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A40843	The famous bull in Cœna Domini published at Rome every Maunday Thursday against hereticks and all infringers of ecclesiastical liberties with a preface containing some reflections on the bull, and animadversions on the late account of the proceedings of the Parliament of Paris.; Pastoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia. English & Latin	Catholic Church. Pope (1605-1621 : Paul V); Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.	1688 (1688)	Wing F365; ESTC R2280	23,075	70

Indulgences granted and renewed by Vs and the said See and the Decrees of any Council by Words Letters or any other Writing in general or in particular to any Persons Ecclesiastical Secular and Regular of any Orders even of the Mendicant and Military Orders or to any Persons invested with Episcopal or any greater Dignity and to Orders themselves and their Monasteries Convents Houses and Chapters to Colledges Confraternities Congregations Hospitals and Pious Places as also to Laymen although they should be Emperours Kings or eminent in any other secular Dignity § 23. If by chance any shall against the tenor of these Presents de facto presume to bestow the benefit of Absolution upon any such involved in excommunication and anathema or any of them we include them in the sentence of Excommunication and shall afterwards proceed more severely against them both by spiritual and temporal Punishments as we shall think most convenient § 24. Declaring and protesting that no Absolution altho solemnly made by Vs shall comprehend or any other way avail the aforesaid excommunicated Persons comprehended under these present Letters unless they desist from the premisses with a firm purpose of never committing the like thing nor those who as was before said have made Statutes against the Ecclesiastical Liberty unless they first publickly revoke these Statutes Orders Constitutions Pragmaticks and Decrees and cause them to be blotted and expunged out of the Archives Rolls and Registers wherein they are preserved and farther certify Vs of this revocation moreover that by any such Absolution or any other contrary Acts tacit or express or even by the connivance and toleration of Vs and our Successours for how long time soever continued none nor any of the Premisses nor any Right of the Apostolick See and Holy Church of Rome howsoever and whensoever obtained or to be obtained can or ought to be prejudged or receive any prejudice § 25. Notwithstanding any Priviledges Indulgences Grants and Apostolick Letters general er special granted by the Holy See to any of the aforesaid Persons or any one of them or any others of whatsoever order quality or condition dignity and preheminence they be although as was before said they should be Bishops Emperours Kings or eminent in any other Ecclesiastick or Secular Dignity or to their Kingdoms Provinces Cities and Dominions for any cause whatsoever even by way of contract or reward and under any other form and tenor and with any Clauses whatsoever even derogatory of those which should derogate from them or even containing that the said Persons or Places shall not be excommunicated anathematized or interdicted by any Apostolick Letters which do not make full and express mention and exact repetition of the said Grant and of the Orders Places Proper names Sirnames and Dignities of the said Persons as also notwithstanding all Customs even immemorial and Prescriptions how long soever and any other Observances written or not written by which the said Persons may help and defend themselves against these our Processes and Censures from being included in them All which Grants as far as relates to this matter and the whole tenor of them accounting them expressed in these Presents as if they had been verbatim inserted nothing omitted we utterly abolish and wholly revoke and notwithstanding any other Pleas which may be alledged to the contrary § 26. But that these our present Processes may more easily come to the knowledge of all Persons We have caused the Papers and Parchments containing the Processes themselves to be affixed in the City to the doors of the Church of St. John Lateran and of the Church of the Prince of the Apostles that those whom these Processes concern may pretend no excuse or alledge ignorance as if they had not come to their knowledge since it is not probable that should remain unknown which is so openly published to all men § 27. Moreover that the Processes themselves and these present Letters and all and every thing contained in them may become more manifest by being published in many Cities and Places We by these Writings entrust and in vertue of holy obedience strictly charge and command all and singular Patriarchs Primates Archbishops Bishops Ordinaries of Places and Prelates wheresoever constituted that by themselves or some other or others after they shall have received these present Letters or have knowledge of them they solemnly publish them in their Churches once a year or oftner if they see convenient when the greater part of the People shall be met for celebration of Divine Service put faithful Christians in mind of them relate them and declare them § 28. Lastly all Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops and other Ordinaries of Places and Prelates of Churches as also all Rectors and others having cure of Souls and Priests secular and regular of whatsoever Orders deputed by any authority to hear confession of sins shall have a Transcript of these present Letters by them and shall diligently study to read and understand them § 29. Our farther pleasure is that the same credit in judgment and out of judgment shall in all places be given to Copies although Printed of these presents subscribed by any publick Notary and sealed by the ordinary Judge of the Court of Rome or any other person in Ecclesiastical dignity as would be given to these presents themselves if they should be produced or shewn § 30. Let no man therefore infringe or boldly and rashly oppose this our Letter of Excommunication Anathematization Interdict Innovation Innodation Declaration Protestation Abolition Revocation Commission Command and Pleasure But if any one shall presume to attempt it let him know that he shall incur the displeasure of Almighty God and of his Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Rome from St. Peter in the year of our Lord's Incarnation One thousand six hundred and ten the eighth of April in the fifth year of our Popedom In the year from the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ 1613. Indict 11. the 4th day of the Month April and the eighth year of the Popedom of our most Holy Father in Christ and our Lord Paul V. by Divine Providence Pope the aforesaid Letters were affixed and published at the Doors of the Churches of St. John Lateran and the Prince of the Apostles and in the field of Flora by us Balthazar Vacha and Brandimars Latini Cursors James Brambilla Mag. Curs FINIS

