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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20647	Pseudo-martyr Wherein out of certaine propositions and gradations, this conclusion is euicted. That those which are of the Romane religion in this kingdome, may and ought to take the Oath of allegiance.	Donne, John, 1572-1631.	1610 (1610)	STC 7048; ESTC S109984	230,344	434

That is that the seales and instruments of Gods grace the Sacraments are in the dispensing of the Clergy as temporall blessings are in the Prince and his lawes strictly and properly though concurrently both in both for the execution of the most spirituall function of the priest as it is circumstanced with time and place and such is ordinarily from the Prince ● But we are a litle affraid that by a literall and punctuall acceptation of this comparison we may giue way to that Supremacy which they affect ouer Princes because their Sepulueda saith That the soule doth exercise ouer the body Herile Imperium vt Dominus in seruum● and so by this insinuation should the pope doe ouer the prince 25 Howsoeuer in their first institution Popes were meere Soules and purely spirituall yet as the purest Soule becomes stain'd and corrupt with sinne assoone as it touches the body so haue they by entring into secular businesse contracted all the corruptions and deformities thereof and now transferre this originall disease into their successours And as in the second Nicene Councell● when the Bishop of Thessalonica a●err'd it to be the opinion of Basil Athanasius and Methodius and the Vniuersall Church that Angels and Soules were not meerely incorporeall but had bodies● The Councell in a prudent con●i●enc●e fo●bore to oppose any thing against that asseueration because it facilitated their purpose then of making Pictures and representations of Spirits though Binius now vpon that place say his Assertion was false and iniurious to the Church So though in true Diuinitie the Pope is meerely spiritual yet to enable him to depose Princes they will inuest and organize him with bodily and secular Iurisdiction and auerre that all the Fathers and all the Catholicke Church were euer of that opinion For the Pope will not now be a meere Soule and Spirit but Spiritualis homo qui iudicat omnia a nemine iudicatur For so a late writer stiles him and by that place of Scripture enables him to depose Princes No● will this serue but he must be also spirit●alis Princeps of which we shall hereaf●er haue occasion to speake 26 And as a cunning Artificer can produce greater effects vpon matter conueniently dispos'd thereunto then nature could haue done as a Statuarie can make an Image which the Timber and the Axe could neuer haue ef●ected without him And as the Magicians in Egypt could make liuing Creatures by applying and suggesting Passiue things to Actiue which would neuer haue met but by their mediation So after this Soule is entred into this Body this spirituall Iurisdiction into this temporall it produces such effects as neither pow●r alone could worke nor they naturally would vnite and combine themselues to that end if they were not thus compressed and throng'd together like wind in a Caue Such are the thunders of vniust Excommunications and the great Earthquakes of trans●er●ing Kingdomes 27 And these vsurpations of your Priests haue deseru'd that that stygmaticall note should still l●e vpon them which your Canons retaine That all euill proceedes from Priests For though Manriqe whom Sixtus the fift employ'd had remooued that glosse yet Faber to whom Gregorie the thirteenth committed the suruey of the Canons re●aines it still And if the Text be of better credit then the glosse the Text hath auerred Saint Hieromes words That searching ancient Histories he cannot find that any did rent the Church● and seduce the people from the house of God but those which were placed by God as Priests and Prophets that is Ouersee●s for these are turnd into winding Snares and lay scandals in euery place 28 Euen the Name of King presents vs an argument of pure and absolute and independant Authori●ie● for it e●presses immediatly and radically his Office of gouerning wher●s the name of Bishop hath a metaphorica●l and similitudinarie deriuation and being before Christianitie applied to Officers which had the ouerseeing of others but yet with relation to Superiours to whom they were to giue an account deuolu'd conueniently vpon such Prelates as had the ouerseeing of the inferiour Clergie but yet gaue them no acquitance and discharge of their dueties to the Prince 29 And God hath dignified many races of Kings with many markes and impressions of his power For by such an influence and infusion our kings cure a di●ease by touch and so doe the French Kings worke vpon the same infirmitie And it is said that the kings of Spaine cure all Daemoniaque and possessed persons And if it bee thought greater that the Pope cures spirituall Leprosies and lamenesses of sinne his Office therein is but accessorie and subsequent and after an Angel hath troubled our waters and put vs into the Poole that is after we are troubled and anguished for our sinnes and after we haue washed our selues often in the riuer Iordan in our tea●es and in our Sauiours blood vpon the Crosse and in the Sacrament then is his Office to distinguish betweene Leaper and Leaper and pronounce who is clensed which all his Priests could doe as well as he if he did not Monopolize our sinnes by reseruations 30 And this is as much as seemes to me needfull to bee said of their auiling Magistracy in respect of Priesthood for for vs priuate men it must content vs to be set one 〈◊〉 higher then dogges for so they say in their Missall cases that if any of the consecrated wine fall downe the Priest or his assistant ought to licke it vp but if they be not prepar'd any Lay-man may be admitted to licke it least the dogge should And of the comparison of these two great functions● Principality and Priesthood I will say no more least the malignity of any mis-interpreter might throw these aspersions which I lay vppon persons vpon the Order And therefore since we haue sufficiently obserued how neare approaches to Priest hood the Christian Emperours haue iustly made and thereby seene the iniustice of the Romane Church in deiecting Princes so farre vnder it we will now descend to the second way by which they debase Princes and derogate from their authority 31 For it is not onely in comparisons with Priesthood that the Romane writers diminish secular dignity but simply and absolutely when they make the Title and Iurisdiction of a king so smoakie a thing that it must euaporate and vanish away by any lightning of the popes Breues or censures except they will all yeeld to build vp his Monarchy and make him heyre to euery kingdome as he pretends to be to the Empire for of that saith a Iesuite now there is no more controuersie And if the electors dissagree in their election then the election belongs to him And whether they agree or no this forme of Election is to continue but so long as the Church shall thinke it expedient And if he had such title to all the rest that Monarchie might in a vaster proportion extend