A VINDICATION OF THE SINCERITY OF THE Protestant Religion In the Point of Obedience to SOVEREIGNES Opposed To the Doctrine of Rebellion authorised and practised by the Pope and the Jesuites In Answer to a Jesuitical Libel Entituled PHILANAX ANGLICVS By PETER DU MOULIN D. D. Canon of Christ-Church Canterbury one of His Majesties Chaplains LONDON Printed by I. Redmayne for John Crook at the Ship in St Pauls Church-yard 1664. Imprimatur Ex Aedib Lambeth Nov. 19. 1663. Geo. Stradling S. T. P. Rever in Christo Pat. Dom. Gilb. Archiep. Cant. Ã Sacr. Domest To the Most Reverend Father in God GILBERT Lord Archbishop of Canterbury his GRACE Primate of all England and Metropolitan my most Honoured Diocesan and Visitor My LORD AN Adversary of the Truth and therefore Yours hath lately offered to your Grace the same abuse as the Roman Souldiers did to the Lord Jesus For as they arrayed him in Royal Scarlet bowed the Knee before him and said to him Hail King of the Jews but at the same time spit upon him and smote him on the head This enemy who is also a Roman Souldier clotheth your Grace with high praises and makes a profound obeysance to your Place and Merits in an Epistle Dedicatory But by the same Epistle he puts under your Graces Protection a charge of Rebellion against our Catholick Orthodox Church and an Apologie for the Doctrine of the Jesuites This is stroaking and striking together No blame is so disgraceful as such praises So did the Devil call Christ the Son of the living God to disgrace him by his Testimony and make him to be taken for one of his Confederates The man never appearing to own his work seems to acknowledge that neither his person nor his work deserveth the notice of the world Yet I thought it necessary to let the world know what a cheat is put upon the Readers by this childe of darkness who being altogether unknown to your Grace as your self were pleased to express unto me beareth himself for your ancient Acquaintance and claims your Patronage while he disgraceth your Person and revileth your Doctrine Neither doth the Libel being but an ignorant scolding deserve an answer but that the man recompenceth his shallow learning with his superlative malice making use of this conjuncture when the minds of loyal subjects are exulcerated by their late and long sufferings by rebellious Zelots under pretence of Religion to make the sufferers to fall out with Religion it self These are the depths of Satan who knows perfectly how to steer the spirits by the Rudder of their most sensible Interesses and at this time labours to drown the too remiss sense of holy Belief in the quick resentments of personal oppression Blessed be God that he is come short of his aim in this attempt and that this Libeller by his Imposture hath only stirred the just indignation of good Christians in whom the interess of Gods truth and glory takes place before all personal concernments Himself might have bin an example of that just severity which he commends in your Grace if he had been as bold to Present the Book as audacious to Dedicate it to so great a Patron I cannot but have recourse unto the same Patron which he hath chosen for his untruths to protect the confutation of them Knowing that the Vindication of the Truth is in its right place being put under your Graces protection in whose shadow the Church rejoyceth as of the gracious Patron of Piety and Vertue the Incourager of Goodness the Maintainer of the Orthodox Faith and in that respect the right Arm of the great Defender of the same That your Government may be blessed unto the Church and Prosperous and Honourable unto your Self is the fervent prayer My LORD Of Your GRACES Most dutiful and humblest Servant PETER DU MOULIN To the Roman Catholicks of His Majesties Dominions My Lords and Gentlemen THe Adversary against whom I appear having laid a Charge of Rebellion against a sort of Protestants in his Title page hath in his Book brought the generality of Protestants under that Indictment I will not imitate his unsincerity by laying that charge proper to the Court of Rome and the Jesuites upon all the Roman Catholicks knowing the Loyalty of many of them with whose acquaintance I am honoured and making use in this Treatise of the Testimony of great Persons and whole Courts and Societies of the Roman profession against the precepts of Disloyalty enjoyned by the Roman Court and acted by the Jesuites For to these only I profess that my present opposition is limitted Only I will be here your humble Suitor That since the Pope is called by Cardinal Bellarmine The a Epist ad Blackwell Head of the Faith and b Praefat. ad lib. de summo Pontisice The Fundamental Stone of Sion you be pleased to consider seriously how taking the Popes sense and authority for the foundation of your Faith in this point can