their Oath was null'd)
they (liould Obey the Qtieen, and (upon the
Principle of Natural Allegiance) think them-
felvcs bound fo to do ; He goes on, to declare ,., . . ,^ . ,. ..
tnis iNatural bond Null , and frees them from w-^ vsirE^^is ^ fi.guHf
any Obligation of it : Thus ::.- ^/TSJ; JS) C^* f^^L
5. lie (1) Command, and Eorhid all the Tcers, ?)?: T ^^J^^l^i^; Teoplc and SnbjcCts of England, to dare to ciife obevji{e. ^n fcM /,«^
■^ J v f 0> ri'.t,, fmili Av.iikmutif JcnUKr-
any fu iiniidjiim, ibid. Scd. 5.
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papifl) ^\jiti€!plts , &c.
(m) /« dipcftione EUzdhe- jJ.E I'm 5. Jiii Brihwnix ^ Hiberr.i^, adrhilippumi.tran' Jiulit vi cu'yM donaiwnif, diman- datiii fojhi Siionm fuit. Anno 15S.S. ckjfc Biff mica inpru- Rui, ut Bril.innix re^ria poJf:di- ret. Rcmoiiliran. Hibcrnoriim per Frat. R. Caron. Tart i.cap.3.Sca.4. pag.7.
(«) Bullarlum Homanum- Tom. '..paf/^z.. y^ Liigduni. Anri; I <'5 5. Vici-'-Biuium Con- cH.Tom 7.iiart. if%i[«^.
any Obedience to the Oucenj her Monitions^ Com^ jnands^ or Laws. And if any do otherwife^ we in<vol've them in the fame Sentence of Anathema and Excommunication. Whence it e\iclent]y appears , i . That the Pope , in this Authen- tique Bull, and Decretory Sentence, does (To far as he is able) Depofe the Queen. . 2. Ab- folve all her Subjc<^s from their Oath of Al- legiance. 3. And (under pain of Excommu- nication) command and require them, ( con- trary to their Natural Allegiance) to give no Obedience to their undoubted Soveraign. Nor is this all , for
6. When he had done all thi?, he gave away the Queens Kingdom, and Dominions , to Philip the Second, King of 5/? i^/«j as is notorioufly known, and (m) ingenioufly confefs'd by (an honcft Roman Catholick) Father (^ CaroHj an Iriflj Piieft.
Many more fuch impious Bulls there are in that Roman Bullary, in all which Kings and Princes are Anathematized and depofed by the Pope, and their Subjects abfolved from their Oaths of Allegiance *, on pretence of that vafl: and extravagant Supre- macy and Dominion over all the World, (which they challenge by Divine Right, though without any, and againfi: all Reafon) even over Kings and Em- perors. For inftance , the Excommunication and Depofition of the (n) Emperor Hemy the Fourth, who was twice Anathematized by Gregory the Se^venth.
Of
pernicious; to \^?oteftaut ^;tincfS, &c. [41 ]
(Oi Fr.(icriqm{o) the Second. By Gregory the Ninth, (o.Wciem. p. loj. Sep. and Imwcent the Fourth. Of our King Hm^ (;>) '\';'5'''ibS^^^^^^^ the Eighth , by Pope Tanl the Third. And ( to J!^,^^'^";?^'',^"^!!^; . omit all others ) we have an Excommunication of mss. sll Heretical Kings andPriRCcs,and Hcretiqucs in ge- neral, in that famous (^ )£«//./ Cav7.<r, wherein Con (?) vid.didtumBuiiarium,
I <■ I ^ri ri \ Ai • r ^ ii Tom. :. p. i^S. & Conflitut,
Maimdy-Ihurjdayj^n Anathema is lolemnly dcnoun- 6^. vmw ,.ibid(.m. &piuri- ced againft all Heretiques , even Emperors (r ) j-^asqufdcm geacrisBuiusibi Kifics, Dttlics. and all of what dignity foevcr : and (r ) Emm imptruUJ^esaU .
t . "^ . , . J <-> J r.1 JP"Cili, tut alia munJttn fx-
this Anathema is repeated every year. So that ceikntii fu'sir.nbus. rneyars ( amongfl: others ) our Gracious King, and all his "'^ ^'°'^''* ^ ^ '■^^ ■ Proteftant Subjc£}:s are Anathcmatiz'd and Curs'd ^
once every year at Rome, as if their \fofis Vdticanus ^ were become Mount Ehal {/) from whence all Cur- (j-^ Dcut.n.ijA't/.x** fes were to come. Now, whether this do6lrincand ■ praflices of Popes be not dangerous and pernicious to Kings, let the World Judge.
VVelljbutif all this will notdoei if the Tcflimonies of their own Writers (which both for learning and dignity in their Church, are mofi: eminent) nor their receiv'd and cftablidi'd Laws and Canons ; nor their Authentiquc Papal Bulls (-(-) and Decretal Confti- (t; vH.PauiiPapa: -t-Bni- tutions : I lay, it all thele be not evidence enough , rohik ,6;8. Tom. .. p. <?oi. to intitle the Church of Rome to this Seditious, Im- S^/r;;":;^ K'^JS: pious, and ( to Kincjs, efpecially, if they be Prote- '"'"''^ ommbus frham prnxuKcu uants J rcrnicious Doctrine ^ yet the Decrees and tMicj„ii,fubiicata ^tuumfint Canons of their own General Councils (which, ( by S^l^X--™' '^ ■ their own Principles and Confedlons ) are reprefen- tativesof their whole Church, and InfallibleJ) I fay, the Decrees of fuch Councils ( if there be any fuch) will, and mufi: be undeniable evidences of what I have faid in this particular. And, that their appro-
G ved
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^opjli) ^itiucipies, &c
ved General Councils have approved tliis Doftrine of the Popes Power to depofe Kings and Emperors, and ab olve their SnbjefJ-s from their Caches of Al- legiance, I fliall give you two or three evident In- fiances.
(t) It is one of tliofc Ge- neral Councils , which the Councilof Conftans decreed all future Popes fliould Swear to maintain: Sefs. 39, In forma ProfeOlonis a Papa facicncte , pv ifo. Edit. iyi4.
■' («) Cumfntrihrn mjhis C? r<mffo CONCILlOjeliiemione
_ iiligenti p-ahabita. Cap. cum ^emi. I. Extra tie Sent. & re Judic. in 6. The Title to that
dap. is Imocemius A,, in
€oKcilio Lugdunevfi.
(.X) Omni honor e 53" digni- iatefententjando pivmus. Ibi-
O > Omnes qui ei Jmarmn- «o fidilitatif tenentur ajhicli, i ^uramento hujufmodi perpettto ebfolvimus. Ibid. '
(«) C^oflibet,quiei,velat fciperatori vel Regi, confili- um, vel auxilium prsftiterint , vel favorcm , Excommunica- tionis Tententia? fubjacere- , ( <? ) Concil. Lateranum Magnum, fob Linoccntio. 3. Anno 11 1 J. Can.?. De H<e- Ttmcisi and the Canon is re- ceived into the Canon-law, by Pope Gregory the 5. Cap. Ex- 'Or,municamus. 13, Extra de
\\
I. In the General ( t ) Coujicil of Lions ( for a General Council they do univerfally acknow- ledge it) Pope Innocent the Fourth depofed the "Efnperor Frederiqne the S'econd ; That he depo- fed him in that Council, is undeny'd by any I have yet met with ; and that it \\f2is^after diligent diliheration had with his Brethren , and the Council ( u ) appcares by the form of the Ex- communication, regiftred, and upon Record in the. Body of their own Canon-Law. Where I . He ( X ) depri'ves him of all his Honor and Imperial dignity. 2. And then (y ) abfohes all his SithjeSls from their Oathes of fdelity. 3. And ( ^) Excommunicates all who fhonld ac- h^iowledge him King , or Emperor i or jhotdd Counfel, AJpfty orfazrour him.
II. In the great Latcran (a) Council, ( for fo they commonly call it ) in which ( if they mifreckon not ) there were no lefs then 1 2 1 15. Fathers ) it was fynodically and categorically conclud- ed , that the Pope might depofe JQngs, abfolve their fubjeBs^ from their Oaths of Allegiance, and gi'Z^e away their Kingdomes. The ferics and fum of the Canon is this ; Firfl , It is de- creed , that aU Secular lowers (halt ex^eU all (whom, the ^ope and his Tarty fhall call) Here-
ti^ueSy
-1
l^crnicious to ^^otcftaiu i^jinces, &c. [ 43 ] . .
tiques^ out of their Dominions, and they were
to be admoniHi'd to do this, Moncatitnr featla-
res potejiatcs^ &.:c. Secondly , But in cafe they
obey'd not that monition , they were to be
(b) CO\fPELVD. And not onely the L^- (b) siKeceffifumt ferd
teran, but the ( r ) Tran-CouncH , ( a moft fe^^^gfi^^.f^/S
Apocryphal Conventicle , as I fliall, when re- ^5- \'''^- ^^"- >•
■ it ., ^ r 1 1 r (c) Concil. Tn.lent. Sel
quired, make evident to you) ulcth tlie fame ^j- dc Reformat. capzo. Saucy Language to Princes and Supreme Ton--
ers, {d) {ei^en Emperors, Kjngs.Trinces, and all ,;/;;yX'r.''5?";,S; other of what jiate or disunity foe<z/er) for all fi'^'us^ Jigr.iutK.ikc. |
thcfeare( e) COMMANDED to ohfer've all the (O tr^^.ciiit s^crtl Sacred Canons, and ALL GENERAL COllN- ol/S, i^T^feV/' ■ * CILS, (and fo even the Lateran Council, and '^S;!.':. {ZZ^^'7t^ this Canon we are fpeakina of ) n-hich are in ^J^'^^^t^ - ordimm^ fa'vor of Lcclejujtical perjons^and the Liberties I
of the Church ; and they are to obfcrve all thcfe, and ALL OTHEK FATAL SANCTI- ONS^ as the PRECEPTS OF GOD and Dh VlKE ORmNATlONS. And the Lemma , >'
(fjor Title to that Chapter , is this..„...CO- (f)coGAhrTvK.oM' GANTVR, Sc-c. LET ALL CATHOUoVE ^rZ^'^A "^i- <P^IXCES ( and much more HereticalT be ^,f^^, l^Sc'lS^ COMPELVD to obfer^e ALL the SANCTf. J^^^^t^rtl^-^U^Z UJ\S concerning Ecclefiaflical liberty J &LC. And Book«owbymc. this is the common and ufual Language of ]
their moft eminent Writers , of "their To^es and Councils : as you may fee C to •.
omit all others) in Cardinal ((r) Tufchus the (5; card.Tnrtims.ConciuJ life of fope ( h) Gregory the Seventh by Tlati- duV^fci^'^^Ir^if^n »a, and in the Lateran Council under Leo the ./S^rZcSL£fa , I eiub, where the Pope,in his Monitory againft ^.^Z;^^ f;c?u°vi:a/' '
G 2 the " '
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popiUj i^^inciplcs , &c.
' (/■ ) Leo 10. JnConcll. la- ler?,Ho, A^^robrnte Concilio , a- |ud BiniumConcil.Tom 9. p. io. Edit. Parif. An. io^f. K.E- ■JES PEl{EMFTOSjE I{E-
,(!?.) Hsretkos AB £C- UeSIA SOT/iTOS.
\ ; ( J) Si re^uj/ttus neglexerit ,
I 't Metropolitunu-m iS> compro-
' 'inciiUs Epifcofos Excommuni-
ftionis vi/uulo innodetur. They
fc the woids ot" the Caacn.
( m) Vc ex imc ipfe Taps AS iLLOS ab ejus F IDE LI- ATE dimr.cut ABSOLVTOS, ) TEI{l{Ayf exponat C.4- BOLICIS OCCWAHDAM.
%.
the OaHican Pragmatical San<5}^ion, faucily faycs
( i ) We TEKEMTTO^ILT COMMJXT)
KINGS, &c. Scco7idly , Well then , by this L ateran Council and Canon, we are fpeaking of, Kjngs are to be C0MPELL3 , by the ^ope^ to do their duty ; and that if ( as the Canon tells us ) to expell all Heretiqnes out of their KjiJgdomes. And if you ask , Who , or W^hat Heretiqnes thofe are ? The fame Canon tells you, That it is all thofe, whom the Pope and his Party, fhall be pleafed to (k^) call Here- tiqnes. T^hirdly^ And they (Kings and Prin- ces) mu(k be COMTELL'D to tak^anOAIH, and fwear they will Expel fuch Heretiqnes j and this Oath they muft take Publickly ( that all may fee and know that Princes obey the
Pope) for the words of the Canon are
^fpr^flem JV\AUEKrVM PUBLICE , quod iini'verfos Hxreticos ^ J'B ECCLESIJ NOTJTOS exterminare jiudeant. Fourthly , And if any Ki?rg^ or Trifice ( I ) negleSl thit duty^ and ( when it is tendred ) refnfe the Oath J or to expel Heretiques out of his Do- minions •-, 7 hen the Metropolitan and the Bijhops ef his Province muH Excommunicate him. Fifthly, And then if he perfifi: contumacious , and refufe to give fatisfafi^ion by expelling all Heretiques •, they nniji fignijle it to the TOTE^ that he (m) may DEfOSE HiM, ABSOLVE HIS SUBJECTS F(^U THEIR. OATHES OF JLLEGUNCE , and GIVE HIS KING- 7)0ME TO CATHOUQVES, So the Canon.
I^crnicious! to ^^otcftant i2);mces, &c. [4:^]
So that if the fope, and a Topifi General Conn-
cilj very great for number, (but as for Learn-
ing and Loyalty little enough ) conlifting of
I 2 1 5. Fathers ■■> I fay, if thefe may be Judges,
Kings and Princes are SuhjcSis and Slaves to
the Tope^ who may COM? EL ihem to expel as
m^iny o^ their own SnhjeSif, as Xit'Jhall call (6t
ijjifcall) Heretiqnes ,. oat of their Dominions s
and impofe an Oath upon them, to hind them to-
. obedience^ and unlefs they obey ftlch Tapalcom-
m^nds , the Pope may depofe the Trince r^ha
difobeySj ahfol've his ftihjeBs from all Oathes of
Allegiance^ and /;/> Kingdom ( forfeited to the
Tope by his difobedience )' may be gi'Vejt arvay ,
to any, to whom the Tope Jh all pleafe to girue
it. Now whether fttch impious and rebellious
pofitions ( approi/d and own'd by the Roman
Chkrch , in her greateft General Conncils^ which ,
flje bclicvisy ( at leaft would have us believe)
infallible ) he: not dangeroMJ- and pernicious to
Trinces^ and deBntSiivc of thtirjtift right s^lct
the JForld Judge. I know, that although the
(tt) J efitites und Cano??ifis pu\A\ckW approve
L J 1 -r^ rt • f 1 • V- 1 1 r («)<:ceaBooklatcIyPrint-
and orvn the Voctrineoi this Canon and theL^- cd.caiiM, rkfefuues Loyalty teran Council , ^nd the eonfequences of it ■, yet 1^^^^^:^^^^ fome more fober Papifls do not : And there- pf i forget not; was the Man)
r , r , • n -f- n .r irt which this Lateran Gaiton,
tore two AmWei-S (or mllgnihcartt flllfts) are aM all tReconfequenccs. ofJr,
brought by fomc ) to evade or molh6e , and Power^oVpo'rKil!^s^°out leiTen the impiety of thofe conicquences.which c'Ln?^cfy"anTS g;^:^: are by Proteftants inferred from it. ^'"''''^ «o *=« '^f'^^-
1. Then
i
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#opifl) t^jmcipits, &c.
5^
i. Anfmer^
l^efuwhtf.
■kci-
(r) Sdlvo jKfe Vomh'ii TrmipaJU. They axe the words of the third Canon of the Ute- ran Council
¥
( f ) Vummodo j{fe (Domim Trincifalii ) mlium prajhl oi- JiieHhim, ^e. Ibidem.
I. Then, fay'fliey^lhat^He Lateran Canon is to . be meant only of Feudatary^ or SnbordinatQy not of Jh/olutCy or Supreme Princes. ^
But this is an evident miftake of the meaning of the Lateran Canon, and in termhm , contradifts the exprefs words and fenfe of the Canon. For,
I. By the Canon, Jll Trinces, (Supreme and- Sub- -^ ordinat-e^ and Feudatary ) if they refufe to ex- pel all Heretiques out of their Dominions^ are to be Excommunicated by the Metropolitan and the 'Bi^jops of his Tro'vince^ and then Depos'd by the ^ope : but wirh this difference exprefs'd in the Canon. When any Subordinate Prince was Depofed, it was with a (r) Salz>o^ or* fProi'ifo, for the Rights of his Superior Lord. The Inferior Lord Depofed , loCds only what • was his own proper %i^ht j his Superior Lord lofes nothing. If the Inferior Lord was to pay any ^^ents , or ought any Ser-vices to his Su- preme Lord, thofe he did not forfeit ; but thole remain d due (as before^ to the Supreme Lord. But on this condition, That the Supreme Lord himfelf did not ( /) concur to hinder the expul- fion of all Heretiqnes out of the Dominions of the Feudatary , or Inferior Lord : that is , if he hindered not the Execution of the Popes com- mands. For * if he did ■-, then even he (the Sm^IiEME LORD) muft be Depofed too, M as well as the Inferior Lord. The Law and
Decree
I^kctmciouis; to idjotedaut p^tucc 0, Scc. [ 47 ]
Decree of that Coiwcil, involves both the In- ferior and Supreme 1 ords, ( if both be guilty and negligent in expelling Hcretiques^ in the fame Punifhments of Depofition , and lofs of
their Dominions. For the Canon fays,
(t) That THE SJ\fE LAJV MUST ^E OB- '^^^^ ^Jdemlegesek;, SE(KJ'ED COKCE(I(NTKG THOSE (who B^lBE%^f'vSMfkos have, and) ha've no SZJfERIO^ LO^DS. nS',K{l'cwastion^ That isi the Supreme Lords, ( be it IQng or r:;;„^l'L''rtsuVcS Emperor) if they Obey not the Pope's com- ^^'^ m^ov'd.coyifirm'd. and rc-
^ J J tr o I! A II TT • fcrr d into the Body of theii:
mand, and erkctually expel all Hcretiques out canon-Lawby cre^o^p. cap . of their Dominions ; they muft ( by tins Canon ) S^ r^Sc'/ward"";^!
be Depofed. cjmiui^. Anno n^j. /llexan-
D S ■ / 1 • » • • f 1 N . "*• '''^ Clemsns ^. Amo
2. But admit ( which is evidently untrue ) that .'^'^^ -an confirm it, as appears
,i/-> 1-7-/ i//-- ^^ "^^ EiiUiTium Afaanum Roms-
tne Canon meant only teudatary and Inferior mMum zugdmi, iS'TuTom.i Princes fhould be Depofed by the Pope. The S-" be'toughf Sai'Jcy rmfchief znd injufiice is lefs, ( as a Subordinate J^vedter'd their opinion now.