that some Power was assigned by Christ to St. Peter and his Successors over all Members of the Christian Church is the common Principle of all proposed by them as the only Center of Unity and a Doctrine necessarily to be received by all Catholicks Whatsoever this Power is it being of Divine Institution cannot be annulled or restrained by any General Council much less by the Laws and Edicts of the Civil Power but may be exercised independently from both If then any Church refuseth any Obedience or Submission to the Commands of the Pope unless they be conformable to the Canons of Councils and ratified in the first place by the Civil Power they thereby declare an intire Disbelief of any Power committed to the Pope by Divine Institution For however they may pretend Councils to be Infallible and consequently inerrable in fixing the limits of the Papal Power although even according to this supposition the Papal Power not being antecedent to General Councils could have no existence in the three first Centuries when no such Councils were held yet this Infallibility cannot be pretended to be inherent in the Civil Power The Temporal Prince may possibly be an Atheist an Apostate or an Heretick may forbid all Obedience to be paid even to the most just Commands of the Pope and deny to ratify such Orders as do naturally flow from the execution of that Commission which Christ hath given to the Pope If the Pope hath indeed any such Divine Commission he may and ought to execute it in spight of all opposition of the Civil Power and if he exceeds not the bounds of his Commission he ought to be obeyed by all faithful Christians although the Civil Power far from ratifying his Commands should even forbid them to be obeyed No priviledg can exempt us from this Duty nor any humane Law dispense with the Obligation of it yet the Church of France pretends and constantly averrs that no Obedience is due to any Commands of the Pope of what nature soever until they be first ratified and confirmed by their Prince This pretence was not started of late but hath been introduced and continued for several Ages being the grand Principle of the so much famed Liberties of the Gallican Church a Principle which can no otherwise be maintained than by disowning and disclaiming all Divine Institution of the least Papal Power and accordingly we are told in this account that the boundless and arbitrary Authority of the Pope hath been the Source of almost all the incurable mischief with which the Church is afflicted that his Power Pag. 13 15 22 9. reacheth no farther than the Diocess of Rome and his Patriarchship than the neighbouring Provinces stiled Suburbicarian that it would be very advantageous that all Ecclesiastical Matters were transacted in the Kingdom without ever being obliged to have recourse to Rome and that an Ambassador of France executing his Master's Orders cannot thereby incur Ecclesiastical Censures although none will deny that Ambassadour may possibly in obedience to his Master's Commands oppose even that Authority of the Pope which was lawfully invested in him by Christ if any such there be But not only doth the Church of France hereby disown the Divine Institution of any Papal Power not only doth she declare the Thunders of the Vatican to have nothing formidable to be transitory Fires which exhale into Smoke and do neither hurt Vid. pag. 19. nor prejudice save to those who darted them but affirms the Pope to be a Favourer and Patron of Hereticks ipso facto excommunicate and no Member much less Head of the Catholick Church He is accused to have maintained converse and correspondence with the condemned Disciples of Jansenius ever since Pag. 27. he hath been seated in S. Peter's Chair to have spoken in the highest degree in their praise and declared himself their Protector ●nd thereby so far to have endangered the Peace of the Church that nothing less than the foresight and cares of Lovis le Grand could restore or conserve it that he favours the Quietists and connives at their Heresy underhand espouseth their Party and protects their Persons He is denounced Excommunicate upon this ground That he who without lawful cause and through humane motives undertakes to suspend one of the Members of Jesus Christ from the Communion of the Church doth Pag. 12. separate himself from it by such an unjust Attempt Nay farther he is declared by the ill exercise of his Power to have lost Pag. 37. the Power of binding and unbinding and thereby in effect to have fallen from the Papacy and to be deposed Alas that Innocent XI whom our Missionaries represent to us as the grand Pattern of Apostolick Vertue and Holiness should at last be convicted of Heresy and proved to be no Member of the Church He hardly escaped last year from being condemned as a Quietist in the Inquisition of Rome and now alas poor Man instead of enjoying that Honour which he hath so ambitiously courted of suffering Martyrdom in defence of the Church he may perhaps be burnt for an Heretick as soon as Lovis le Grand shall please Pag. 7. to execute that Right which he pretends to have to make himself known in the quality of his Sovereign It cannot be pretended that these are matters of light moment in themselves but unhappily at this time heightned into great differences by the ill Conduct and false Zeal of an ignorant and stupid Pope since his Actions are grounded upon and upheld by the famous Bull in Coenâ Domini which himself refers to and the Parliament of Paris upon that account decrieth with so much indignation telling us that if this Decree whereby the Popes declare themselves Sovereign Monarchs of the World be legitimate Pag. 11. the Majesty Royal will then depend upon their humour all their Liberties will be abolished the Secular Judges will no longer have the Power to try the possession of Benefices nor the civil and criminal Cause of Ecclesiastical Persons All this is indeed literally true and the natural consequence of that Bull. But then this alone abundantly manifests the Justice of our Charge and the real difference of the Doctrines of the Churches of France and Italy in matters of the greatest moment In France this Bull is esteemed impious unjust and uncanonical derogatory to the Rights of Princes and Priviledges of national Churches contrary to the Laws and destructive of the Christian Church At Rome it is accounted sacred and inviolable ratified and confirmed by more than twenty Popes whose Names and Constitutions are prefixed to the Bull published with the greatest Solemnity imaginable every Maunday Thursday the Infringers and Violators of it declared ipso facto excommunicate and Priviledges and Dispensations to the contrary annulled and made void and all this as the Preface of the Bull assureth us to preserve the Unity and Integrity of the Faith to teach all private Christians what they are certainly to