consist with that Honour and Loyalty which you harbour in your generous Breasts And how you that venture your lives so freely for the Defence of your King can acknowledge the power which the Pope assumeth of disposing of the Crowns and Lives of Kings and absolving you from the duty of your Allegience when he thinks good Certainly when you have weighed this in the Ballance of Conscience and sound Judgement you shall finde your selves hedged in within this Dilemma Either to cease to be good subjects or to acknowledge that the Pope can erre even when he speaks and makes Decrees from his Chair Of which Truth if you be once perswaded your way is open to know more Truth That our faith may be setled upon that Truth which makes us free we must call upon the Joh. 8. 32. assistance of the God of Truth and prepare for it a meek docible and unprejudiced spirit which are qualities altogether remote from the furious and contumelious Adversary whom I take in hand in this Treatise Yet since they are not opprobrious terms but clear proofs that are most offensive to the accused I cannot deny that I have been more offensive to him then he to the Protestants God govern his Catholick Church with the Spirit of Truth and Peace and convert with his blessings those that curse us So prayeth My Lords and Gentlemen Your most humble servant in the Lord Iesus our Common Saviour Peter Du Moulin Preface The Designe Style and Genius of that Libel Observations upon the Epistle and Prefaces THe licentiousness of the Press hath long since beaten me to that patience to let others speak contenting my self to think Looking upon the eagerness of some men to confute all untruths that appear abroad as a relick of Knight-Errantry which obliged the Knights to redress all the wrongs that were done in the world But my patience was overcome by the bold and pernicious untruths vented in a Libel tending to no less then the rooting out of Protestants out of all States
with his whole power against Queen Elizabeth and had raised a great Army for that expedition But when Stukely came to Sebastian he found him possess'd with a new project to help a Moor King of Fez against another King who kept him out of possession and to get the Kingdome from them both To that War he invited Stukely promising that presently after that work done which he represented to him most easie they should go together to the War against England and Ireland So they sailed over into Africa where Sebastian and his whole Army were destroyed and with him Stukely and the Popes Italian Souldiers were cut in pieces A deliverance of England ever to be remembred with praise and admiration So let thine enemies perish O Lord. This Pope had a great hand in that unparallelled villany wrought by the marriage of Henry King of Navarra with the Sister of Charles the IX of France A marriage which Pius the V. would never consent unto by reason of their difference in Religion But when his Successor Gregory the XIII was told by the Cardinall of Lorrain that this marriage was intended as a trap to destroy Henry and his Protestant party he presently gave his dispensation for the celebrating of it and encouraged the design The horrible massacre which attended the jollity of that marriage was received at Thuanus Rome with triumphant expressions of publick joy And Cardinal Vrsin was sent Legat into France to praise the Kings piety and wisdom in that great action and to bestow blessings and spiritual graces upon the King and the Actors of that fearful Tragedy The Court of Rome might well praise what themselves had procured if not contrived and truly the plot hath an Italian garb and looks not like a production of the French soil Not long after this Pope sent to Henry the III. of France and to his people Indulgences for millions of years which were to be obtained by making processions to four Churches in Paris and by being zealous and diligent in the extirpation of heresies that is in his style to extermine the Protestants The male line of the Kings of Portugal being extinct this Pope laid a claim to the Kingdome as depending from the holy See and would have the Nation to have taken Arms for him against the heirs from the females But his claim was hissed out with great scorn In the year 1580. this Pope sent an Italian called San Iosepho with some Italian Troops into Ireland to joyn with the Irish Rebells When they were demanded by a message from the Lord Deputy who they were and what they came for they answered Some that they were sent by the most holy Father the Pope and some from the Catholick King of Spain to whom the Pope had given Ireland because Queen Elizabeth had justly forfeited her Title to Ireland by her heresie A doctrine which at the same time was preach'd in England and Ireland by Jesuites and other Seminary Priests