>~-'. ■ 1 r 1 1 r. and are become more favoura-
TrincC « /<?/x fWJW f /j<? Supreme ) but C/07 ljr<?(rt ; '^''^ fo Princes they have late- „., J z' , ^1 • /- //■ o ^ /* ■ v 1 • 'y ^''''^'^ ^^^ confirmation of
and (even upon this faljc Suppojnion) this it by /«»o««/« 4. to the Body
Power challenged by the Tope, ( and approved f^.u^it^D'^^l' u^'t
by the Lateran Canon and Council ) will be not ^"^' '• ^'^ ^'='^«^- ^ Sdufnu. only dangerous , but pernicious to Subordinate ^nd Feudatary Princes. This is too plain to need any further proof.
The fecond A nfwer y(?we /-•r//;^ to what we urgje 2. -^nfwcr.
againft ^owe from tlie I ateran Canon, is this : (« ) f„5''tJ'j^'^"^''°'"°'" ^'^'^A"- They deny that Council to be a Gaieral one, or ( if it ^""lo'^UVp'!;^''^":^^^^^^ were) that /V made any Canons: and therefore the Sir;Sr''"™'°'"^^ X>oSirinc of that Canon ( whatever it be ) cannot be imputed to the Church of '^me^ as Approved by it.
Bat
C4S]
^OpiO) ^^lUCiplCS, Sec,
Kefut.
Cx) In the Bull by which In- nocent 3. call'd the Lateran
Council, theTitk is this
hdiaio ^acri [^ OECVME- NICI ConcUn Liueriiner,fs, pro. I . die Nov 1 1 1 j. In bul- lario Rom. Tom. i. pag. 87. Edit. i^jj.
( y ) A'oM video pi frtrte eudeat ({uit n^gire hoc Concilium ejje Oecunenicum. Jovcrius Concil. P<irt. i. pag. no. in Lemmate Concilio pracfixo.
{z) Vid. Edit. Juris Cano- nici Paris. i6ii. & 1618. & Lugduni. 1661. &c.
{i) So Bellarmine, Longm A CoriolMO, J^ves, ^c.
But this is as 'void of Ground or Truth., as the for- mer, For this Lateran Council ( and the Canons of it) have been, and are univerfally received in the Church ef ^ms., the Council ^ (x) Oecumenical^ and the Canons attributed to it, as Genuine, and not Suppofititious , and Spurious. That this may ap- pear, confider,
1 . That all their iVr iters de Conciliis ( which I have hitherto met with ) do uni'verfally acl^iow- ledge it to have been a General Council j and commonly call it , Comilitun Lateranenfe Mag- num., and cite the Canons attributed to it, as Genuine,
2. All the Popiih Writers, who have publiili'd the Councils , or Epitome's , and Summes of them, ( as Crabby Surim^ 'BeniuSj Jo'veriws., Ca- ran%a , e^r. publiih it as a General Council.
And Joi/erir^s confidently fays, (y ) Tiiat
he cannot fee J with what Face any Man dare deny it to be a General Council.
3. In their laft and beft (x) Editions of their Canon-Law, there is (in the beginning) a diftinft Catalogue of their General and Pro- vincial Councils , acknowledged to be fuch, and this Lateran is ever reckoned amongft thofe which they admit as General.-
4. There is a commonly received diflin£}:ion amongft their Writers de Conciliis, wherein they (^a) tell us , That Cm. ilia Generalia fttnt. I. Approbata, 2. Keprobata. 3. Tartim ap-
probata,
^ctuiaows to ^iot'-ftaiu ^imus, &c. [ 45, ]
probata , partim reprobata. 4. Hcc approbate nee reprobata^ (of which lafl: fort they make the firft Council of ^ifa. Now this Lateran Council, ( we are fpeaking of) they always reckon amongft the General Councils of the firft Order, or thafc wliich are approv'd by their Church. Though this diftin^ion of Councils be ridiculous, and incon(7flent wich.Truth, or their own Principles \ as (were it my bufine(s now, or pertinent ) might c\ idenrly be pro- ved : yet ( by it) it manifeftly appears, that the Lateran Council was (in their Opinion and Judgment) a. General Council j which is that for which I produce it. But further, I lay,
In their own Ca/wn-Latv^ (and as in others be- fore, fo in a late and appro'ved (b) Edition of it ) ('!') Corpus Juris Canor.ki this Lateran Council under Pope Innocent the "^'-'*"' ' Ihird^ is ach^ioivledged to be a General or Oecu- mcnical Coundl For in the Decretals, publiflid (o vid. Butbm Gregorii by the Authority and Command oi' Pope (c) ^'i^^retaiibusprxtixam.
regory the JXinthy tor the common ( d ) benefit^ jiudemum viiuutm. ibidem. and with command that (^ e ) /Aer, Tand nofie (^) roums uthac tax-
ir -1 ^ 1 A I ■ \ n W , o , TVMcotntiLnioxc.VXirEJi^
c/ye Without Fapal 4'tbority) i\\ou\dhc w^cd si utirMir , in ^vdicus ^ by aU Judges vt Judicature, and by Kcaders of '"'Z'n'u''": '''T' , '
T ■ 7 fTi • r • t n 1 • - -, (/) Bulla hxc Romx (bM
L.aiv in the Uni'verptics \ and all this conhrm'd Anno hSo. lui. i. & Co. . by a Cull of (f) Grcspjhc Th.r.ccnh. In ^";:ri:S„.H„„. the very prjt Chapter 01 thole Decretals^ the i><: summaTrmuie. tuz Tnit
•T ^.^.^ ' T-- / r ' 1 • • ? to that Chapter is this: — ■—
Lemma, or Utle prchx d to it, is thus: (^) hnocenti:<s s. iaComUoGE. Innocent the Third, in a General Council : ""^.y^"-': . „ And tnat lye may be lure, tis the Lateran Coun- i^'ocGcnawm j{cma in zatera*
^',1 Z. . ^„ „ /7\ ^ 1 •!■» »" celetrutum. Anno iiij. C?
cil fjc means ; a ( /; ) c;rcat F^awycr in his An- u«ocemi 5. 18. ajijiembxi roratioiis, ,( (bbjoyif d to that Bull of Gregory ^ZSIi^'^^vT^E^
H the ^'^^^ EPJscupjs, &c.
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paM) ^Jitttiplcs , &c.
(i) Cap. Kimis 30. Extra
(k,) Cap. reriens 16. aXtri- buitur Innoccntio 3. and ^^, are all the 13 following, and this 30. of which we now fpcak, " (\) Ccnciliim Lateramimfub hnocentio ;. To fays thcAnno- i!Otation./i<i/ffHWcap.5o.lit.C.
(w) Cap. Qiialitcr 24. Ex- ' tra Pi Accujitionibiis.
(K)Cap. Excommur.kitmni 13. Extra De H'^renci^, Vid. Lemma difti Capitis, &Anno-- UC lit. A.
the Ninth before mentioned) tells us, That this Council was held' at Rome, in the Lateran, in the tear 121 5. in the Eighteenth tear of Inno- cent the- Third. T^je 'Patriarchs of Jerufalem and Conftantinople, and the Bijhops of almofl the WHOLE WO\LD, &c. So that if the Title of a Decretal publifh'd by ^o^e Gregory the ISlinth^ or the. Annotation upon it, by Naldfis an eminent Lawyer, and the Approbation and Confirmation of both , by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth^ be true '-, it will evidently follow, that the Lateran Cpuncil was a General or Oe- cumenical Council. And afterwards, in the fame Canon-Law and Decretals , we meet with this
Title to another Chapter ^ (i) Idem in Con-
cilio Generali. And it appears, ( both by the former (k) Chapters of that T///e, and the An- notation on this ) that Innocent the Third was xh&^o^e^ and that in the (I ) Lateran was the Council^ which is^ there call'd General. And af- terwards (m) feveral times to the very fame purpofe j efpecially in the (n) Fifth 'Booh^ of Gregoriej Decretals , and the Seventh Title where this Iml>ioj^ Canon (for Depofing Kings, and Ahfohing their SiihjeSis from their Oaths of Allegiance) is intirely ^egijired for Law, re- ferr'd to Pope Innocent the Third, in his La- teran Council , and that Council declared Vccn- tnenical.
Laftly,To put the matter out of doubt, that the Lateran Council was Oecumenical , and made Canons , the Cotmil of Confians does
{&) teftifie
iDctnictcUij to ^:^oteO:ant ^i^^tnccg, &-c. ' l^i'}
(o) tcPiihe ic leveral times, and cxDrclly names '^"^ <^°"'''' conj-jnt- i>'-ii
It amongtr rhoic General Councils, to the ob- am. 1)M- & ibia. png i>^
lervation whcreot tne Popes were to [p) Iwear^ lucutionb i lUcrici ». at their coming to the Papal Dignity. And a!- ^ p) concii. co. hnt.scir.
thoii"h thcfe Authorities be abundantly fiiffi- "9. i.'feniuP>-ofe;iiomiaVr cicnt to iiiri.he our more fobcr Adverlaries ^ yet I fiiall add one more, which may (I hope) lilence the more Contidcnt It is the Autho- rity of the C'l) T^rent Conucil, which does ex- '^i^ ScfT^. cap. r. (»er
/-( U -^ d-^ I /^ •! I C forma:, png. lijo. Kdir. Sa: .
prclly call It a Oeneral Council, and conhrms nunc.isss. ca^jhnonwOT. ^/i
US Canons. , G£A-A-J(i£/.^..r;.-,f;r:C .
Uur^ ilujrJo, Sjnodxi uir,i.v.t.
The fum of this Dilcourfe is ■■, That if the Co;/- CHnc/ztTeJlimofiicf, i. O^ their ovph wojl learned^ and ( for Dignity ) moji eminent IFritcrs de Coiialiis i 1. Or their Titblijhcrs of their Cojtncils General and ^ro'vinctal\ 5. Or many Decrees of their Topes ge- nerally appro'vcd and recei'ved into their Canon-Laiv^ of the laft, and (as they tell us) of the moji corrcSi Editions i 4. Or of their General Councils ( for fuch they efleem them) of Conflance and Tre/Jt: I fay, 11 all thefe be of any validity, Cand with them, fome of thole Tejiinionies are infallible) then it will ^idcntly follow ; i. That this Lateraii Council Under Pope Innocent the Third^ is (and, with them, muft be) an Oecumenical or General Council. 2. And fo , thofe Impious and Damnable 'Tofetions in the Third Canon of that Council, ( i. That Kings and Emperors may be Excommunicated by their own 'BifJ.wps for not Obeying the To^jc : 2. /i//d Depofed by the Tope : 3. Jnd their SubjeSfs Abfolz>ed by hint , from their Oaths of Allegiance : 4. And their JQngdoms giveii
H 2 arvay
'i
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arvay to thofe, who Obey and pleafe the Pope :) I fay, all thofe ^ofitions , muft be acknowledged to he the DoSirines of the ^man Churchy being Decrees and ConjiitHtions of her recei'vod General Councils^ which (he profeliech to he infallible , and therefore obliging her to a firm bdkf of them. 3. This being evidently lb, that the 'Vo^e and his Tarty (obliged thereunto, by their approved 2LnA received Canon- Larv , and their General Council f ) do belie've^ and jmhlickfy profefs^ fuch Impious, Traiterous, and Vam- nahle DoBrines^ it vvill be ealie tor all (who have good Eyes, and will ufe them} to fee, how D^;/- gerom and Pernicious fuch Principles are, to all (efpe- cially Proteftant) Kings, Princes, and their People and Subjeds, And that,
I. In point of Cofjfcience, and in refpe^i: of their Souls and Salvation, if they believe and re- ceive fuch Impious Pofitions and Prin- ciples.
a. In point of Civil Prudence, in refped of their Perfons, Honors and Eftates, if they receive them not. ^
• I. In point of Confcieme , if they fuhmit to the ^ope., and helieije and r€ceii>e fuch Heretical Pofi-r tions, and Damnable Dodrines, it muft of neceC- ffty , be Dangerous and Pernicious to their Souls. For this Argument will be both confequent , and evident : To belie-ve Heretical and 'DamnaUc Opinions and DoSfrines , is Dans^eroui and Pernicious to the Soul I ( this all Sides confefs : j 'But to believe that
the
f^cruiciotis 10 pzotalanrp^uiccs, Sec, [ 53 ]
the Tope can Excow/mtmcate and dcpofe iyings , ab-
fohe their jnhjeSis^ from their Oathcs of Allegiance Jo
as they may (^\) larv fully murder and kill their (\')l^iy,u^^^u^\^r^^czor-
Kjngf fo Excommmucated and Depofed , ts Heretical Jfe 'fo?';! ThcJ^st"'
They fiy, it is
and Damnable D(j6r/«e i:'as is declared in a G:rcat "otJ'-f3'°"tokiiiruchaKi,ig
■^ r 1 a'xer clepohtion, for he IS not
and riill Parliament ( ^ ) on occadon of that hor- K'nstiKn.norhisPcopie (ah-
. , 111 J ^-. 1 -r- r • 1 folvcd from their Oa:lies of !i-
rid and bloody Oun-powclcr-l f aton , in the dciity) snb efls; i.Nori^ Fifth year of King James ) In the Oath of Allegiance: JSfainSe A'c. tS>o, which Oath, not onclyyou and I, but all the Cler- j'^s dctermi,,'d and made
' < -•' Law; i\0^ iVNT hOM
gy, the Nobility, Magiltrates, all Graduates in the (^id.A', qui advirfusexccm- Uni'verfity^ikc. have ( or inouJd have j taken^ and ecclesi.m ar^mastv fo .( by a Solemn, and Sacred Oath ) haAe Sworn fuch ras^fL^deSmf/adon'^of
dodrine to be Impious, Damnable, andhkretical O- I'^T^;^^^-!" t^<^ Second. And J ' ' It 13 Law 111 Gratun, cap. Es-
ther Arguments I need wot nfe to yon, (ov any ivho communicatorum47.cauf.1j.
loz^e truth, and the Church ofEn<:land) to prove the \iy^i do frommkm ab-
error and impiety of fuch Opinions, and the danger ^l^lcJ^lthJ::!:^ Si
thofi poor deluded Soides arc in, who believe and ^'''''^./'•'' ?<'/"'"'; t-^ ^7"-.
pracnce them. The -xptohv -iiZ^Oi the Original Er- deprived by the Pofe,mjyteVe. ,- 1 • 1 ^1 n C }{ • 1 V ,> tofed or Murdered by tkiir Sub-
ror, trom which the relt tollovv , is that vaft ^upre- jedy.or^ryothr. so tiicOath macy , which the Pope ( as Teters Succeilbr ( dial- '" ^^c statute. , Jac. cap.. lengeth, and ( when he has ability ) LIfurpsovcr Kings. A power St. Teter ncAer had, nor pretend- ed to •■, who knew no power in himfelf, or any other meer^an, fuperior to Kings (b) Submit your ro iP^r-.-rj. This,>!ac= Jel'ves ( layeshe j to ei'cyy hun/aneOrdinance^whether troubled Pope JnMcem the to the IQKG AS SZ^TREME, Sec. He who fayes, fuit\nmf "cankkr" his'ridkul tlie iv/NG 75 SVP^EME, does with the lame ^^l^^S'^:: ^^^^; breath ( and undeniable co^ifcqucnce ) fay, he has f,<-'3''°V° ^'"JM"^*^'*'°''"'
, ^ . r 1 • r / •/ 1 '"- ^"^J thcr tlian InFalliblc: ana ycc
no >upeiior. It being a manitefl: conrradifrion to 'ri'-i'iffieironon-iawcap.
(!.»,, „ .. .!l • _ ■ cr- iTij-^ r/-ii> 1 1 • 1 . \ Suhcit/. 6. Extra. De Muiori-
ay, any thing, is SZJTE^IOK to that which is Su- uu ^ ob^dLnu.
preme. St. Peter commands all to SVBMlT them^
felves to their Kings ( and there were none then
but
but Pagan anli Idolatrous Prir.ccs^ and obey rheiii
tis {-LlFREME Governors j the Pope commands
Siibje^ls to difobey their Kings (ifhemifcall them
Hercticks ) to reiufe any aniiiance or fubjtdion to J*
them, to take Amies againft them, and tells them,'
that if ( in zeal to the Catholick CdvS^^ ) they 4
Yt ) .'•-■»' f^>--^ hmkid^, yii ( 'j-^ kill them ( or any Hererii|Lie ) it is no Mur-
^air IS Ecckj!->: irr-uui^r. L^m- det: aiid threaten thcm wicii Iixcommunicatfoii, ir
na aJ^rfi«"'"."P- 'i?- caur. ^^^^ ^^ not what he commands them. Now, let any
fober perfon tell me , whether they can ( in this -■ cafe) difobcy the Apoftle, and obeythele impious commands of the Pope, without great and appa- rent danger to their Soules. Our blefled Saviour ( whofe Vicar the Pope pretends to be ) does him- (i) Katb.T7. ^.7. vJd.Rcb. felf pay Tribute {a) to Cafar ( though a Pagan and X^sjli'rxkti.l^i^r Idolater) leavmg us an admu-aDle and molt pious
example of that Obedience and Loyalty due, even to impious and Pagan Princes : nor is this all j for he further pives cxprefs comniand-^ T^hat all pjould * - (j; Marc, i^: 17. render twto{b)CMSAK THE THINGS IVBICH.
A^E CJESAKS. He acknowledgeth the Imperial
Rights of C^/^r, of which his Impiety and Idolatry
(O Dominium «on f^indmr ^ ^ j ^./^^Z ^jQf depri^ve him, St. FaiU ( both" by his
jB^ra!;i,scc. praB ice znd precept) confirmes the fame doftrine.