with great boldness and vehemency till the Queen and her Councell perceiving what danger the State was running into by these mens activeness and impunity Campian and some others sent by the Pope on that errand were apprehended And being examined they obstinately defended the Popes authority over the Queen and maintained that she was no Queen as being lawfully deposed by the Pope upon which they were condemned and executed That Crown of Martyrdom the Pope procured to his Confessors And the greater the number is of those Martyrs that the Papists muster the more they exaggerate the Popes cruelty to his truest Vassalls For could the Pope expect that persons sent to perswade the people to dispossess and kill their Sovereign should have other dealing from the hand of Justice The principal Article of the late Papal Creed is that which Pius the V. sets forth in his Bull against the Queen that God hath made the Bishop of Rome Prince over all people and all Kingdoms But the English Papists are taught that besides that general right over all Kingdomes the Pope hath a peculiar right over England and Ireland as his proper Dominions This is Bellarmins doctrine which he hath made bold to maintain unto King James himself The King Bellarm. lib. cui Titulus Tortus pag. 19. Rex Anglorum duplici jure subjectus est Papae uno communi omnibus Christianis ratione Apostolicae potestatis quae in omnes extenditur juxta illud Ps 44. Constitues eos Principes super omnem terram Altero proprio ratione recti dominii of England saith he is subject to the Pope by double right The one by reason of his Apostolick power which extends over all men according to that Charter Ps 44. Thou shalt establish them Princes over all the earth The other proper by a right dominion Then he pleadeth that England and Ireland are the Churches dominions the Pope the direct Lord and the King his Vassal This then being become an Article of Religion in which the English Papists are instructed and this in consequence that if the Pope disallow the King he is no more King of England but an Usurper and must be used accordingly Let any man judge who hath some equity and freedome of judgement left whether a prudent Prince and Council of State ought to suffer such an instruction to be given to the people Truly the more Religion is pretended for that doctrine and the practice of Rebellion obtruded as a commandement of the Church the more it concernes the loyal Magistrate to oppose it vigorously Pope Sixtus the V. to favour the enterprise of Philip the II. upon England renewed the Excommunication of Queen Elizabeth pronounced by Pius the V. deprived her verbo tenus of her Kingdome absolved her subjects from all Allegiance to her and published a Croisada against her as against the Turk giving plenary Indulgence to all that would make warre against her But the Popes Curses provoked Gods blessings upon the Queen who might say as David when Shimei cursed him The Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day All the storms raised against England were blown over without harme The great preparations of Spain served onely to disable it and secure England And the many attempts against the Queens life upon that Bull contributed to her safety by manifesting to the World the wickednesse of Rome and the pernicious effects of the Roman principles For which I might produce the Examinations and Confessions of many that suffered for attempting to murther the Queen but I will bring but one for all William Parry acknowledged that he had promis'd at Rome to kill the Queen about which he was most troubled in his conscience till he lighted upon Dr. Allens book which taught that Princes excommunicate for heresie were to be deprived of Kingdome and life Which book saith he did vehemently excite me to prosecute my attempt This Popes Excommunications had more effect in France for after that he had excommunicated King Henry the
quarrel of which something must be said before he and I part For Paraeus we are against him about the point of obedience as much as our Adversary His son seeing what Philip. Paraeus Append. ad Rom. 13. Loquitur D. parens meus cum Politicis Iurisconsultis non de Rege absoluta potestate induto sed sub conditione admisso Pag. 23. general opposition his Doctrine found among the Protestants and that the Book was burnt in England by authority made this excuse for his father Valeat quantum valere potest My father speaks with the Politicks and Iurisconsults not of a King invested with absolute power but admitted upon conditions Paraeus considerd not how the world was abroad but how it was in his countrey The Adversary quarrelleth also with Gracerus but hath nothing else to say against him but that he is against the Antichrist Coercenda gladio est Antichristi ambitio which he expounds thus That Antichristian ambition is to be cut off with the sword that is all Princes and Prelates It seems the man taketh part with Antichrist since he taxeth Gracerus for being against him But that Gracerus would cut off Princes and Prelates because he would repress the ambition of Antichrist is a great inconsequence Observe this Gentlemans learning the Verb coercere signifieth repress which is a modest term of Gracerus But our Adversary translates it cut off shewing himself to be as great a scholar in Latine as he approved himself to be in Greek when he translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an eloquent Oration And that his head is much like that upon a clipt sixpence it is a little head without letters His objection of the rebellious Maxims of some Scots Pag. 47 seq as Knox and Buchanan is now stale and out of season since they have been generally condemned and exploded by Protestants both on this and the other side of Rivet Castiga Not. in Epist ad Balsac cap. 13. num 14. sub finem the sea The judgement of the learned Rivet to this purpose is ingenuous and prudent that these things must be imputed to the hot and audacious brains of the Scots then heated again by persecution Let me adde that when the persecution was pretty well overcome they were kept in their heat by sharp contention There being then a Royal Bastard who pretending that his Father had once a designe to make him King followed that designe very close yet closely raising all the troubles he could against the Kings Widow and his legitimate Heir for which the difference of Religion happening about that time gave him fair play for all his ambitious projects were cloaked with the furtherance of the cause of the Gospel This was the man that countenanced that divinity of rebellion Which that it may not be imputed to the Religion I desire all judicious heads maturely to ponder Dr. Rivet's wise observation That the Scots of a hundred and five Kings which they reckon till Queen Mary had deposed three expelled five and killed thirty five I demand then whether all those excesses must be imputed to the doctrine and zeal of Religion If so let the Roman Catholicks look how they shall defend their Religion which then was prevalent But if that must be imputed to the bold and stirring Genius of the Nation why shall the troubles risen under the Queen Regent of Scotland and her daughter Mary be ascribed to Religion and Reformation supposed the cause not the occasion by the managing of crafty self-seeking men of the distempers of the State and the intemperance of pens Yea it shall be found as Dr. Rivet observeth and we find it now that the light of the Evangelical truth did very much mitigate the fierceness of the Nation and that those disorders as turbulent as they were are not comparable to those that were in former times in Scotland which as we are too ingenuous to ascribe to the Religion of those dayes the Papists ought to shew the like ingenuity about the excesses of wits and swords since the coming of the Reformation It were to no purpose to follow all the objections of this Gentleman out of Protestant Writers since whether they be well or ill alledged our belief is not ingaged in their ill opinions nor our reputation concerned in the wrong done to them by perverse and unfaithfull allegations I have discovered so many of them that the Reader may well mistrust his other citations If all were as they are represented they are but so many Doctours opinions strengthened with no approbation of persons authorized for it And to speak after our Most Excellent King JAMES in his Defense of the right of Kings I would not defend all that some private men could say It is enough that in our Religion there is no rule to be found that prescribeth rebellion nor any thing that dispenseth subjects from the oath of their allegiance nor any of our Churches that receive that abominable doctrine This is spoken with a Royal brevity and an imperious weight which both confutes all objections in that kind and together silently retorts upon the Roman Catholicks that among them they have rules that prescribe rebellion and an authority dispensing from the oath of allegiance and that their Church is commanded to receive that abominable doctrine Blessed be God our doctrine about the point of obedience never gave yet jealousie to Kings though of contrary Religion Whereas the Sovereign Courts of the same Princes have expelled the Jesuites for teaching and practising the murther of Kings and condemned the Popes Bulls to be torn for sowing rebellion among the people Is it not a matter for no lesse patience then that of God to see those that teach rebellion by the publick expresse laws of the head of their Church now to charge our Churches with rebellion for some words of private men either