I . He acknowledges the Emperors porver fuperior to u, cc^h .M..^^. -- f'^' ( though he was an Apoftle, (d) mt inferior to
• \-l.V
-A-oroA-s&c. /« (pefer or any Apoftle, which he twice aftirms to the
?SS??//p|-rS Corinthians) I ftand at Ca^fars { e) Judgment Seate 'Volfts-.rio/A-. C faith he) WHE^ I OVGHT TO <BE JVDG-
EV h if I ha've done any thi?ig rporthy of DEATH : he pleaded no exemption from the JurifdiSiion of the Ci'vil Majiiftrate, in a Criminal Canfe ( as now ei^ery
^miinoiis; to ^lotctiant |£):mcfs, &c. [^^j
( f)^olnlh BifJjop does ( ^s hw their Law they wav ) <^/) Concii. Tridentmum. but he conreileth the 6;<per/o/7()' or the Ci'z^ilTojver ^ tme. ^
and Afp^aks to it ( g) I A??EJL TO CJESA?^, r,) a^.:, ^.vli.r.aiv f fayes he) Tis evident, that all Appcalcs are ^"^foc (jprcma Potcrtat.Rc rrom an Inrerior, to aixLiperior Judge, and one wiio ha-; Jiirlfdiflion over the Appellant, and cognizance of the crime, and therefore Vaul appealing to Cxfar^ does ( ipfo faSio ) acknowledge him his legal and fuperior Judge. So far was St. Taul from believ- ing thofe Popifli and Rebellious Principles, and from Difloyalty,or Difobedicnce to that Imperial (though Pagan) Power, under which he lived j that he pub- licity acknowledged , and humbly (libmirtcd to ir. 2. Norw^ashe onely in his own perfon obcdient,and. a loyal fubjefl to the Emperor, but ( Writing to the ^mans ) he did, as an Apoftle of 'jcfns Chrift^ comnuiid thent alfo tohe\^o)?\?LY\d Obedient (h^ (fc)Romr r Let e'very Soul (every (/) Man J be fnbjcSi to the U) G,n.\2\y'uvk.,-.
higher (the ( kj '^^uiprcmc) l^oivers, ^c. And then ^' ^{]\-^^^: he adds ( /) That they flmdd rcfidcr to them. 1%I- ■ P-t- ^^.T/.'^'iMs'th ■''['n! BUTE, CVSrOM, FEAK^ HOKO^. and ALL. "aVR'Sr"'/"'^^" THEIK DZmS. ^yfupremeim) powers here, he ( «, ; For .^V;*, , Vcrf. - , mcancs men pofleflinG; Supreme Power ; and the ?u^ ^i^ /-W}'' yac,. ai .
I "" T ■ 1 1 ■ 1 • ^-N . 'd'luKoy.i tb Hit, Vert*.
prcme power under winch he and the %pmMis then, were, was Kero^ a }>ioft iwpious Tagan, and perfecn-. tcr of ChriJ} and Chrijians ^ and yet ez'ery foul with-, in liis Empire fcven 'Peter as well as Taidj was (by (the Law of God ^nd the Go/pel) to he- JidijeSi to^ • bin/^ to fear^ honor ^ pay him Tribute and Loyally o-~ heyhwi. As ( by the he forc-faid Examples znd pre- 4:epts of St. Paul^ and our bleffed Saviour ) evidently , appears. Now your fopifjj DoSirine^ and C by^
thciUi
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^opifli ^nnaplcs, &c.
( n) See tli: place beforc- ckfd. Cap. Solicits, 6. Extra ZV Alajor. ^ Obedient, where Vo]}: Itinocent the Third faycs. That th; rapd Poner is greater then the Imperid, as much as tliei'iiM is greater i/wkI/w/V/ooh. TheGlolic there faycs ; He is 47. times greater ; The Note in theMargent faycs, 57. times; but, (upon mature confidcrati- on, no doubt) The Addition there, faycs the Papal Power is 7744. times greater than rhe Irap;rial.
( 0 ) PrJicipimus uriiveyfi fub- dit!s,tie illi ejufve mMdntis aut Jegibus audeam obedire, qui {e- ciis egerint Anilhimnis [enten- tii innodamus ItaBullaPii?. de Damnat. Elizab. An. 1570. Eliz. 13. InBuUarioKomano. Lugd. i6^^. Tom. 2. p. 303, Sometimes they arc forbid in fuch Bulls; Neconpium, J«- I'lmen Opera; Operumve aliqun- teniis impendant P^gidepojfito.^o in the Depoftion of the tm- peror Friderique the Second. In Bul'ano difto. Tom. i. p. ic6. Col. I.
them J Jpproi/ed 'Trim iples comr3idi6ks all this; and let St. Tetcr^ Paul and our bldled Sa\iour fay, or do what they will i let them ach^iorvledge C^efars Sh- prewe Ponder ^ and command obedience to him (though a Pagan J and fnbmit to his power thcmfelfes : yet at (I(pme^ they acknowledge NO SUPREME ^OWE^ but th TOTE 5 whom (as I have before (njfhew'd) they make yz^X\y fnperior, and greater then Jsjn^s -, fo that ("when he thinks jit) he nuy depofe alQ^g^ or Supreme Prince, and command their fubjeffs (up- , on pain of Excommunication , and an Anathema} to pay them no Tribute., Fear , or Honor ?ior (o) 0- BEY JNY OF THElil COM.VfJNDS : For fuch is the ftile of their Anathema's and Damnatory Bulls, particularly of. that, wherein Pope Pins- rhe Fifth dcpofeth O^EltTjabethy quoted in rhe Margent. This premifed, as evidently certain ; be- you judge ^ whether it be not a great crime and crying fin^ for any fubjeSis to belie've this rebellious and Po iOj doSirine^ , a^ainft the exprefs command of our bl'jfed Sa'viour-^m and his Apoflles in the Gofpcl ? And if it be ( as un-H deniably it is) then iris as certain.^ that the bcliefe- ^ and praSiice of fuch doBrine and principles^ is not onely dan<rerons., but (without repentance ) pcrniciouslind damnable to thofe miferably deluded Toules, who. do fo believe and praflice it.
And it is confiderable, aiid mideniably ccrtain^that fheir Topifh DoSlrine.^ and recei'ved principles., do not ox\q\j appro<ve the Excom?Wfnication and Vepofition of KJngs , the Abfolhtion of their SuhjeEisU-om their Oathes of Allegiance^ their Trohiktion of them to obey' the Lawss or Xommands pf their fjinees fo depofed.,
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that they may t a l^ Arms ■> and innocently I\ilLi!l He^ retiqiicSj (Princes or People.) But they are encou- ras^cd 10 do tbis^ (^ by their Topes Dccrcta/sy :Appi-o\cd and received (p) for Law, in the 'Body of their Ca- (p) vid. d-atian. .can. mn-Lar^, in the laft , and ' ( as they Hiy ) the moft rrrK;^^;S:^'J: correa Editions of that Law, approved and eftabli- ,^",^i;3U'adS'^at^n"" i filed by the Bull and Authority of Gregory the Thir- teenth ) wirh che promife of Heaz>en , aud Eternal Life-, if they die in the War againfl the Enemies of v
the %onian Faith, Herftiques and Infidels. This was '
A fair pron/ifc ■■) but Tope Innocent the Thirds (Popes having for Ibnie Ages been liberal in promiilng what (^) vi.i.Buiiam innocentii I they had no power to give) promifes more ; for be- xt,o>'S";fick''.s.''& i fides a Tlenary Teniiffion of Sins, he promife?, not Dom. ms. Mag■BullamRo- only tica'Z'en, but a {q) greater dcoree of ulory init, dicix buiix. kos ideo {tvc^
^ ^\ r^ r J ' ^l n ^ -r ^- o l r I 1 are the words of the BuH) Om-
to the Crulados, the Lrnajignati, boJdicrs marked r,ib,i—TLESAM^eccMormi vv'ith a Croft: who ( as it was pretended ) were ;S?i«^S^f:?ii- railcd, to recover the Holy Land from the ^r/n/twj-; rumSAivris ^rEi{Njt.
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but rhcy, or lomc with the like mdulgencc, imploy d rv.-\f. And aii this cxfava- •to Murder the poor- (r) JFaldenfi's , which with Sfinrr^dS^iS^! barbarous and inhuinane cruelty they did. Now S^fSs^S^ SlS^ how dan^eroui to the Soul, Sin fo encourag'd mufl: judge, moncouny and ridicu-
b" I i"* i J TV f r-i r ^ • 1 loiidv builds upon ft? fflrcfrp/
e, a weak-lighted Man may caliiy iee, w^irhout bindcm3.irJ!ccfl1s^'■\\khcvc-
Spcflacles or flnrher proof Be it concluded then ; li^^fS rS/ar^a?!:" fu^h Topif^j Principles (when belicz^'d and praciicd) "^op '"^'^^ World , as nn-.ch are not only clanrerons to the oonl , but pernicious (r) caiixnd, qxicr•.uis4- (without rcpenta?ice) dejtriitti'-je of SalvatiOfK r^^mcxtcrmkiumjeaccinxmnt,
jlU gaudenit Iniulgemii , qua iccedeniib'M .id TerritSsnclcfub'
2. But, bcfidcs that (uch Topi fh DoShines and ^''''"'« «'^«'^"'"-- p'"^i'- 1 =>-
_ , ' . , t J -^vv.f.fjij rttjva reran. Tub Innocent. 3. Can. J.
Trmciplcs ( m point of Confciencc) are danccrous to vid- diftum iconis pjjw 4.
.1 c I ^ / • \ \ i'^, w api'f' Gratiamim Can. Omni
tbe^iOHl, and ^without true repentance ) dcJfr/iSti^e twws. cauf.y. Qiit/Ks. ;V> I of
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f [58] ^3piil) ^^mcipies, &C.
of Sahation j they are alfo ( if confider'd in CiviV Prudence } dangerous and j^trniciom to Winces, and ' Supreme lowers i depriving them (when put in ex- ecution }-of all their Honors^ Eftates^ and Lives too* I The truth of this ij (withotifnirther proof; noto-
rious , by the fad and miferable Ruines of many great Princes, caus'd by Popes and their Party, who approved and praflic d fuch Rebellious Popifh Prin- ciples , as we are fpeaking of. I fay, the ruinc of great Princes». •
i> Before the Reformation, ( who were no Pro- tcftants ) and fome fince, who were Papift* too.
a.. Since the Reformation, who were indeed Pro- teftants , or as fuch ( or favorers of them ) Excommunicated , and Deprived of their Crowns and Kingdoms ; though the Excom- munications did prove brtita fnhmna ^ vaim and incffeftual , and did not that mifchief which their impious Author intended : for which we are to thank the good Providence, (/) And aiittiebeforchirrr.. of Heavcn, and iiot the Pope.
pope Gregory 1. Dcpofcd the
Emperor Uo Ifaums , bccaufe , « r, » 1 • o^ • .u 11- ..t^*
: he was againftimn^es, which j^ Forthcnrit^ Authcntiquc btorics tell US, tn»r
' :iir^:^^^;!:'^X Pope r/) Zachary Depofcd a^WmV^ ( or Chil^^
'^^Z^Sl!^:^^^^ perklO King of Fraf^ce , about the middle of the
SSn^X-S'^IS Eighth Century. 2. Gregory the Seventh Depofeth
, «e in EcckfijL chrifti i{EG. j^(,}iry the Fourth^ and cauleth great and milerable
j^ N^lEr/cfMlNcJp^Es: Rebellions and Blood(hed in the Roman Empire,
SivwovUh^LoS in the Eleventh Century. 3, Pope Syhefter th
*c. Vi! Baron. adAnn- j93o. i,hii"d^
Thirds in the Twelfth Century , Excommunicates the Emperor Hcf^ry the Fifth^ Et Magnas turhoi in GoiMama cxcit^t^ ( lays Vefpcrgaifis. ) 4. Pope In- mccNt the third Excommunicates Otto the Fourth^ iii the beginning of the Thirteenth Century. 15. hj~ rrocait the Fourth, in the fame Century, Depofed the Emperor Frcderiqm the Second, In fliort, ( to omit many others) the barbarous Murders of Henry the Third and Fourth of France , have been , and moft jufllywere, and will be imputed to thcfe Po- pirti Pi inciplcs, in the belief of which , thofe im- pious Aifaffins were confirmed and Catechiz'd. Sure I am, that Pope Sixtm the Fifth did approve and highly magnifie the impious Fafl: of Jaques Clement the Dominican , who was the Murderer of Henry ' the Thirdj in his famous ("and impious^ {t) Speech (t) This Speech of j«««y. or his , made to his Cardinals ( no doubt as well according to the Latin Copy pleafed as the Pope ) in the ConHftory ; and after- gj'S oS^'fUct- wards Publifli'd and Printed at ^}ne : An evi- *««• dent Argument, that they were not ( though great reafon they (hould have been ) alham'd of it : for certainly they would never have Printed what they did not approve.
1. But although the Popifli Pofitions and Prin- ciples we are fpeaking of, are dangerous to all Su- preme Powers, ( even Roman Catholiques , as ap- pears by what is already faid ) yet more efpcci- ally to all Proteftant Princes and People : For,
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(a') The forme of that Ex- cmm-mcxtio'ii is nowexcant in tlic Body of their Law, lib. 7. Decret. lib. 5. Tit. ;. De Ws:- rcticis & Schifm. cap. ^.
ib) The Bull of Excommu- nicatjou is dated at I{ome, An. 1558. which was i Elizak'
ih.s.
(c) ^ijCNtique dignitate, e- t-im CoraiuU, Birondi, ASar- L.-'ioxali, Ducili, I{egujeu Jm- faiiili frsjulgeaxt.
(d) ^icurtjite HACTE- KVS a jid-; dcviaruKtJeu IN- POSTEF^M deviiburajeii in BxTtftn jncident, &c.
( f ) Habits cum Card, ieli- I leratione m.-itum , C de eormn '\i ConfiliOj. C? Vnnmini ajfen^u, '&c.
(/) Omnes Sufpenfionis ; Excommunicationis , ^ Inter- diaijPrivationispinas.a QUl- BUSVK, Rom. Pontificibus, But pro TAL1BU> HABlTiS.
rcorumli-teras Extravagaii- ;: .feu in ConfiliisT-ii Patrum D. cretis & Canonibus Ci^UO- MODOLIBET contra Haereti- cos Latas, approbamus. inno- vamus & PERPETUO OU- ^ERVARI Volumus, Cs'c.
(g) }{egnis eir Imferio FE- NITVS C^ IM TOTVM,VEI{^ V V.rVO fnt mjFAT], ^ ad
,1 de cttero inHibites C? IN-
. at-a:es, &c.
folcmdy ( a ) Curfcd by Pope Tanl the Fonrth , al^out I 20 years agoei and that we may take mticcofit., it is lately referr'd into the Body ( b ) of their Caiwn-Lavp. Now this Excom- munication containcs many conlTderable par- ticulars, As, I. All Hcretiqncs^ of what di'r- fiity {c)foe<ver^ 'Barons fiarls^Marqiieffes^Dnk^s^ Kings., and Emperors : none excepted, they are all involved in the fame Curfe and Anathema.
2. Nor is it onely rliofe Hcretiqueswho then were in being, but ALL aljo ^ which (d) JFTEIiff-JTyDS SHOULD S£. So that om^gracioHS Kjng and his Trotefiafit frhjeSis now, are as much under the Cnrfcj as (X.Eli- 'x.ahcth and herfitbjcSis were, in the Firfi of her ^ign , when that Bull was frji publifh'd^
3. Nor was this Bull rajhly made, but after ( e }. mature deliberation with the Cardinals , and by their Counfel, andunanimoiis confent. It was (it fecms} a premeditated and deliberate, as well as an Impious A6i: they were about j for impi- ous it , was and by all fobcr and impartial Judges , ever will be thought To. 4. The puni/hments which this Bull tycs upon Herc- tiques, are (f) Excommunication .^ Sufpenfiotiy Dejjrii'ationy and all other punijhments , which; any Tojye , in any Tapal Canon or Conflitntioft ( howfoever made ) denounced againft He- retiques , all which Canons and Conftitutions, he approves, confirmes , and will have (P£1^ ^ETUJLLr obferved. ti^. And for iiCi«^j Q ) und Emperors ( the fame is for Barons, Earles,
Marquifles,
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Marquiircs and Dukes ) they are TOTALLY, and FO^ BVE%^ DEPRIVED of their Kwg- clomcs and Empircr^ and made incapable _ ever to injoy them. The fame Ccnfure paffeth up- on Bifliops, Archbilliops, which were Here- tiques then, when the Curfe was publilli'd, (^el in pojienim in H^arfin incident ) or for the fn- ture EVE%_ SWliLV <BE Herctiqncs. Nor is this Conflitution ( which dcnounceth this Curfc) temporary; ^wt, COKStrTUTlO IK ^E^ETUHM VALmi^A^ a Conftitutioii and a Curfe to be in force , and cfFedual againfl: Heretiques, for ever. Nor is there any need , of any Legal Procefs to convift any perfon of Herefie, before the Curfe come up- on him: But, EO If SO ABSQUE ALIQUO jVTiJS VEL FJCri MINISTETiJO ( tliey are the words of this impious Excommunica- tion ) All Heretiqnes , by being fo , without any accitfation, or legal con'viSiion^ are aShtally under that curfe : So that our (rracions Kin"-, all his frotefiant Nobility, all Jrchbipjops and •Bifiops , Eorum etiam ( h ) receptatores, fanto- ^^^ vid. Conait. 54.CIC- res, &:c. and all whofliall receive or any way "^^"^'^ ^^^^ "'• '"*^' '^ "^^'^
r 1 /lJrt7/T- '-fi follows, & Alexan.iri. 7. Con-
ia\or tncm, itand attuauy hxcomnmnicated and Hit. K^.dat.Romie, Anno 1655. Accurfed. And here I defire to know of our ^^^^^^^^ Papifts, w^ho do fas much as any) pretend "o^any more fuck former to Loyalty ; do they ( as good fubjeds fliould) favor their King, or do they not ? If not, then they neither arc, nor can be good fub;c(5ts : If they do, then they difobey their J^upreme and Infallible Judges, and are ( as well as wej) un- der
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iopCflj A^?(ncipU5, &:c.
der the Excommunication and the Popes Curfc , and fo no members of their Co much
•(and with fo little reafoii) magnify 'd ^man
''Church.
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(e) A Form of this Eull ■we have in BuJlar. F.oman, Tom, 4. V- 5^8. Conftit. 34. I Clement. 10. An. 1671.