falsly imputed unto them or disallowed by the generality of the Protestant Churches Is it for him that hath cut the purse to cry stop the thief Must the Doctors of high treason lay an action of rebellion against us in effect because we will not be rebels with them and acknowledge a King above our King for when all is said that is the ground of the quarrel and we can buy our peace with them at no other rate But before I lay the charge against them at which I long to be I must make an end of answering the charge which they lay against us CHAP. II. Whether the Reformation of Religion ought to be charged with Rebellion Reflections upon the actions of the Protestant party THe Charge of Rebellion which the Adversary layeth against us consisteth in two things The Doctrine of our Divines and the actions of our party especially in the beginnings of the Reformation I have answered the first part of the Charge and shewed that either the Charge is false or it is nothing to us because we have no dependance upon the Authors charged with it
suturi licitum habeant sine Rebellionis aut Infidelitatis crimine resistendi ac contradicendi nobis Successoribus nostris Romanorum Regibus vel Imperatoribus in perpetuam libertatem Caesarea anno 1356. Whereby if the Emperour or the King of the Romans violate any of the Rights of the Subject established by that Capitulation It is declared to be lawfull for the Electors Princes Prelates Nobles and Commons either jointly or severally to resist them without crime of Rebellion or Infidelity Three hundred and fifty years before that a German Pope Gregory V. had brought in the Institution of the Electors as the Centuriators of Magdeburg report But Aventinus and Onuphrius more credibly make it of later date after the death of Frederick II. whom Pope Innocent IV. had persecuted to death and the Empire being much weakned by the loss of that great Emperour to weaken him more yet either Innocent IV. or his Successor Alexander III. procured seven perpetual Electors whose Interest should be to keep alwaies the Emperours low to keep themselves high Since that time the Emperours Authority in many parts of Germany is little more then a title and a respect without power for the Electors may both elect and depose him They and the other Princes of the Empire govern their Signories and pay nothing to him but homage And the Cities called Imperial are they that have the greatest exemptions from the Imperial Lawes Wherefore the exclamations of the Adversaries about the resistance of the Elector of Saxony with other Princes of the Empire and some Imperial Cities against the Emperour and about the words of German Divines or Jurists to that purpose are very ignorantly or maliciously urged as rebellious for neither the words nor the actions of those Germans ought to be weighed in the balance of the duty of other subjects to their absolute Sovereignes Luther who was always very rigid for the subjection of every soul to the higher powers and had written a book expresly of that subject had much ado to be perswaded to consent to a confederacy of defensive arms against the Emperour who being set on by the Court of Rome oppressed the liberties of Germany and to suppress the growing Reformation took more cognizance of cases belonging to the jurisdiction of the Princes and cities of the Empire then he was allowed by the authentical capitulations till the learned in the Law satisfied him about the Statutes of his Countrey and his reason and conscience shewed him that the Apostle commanding Christians to submit themselves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake requireth of them an obedience proportioned to the constitutions of the States of which they are members Of that consultation Sleidan giveth this account Before they made the confederacy Sleidan Hist lib. 8. ad an 1531. Priusquam soedus iniretur in consilium adhibiti sunt non Iurisconsulti modo sed Theologi quoque Lutherus enim semper docuerat Magistratui non esse resistendum exstabat ejus ea de re libellus Cum autem in hac deliberatione periti juris docerent legibus esse permissum resistere nonnunquam nunc in eum casum de quo leges inter alia mentionem faciunt rem esse deductam ostenderent Lutherus ingenue profitetur se nescivisse hoc licere Et quia leges Politicas Evangelium non impugnat aut aboleat uti semper docuerit Deinde quoniam hoc tempore tam dubio tamque formidoloso multa possint accidere sic ut non modo jus ipsum sed conscientiae quoque vis atque necessitas arma nobis porrigat defensionis causa foedus iniri posse dicit five Caesar ipse sive quis alius forte bellum ejus nomine saciat they called to counsel not onely Jurists but Divines also For Luther had taught alwayes that the Magistrate must not be resisted and a book of his concerning that subject was extant But when in that consultation the learned in law shewed that it was permitted by the laws to resist sometimes and demonstrated that at that time their business was come to that very case of which the laws make mention among other things Luther did ingeniously profess that he knew not that it was lawfull And because the Gospel doth not impugne or abolish the Politick laws as he had alwayes taught Also because the time being so perillous and full of terrour many things might happen which would put the armes in our hands not onely by the prescript of the law but by the force of conscience and necessity he declared his opinion that a defensive League might justly be made whether the Emperour himself or any other in his name should make war against us While they were thus met at Smalcald the Emperour sent letters to them not to condemn or dissolve their meeting as a King of England or France would have done for he knew that by the laws they might meet to look to their common interest without him yea and against him But to charge the Protestants to send help against the Turk who was advancing with a great army towards Germany The Protestants answered that because the Emperour would grant them no peace at home nor suspension of the decree of confiscation against their estates for their Religion and that they were in daily expectation of proscription and hostile dealing from him they could not cut off their own sinews and lay themselves open to his hostility to help him against a foreign enemy But if he would make all fiscal proceedings for the matter of Religion to surcease till the time of the promised Councel and grant them peace and safety at home they would not onely assist him against the Turk with all their power but serve him in all the publick interests to which their duty bound them And this is that confederâ—… 〈…〉 which the Adversary cryeth down as the â—pâ—… 〈…〉 â—…rn of Rebellion from that time to our days how 〈…〉 the equitable Reader judge If it be objected that this abridging of the Emperours power was wrongfully got from him I will grant it It was jus quod coepit ab injuria a right that began by wrong yet confirmed by the Emperours with authentical Charters and strengthened by long prescription The Emperour may thank the Popefor it who having an ancient jealousie of the Imperial rights in Italy and not able to suffer any King of the Romans but themselves have powerfully laboured for many ages to break the Emperours power every where And it was by their practises that the constitution of the Electors and the Golden Bull was made and those great immunities given to the Princes of the Empire and Imperial Cities whereby the Emperour is remained a manacled Prince so unable in most parts of the Empire to stretch his hands upon the meanest persons that trouble him that he could never so much as secure Luther a poor Monk though urged to it by the most powerfull and irresistible sollicitations
it is lawful for any person or upon any pretence of Tyranny to kill Kings and Princes Was it not time think ye to forbid teaching so any more when they had been expelled for it out of France and made the objects of the publick execration But how grosse is their fraud in that order Do they forbid their Society to believe so By no means but to teach so Neither will they have it lawful for any person to kill Kings but to such as are commissioned for it Neither will they have the execution done upon any pretence of tyranny but onely upon the definitive Sentence of the Pope or the States And how are the lives of Kings and Princes more secure then before by their declaring that it is not lawful to kill Kings and Princes seeing that in their account they are no more Kings and Princes when they are once excommunicated and deposed by the Pope The Adversary alledgeth also the Council of Constance which condemneth the doctrine of killing tyrants as erroneous But if this Gentleman be a true Papist and hold that the Pope is Mariana lib. 2. cas 6. p. 62. Id decretum Romano Pontifici Martino V. probatum non invenio non Eugenio aut successoribus quorum consensu Conciliorum Ecclesiasticorum sanctitas stat praesertim quod non sine Ecclesiae motu tricipiti Pontificum dissidio de summo Pontificatu contendentium celebratum fuisse scimus above the Council he shall make nothing of that Councils Authority seeing that it is not liked by the Popes for we learn of Mariana that neither Martin the V. then elected nor Eugenius nor his Successors approve it and he disgraceth it as assembled in a tumultuous time when there were three Popes reigning together But the truth is That the Decree of that Councell is rather against the safety of Kings For the case propounded to the Councel by Gerson was not about the murther of Sovereigne Princes but about the