( i) ExcDtnmunicimiii C^ A- futhematizumui, ex parte Dei, ^ autboritate Petri tf rauli, ic tiojlra , quojcunque fiufsitas , n'ickj'fp'is , Luikennos.Zuitig- liinoi', t£v'mifias , Vgonottos , &c. Eorumque ](eceftitorcs , f Mores, i^ defenfoTei:.
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But lead this Excommunication and Curfe might not prove fo elfc^ual as they defire, to bJaft all Proteftants ( which they make, for they are not fo , the worft of all Heretiqucs ) the Curfe, to make Sure Work ( as they think, and would have )t) is folcranly renewed eve- ry year, in that famous ( and impious ) ^ulla (a) Cccnx Vomifiij read every year on Manridy- Thnrfday. Wherein all Proteftants are ( by name ) curs'd, whether Princes or People- We (b ) Excommunicate a?id Curfe ( fayes the Pope in that Bull) All Huffites, Jrickliffifif^ Lutherans, Xwin<rlians^ Cal'z/imjis, tin^onots^Zcc. And whdfoe-jer fjall (I(ECEIFE, -DEFEND, or FjyO^ them. And here again , it will co/t* cern our ^man Catholicks ferioufly to confi-'^ der^ into n^hat jirakes^ the ambition and Hit- paralkd pride of their Topes, has brought them. For if ( according to their duty ) they defend their KJng, they are curfed at ^me. And if they do not defend him, then they do not per^ form that duty of Megiance and Fidelity to their Kjng , to which ( by the Law of God and Nature ) they are indifpenfably bound, and and fo will be ( according to their defert ) aC' curfed in heaven. And here , It is a fKort Queftion which they are concern d to Anfwer;
Whether^
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Whether they refolve to obey God^ or the fope.
But this is not all ^ for after this ExcofWHunka^ tion and Cnrfe laid upon all ^roteftant Princes , after their dep&fttion and total deprii/ation of all their royal power and dignity^ and a perpetual in- capacity brought upon them, dijabling them for ever to return to thofe loji rights : another Curfe is confequent^ and Immediately foUorvs fuch £x- - eommunication : Their fubjcfts are declared /r(re from all Obligations of Loyalty and Fidelity ,, due to fuch Trinces, while they ftand Excom- municate. This the Decretal o£ Tope (c ) Ho' (c) Honorms. 5. Pncpofi-
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norms the 1 hird ( and tis maclc ( a ) Laitf^ bv sucfsion. Pope Gregory the Ninth, and approved -^Ad con- - ,,,^1 ^l""'^'""''^- ^^' firmed by Pope (e) Gregory the Thirteenth ) (') ^'^ Euiia, Corp. Juris- tclls us, Tljot while any (f) Lord remains Ex- if) Domino ExconmunkJtt commnnicate, his SUBJECTS OWE HJM urTiS'sSsLlEl^^ NOE ALLEOUKCE or FlDELlTt That's ^"'^ '^c Lemma, oriicicof
1 #»,. t I 1 • r M ■» "at o that 1 3 Chapter.
the Title : and then it follows in the Decretal^ (fpeaking of a Count who wtis Excomnunicate) that the Pope commands thofe to whom he writes That theyjiould (g ) declare to the SnbjeSls of (s)r!dck;if,^s(<i,umdmh that Excommnuicated Count , that they were fr/^rplTJllrSjfri? FVLLY ABSOLVED F^OM TBEI^ OATH %'iiYJSso^ToT -vTy ' OF FIDELITy , while their Lord contijined a;c the words of the Law; and fxcommmiicate. How dans,i^us tlm doSlrine c^^^^i^^S^^'^^ : may be, to our grac^ons Kin^, and all Trote- S^^etteuS™' "^ • Jtant Trinces ( who ftand adually excommn- nicatedat <^me) and how little trufi they can lepofe in their Fopijh fttbjeSts , I need not tell '
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you. '.SQQm'gftich- fubjeBs ^ hy their aitthcn- tique larves , and the declared and. dejiJiitiqjff fentence of their ftipnmc and Infallible Jiid^e, ■are affured that th^y on^e ??o Allegiance or Fidelity, to their Excommunicated Soveraigns.
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( f) ) Excommunkatus ed MEMBIQJM D lASO LI. Lindewood in GlolTa, ad Cap. Seculi Principes, Verbo J^- conciliationis, Dc Immmiute
( i ) Gratian, Chriltianus 3 2, Quxli 3.
Can. Omnis Caur. II.
[a) l^onmododepomjedeti- Am excommmicari , CS' in t^'- TBJ{1^0 EXAMINE DAM- NAKJ nECI{EriT. Caron. Annal. Tom. 8. ad Armum Chj-iaif93. Num. 8^.
Kor is tlm all \ for there is ( at leaft in the judgment and belief e of our Adverfaries ), a far greater and more pernicious co?ifeqitent and effeEi of their Excommunication and Curfe of Trote^ jiant Princes. For the mifchiefs of their Ex- communications hitherto mention d, are onely temporal, ( though the or eatefi in that kind pojpble ) as lofs of their Ihyal Porr>er, Liz>ely- hoodjiLud Life it f elf. But they fay, there is an other, a Spiritual effed, which concerns the Soul , and is the greatefi: mifchief and mifery it is capable of For they fay , that Here- tiques ( Protejiants , with them are declared fuch } dying Excommunicate, (as all good Pro- teftatits do ) are eternally damnd. For, i . A very "-reat ( b ) Canoniji of our ovph Nation ( while Topery unhappily prevailed here ) tells us •■) that e'very Excommunicated perfon is d l/[EMBEK OF THE DEVIL: And for fur- ther proof of this, he ekes Gratian , and the { i ) Canon-Law. And a far greater Author then Lindewood, or Gratian, and ( in our dayes) long after them ; more plainly tells us : {a) that Pope Gregory the Sez^enth did not ondy de- pofe the Emperor Henry the Fourth , but Ex- commumcate , a?id DECREE HIM tO BE
ETER-
\&etn(cio«fii to \^?Dteflant ^^Jinccs, &:c. [ ^7 ]
ElEKKALLT DAMN'd. And for this, he cites Tope Gregories own ( b ) Epifllcs^ who befl: («; crcgorius 7. lib. 4: hlicvp }m on^fi viiud^ and the meaning of Ins own ^fj'^' '• ^'■^- '^^'^''^' ^^'^^ Decree. So that in the Popes and Cardinals Judgment fuch an Excommunication is a cleft- nit I've fentenccy and a Tapal Decree \ whereby the pcrfons Excommunicate are cofiftgnd and doopi'd to eternal damnation. Whence we may underftand the meaning of the T^itles uftt- ally prefix d to fuch Vamnatory 'Bulls of Ex- communication i Such as thefe (c) ...,. .VAM- (c) Pullarb Roman. Pauli. NATIO O- Excommnnicatw Hen. 8. by Pope 3.c:o.^^i^7.^7C4.Toma.
Taitl the Third (d) DAM'NATIO O* Excom- (i) conftit. Piij. lor. i- mnnicatio Eli-x.ahelhv^ by Tuis the Fifth, where ^i?;,'!^' '^''"''■^- '°^- ^^^'■ it feems ( by what the Pope and Cardinal be- fore told us ) that it is not any temporal (or not that onely ) but the eternal dan/nation of^ Soul and Bt^^y^which is intended znd. de fired by them, in their nncharitable and impious Ana- thema's and Excommunications. Whence alfo it manifeftly follows ^ that all Proteftants, Kings and Sub)c<5^s, Princes and People ) who, by many Papal Bulls and Anathema's , ftand afiually Curfed and Excommunicated ) are in a damnable condition , and if they die (as they do, and fliould ) without Popiifh abfolu- tion, by this Roman, Uncharitable, and lln- chriftian Divinity, they are eternally damn'd. This I fay, not that I think fuch Papal Bulls and Excommunications either have , or can have any fuch effeds, or bring fuch danger to Proteftants ( Kings or Subjefts ) as is pretend-
K edj
[ 58 1 Idopill) ^annriples, Sec.
ed ■■) for I believe and know, that they are bntta fitbnma , infjgnificant fquibs of falfe fire ; which can neither hurt their Souls here , nor hinder their Salvation hereafter. But notwithftanding this, they may prove dan- gerous and pernicious to Proteftant Princes as they may be, and arc great incouragements to their Popilli Subje£is, to rebel, and difo- bey their J-overaigns , and fecurely ( as to any thing of confcience or injuftice in it ) a61: any thing to their mine. For they who be- lieve the Popes pretended power , that he can deprive their Prince of all Royal Power and. dignity, and that he has afJ^ualJy done itj that he has abfolved them from all Obligati- ons of Allegiance and Fidelity due to him j that he is a member of the Devil here , and furely to be damn'd hereafter , and that to kill him is no Murder. I fay , thofe who fubmit to the Pope, and believe thefe Errone- ous and Impious Doctrines ( as all muft who believe the Pope, or the Roman Church In- fallible ) have too much incouragement, not onely to difobey and rebel, but ( when they have power and opportunity ) to take away their Princes Life, as being a Perfon odious to God and Man, and by the Pope ( their I^ fallible and Supreme Judge ) by their approh ved Laws, and their General Councils, decla- red to be fuch •-, efpecially feeing that if they mifcarry , in that attempt ( and while they feek their Princes Life, lofe their own ) yet
their
I^cvnidous to |d?otcftant |D<iaicc5, &c. [ 59 ]
their Names fliall ( in Red Letters ) be Re- gifter'd in the Calendar, and they (by their Party ) Hiall be reputed Martyrs ■-, as all know, that Cawpian^ Garnet ^ and our Powdcr-Tray- tors are. An honor,! am fo far from envying them', that I fhould be very glad (and fo would many thoufand morej) to fee our prefentCon- fpirators ( according to their merit j referr'd into their Calendar amongft fuch Martyrs j that fo we might be freed from the fears of thofe Prodigious Villains and mifchiefs they intended and indeavoured to ad here, againfi: their Gracious Soveraign , the Church and State, and there is too much reafon to be- lieve, that ( while they live, and have ability and opportunity ) they will profccute thofe Black Defigns. Dirnm omen miferkors ( qui folus poteji) averruncct Vsus.
Thefc are the known Pofitions and Dodrines of tlie Church of Komc^ approved and received by the Supreme Authority of that Church ; which ( in Thefi ) when they are belic'vd.^ may be very dan- gerous, and when ( in Fraxi ) put in execution (and they who believe fuch impious Dodrincs, ad ac- cordingly ) pernicious to all Kings , Princes , and People, especially Hcretiques (as they mifcall them) who imbrace not all their PopiHi Errors , in which number all Proteftants ( Kinas and Subieds*) arc , by tnem, alwayes included. And that the ^opiflj fuits was approved and imH- Fmy (ifpeciaUy Jcfuits , fmce their unhappv ap- "^^^S^t pcaring in the (a) IForJd, as alfo their Ecclefiaft,qnes ^^^.^^^L^ll
K 3 Secular 4un»i«55.Toni.i.p.738.
(i) The Order of the Jc,
[6o]
l^optft) i^^mcipiejs! , &c.
Secular and (Jugular ( with their adherents ) have aSled according to thofe Trinciples^ for fome Ages lajh paft ^ and what 'Barbarous Murders, Depojitions of Princes, and Fatal Tragedies , have been the fad confequences ef fuch heliefe and aSiings , both our own , and Forreign Hiftorians abundantly teftify. And here.
(i) Vid. Matth. Pads ab
Anno iioo , ^c. I/iporiam
Wddenfum ; DireSorium In-
quifitorum, Bi^onam In^uifuio-
tiis , Armachanum , Z>e jhtu
. C!? fuccejs. Ecclef. &c. Thac
' Dircdorium Inquifitorum ( I
; mean) was Writ by Nie;Ey-
mcricus. Printed at f^emce.
( f ) Abregc Chronlogiquc, t^f. par le Sieur de Mezeray, S^arir. 1567. Tom. 3. p. 1082^ J0Z6, ad Annum, 1^72.
(f) This teftify'd byThua- nws (a faithful Hiftorian) Hill. • lib. 5? ad Annum 1371- p. }!37. Edit. ii?io. and by Fam. Strada.de Bello Eelgico,lib.7. f. 37 J. Editionis Roi^se, 1S48.
2.
I fliall pafs by the horrid Murders and Maf- facres of the Poor Waldenfes 5 who, ( upon Profecution of the forefaid Principles ) have Perfecuted wif h Fire and Sword, Armies ( b ) and Inquilitions ^ and very many thoufands ( nay, injlnite numbers ) of them , ( as (bme of their own Writers teflifie ) have been inhu- manely murdered , Caufa indiSi^ d^ inaudita ( many times ) efpecially in France, to fay no- thing of other Countries.
I defire you to confider that barbarous aad pro-
digious Villany , the great Majfacre of Trote-
flants in France \ An. 1572. where and when
[above 20. or 40000. ('j') Innocent Trotejiants
(in ^aris, and other parts of France ) were
fuddenly and inhumanely Murdered, by Tapijis
aBing upon fuch ^opijh Principles, as I have
before mention'd. And this Horrid Villany
was fo far from being publickly difapi^roved'
and damn'd by the Chtmh of %ome, or the
Impious ASlors punifh'd 5 that the news of it
was receii/ed at Rome with great Joy ( c ) and
giving Thanh^ to God for it ( Quafi author ^
~ '" confors
l&etttfcioujS to ^^^oteftant wncts, &c. [^i ]
confers fcckris fniffet Dens ) nor was it fo at (i(p?fie oncly, but in other places too , Papifts received that news with great joy. An evi- dent argument that they approved both that Impious Do£l:rine, and the pernicious eftcds of it.
, To omit the many Seditions and Rebellions in the time of H^wrj the Eighth (* after he had deny'd the Popes Supremacy ) and Edward the J-'ixth ( caufed by fuch Pcrfons and Prin- ciples) it is notorioufly known, that the fame Party , in profecution of the fame Principles and Popifli Intercft, did ( in the Reign oi Q^ Elix.alpeth } conthmaUy cofffpire , and etidea'vor to take ( * ) away the Life ofthjt good Queen, QlliZ^\^r^,'^T'of'^ ■ by Toyfon, Ti^ol^ and fuch other iniinoHS (and I'-rri" dcfignM Aflairmatioa
r r r 1 rr> ■• 1 r i \ r ofthc Qjicen, by the Incou-
toperlons(?/ jucb Trwciplcs^ njnal ) rvayes or ragcmcntof thejduits.cani. Ailaflmation i to raife RebcIHon. and Armies S^igTViif; iSi^; (having the Popes AfTlflance and Blefflng to *?r that (as they caii'd k; mc-
'^ , ^ , ,,.,, V , ^ iitonous Aft. Seethclikc
incourage them to that \ illany ) to dcitroy attempt of Ed. squire to poy- her and her Religion. And when all this Suri^nr^.^Sl"; would not doe, ( Heaven Blcffing, what Rome ^'"•^' ''^-''"'"•'"• Impioufly CursU; ?o^e Vms the Fifth ( d) (,) ;, ,,,,^,,„,^,,,;,. n'ves the Kinodomcs of England and Ireland to ^^^^"g^^-'^K'^m^, Pms^. ^m rniJip trJe oecond limq of ^psLW^ana he(jv/[h the %«»» ^-Biff^^u j{eg^vi iru>i' <Popes ajpftance and^lcfflng) lends his (as he and ^;'^1^^!:]^'Z. hisHohncfs imaghid) 'n'vincibk Armado,to take X\, ^^f S.^f ^jjt Poffeffion ■■, But that i^afi Jrmado, and the To- ""• Renionihant. Hiben-.o-
^A r ^- ^ r '' 11/- , rum per fratreni.Rob.Caron.
p\h In/piom Vejign ^ were utterly defeated i Pan. j.cap.3. sia.^.r.?. Eot fo much by the Queen's Fleet (which was i/ery inconjiderable) as by great Jiorns and tent-
fefls,
-r»-r
[ <52 ] f>opffl) ^^inciplfsf, &c.
•/:
pejif^ the immediate Hand of Heaven , and a moft Gracious and Miraculous Providence : And this was To evident , that the A'dmiral of
' that Armado ( the Duke of Medina Sidonia) blafphemouOy fwore , That he feared Jefus Chriji was turned Lutheran. But Philip King of Spainy ( hearing of the ftrange defeat and ruine of his Fleet, and feeing the Hand of Hea- ven in it ) faid more foberly, ...... That he
did not fend his Fleet to fight againft God., (to whoTe Power and Providence , he attributed
'■ the lofs of it} but a^ainfl Men.
The Queen being dead, ^opify Con/piracies did not die with her ; the Pope and his Party continue as induftrious and ^as to their De- figns and Plots ) as impious as before. They faw and knew , that King James ( a Prote- ftant) was Legal SucceiTor and Heir to the Crown of England, yet ufed all Roman Arts, to hinder his having PofTeflion of it; and to this end , Father Tarfo?is ( the Jefuite ) writes a Book, to prove ( what was evidently un- true , and he could not chufe but know it } That King Jantef had no juft Title to the Crown of England ; ( though the whole right of the Saxons and TSlormajiSj and of the Houfes of Jork^ and Lancajier , were intirely and evidently united in him : ) but when thefe Popifh and Jefuitical Arts prevailed not, ( ha- , ving neither true Kcafon or Religion to further their Defignsy which were impious and irratio- nal),
r
L
nal ) they contrivc,and refolvc to execute fttch a Coftfpinjcy , as ( for barbarous and prodigious Viilany ) neither Heatbe/n ?tor Hell had ( till that time ) ever put in execution ■■, I mean the Ca) G>tu-To7vdcr Trcafof/^ which was not any f'^) ^"thcAftsofPariij
^ /. 1 r I r/- 1 r r ^ ' mcnr 3 Jacobi, Cap.+.f.ulicie
ordmary or bciore-known nickedne s -^ (as ^vc are t.,id r by tiic Pariia- the A///w(r a Kmg^ or Toy foiling a Trine -^ c^c.) fpr.cies oftt^jcfuites ardse- but a hlack ^nd Hiil^arallcWd Fillaiiy, worthy Si'^'tVraii^e ofThc (2?r;;//(? and a [efuite '■, the Blowim up of a whole ''°"".''' I'owder-pior, you may
J- ,. V- r / 1 'r- 1 '^""'""^ ^" ingenious Tra(»..
'rarliaiiieiit , Aj"!? 5 Lords and Lomiiions , the "iir-j, r//E histoi{t oe Murdering of a J\ingdom.\\\ its ^J^cprejajfatiz/efj tiieasov^ an i thoii- auV and this^'m a moment , before they could fee, ed"i? inH'Jli''''''''f Iw
' .' ^ > eel It, in tlie laft pag:e of that
oi' dream of am dancer. But tliough this ffor J.J^,^'-' ^"^ the Anthcntiq-ie
. \ -^ ^ ... ^ ^r ■ ^ Hidory of the Trial (f thofe
Its impiety^ was a prodigious Lonjpiracy^ car- Traytors, now ia the I'rdi,
ried on with fivorn fecrefie , and lay hid^ in ^" "^-P""tjns.
the darh^ , and under ground •-, yet there is no
^ower or Policy againfl: Providence ^ nor conceal'
ing any thing from the All-feeing Eye of our God j
He faw, and gratioufly difcover'd that horrid,
Popifh-Powder-Treafon, to the Prefer'z/ation of
his Tcople , the Confufion of their Ad'verfaries^
and (nifiperiijfet pudor) if they had any^ to
the Eternal Shame of Tapifls^ and ( Topery )
their <^ligion , which approves and encourao-es
fuch abominable Impieties.
5. When King James flept with his Fathers, and was translated to a better Kingdom, out of the reach of fuch Popifli Confpirators, and whither ( without a ferious and timely repen- tance of fuch inhumane V'illanies) they can never come, their Defigns flept not. 5 they pro-
fecure
C<5+J
^optflj )D;mcipU0, &c
(*) This Jeruliiral ancl-Po- pilli l-'lot was difcovercd by ArJreoi ab I.dbirnfeld , to Sir W. boiweU our Anibairador at itie tragus, and by him to the Archbilhop oidrMrbury, afccr whole death, the Original was foufid in tlie Ari-hbilliops Li- biaiy, and then printed; and is lately reprinted . onder this Title, — rk Grind DifigM of r^pijh in the l\iign of CHi'LES the tirji. i^c. London i 6 7 S. where you have an authcn- tiq'uediicovery of that (( can- not call it worre) Jeluitical Coi'.rpiracy.
fecute their Plots and Confpiracies ( to mine our Church and cftablifli'd Religion } as much in Charks the Firft's , as in his Fa'thers time. And at laft it came to this iflli-e, that (other means failing) the King (b) and the Arch- bifhop of Canterbury mufl: be made away. This was conceived the likelieft means to compafs their Ends , and bring in that Religion they "ff/ifcal Catholique and Chrijiiau. For certainly fuch barbarous Murders and Aflafllnations may poflibly promote Turcifm, and the Errors of ' Mahomet J ( and if you will, Popery ) but ne- ver were (nor can be) any jttji means to propagate true Chriflianity. This Traiterous Confpiracy to Murder Charles the Firfl^ and the Archbifhop, e^c. was difcovcred (by an , honorable Perfon ) to the Englifh Ambaflador. in Holland^ and ( by him ) to the Archbifliop, and by him, to the King. And the Original Copy of the Difcovepy, being 'found in the Archbi (hop's Library, after his death, was then publifh'd, and is in Print, in many hands, and ( amongfi: others ) in mine. In the mean time, ^p our unhappy Civil 'Wars began ; and our Po- WT pifli Confpirators , ( animated by a belief of fucK Rebellious Doftrines and Principles , as I have before mentioned , and incouraged and aflifted by the Pope) are firft in Arms, and the bloody Rebellion^ and {'in Ireland) mur- <lered above looooo Proteftants in cold blood, without any provocation given , but to kill Herctiques, ( which according to their impious
and
^crmctous to ^zotffl-atat if^zincfiS, &c. C ^^ ]
and erroneous Principles, was lawlul and me- ritorious } and thereby promote the Catho- lique Caufe. This is notorioufly known to both Kingdoms, ( Enola7:d and IreLj;;d. ) And further, when in the proccfs of that fual Re- bellion, ( carried on openly by Enplilh, and covertly by Popifli Rebels )that good King was taken, imprifon'd, with defign to bring; his Sacred Head to the Block, ( for the didance is feldom great between a Princes Prifon and his Grave ) our Popifh Confpirators had a Coun- cil of Priefts and Jefuites , which fare in Lo//~ rhn, and fignifi'd thccondirion of their Aflairs her^e, to a Council of their Confederates at Ta~ m, and they tranfmitted the (b) Cafe to ^,^ The Quc.iion put l- y?(7y;/<?, from whence Dircifrions and Commands t^iicj-or^wuiieaaimoihshoiiy
,.r„ .. ' 1 /I 1 /• \ / ; • Jt'liiitcd) by our EiiglJh Jc-
were return d (by the Jjme n\iy) bacb^ a^cun to '"""cs Cent nom Lo,,ion, wis London. In fliort, it n^.ts deter mnd\hzt it "i^^^S^^^iZ W3is for the hitcrefi of the Cttholhjue Caufe, that ■"'''?^y^''l^'''ft^'i-''>^8^'i',Go-
1 'j,'. n ,< J. . ^ ,. / ' , ^■:i''r.mer.t, nUlh r it rt'^ lawful
tne J\rn(f fvonta aie \ and accordm^Iy tuQix t^^^''^'^"^°''i''i^to^ork.tbjt Council oy^rkfts and Jefuites in London Voted fei fcl;trS;:« , his Death. This is now Kotorionjly k^orvn to ^:f?^^/{wSS.t be true, and ("in Print) puUifJjed to the (a) If'orld ?/ "^•'I'ope to tu-n from hi,
, p ^ , // ,^r 1 ' ', 'f-^'-'-'T^s ■' The Anfwcr of tlic
-oy a Reverend and Learned Perjon , who ( ii; ^"'I'on xras Affirmnrivr. Mi
__,, n n 11 1 ■ J r • \ • ^ "' Home it tv^ rcfohed by the
any Jhall call hwi to an account font) is fo rof, ^.d ki. coJai , mtit combined of the truth or^hat he rvrit , that T^d'eI^]^:^/^^;. he ( in fcriplis ) puhlichjy offers, and promifcs H"" *" f'""*'"''-^^ '^1''^'"<j'>
*^ 1 \. J ¥ J -^i 11 cfStMe.tkc. Dr. du Moiihn
to mali^ it good. 1 do not hear, that he has '" i^is Book next cited. (as yet) been call d to any account, to pro-ve A^wJ/^^cf^^tS'S;)^^ ' what he publickfy ., and in Print, hoi profcfs'd Caropiih, rcandaici-.s, andiy- ; ^nd promifcd to do: Nor do I think/he will rf^lSlTlc^LiT^SZ be call'd to any fuch account , becaufe I have }S^£:^sSSSZ;;Z
L reafon r^t'«"'='^i'agg.
o
[^O
5^opiU) ^^mciplCiS, &c.
rcafon to believe, that he can, and will pro- duce fuch Proofs , as will evidently dcmon- ftrate, both their bloody Confpiracies , and the undeniable truth of what he affinn'd.
By the Premifes it may Efficiently appear. That the Rebellious Poprfh Principles and Pra- dlices have been very dangerous to all our Pro- teftant Princes, and their Loyal Subjefls, ever fince the Reformation ; and had they taken that effeSt, which they dedgned, and with un- wearied wickednefs induftnoufly endeavoured, they would have proved deftrudlive and ( both to Prince and People pernitious. Nay, (which I have omitted ) while this whole Nation con- tinued aftually in the Communion of the Church of ^me ; when Hefiry the Eighth his Parliament and Convocation ( all Roman-Ca- tholiques, and far from being Proteftants) had deny'd and (lege (b) lata) taken away the Popes Z)fnrfd Supremacy^ ( that we may be fure the Pope's Pra£i:ices are fuitable to his pernicious Principles) Vope Paul the Third ^ Excommum^ cates^ Cttrfes^ and ( c ) Datmis the Ki?ig^ and all his Good SnbjeBs i Commaiids him to ( d ) Abrogate and "Null the Laws made againft his Supremacy \ and to appear before him at (e) %0Me within Ninety Days j and his Adherents and Fat/orers, ( which were all his Loyal Sub- je^s , efpecially his Parliament and Convoca- tion ) within Sixty Days. They not appear- ing, he Ratifies the Excommnnicatien^ ( r) De- prives
C'i)^^tatut. 14 Hen. 8. cap. ,. &s5 Hca.8. cap.!?., 10.21.
' (c) JDmMtio Cf Excom-
' -micHtio ffe«.Z. e]ufyue fauto-
;im ^ complkum , £5'c. That's
ve Title prefi\'d to the Bull
f his Excommunication-, in-
aullario Romano, Lugd.i(5jj.
Tom I. pag.7S'4.
(d ) I{equirim!iS4ujtexta Hen.
"fx Ltges pxM'iax revocet,
:;fet,inulJet. Dift .Bulls. Seft.-i.
f e) StriS^i pracifieado marl'
I'm-'.i . quatetiui Hen. }{ex per
;;• , vel prccuriiorem, infra 90.
\lUs, {.wiores verd, CS' ei adbx-
.■MS hfri f-^. dies cimpareant
jrint NOBIS. Ibid. Scdl-. 7.
( f ) Hen. }{eg€m privaiionis J{rg>:i C? Dominiurum pmm iif ; i:urrij]i iiilar^nm. Ibid.
^crniaous to p^otfftant p^mre iS, Scc [ ^7 ]
prives him of his kingdom and 'Doininions i
Prohibits peremptorily the iq) Kin<r or his i%) ^i irt-r't»ab b;r-
Adhcrcfits- Cii they die, as they did before he c^rere j^'pihun , amhotitr,:
Ablolved them ; to have any C H%lSJlJK eo4,e Mr.hemm^ , maledidk.
m^lAL, and declares them ETET^NjLLY Tb^'Z^!'^^.^. VAMN.D. Then he lays that mon: impious ^'"'*'^'"- ///fcKia'/S upon the whole (/j) Nation; for- (h) ^'inriciDommlcr.- h'ids all Fnl/ick^ frjyers, ( i ) Mijfcr, and Di- ihli scitT"^'^ ojuppommui. 'vtnc Offices. Nor this only ; but I.^ D.'frivcs j:^JS^:jti£:Zt the Children of Henry the Eighth, (k) 'Bonn or (^)0m»csHc«.i{esHexM- to be Born ofOneen Anna, and all the Children of tiumfiuos. natos c? mfcimos,
1 • All ■ 1 1 ■ r\ r 1 , aliofjuc dcfccndcntis ( nem'me
his Adherents^ and their Uejccmknts^ (none exceptor hmribM , disniuti- excepted) of all their Rights, Trit'iledges and '/^.t^SlV'^'^ Goods Mo'vcahle and Immoveable , and makes '■'ff>^'>i-nnendjwhabikse/re,
1 /' C ^ r \ It decLtrtim'ts, ac authoriute , jci-
them ( tor the future ) incapable, a fid depri- o-.tix ac fknitudint fimi:ih.t k' ^edoi all Dignities, Honors, Offices, Rights, '""'"' ''''•''^■'* Fees, e^c. which otherwife they might have vbtain'd, and this he does hiioivinoly, and by the Plenitude of his Torver. Then he goes on,
and declares the King and his Adherents , and j
Defcendents, to he ^Infamous Terfons, difabled J
to be Witnefs, to make any Will or Teft anient, (i) or,mes fub j-^commri^i or to recefje any Legacy or benefit by the Te- ^i^'^Z SS^^iS jiameiit of any other : (\ / Forbids all Men to ^"^ ''^■"-'«'' ^ ?"''»""«'« w 'J?, ■. Dave any Lonverjation, Lommcrcc or irade with pr4^ti j{egn vomimorum , a- ' th,^n , on pain of Exconmmnication, and lofs of t^^^^nd^^I^S^:^ all their Goods, ^c. And flirther, C^/«/;.^«^ ::?^:;:S:r^i^rr'"''' ■ all Chrijiian (m) Princes, C^nacnnqHc di^nitate ^f''^, ^, „. in/pLTiali ant Kegaii fulgeantj Ktncs and Em- ">" ''^■"•"» ^-ipf-w/' im . - pq-m's,.:m Way. to fd<voHr the King and his Ad- f'l'''m^St:"' "^"■ W^.V-*id .^). Nulls all Oaths, Compaas, ,/i;j? JSr^';::^^: IreatiEjyr^x'. f wade 0r to be wade ) to or rvith """ '""''■"■" p"-^'""- '"''"'• ''
X <S' mines dicirnimxi. IbkL .
L 1 the
/
[68j
Popuij ^?mcipics, &c
I ( a ). Trincipes C5' quoscmque ' eltos militaraes , fer mare vel t Itfi'i'Ji , requirimn , mandantes ( , qiLiter.m heri. R^g^m (5' ei ad- '' h.irer,tes {dim cokitiZ fan^amfi- dcm J{EBELLIONE pernian- . j'aint ) armii hjurgant , eofqiif ' ferfequaxtiir, Cs" ad obediewtiam diil't ]idis rediie cogir.t, eorum- \que bona, navigia,Aiimi}i!i,^c. \Vbilibel ( etiam extra territo- rhim Benrici l{egtf) corf\ler,tia, '■C A r I A NT : ^ ftc capta in ^Troprios iifas cor.virundi, aaxho- ■■ritutern concedimm, illaque om- 'ria ad capier.us PLENA 1{IE feniiere , [5' perfonai , vel ex •regno diclo onginem irahentes, I'd in eo lubitantes , manditit rcjlrU non o.btemperantes , ubi'. ciinqiie eos capi contigerit., ca- fientitm SEKJ^OS feri decer- Kintes- Jbid. Seft. 16.17.
the King^ or in fa'vonr of him or his Adhereftts i and gives Authority and exprefs COMMAND ta all Chrijlian Princes^ and their Arnries, (hy Sea or Land) to turn their Arms againji the IQng and his Adherent f , and ( a ) compel them to re- turn to the "Unity of the Church , and Obedience to the Pope. And whoever ach^iorvledges Hen- ry the Eighth to be Kiit^ , or any way Obeys him , and will not ( in Obedience to the Topes Command^ expel him and them ^ out of the Kingdom and their Dominions ; all their GoodSy ( Moveable and Immoveable ) Moneys, Merchan- di'ZjCS , ( whether wifhin or without England ) are to be feixi'd on, and (by the Topes Antho-
^'^^y) P^JPP'^ "^^^ h^P^ h ^^y ^^■'^ ^'^'^ ' catch them. And he there gives them ( fuch Thieves and Robbers ) full power to enjoy and pojfefs fuch blunder d Goods »f the Kjngs or his Loyal SubjeSls , <w in their own Right and Tropriety. And if they tal^ any Inhabitants in England, ( Native or Alien ) who Obey the King , and Difobey the Tope, then all fo taken , are to be Slaves to thofe who take them : So that Impious Bull; in contradiflion to the L^n? J- of Nature and Scripture , Reafon and Chrijlian Religion. Our Blefled Saviour, ( the Prince of Peace ) came not to deftroy, but to fve; not to Depofe I\in(![s and Emperers, Abfolve their SubjeBs from the Obligations of their Natural or Sworn Alle- giatice, or to Arm them againft Governors, and ( as his pretended Vicar does ) promife them a Reivard ( T^mijfwn of Sins here, and an higher
place
I^ernicious to ^?oteftant }D;inccsi, &c. [69 J
place in heaven hereafter } for ^bellion^ and Murdering their brethren , fellon>-fnhjeSis and Chriflians^ for believing and maintaining that Truth , .which by the Tope and his Tarty , fliould be mifcall'd Herefte. Noe, he was the good Shepherd^ who laid down his own life for his Sheep i and when they flrayd and crr'd fro:n his Fold, he did not hire and fend Dosrs or Wolves to worry them ; but ( with injinite patience and mercy ) went himfelf to feeh^ them^ and being found ( though erring and out of his fold ) laid them on his orvn Jlonldcrs , and C with great love and labor) brought themhome to his fold , from which ( as his (Ijecp may^ and yet not ccafe to be his Jhecp J they had erred. We read indeed, that our blelled Saviour gives Peter commifllon to { b ) FEED HIS (,b.:) ]ob.tj.i^>t6> SHEET and HlS LAMBS, But we never read that he ( rvhofe Kjngdom- was not of thus fVorld) gaA'e any Commiffion to Teter , or his pretended Vicar , to raije Armies to kill^ and ( indiSii caufj ) to Murder them. Though I know there arc fome ,. who from /w^' oves ^ (with bad Logique and ivorfe Vivinity ) con- dude, that the Tope has Tower to Iqll Hc- retiques. Like that Monk Erafiinis mention?, who , with great zcale for the Cathohcjue Caufe, and greater ignorance , endeavoured to prove , that the Church might kill Hcre- tiques , from that paffae;e in the Apoftle , ( c ) HJF.T(EriCZ)U DEVITJ, that is ( faycs ( O Tit. m^k the Monke ) ( who had no Greek, and Httle
Latine )
Latine) VE VITA TOLLE, tah^ him out of this life , that is, h^ll him. Sed e diverticuls in Viam.
7. From the aforefaid reafons, I think we may ( with good confequence ) conckide •■, that the (pope and his party (ever Cmc€ Henry the Eighth, ( de faBo ) affiimd the Supremacy , which (ds jure } was his before ) have been in a perpe" ttial Con/piracy againft the Liz'es and Keligion of our Troteftant Princes j at leaft till the Hap" py Return of our Gracious Soveraign ( whom God prefcrve ) who being ( by the good and Miraculous Providence of Heaven Reftor'd to His Fathers Throne ( His own Right and Inheritance^ a bleffed Peace, and all the happy €fFe6]:s of it, did i.nmediately follow, to the great comfort and benefit of the whole Na* tion ; The Government of Church and State before fliatter'd and ruin'd by a horrid Re- bellion ( Begun, Incourag*d , and Promoted by the Pope and his Jefuitical Party ) was hap- pily. Reftored , and ( by Law ) cftablifli'd ; the Juft Rights and Liberties of the Subjeds affured to them, and confirm'd; a Gratious A61 of Oblivion , and Pardon of Illegal , Se- ditious and Rebellious anions againft the King and His Lawes granted ; and the bleffing and benefit of all thefe extended to Tapifls2LS well as others. So that befides their' Obligation to Obe- dience and Loyalty J by their IsfatHral or Stvorn M- iegiance , there lay upon them an Obligation to
Gratitude^
. — ■ . I . ■■Ill .. ■ ■■ II , ^^ ^ .^. ni - I iiMi II J . ji.ii ■!__ _
^CinUClOUS to ^^OtUa... =jd^iua'0, &c. [71 J
Gratitude , for thofe f'^ff^l fai>ors they re- ceived, from the ^ood fiefs of a gratious Trh/ce. So that it was the bcliefe and hope of fowe^ that the forcmention'd Topijh principles and Fra- Bifes had beef; forgot^ or laid afide ^ and that the Roman Catholiques ( as both in rvords and writings they publickly pretended ) would be very Loyal SiibjeSls. But thefe \Yere vain hopes i for (* notwithftanding all obhgations to obedience and gratitude) even fince His Ma;efties Happy Return , the PopilTi Party have carry ed on their Plots and Confpiracies, againft their gratious Prif/ce, the cjlablifj d Re- ligiofi^ and the ^eace of our Church and State , with as wuch induflry and int^ncty^ as formerly. Which now cvidcfitly appears^ by their intpion^s Con/piracy^ by the blefiing of God very hap- pily, though lately difcofefd. That you may ( in the General ) know what this Plot is, and that I do not mifcall it, when I fay it is an Im- pious Confpiracy : I fliall give you two Au- thentique Teftimonies.