killing of a great Officer of the Crown who ruleth tyrannically and exalts himself above his King for John Duke of Burgundy who had killed Lewis Duke of Orleans pretended him to have been a Tyrant in that kinde If then such Tyrants be declared inviolable persons by the Councel the Councel by its authority guards them against the attempts of loyal subjects and strengthneth them against their King Suarez goeth another way to work to elude the authority Suarez in Keg Mag. Brit. lib. 6. cap. 4. sect 20. Vbileget Rex in Concilio Constantiensi particulam illam Principis per Papam excommunicati vel deprivati aut illam per suos subditos aut alios quoscunque of that Decree saying to our Most Excellent King James That the Council of Constance forbids not the killing of a King excommunicated by the Pope for indeed that was not the case agitated in the Council And now we are upon Suarez we will set down here one of his golden sentences to this purpose If saith he under the word of Excommunication Ejusdem lib. cap. 6. sect 24. Si sub voce excommunicationis comprehendatur depositio diffidatio quae per sententiam cononicam interdum fit sic veritatem continere illam propositionem Regem excommunicatum impune deponi vel occidi quibuscunque posse you comprehend deposition and devesting a Prince of his right which somtimes is done by a canonical sentence then there is truth in that proposition that a King excommunicated may be deposed or slain by any persons whatsoever impunedly The Adversary concludeth his justification of the Jesuites by alledging the Decree of Sorbon against the doctrine of King-killing and the Arrest of the Parliament of Paris against the book of Mariana What style must be given to this mans confidence Could he presume so much upon the Readers ignorance as to bring that for the Jesuites which is most against them Who knows not that the Decree of Sorbon was directly made against the Jesuites as the assertors of the doctrine of King-killing Who knows not that the Arrest of Parliament which condemneth Mariana's book to the fire blasteth expresly the doctrine and the sect of the Jesuites If he say that he brings that to clear the Roman Religion he changeth the question for he had undertaken to defend the Jesuites And these allegations are for us who desire to shew to the world that many Professors of the Roman Religion abhor these principles overcome by the evidence of honest truth and therefore are not true Papists since their belief is not ruled by the Head of the Roman Faith in the point which most neerly concerneth his power and grandeur This Gentleman might be ashamed to alledge the Sorbon if he knoweth what Decree was made by them Apr. 4. 1626. against the book of the Jesuite Santarel and the Jesuitical doctrine of King-killing A Decree confirmed the 8. of May following by the University of Paris After these Allegations wherewith this Gentleman cuts the throat of his cause with his own sword Judge page 96. ye what reason he hath to cry up By this time I hope the tempest is pretty well laid But he must have a little more of that tempest about his ears And having so marred his own market and given me occasion to lay open the iniquity of his sect he must labour once more to satisfie divers of his good friends whom he hath found ibid. scandalized at the Fathers of the Society for protecting so villanous and treasonable a Thesis If now I bring upon the scaffold some more of their most notorious expressions and actions they may not blame me as I do them for charging the whole party with the faults of particulars For whereas this Gentleman chargeth the generality of the Protestants with the opinions of Knox and Paraeus I charge not all the Roman Catholicks with these villanous doctrines and actions but only the Court of Rome and the Jesuites These two I put together for all that the Jesuites have taught or done to promote rebellion and high Treason was undertaken to advance the Court of Rome and by a particular influence from that Court whose especial favourites and most devoted champions they are Since this Gentleman stands upon the sentence of the Court of Parliament of Paris let him hear that great man Achilles de Harlay the first President of that Venerable Court who when King Henry the IV. of France after long sollicitations of the Court of Rome was perswaded to recall the Iesuites banished before out of the Kingdome made an Oration to disswade him from it That Oration is related by Thuanus another President of that Court who was then present There that vertuous Achilles represents to the King the doctrine of the Iesuites which is That the Pope Thuanus Hist lib. 130. ad ann 1604. Iesuitae docent Pontisicem jus habere Reges extra communionem Ecclesiae ponandi excommunicatum Regem tyrannum esse subditos impune contra eum