I. Our eratious Kin"; calls \t ( a) A BLOODY '^''.^ in HisMajeflicsProcia.
,-r^^ V,«r-.^„ _„^.^ }i ^ ' mation, for bam'.hmg all Pa-
T^JITEKOZJS deflgn of POTISH (Pe- pil^s Ten MUcs from Zo....,
CHfaffts, againfi His MAJESTIES Sacred ^'^'^^^^ ^^^•3°-^^«- FEKSON, the C0FE(!(MMENT , ajid the
t^testant religion.
II. The Houfe of Commons (in a Vote of that
(b)HoHfe^ approz>ed by the Lords) fay (i) xhcvoteof theCom-• *^'^"s Refohedy &C. That this Houfe is of (l°nd by them approved at 'a
OpiniotJ^ Conference. I A-«v. 1578.
i
[72] i^omii) ^zmcipies, &:c.
Opifjwi , that there HATH BEEN, fljid STILL IS, a DJMNJBLE, and HEL- LISH TLOT , contri'ved and carried on by (pOnSH KECVSANIS , for ( hor- refco referens ) ASSASSINATING and UURDEKING THE IQNG , and for SUBVENING the GOVERNMENT, and rooting oHt^ and VESVI(priNG the ?l{p- TESTANT (RELIGION.
By what 15 already faid ( I fuppofe) you raay fee , what the Romau-Catholick, or Popifli Prin- ciples and Praitifes have been^ are , and ( while there is a Pope , and a Party to believe and incou- rage fuch pra61i fes) ever will be i and how dan- gerous fuch Principles are, and W'hen put in exe- cution ) how pernicious they are, and ever will be) to all Princes, efpecially Proteftants, and all thofe they are pleas'd to ca-ll, or mifcall Heretiques. Their received Principles I have hitherto mentioned are thefe,
1. The Pope ( with them ) is Supreme MO- NARCH of all the World , even in Temporals i at leaft indireSte ( as the mod moderate amongft them fometimes fay ) and in ordine ad fpiritnalia^ which diftin61:ion can afford no comfort or fecurity to Temporal Princes. For if the Pope have fuch vaft power, direBe, or indireBe, 'tis all one , he has it ; and if a Prince be depofed or murdered by either end of the dijlinBion , he is equally and as
furely
pernicious to ^^oteftant P;mrei3i, &c. TTFT
furely edge , killd.
Murder'd i as he who is or back of the Sword ,
kiird by the is as certainly
2. They fay, the Pope has poiper to ( c ) Excont- municate, Cnrfe^ and Damn KiNgs.
3. To depofe and depri've thon of all their ^yxtl 'Porver, and Jnrifdi^ion.
4. To ahfol'vc their SnhjeSls from all Obligations (whether Natural, or afterwards arifing from Oathes) to fidelity and obedience.
t^. To Arme their Snhje6is a^aittji their So'veraigns^ foe depofed by the Pope, their Suprewe Jud^e^ and (ac- cording to the profefs'd Doftrine of the Jcfuites, Canonifts, ^c. ) infallible too , In rebus faSii c^ fidei.
6. That this tah^ng of Armes again ft their King^ ( when depofed by the Tope ) is me Rebellion a8;ainft their Kjng ; feeing ( by their Traiterous Princi- ples ) as foon as depofed , he ceafcs to be their So- fcraigti.
7. That, if in fuch a War, they kill their JQngy ( cfpecially if he be an Heretique ) it is ho crime , me Homicide or Murder^ but a Meritorious work, to which the Pope has promifed plenary Indulgence ^TLud Pardon of all their fins, and an higher place in Hea-
Cf) And this vaft power the Pope challenges over all Kings and Emperors, to Excommu- nicate and Dcpofc them, is fKCh ; that if any Aing or Em- peror obey not the Decree of the Pope and his Councils, he IS, 'f/»/a/?a, deprived of all his digmty, and goods. CJc. It is not any private perfon. but a Gencial Council of their own .
which tells LS fo Omnibut
CkrifitfideHbus inHbet.fub fan} P^irATIOSIS OMNIVM -PJGn/TATOM CS^ SONO- 1{VM EccUJixjiicomm £5" «fc«. dar.ornm, is ALUs r.JKN!S juris ; eiLim p ^GALlS fit dgnnitit.itit tMrEKJALlSy qnibus fi contra. H4NC IN'- hlBlTlONEM fecerint, fint AVTHOgjTATE HVfVS DECl{ETI, ^ IPSO FACTO PK/^^TJ.S^c. Concil. Con- Itantienrc. Sefs. :!8. InSemem. coKtra BenedUum. 13. Nay, if they be but nf^/zjpwnn exe- cuting the Decrees of the Pope and his Council, theyincurre
all tliofc pjnifhnicnts si
KECLICEKS extiteril, cu- jtifcurque digniijtit fiterit , eli- am fi IMP EI^I. ills, &c. iBat patiM Ipso tACro ixcunat , qua In ConJihtiit. Boaifacii Pa~ f« 8. covtincvtur, cap. Felicis V • Extra de Po?nis, in 6. They are the words of the fame Council of Conllancc. Sefs.;;^. In Provipone aiverj'iu Sebijh:a futurun.
ven.
M
8. Nay
[ 74 ] ^opul) i^zinctplfg, &c.
8. Nay ( to give them the Higheft incouragements to commit all thofc Villanies^ Chriftians are capabfe of) they (hall be reputed Martyrs , referr'd into their Calendars in Red Letters, and ( in their opini- on ) be cftecmed great Saints in Heaven , who in Earth were known to be Rebels to their Prince, and jjuftly Executed for High Treafon. For fo, as isj^e- fore faid and proved ) thofe who (by the hand of Jufiice) peri (li'd for their Prodigious \ ilhny, in the Gunpowder-Confpiracy, are reckon'd for Mar- tyrs in the Jefuitcs Martyrology. Now, how dan- <a) Noe kfs than 15000 eerous fuch Prhidples ( having fuch ( a ) incomraQC'
Clftnees piomiled by the Je- ^ . -* ^ iir -Hn.n.-.
fuites to one who (houid Af- fficnts ) may provc to all, elpecially Proteltant ?nt:?oo"[oScr jSl?^ Princes, do you and the World Judge. codfrey:z^m]^i^^^Yi^^%^^' But ( as to the danger of fuch Do£lrines) this
pcrs of the difcovery ofthe . ,, , , , ° 1 \ r • • 1
late horrid Confpiracy , and is not all ( thoUgh tOO mUCh ) lOr It IS nOt OUCly a
Mr, Bdior^'s Confcflion. ^^ceived Doftriue in the Roman-Church , That' the
Pope may depofe Kings and Emperors if they be Heretiques ( as with them, we are fure all Prote- ftants are) but further,
I. That Subje^ls alfo ( as well as the Pope) may lawfully depofe their Soveraigncs, if they be Heretiques.
II. Nay, that they ought, and (both in Law and Confcience ) are ftri6Hy bound to depofe their Princes if they be Heretiques.
Hi. And their approved, and great Writers pub- lickly confefs ( in their Books printed, and li- cenfed by the Authority of their Church) that both the former propofitions are appro'ved by-
all
i
pernicious to ^.^otrftant v^;MtKcs5 Scc. C 7$ ]
all Catholiqaes. Sure I am , they have not
publicity been condemn d by any Ad^ Decree or
Sentence of their Church ^ and therefore we
have rcafon to believe , that they approve
them. For, qui non prohibet peccarc cum pof-
fit^jubet.
For the proof of all this, I fliall oncly give you
two or three Tefiimonies of their own ( by publick
authority ) approved and licencd Authors , who
exprefly fay and endeavor to prove , what here
I have atfirm'd. i. One of them faycs (b) (b) omnivm cATrio-
That It is the Opinion of ALL CAtHOLlOHES , S^J^1/"i^P^>aoycr: that SnbjeSis A%E miiXD to dcpofe an Here- sc^.z-num^i^o.
tical KJNG. And he adds there {c) That they « ^'"*';f'f,,f,™t. ^
are BOUND, by the LAW of GOD, by the MOST n^cvm , ac extjibmo STRICT BOKD OF CONSIEKCE, and VTMOST c?io':''^Siir "p^f.V" ^E^IL of their SOULES , to DETOSE HE^E- ff^^^'^'^^- ibidem, n. TiCAL T^INCES. And (their great Controvcr- tift, and Cardinal ) Bellarmine layes as much ; (and with more authority ) fpeaking of Heretical Prin- ces id) OMNIUM CONSEKS-U ( all Roman- (.) Bcihrmin. dc ro™..
Catholicks he means ) pofptnt ac DEBENT pri- p°£^''''" ^' "^'' ^' ^^'^* 'vari ftioDominio. It is the confent (fayesthe Car- dinal) of ALL, that Heretical TRINCES may^ and i OVGHT to be DEf%lVED of their Dominions. ' And in a Book {e ) approved by the Jefuites, and to ^r^riMi dc Rcgc & highly commended by the ( f ) Licencer ; we are "t^l '''™'°" '^°^""^' told ; That the ^ower and Authority of the (g) ^EO- ^^^^tS^^^- tLE is greater then that of their Trince. 2. That "n^iiL>rorrxiixain. ( h ) the TEOTLE Cas well as the fope) may declare a CO ii)ki. p."?.;, ^^o. iC^V/e to be a Tyrant : and when the Pope or TEO- ci^rllJf'^^J^'^vll;) ] : <PLE havefo declared him to be fuch (i) ^NJ 'PR/, ^^iTrLji^ii's W:
^ 2 VATB ^^^^^- ibidem.
[ 76 ] ^opiil) ^iincipies , &:c.
"^ " VATE MAN may WJ^EK HIM. 3. And he
{K) Tyramus^fl qui s A- thcrc tells US, That hc w rf f^) Tyrant^ who endea-
ci[A PAT III A ^cjfuniAu ^^j. ^^ ^^-^jg ffjg Keliffion of Im Country ■■, ( the Ro-
Ibid. p. do. ^11- r, 1- • t r t \
man-Catholiqiie Keligion,you may be lure he means^ and then (by thefe Jefuitical and Popifli Principles) All Proteftant Princes are Tyrants, and may lawful- ly be kill'd by any private perfon. So that 'tis evi- dent , that thefe Popifh Principles, are not onely dangerous , but pernicious to all Proteftant Princes; who ( in their account) being Heretiques, are con- fcquently Tyrants, and may be declared fuch by the People, and Murder'd by any private man. cbje^, I know that fome Roman Catholiques deny this
i doftrine to be approved by the Church of (2^o;w,and .
I ' tell us j that the Church has exprefly condemned it
< as fcandalous, and ( both in faith and manners) er- ;
f (I) concii. confianfcnfc roncous : and for this they quote the (/) Council of
i Sefs. M. Inconderanationeil- ^ ^ - ^ ^UV T n,^U
^ lius propofitionis , Quiiibct Couftance. In antwer to this 1 Inall, Tyrannus, c?^. I . Set dowQ the words of the Council.
^*"'"'* 2. The Anfwer to them.
i' I. The words of the Council are thefe j and the
J Propofition they condemn this Quilibet T'yrannus
fotefl ac debet licite ac meritorie occidi^ per quemlibet ifajjalliim c!^ fubditum, etiam per infidm^ 'vel hlan- ditias, 'vel adtdationes non obstante quomnqne Jura- mento feu confederatione faSiis cum eo^ non expeSiata fententii <vel mandato Judk'vs cujuscunque. That is ......Any Tyrant ntay, and ou^ht to be larrfnlly and me- rit or ion fly kiU'd^ by any i/affalorfubjeSi ofhps, ei/enbj treachery or flattery ; notwithjianding any oath, or con- federation made to, or with him j and not ha'ving the preceding fentsnce or command of any Judge whomfoe'ver.
[|i 2. This
i, 1 ■■ '
865.
L
^crnicicus to ^?oteftant |&?incfS, &c. L77]
2. This is the Piopofition, which the Fathers at the (a) General Council ztConflance, condemned, (<) They confers it to be
-^ I j/^*ii /->t ^"icilium Cenerale apfrob^tum,
(tor a General approved Council , and confirm d (^ a Gregono Duodicim nro
by a true Pope, they acknowledge it i though they ^T&Z^JT(nm^xt"cfl,-
have little reafon for it , as may appear by what S.t'd^pie'aUScPoyi.lt
{ b^ Gefner has faid, and (c) Lon^HS a Coriolano has '^'^^,"] ■''i'lem.
V / ^ ] • < A ^ 'J \ r. • • ^^-^ G. flier in Pntfat. ad
not ( though he endeavor it ) Anlwer d. ) But it is Epitomen concii. ex additjs Penn'd with that Art, and Roman-Catholique cun- "'ilTtZl^Tctt\..o, ring, that (though it fccni to fay fomething for p^^-^ the Security of Kings and Princes ; yet indeed it is (*as to tliat purpofe ) altogether infignificant. For,
1. Here is nothing in this Proportion , or the Condemnation of it, by the Council j which condemns, or any way difapproves the Popes Excommunications or Depofftions of Kings, their Abfolutions of their Subje£ls from their Oaths of Allegiance , or giving away their Dominions. It is only the Affjjjtnatious and Murdering of Tyrants which are fpoken of; not any Excommunications, Depofitions, c^c, of Kings.
2. Nor docs the Council deny , but that ezfoy Tyrant MAT be kjU'd , but that which they condemn as erroneous , is v That e'very Tyrant ntay^ and alfo O'VGHT to be h^Wd. Now this is a Conjunftive and Copulative Propofitioni and fuch Propofitions are ( in Logique ) falfe, when either part is falfe, though both be not. So this Propofition, E.<very Man is Rational and Learn dj is erroneous \ becaufe one part is fo :
for
[78] ^:'pifl) ^rtucipics, &C.
for though every Man be Rational, yet evejy Man is not Learned. In like manner, although it will be granted at ^me, that ei/ery Tyrant may be JQWd.) yet that e'very Tyrant ought to be Kill'd , will not be fo eafily granted. For let hira be a Tyrant in refped of Title, one who is an llfurper, and has no Right to the Crown •, yet let him be a Roman-Catholique, a Zealous Maintainer and Promoter of the Papal Religion and Intereft; or one under whom they find more favour than they did ex^- peft from the true King j they will not fay that he OVGHT to be IQll'cl. And on this account it was ( I believe ) that the Pope and his Party, did not think, That C^^OUWEL'* (though a Tyrant^ OVGHT to be Kill'd '.'^ or C for ought I know ) ever went about it 5 ( though they defired and endeavoured to take away the Life of CHA(^ES the Martyr, who had a moft juft Title to the Crown } becaufe they found more favour under him, and more freedom from the punishments of Penal Laws^ than they ever had before j or could e-xpeft, if the true Owner of it, pofTefs'd the Crown. In Cromn'el's time, no Oaths of Allegiance or Supremacy were prefs'd upon them, our Li- . turgy and Common-Prayers were taken away, and an Ordinance pajfed, That no Man fhould be Cenfttred for not coming to Church '■, fo that there was no way then to difcover, or legally con- oid a Popi/h Pvecufanr. On which ground, the Fathers at Conjiance y might condemn this ,.
Propo-
|derniciou0 to pjotcltant ^^mcrs, &c. C 79 ]
Propofition, ( as erroneous ) Oiiilibet Tyramim^ ^c. Ez>cry Tyrant M/4Tj and OIJGHT to he IQird'y and not deny that every Tyrant MIGHT be IQWd,
. When they condemn this Proportion , (" as
erroneous ) Ei/ery Tyrant way L A JV-
FZJLLJ, and MERITORIOUSLY bel{ill'd: on the fame account the Tro^^ofitron is erroneous, and ( as fuch^ might be condemned by them ; and yet they might bcheve it LA WF'VL to Kill any Tyrant, though not Meritorious'.
When they fay, A Tyrant cannot lawfully be kill'd per Qu^emamquc Vaffallitnt C"' Subdi- turn, by any of his SnbjeSls i this is but poor comfort for Kings or Princes , and afford them no certain Security. For if a King be Kill'd, it is not much material, whether a Native or an Alien be the AffafliUjlie isKill'd.So that not- withftanding all the Council of Conji^ince has faid ; they may hire an Alien to Kill a Pro- teftant Prince, as Lopcx. was to Murder Queen Elizabeth ^ and a Spaniard to AfTaflinate Man- rice of Najfarv : or ( what was really intended and endeavoured , and probably had taken cf- fe£^, had not the good Providence of Heaven miraculoufly hindrcd it ) the Pope may give away our Nation, and fend a Spanifli Armado, ("as he did in Qiieen EU'z.abethf nmc ) or a French Army, to kill Prince and People, and take podcflion of it. Dirum omen mifericcfts (qui Joins potej}) a'verruncet Dem,
5. When
[So]
^opi(5 ^^mciplesi, &c.
Bo^g/0-2c - &
(a) ^Hibet Tyratmui potefl, ac debet licite ac meritork occi' di, per quemcunque rajfallum y •Subditum , etiam per infdim, blitditm, vel adulatmes, ran obflMte quecunque ]uramento tut confrderationcfadii cum eo, JVON EXPECT AT A SEN^- TENTIA FEL MANDATO ^V Die IS CV^VSCVtf- £njE. Concil. Conftant. ubi fupra, Seir. 15.
When that Council denies this Propofition, (and condemns the Affirmative as erroneous ) That a Tyrant may be 'Murdered by any VaJJal and SuhjeSi i it is in the lingular number, ( per Vaffallum <^ Subditum ) and hinders not, but that more , or the major part of the Sub- jefts and Commonweal may do it : for al- though this Do61:rine be impious and Hereti- cal, yet {zt^me) it is Catholique, (orRo- man-CathoIique ) and by many of their emi- nent Writers, maintain'd and juftifi'd.
6. But Laftly s This Sentence of their General Council of Conftance , is fo far from pro-ving that, for which it is produced j (That the Church of Rome does not approve the Depoji- • tionf or /imaginations of Kjngs ) that it evi- dently proves the dire^ contrary. That this may appear (and without any going back, or trouble ) to you i I {hall put in the {a) Mar- gent, the words of the Council of Conftance^ (though you have them before.) Now in the words cited, it is evident 5 i . That when they condemn the Killing of Tyrants, KOH EX- (PECTATJ SENTBHTIA AVt UANDATO JTJDICIS, Not expe£iing the fentence or command of the Judge ; there is fome Judge whofc fentence and command fhould be ex- pefted. For it were ridiculous to talk of exr pefiing the fentence or command of a Judge, if there were no fuch Judge, whofe fentence
fentence .• 1 could
^■cniiacus' to \b;oMant princes, &c, [ 8i ]
could be expelled. 2. Now although i(^siiSj. ( and in truth ) Kings and Supreme Princes, neither have , nor can have any Judge : it being neccilary, that the Judge be Superior in I
Power and Jurifdiftion , to the Pcrfou Judg- ed, ( othcrwife he cannot be a legal and com- petent Judge ) and to fay , That Kings and Supreme Princes have any Superior on Earth, C where they are Supreme ) is a contradi£}:ion. ^. But at ^>)ne^ it is otherwifc j the Roman- Catholiqucs do conftantly afiirm , That both the 'Vope and the Tco[^le^ are Superiors to Kings, and may pafs fentcnce on them , and declare them Tyrants. 4. And therefore if Sub;e£i:s may not kill Kings, (who are Tyrants) without fuch fcntence or command, but mufl: cxpe£l it ;
then if they ha've expeSied , and ha'c.'e it^ then
they 'may kill them Lnv fully (ind merit orioitJJy^
For exceptio frmat rcQ^nlam in non erxcpt'vs.
^.And 'tis to be obferved,that it h^Sententia'vel \
Mandate Judicis, by the Sentence or Command
of the Judge. So that if any private Perfon j
have the Command of the Pope or People,
Twho are (b ) the Popifli Tudecs in this cafe ) (^ ) j{cgem {{iryrimvAit- 1
1 o r-i rV .1. cUretuT a I' A PA vsl POl'V-
cr the Sentence ot cither ot them, declaring w) .iHUihet^aiM psjrA.^ any King to be a Tyrant ^ then this is War- lsiirtJ^Ed!,& rant enough (by rfieir impious Pop' fli Poli- R<^g'5i"'Jit>'t. Mos">'t- i<^°r. ! tiques)for any private Perfon to kill fuch a King. ' ^' ' \
From which Pvoman-Catholiquc Dof^rine , "it evidently follows , that when ( in our late Civil Wars, ahd unhappy Rebellion ) the Par- liament had declared CHJ(I{LES the Utrtyr a
N Tyrantj
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^aopiflj \&?intiplts, &c.
k
(c) Tyrdmui efl, qui SJ- CR^A PATRJA pe^Uvdiit.lh'id. pag.(5o. That is, qui facta Pi- fifiicd, ^ J^eligioncm J{omano- CutkoHcam, ( quantum in [e eji) fupprimt. i^ extirpit.
id) In all their Excommu- nications of Herctiques , the
fiile is ufually this: Ana-
thematizamm omnes Hxreticos, eorutn FAVTORJS , [S' getie- raliter quojlibet iUorum D E- FENSOIIES, &c. Bulla Coe- n^. Scft.i. In Bullaiio Ronia- 4)0, Lugd. 1673. Tom. 5- F^g- 518.
Tyrant , any particular Perfon ( without E- refting an High Court of Juftice, as they mif- call'd it ) might lawfully have Murdered him. 6. It is to be further obferved, that ( by their Popifli Principles ) Tyranny and Herefie in Kings, are Crimes equally deferving Depofition and Death •■) and every (c) Heretical Kjyig is a. tyrant with them. Whence it follows, i. That if the Pope Command any one to kill a Prote- ftafit ( or which with them is all one, an He- retical )' Trince j then ( according to this De- cree and Do£l:rine of the Council of Confiance ) he may lawfully do it. 2. Or if he give no fuch Command, but pafs a definitive Sentence again ft any fuch Prince, and in a Damnatory Bull declare him an Excommunicate and De- pofed Heretique ; (or {d) Fa'vorer of them) then any private Perfon has fufficient Warrant and Authority to Murder him. So that when Pope ^ius the Fifth had Excommunicated Queen Eli'z.abeth, ( by this their Popirti Divi- nity ) any one of her Subjects might (with- out any further Authority , or fault ) have Murdered her. Now whether fuch Principles as thefe, be not dangerous , inconfiftent with Loyalty, and (to Proteftant Princes) perni- cious, let the Woijd judge. Sure I am, our Kings ( and Parliaments ) knowing ( by fad experience ) the fatal and pernicious Confe- quences of fuch Popifli Principles , have pub- Jickly declared this their fenfe and deteftation of them. I fhall give an Inftance or two.
' I. Our
^dcrnicioiis to ^zfitcfratit pzmcrs, &c. [83 J
}
. Our Gracious King, ( in -a Proclamation _) ha- vinq ipoken of the iHtcfiine Diz^ifwns a^iioii^ft
7is^k follows : (c ) JVhich are CHIEF- „-/'|",?^7/°';'^"lf;°'J '^T'^ f
LT OCCASIOKED by the ^ndcr mining Conlri- you have' it \a tii; ckuxc. <vanas of POPISH KECUSJNTS, rvbofe Nio;;- ""'"'•'''• hers and INSOLEKCIES are of late GKEAIlr increafcd^ and whofc %ESTLESS TKjCTlCES threaten SltWE^^SION to the CHURCH and STATE. The reftlcfs Pra(5}iccs are the mif- chievous Confequents of their impious Prin- ciples.
A full if) Parliament, C^nd a Ponilli one (/) stafut.Annoi^Hcii.s.
\ I • r I 1 In cap.22. which «as Ann. Cbrift.
too; takes notice or, and condemns the ra- i,;;. ana ho wasnotExcom- palUOirpations, in taking upon them to diC '^^^^^^^^ pofe of Inheritances and Kingdoms, in thefe Lugd. 1655. Tom.i. r3s.7-4
words : The Tope , CONTKJIQ' to the
ini/iolable Grants of JitrifdiSiions 'Bl GOT) IMMEDI/lTELl to Ewperors and Kjngs^ hath T^ESli\TD to in-oefi -ivho fJjonld pleafe him, to inherit in other Mens Kingdoms and Domini- ons : which rve your Loyal SnbjeSis ST I KI- TH A L and fEMPOTsJL, ABHOR'J{E and DETEST. Such were the Popes Ufurpations '
then j but ( as in Parliament they confefs ) abhorred and detcfted by Clergy and Laity. 1
But now ( as evidently appears by the lately j
difcovcred damnable Confpiracy) the Pope *
and his Party, take upon them to Murder our Gratious Kin^, (whom God prefervc ) and difpofe of His Kingdoms. Which Practices,
N 2 and
1
[ 84 ] ^optil) ^zmcipleg, &:c.
and Principles which cavifeand encourage them, I do ( and iuftly may ) call Dangerous and (when they take cffcd , which I hope they never will ) Deftru61ive and Pernicious.
And here further, becanfe many of our Popifli Party, feeing the horridnefs of this Damnable and Hellifli Confpiracy, and ( in reality I hope, or at leaftj feem to condemn both it, and the Authors of it •■) laying the blame upon the Perfons only of fome few , and with great confidence, (to give it no worfe name ) denying the Roman Church to approve or receive any Principles, which can encou- rage fuch Confpiracies , or prove pernicious or dan- gerous to Princes, their Perfons or Government : I ihall briefly give you an account of fome more, of their received Do6}:rines and Principles, ( befides thofe already named) which have been, and (while* they are believed) ever will be prejudicial to Prin- * ces, and the Peace and Quiet of their Subje(rts and
Dominions. For inftance,
I. The Church of ^me e^^rcfly declares it mi--
tayvful for Secular Princes to require any Oath
of Fidelity or Allegiance of their Clergy •, and
as exprefly forbids all their Clergy to take any
(^> Concii Lateraru Mag- fuch Oath, if it be required. ... V? ) ^i^"^^ ds
■nU3nfubInuocenti0 3,Can.4^. t-vt 7 r r- cT\r
</jci. Baronium Annai. Tom. jure- 'DIVTHO quidam LJICJ Z/fnrbare CO- •
:. ad Annum 858. Scft. 4P> . r/- r 1 r a- -1 r * 1. 1
jj,,^,ijj.. nantur^ cum ytros tcdepajticos mhiL temporale
continentef^ ad pr^fiandum fibi FIDELTTJTIS
JV%AMENTUM compellmt. Sacri Juthori-
me: Concilji fKOUlBEMVS , m tales CLE- ,
MCI
coaan-
Kia perfoms SECilLA'^BVS prxftare tnr hujnfmodi Jiiraincntnm^ &;c. This is the Conftiriition of their great and Occuincnical Council under htnocetit . the Third , and is referred into the Body of their Canon {h) Law, by Pope Gregory the IX, and remains in the ( I ) bcfi: Editions of it, commended and (IQ confirm'd by Pope Gregory the XIII. So that by the Popilli Canons, and their approved and received Laws, no Senilar Prince may require any Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity^ of any of the Clergy, or Ecclefiaftiques , nor are the Clergy to take any fuch Oaths. And if a Clergy-man (liould take any fuch Oath , it is ( by their Canon-Law ) for feveral reafons, declared nnll^ and not obligatory. For, i . T hey tell us, That noc Oath which is againji the (a) Bcclefiajlical utility^ and bene jit of the Churchy is 'valid and binding : Nay, the Law it felf there fayes \ That all fitch Oaths again ji Ecclcfiafhi- cal utility^ ai'C not Oaths properly, but {b) Per- juries. And the cafe is'put in their Law, of a Trince^ who fearing fome (c) CONSTI^JCY againji him , too\ an Oath of fome , that they Jhould not ( for the future) be in any Con/piracy againfi him. They who had ta- ken thfs Oath dedred to know how far they were bound by this Oath ? and that Law, and hnocent the Third gives this Anfwcr ( d ) That they nvrc notfo bound by that Oath , but that they might ji and again ji the Prince ( to whom they had frSmw ) in the lawful defence
[85]
(h) Cap. Nimii. jo. Extra Di 'j-ure\iir.inh.
(i) Corpus Juris Canon. Paris. i<Ju. & 1618. &Lug- (lliiii \66i.
( k.) Ta Bulla dat. Rom. x Jul. 1 5 So. Corpori juris Ca-. nonici prarfisa.
(.t) Jut.memm contrx uti- litaum Ecch'ftjjiicam pr.xfiifim NON TENET. Lemma aj ca\\ Sicut. 27. Extra Dc ?K-
(b) Kon jiiranHKt:: fid fer^ \urii potiiis dicendi. qux contrs utiHutcin Eccle/iajlicdm , &c. didto cap. Sicut. 17.
( f ) Vrircefs tiimns corffi- ratioms !t}i~{iias fieri contn eum, ^Hr.i7nfntm» extorft, quod, de ccciero contra ipftim mn ejfcnt.- cap. Peiitio.'^i. Extra iPtfJa- rsjurando.
( J ) Declitr.iimif, vos Jun- mir.tq hu]uf>udi HON TENE' SJ, qain pro jar;i;j C^ Ixir.ori- bii EccUf.f, or vejhu, legitime defendendif , CONTRA IP' SVM I'RJNClpEM'^in li' bite ViUtAiif^
[85] Popiil) ^imctpics , Sec
of the Rights and honors of the Church and their own. Now 'tis certain, that the Pope (with them ) is the fole Supreme Judge in ail Ecclefiaftical Gaufes \ ( and fuch this is, con- cerning the Rights and h'onorsof the Church) and therefore it he Judge ( zs we arc fure he will ) that our Oathes of Allegiance and Su- premacy, be againft the Rights and Honor of that Church, of which he pretends to be the Head ■■> neither thofe, nor any fuch Oathes will be obligatory toany of his party ^ at leafl: they will think them not to be lb \ and fo they will think , that (notwithftanding any fuch Oath} they may, for the benefit of the Church, and the Catholique Caufe ,■ oppofe and confpire a^^ainfi: their Prince. i. It is a Rule in their
C e ) Ditlum \urmswtum ex- ^•^■^ ^ /' j • r \ 'T'^ ' U n 1
cufrre von fot^djn quo debet in- i^e ) Law {jxYiQ. in reujon tooj 1 hat m <ilL UatbeSy
i2ce,!durr"i;ven^r: ■ it muft hc Hnderfiood , that the right of the 5«. tcs.i^. extra, ve Burejurando. perior IS exvcpted, and mufl: be prcfervcd. So
if a Tenent Swear Fealty to his Landlord, how great foever ( fo he be a fubje^l: ) it muft be, fdho jure dominii principalis ; the Royal Rights of his Prince, muft not, cannot be prejudiced by that Oath. This is true in Theft. Now we know, that the Pope (and his party who acknowledge him ) thinks that he is far fupe- rior to all Kings ■■, and therefcfre if he think and declare ( as we know he has done } that our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are pre- judicial to his rights, then neither he, nor his party will think them binding. 5. If they were confefs'd to be obligatory ; yet they of]
€he "^■i[ ifim
pernicious to ^;roteftant ^^inccs, &c. [ 87 ]
the Pop\(h church, believe he can clifpefifeff) ,,, „ , , Tvith them^^nd null the obligation, i his is the dmcm potejhtis , de jure potrt conftant Tenet of the (g) Canonifts ■■, who f"SX Ema^'^f cpwe^e-. tell usi Uat the <Pop, does ufnally and eaftlydif- Sf^/scotia^i /^S:""'' petice with Involuntary, but not rvith voluntary C5) vid. Gratian. can.--. 0^/w/ ^ yet if he do difpence with vohtntary giois. andcard. Turrecremits Oaths ^ it is (h) valid. Nor is it any won- (h) si tmen ib^oivn ai- der, if the Pope difpence with Oathes (volun- Sum ca^^I'^bo^'Al- tary or involuntary ) if it be true, which "John fo'^'™"^,
Semeca the Gloffator there tells us That the
Tope can difpence aaainfl the LAW OF (i) CO ^«Vo ciaycstiieGiofu
•XT i-rVr i/n 7-- / ■ n 1 An^c^'-T-r t- * i ^od contra ^VS SATVR--:
J\Ai\y^B^^ and againjt the ArObJLh. And ie j-otfji dUfenUre et cnr.tr that we miaht take notice of it, thofe words ^^^■^"^^^^^^- ^'^«^-^^-'- ( in the {kj old Editions of the Canon-Law) co Edit. Paring li
are put in thcMargent fPapa contra Jpojio-
lum difpenfat : the Pope difpcjices againji the A-
pofile. And in the latter (/) Editions of that (0 EJit.Parif.ifii, .
Law with the Glofs ( even thofe confirm'd by
Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, as moft Correal ,
and purged from Errors ) they are fo far from .
difowning that irrational ;ind impious Clofs -i
that ( in a Note there in the Margent ) they
explain and juftifie it It is mt ahfnrd (faycs
the (w_) Author of that Note) for the Tope to C"') ^'o^* ^fl ai-f'irdim pe^ - difpence anainfl the Apoflle, astopof^ve Law. ?//r/;5>«::: tSfS \m So that Papifts may take as many Oaths of Al- SrJoAUbMm^'.'". '''''• *' •* Jegiancc and Supremacy as their Prince fliall plcafc, yet the Pope ( when he pleafes ) can difpence with them, and fet them free , from all obligation of fidelity. And hence it evi- dently follows ; That a true Roman-Catho- iicjuc ( who believes this Popifli Power of dif-
pcnfing
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popill) 5|^>lnclples> &c.
(4 ) As may C to omit all others; abundantly appear by Father rarfoM Book writ a- gainft the Oath of Allegiance : The Title of his Booli is this .^ A Difcujfion of the A^voer of DrMillSirlovi. And at large lately in Father dron's ^' mmr&nm Bibermrurn, &c.
penfing with all Oaths ) may take a thpufand Oaths of Allegiance, and yet give no affiirance . of his Fidelity to his Prince •, feeing the Pope may ( upon their approv'd Principles) when he pleafes fet them free from all fuch Obligati- ons. 4. But, if all thefe wayes , of nulling - the Obligations of Oaths of /\llegiance fail : yet the Popes Janifaries ( the Jefuites ) have a new way to prevent all fuch obligations of Oaths, without any difpenfations ; and that is by Equivocations, re^lifying Intentions, and their Doflrine of Probabilities : pernicious Er- rors, deftruftive of Humane Society , and fo notorioufly now known to the World, that I neither fliall , nor need go about to prove them , or fhew the pernicious confequerices of them. Sure I am, that by their Popifli Prin- ciples , no Papifts are (a') permitted to take the Oath of Allegiance to their King, or any fecular Prince : and then 'tis eafie to judge , what good Subjects they are like to be. For certainly, what I may lawfully do, that ( on a juft: and ferious occafion) I may Swear to do. If it be a duty, and lawful for me to obey my Princes commands, and pay him fidelity ; then certainly, I may (-by Oath) bind my felf to the performance of it. So all men, by the Law of Nature and Moral Veracity, are bound to fpeah^ truth i it is both lamftil and a. duty : and therefore, when ( in Judicature) I am call'd to be a Witnefs ; I may, and ( by the confent of all Nations ) ought td take, an Oath, to
bind
bind me, apd aOure others, that I will fpeak truth. All Men (as I faid, and all confefs). ^re bound by an indifpenfable Law of Na- ture to Ipc ak truth ( when there is a iufi: oc- cafionforit) and yet ( in Judicature J his tc- flimony would not pafs tor good evidence , who (being required ) would not (by Oath} confirm the truth of it. And therefore Prin- (i) e^o n: ubhc hon h ces have juft realbn to believe, that thoi^ who ^^ll^'^S^'^Si^^^'E- will not take an Oath to be Loyal Subie6ls , roribu,.c0tfimqi>cdr,vhicre-
' .,, ', r -I • A 1- t 1 1 dmrijur.t, ad eorion damnum
Will never be lo witlrout it.And jndeed the rea- kemini ^indm. rafmni fon why Princes may juftly fulpcft the fidelity jutor eh ero ad lethendim cj of their PopiHi Clergy, who refufe the Oath of Jfef j;;i.SS^^«..T- Allegiance, will farther appear,if we confider, "»]:"• ^'5?ffipS ''^^on- 2. That "when and where Popery prevails, fcrvsre, defefidcre ^jromcvas all their BiHiops fwear abfolute Allegiance and /!!!?Vje/Tr.XfT/«"Ji«j'f'(>«- Fidelity to the Pope, and therefore cannot ^^j ;iS^^;;;j;&5!«- fwear it to their Prince too.TheOarh every Po- '■'> tf ; <"«;jJ-'' ^;« '"-'^''"''t««" pun Dunop mult take at his Conlecration,is this ^£ tfi<itn ^oviro, m^eium :...{b)l N.from this ttmc forwardydlbe FATTH- llrl'^Yc'JffnZ 'S- FUL and OBEDIENT to wy Lord the Tope and ^^^fi^if'^f^^
Im Succeffors THE COVKSELS with which «''^"-'*''- ^ FAci.iM aba^
y they trujt mc^l will not dijcoz'cr lOJNT MjK^to keticos et rjeelles the hurt of the ^opeor hrs SurceJfors...IwiU afpfi SvA^^^llmfc^^^Eo. them to retain and defend the ^opedome^and THE ^l'£' r.l Jaf " ju: 22 ' (c)^OrALTjES of St.Teter.azainfi JLL MEN "'^^' I'ondficaic Romanum.
T 11 J' II r I r I ^' Conjecrjtioiic E'.cdi in E-
I n'lU carefully conjer've^ defend^ and promote picopm,^. 57. tcUtum Rom*
the rights^ imiors^ pri'vilcdgcs , and aulhority of '^co Here it is rj-galja the Tope. I wiU not be tn any Counfcl, FaSi, or ^^^ ^J S't 'niTl^iS Jrfiat% ill which any thina prentdaial to the ber- '^?'^' cncu^'it before) -brarti- JoNS^ rigfjftSy or power of the rope k contrived : and CTo.fjj.Tr ,:
if I Jh all fyow afiy fur h things treated vfJ>yjA\Y "^ ' '-
Mi O ' UBOl '
\
[Po]
l^opill) ^;MUciplfsi , &c.
(,/ WideHcn.Braaon, Ds . tegbiki AngliaE , lib. i. cap. ■}.<;. bed. S. where lie tells us, that in his time , this Claufe ■was in the BilTiops Oach to the Pope , SJLP':A FIDE ^:eOM. KEGL Braitonfiou- rillicd about the 30 year of our Hen, X. An. Dom. 1146.
(n) Vid. Ordinem Roma- num vetercm , apud Georg. Ferrariiim, D; Catholica: tc- cief. Divinis ofKciis. Romae,
( A ) So Tritthcirins de Scri--. ptoribu3, &c, Poffcvine;Ap- par;ai>, both of them , In Ar- noldo Conflamie-.ifi, aud Vofi- «s de Symbolis Coens Diiffi.
frWMSOEVEK, IwiU (tathentmofiof my pwer) hinder them^and with all pojpble fpeedfig-
nifie them to the Pope J will (to the UTMOST
OF MX TOWEK) obfavethe (pOTES COM^ MANVS, and MAKE OTHE^ obfer-ve them. I ivill impHgne and TE^ECVTE HE^- TICKS , and (^E^ELS to my LOlip THE TOTE. I TPill come to the Synod, WHEN HE CALLS ME^ Sec. This, and much more fuch ftuffe , you have in that Oath. Now this is e'videnlly an Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to the Toie. Wherein ( to omit other things ) they Swear, i. Never to di[coi>er the Popey Counfeh ( how treafonable Jocver) TO ANT MAN ( not the King. ) 2. To defend the Popes fipXALTlES, againft ALL MEN (the iQng not excepted. ) 5 . And if any thing be treated of prejudicial to the Tope, BT ANT WHOMSOEVER ( the Kiing not excepted) they Swear ( TO THE ZJTMOST OF THEl\ TOHEK) to oppofe rf»<5f hinder it^. Here is ( you fee ) an Oath of abfolute Allegiance to the Pope , without any fali/o or referve of their Fidelity to their Kjng-, which (d) antiently was in tlie Oath every Bijhop tooh^ at his Confecration , as a great Lawyer tells us. And not long before him, it is certain that Biihops at their Confecration, took no Oath at all to, the Pope, butonely promifedhim Canonical obedience. For in the old Qrdo ( a^ ■ Komamt^ (which ( as all agree ) was writ by (^h) Arnoldm Cenjiantiinfis Presbyter j about.
\&etnicious to ^^otrftmit Ounces, &c. [91 ] ^
the year lo^o.) The Metropolitan (who confecrates ) askes the pcribn to be confecra- ted, thus; Vi[ne Beato Tetro^ fiuf-pte EcclcfiiC^ ejufqiie VICJKIO <jr fitcreffonbus , fidcm (^ fnhjeSI ioficm per ountia exhiberc ? The Anfwcr js: Volo, Then follows the iromife of ficlelily afid fuhjcSiion to his Metropolitan : But with
this difference. To the Pope he promifes
Fidcm d^ ohcdiemijm per omnia. ( as to the prime Patriarch. ) But to the Metropolitan he only pivmifef ( but frvears to neitfjer of them) Fide VI isr obedient iam cxbibcrc. But to let this pafs : It is manifefl:, tliat whenever this Oath to the Pope began to be exa^l^ed of BilTiops, it has been in ufe ever fince the time of Pope Gregory (c ) the IX. who patch'd up, and (d) (c) scdctGrcgorius?. An. publiQVd tlie Decretals; In which you have Spo^c' '"''^" '"'""' the f^m of the Oath the BiHiops then took to ^niVcSSt XhTo gS the Pope ; neither yr? long by far, nor/o bad^zs gory the 7th. who was made of later years has been required of all Bifliops ; ^°r^'^'°^^* yet bad enough. For then they fwore obedi- ence and fidelity abfolutely to the Pope ( as now they do J) (e) COXTKJ OMKES HO- ( o vid. cap. Ego. n... MIKES^ ( neither King nor Emperor except- ^^"^^'^^"'■'i"""''''- cd. ) And we are told in fome later Editions of their Canon-law , that now, not onely all Bi/hobf, but whoe^'er recei'ves any ( f ) dianitv ^f^ ^'"''' '"""" '"'^'n'i
r I n 1 ^ I -^ ^ I ■^ c^ y tcs dignitatem a P.ifi . Jio
or the Pope , tak^ an Oath, and ftvear Alleoi- j"'-""- i" Lemma ad cap- ance to him : and, is it pofllble, that thefe per- ''''""'' EdicLugduni...*,. fons who do, and muft Swear iuch abfolute obedience and fidelity, to the Pope , can be faithful and loyal fubjc^s to their Prince ? and
O 2 indeed.
[90
is>op!a! ^MtriplfS, &c.
(g) Vid. Fllliucium QukH. Moralium. Traftatu..i(J. cap.
II. p.SM-
Cib; Vid. cap. tton minus. 4. & cap. Jdverfui. 7. extra. De Immunitate Ecclcfiaruni.
(;) Panormitan ad d'lita, cap. 4. & 7.
(^) Lemma ad di(aum, c 4-
C/) Ckrici nen debext tie-
ceffitatiLui Civititum aux diorum locorum, etiam ubi Uicorum non fufpetunt facuhates, fulvmire ( this is highly uncharitable ) nifi frius l{»m. Fontifex cenfu- luiur. 2. Sentemis 'i3 conjiim- tutioKcs editx a Liicu colktl- eraibus Ecdepitn , fiint ipfo jwre JJ{I{1T,JE, nee ullo umpore ctnvaleJcuM. 3. J{e3ores Sx- commmicati ob gxavamini fr<- mi/i, remantnt Excomnmicati , ttiam poji dcpofmm officium, ^ ^uccejlbres ,%i(i futisj'ecerm intra menfem. Bxc dicit ad meL]orem decUrationem (S fro novitiis. Lemma ad cap. Adverjiu. 7. Ex- tra.i?e Jmmunitaie Ecekjiirum.
indeed, are not fuch Popirti Principles both dangerous , and efpecially to Proteftant Prin- ces pernicious, and iiiconfiftent with the Loy- alty of Subjefts , or fafety of Supreme Pow- ers } nor is this all ; there is more danger yet to Kings and Princes , from their Popifli Prin« ciples. For ,
5. *They Exempt all EcclefiaBiqnes from paying any Tax or Contribution to fecular Trinces , without the Popes Leave. This is the con- ftant Do£i:rine of their (^) Cafitifts:, their (h) Canon-Law , and ( z ) Canonijls. Who tell us
( i^^ Quod Laid ColleSi^ imponentes Cleric
cis , funt exconnnunicatij aim fit is fantoribus 5 All Laymen ( by their Law ) are Excommuni- cated^ if they lay any Tax upon the Qer^y. And again (more fully) we are told, i . That (I) the Clergy OVGHT NOT to rejie'vc the NECESSITIES of Cities^ or any other places; no J not even then when the Laicks ^^^ in '^ant , nnleff the Tope be frfl confulted. 1. That all Decrees and Conflitntions of Lay-men , lay-^ ing fuch Taxes upon the Clergy., are fmll, and never can he made obli^ifjry. 3. All pcrfons Excommunicated for fuch grievances laid upon the Clergy , and their S\JCCES- SORS , ftand Excommunica-ed '^ mdefs they: fnake fatisfaSiion within a' Month. 4. And' they tell us , that all this is faid for a ful- ler declaration of the Law in this Cafe, that Novices may better underhand it. This \s\
■ their 1/
Idenucious to ^zoteaaut ^;Muce0, &c. [77] }
their own Expofition of the Camn^ in the moji (m) comSi Body of their Camn-Laiv \ Cw) vid. corpus Juris ca- and they there tell us, that it is the Canon of "°"''' ^"^'^""'- ^""°'*^'- a (n} Gemral Ciuncil^ and then (according to ^«) D''^o cap. Adverfus '
.,1 • r» • -1 \ • r ITLI 111- 7- in Lemmatcldem Iniioccn-
then- Principles ; mtalhbly true, and obliga- tins, .inCwKii.Gcneraii. And tory to all the Chriftian World. So that by £eaTcaplV"'' '" '^°""'' ' this Popirti Law , if any Lay-men ( the King and Parliament o{ Englaiid ) lay any Tax, or ( by a Statute ) require any Subfidy of Clergy- men^ ( though in the Necejptics of the King- dom ) without the Popes leave ■■, fuch Sta- tute is declared Void and "Hnll , and they and their Suaejfors ( unlefs fatisfadion be made ) Bxcommunicate. Nor is it only fome Inferior }Aagijiratcs or Officei"s, who are thus Excom- municated ^ but all Perfons , {a) CZ)JZ)S- CO T" Urbanus Papa y. CVKQTOE condkioms. Status ant DICNITJ- ^S,:;^:^:^ TIS. And that we may know, that fuch Ex- communications arc not a rafh and inconj]de- rate A61 of Z)rban the Fifth, or fome anery Pope, they have been, ( for fome Ages pafu ) and ftill are folcmnly publifh'd at %ome^ every Year, in that famous and impious Bulla C^m-e Domini, on Mamidy-Thiirfday. ( Even on that day , in whiqh our [Bleffed Sacionr Injiitnted that Ccxna Voniini^ as a Sacrament of our IJnion •xvith him, by a li\ely Faith, and of the Com- munion of all Chrijlians among ji ihcmfel'ves, by an unfeigned lo've and charity ; I fay, on this day, the grcatcfi: part ot the Chriftian World, are Anathematizd and Curs'd at 1{o>;:c , by
I their Popes fucccili^el) , for no other rca'on but
^' .^ -..- bi^aufe
iSi
Cp4]
^0;.nUi ^iiucipics, &c.
C b ) ^11 CoUeni^ , Tnllix, '. Wf jkh'*(, iS iliu omri ferfonif j.c efiujixif, 'Ci eorim, Ecck- ,■ ■uiit, ii Biy.ef.cionim Ecckf- Ujl'uoruin bonis, iliorimqiie red- tii'.ib:ti — abf^iie S^mir.i I'onti- •'■-■'! cxprfffi d:ii:tij imponunt ;
■ fc tmf.o(!ti , ETIAM A .:■ i ONTE ^ASTIBVS, reci- fiur.t. Kecnon qui fer [e , vd i'':'js diretlevil iniinJefrifdi- c'.r fjcer^, exe^v.i v:l prociinre r.yiiviriLX'.it , CVfVS CVS- S^E Jint fr^smi/:er,ii£, digni- Utii, tff. cthnfi IMFElilA- Ll, J{ECAL!, iSc pr-ifiiige' aKt digniiHe , i^c. Tiny arc all Excomrauiiicatcd every year in thjt i'K.'.'j Cxn.r. Vid. BuUum Akxir.dri Pipx 7. (eu Cuiiliitut. £jus 16, In liulla- rio Rom. To:n. y- data crat Bulla dida, Idib. April 16^6. & Bullani Chmemif r.ip.i ir. dat. Rom.7. CjI. April. Anno if7J. EjuHlem BullariiToni.f. ConlHtut. Clement, ^^.54.and in both thole Bulls, Seft, 1 8.
(c) Concil. Lat^ran. Tub IimocentioPapa 3. Ann. liij. Can. 46.
(d) Concil Latcran. mag- num Tub Innocentio j. Anno IL15. Can. 46.
(c) Scir. ;,-• cap. 20. Ve li-.xiunitMi Ecckf irum.
1, f) Dearnit ac P {{^mC I- TIT fdcros CaMties, <S' Cenci- lu GeuerulU OMNIA , C? A-
J'OSrOl 1 CA S fjntliones
EXACTE ab OMNlBVS vb\irviri DEBE}[E. Ibid.
Cg) Tjnqium VEl r J^JS.- CEPTA. Ibidem.
becaufe they are for the Truth of the Gofpel^ and againft his (without any reafonor fenfe) lUdirp'd Greatnefs and Worldly Interefl.) In : that 'BhU^ the Anathema^ or ^apal Cnrfe (St'ilo Curise ) is thus : (b) IVe Excommitnicate all, of what Vignity fo2z>er , %EGAL, IMTE^AL, W CA L, &c. n^ho im^ofe any "Tax, Toll, or Preflaljoft upo?i any Ecclefiaftiquef, or recci've any I'axes fo imposed, (^though the Terfons on whom they are impofed , would WILWHGLJ pay them ) rrithoHt the fpecial and EX'?%ESS LI- CENCE of the ^ope. Now although this ( aforefaid ) were evidence enough to intitle the Church of Ronte to fuch defperate Do- 6]:rine and Excommunications j yet we have further and greater evidence ; I mean, their Great Lateran (c) Council, confifting of above 1 200 Fathers, T fuch as they were ) Synodi- cally (d) ratifying the fame Do6^rine : and all this cxprefly confirmed by the (e) Trent Cjonndlt which tells us , That this Ininmnity and Exemption of the Clergy, is, DEI Ol(pi- NATlONE <isr Canonicis SanSiionibus Conflitu- ta ; and therefore Decrees and ( f ) C 0 M- UAKDS, That all the Sacred Canons, all Gt'- jieral Councils, and all Tapal Conflitutions, in fafor of Ecclefiafltcal Terfons and the Liberties of the Church , be ( and ought to be) cxaSily obfer'vcd ; and that, as (g) THE COMMAND- MENTS OF GOD : and admomfljeth the EM- (pB\0%, KINGS and F^RJNCES, &c. and
obliges J
• I
fDrrmcious to ^^otcftant Pimcrs, Scc. [95]
obliges them to fuch Obfervation. Nor is the
Trent Cowtcil content with this; but ( h) re- ('^)Concii. trident, in for-
I x^ii^/T y 1 z'"" Profetlionis Fidei, in calce
quires her Eccleliaitiqucs ( and many more, of i-^ir. ij. which anon ) to (i) PKO^fISE, S WEA %^ j^' ^ ^"'"''"<'' ''o'^^"- ?«"• and VOW^ frmly ( and without all doubting) to believe all the Canons and Connctls before- mentioned , ( efpecially the Decrees of the Trent Fathers.) By the Prcmifes , I think it evident; that (by the {k) proved DoSinne J2^^S::i^^:i and Principles of the Roman Church ) no alJ'c^lI'crlons^^omthcPo^^cr
jr. „ f mi- X r ^v of Laymen to Tax them. C>:.
J\jngs, rrinces or TarltamcntSy nor :iny LA 1- isat Jto'"?. app-ars by thcy«. MEN, (how many or great fotvcr) can lay t.S^t::i::^iS!:: any Tax upon Fcclefiaftiqucs, ( no not in the rL.ff^; ^'^" ^' ."''"^ ''J"*
_,-,r ir^ ri T t,ommand is JFxfwr^jKi.*-,
greateft Neceflity, and Poverty or the hzy- f'"^"'^^^'"^'^^ ^'"pfi-ionn co«-
Subjects ) without exprels leave nrit had SurifdicimenEcckfajhcAm.
from the Pope. Now whether this Popifh
Doftrine, ( if approved and believed ) be not
very dangerous and pernicious , ( efpccialjy
to Proteftant Princes) do you judge. Nor
is this aU ; for^
Their approved and rccei'ved 'Popi/h fi^miplcs^ do not only free them, from taking Oaths of Alk^iance and Supremacy, and their Ejlates ( I
fpeak of their Clergy ) from Taxes , (unlefs the Pope confent } but theiv Terfons alfo, ( be their Crimes never fogreat) from all ^unijlj^ went by things, or any Lay-Court or Magiflrate of what State or Dignity foeven This is a manifeft- and h^iown Truth , arhi needed no • proof, were, it not , that fome, who< have an
ungrounded
Cpfi]
popUi) ^nnripifS, &c
'a) ExcmmunicMtHr ^I- C V NSiV E Magijlram . ^ui contn VEEJONjiS ECCLE- SIASTIC AS fe inierfonunt, in ( JIVACVNI^E caufi crimi- \ tiali. Jive tiOMlCWlI, ftvi ; Lu^^S^M MAfESTATlS.