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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57374	A discovrse of the originall and fundamentall cause of naturall, customary, arbitrary, voluntary and necessary warre with the mystery of invasive warre : that ecclesiasticall prelates, have alwayes beene subject to temporall princes ... / by Sir Walter Rawleigh ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R158; ESTC R9599	18,812	70

which pronounced that Oath voyde Good cause why For that King had the patience to live like neither Knight nor King But as the Popes Tenant and Rent-gatherer of England But when the same King adventured to murmure the Pope could threaten to teach him his duty with a vengeance And make him know what it was to winch and play the Fredericke Thus we see what hath been his Custome to oppresse Kings by their people And the people by their Kings yet this was for serving his owne turne Wherein had our King Henry the sixt offended him which King Pope Iulius would after for a little money have made a Saint Neverthelesse the Popes absolving of Rich Duke of Yorke from that honest oath which he had given by mediation of all the Land to that good King occasioned both the Dukes and the Kings ruine And therewithal those long and cruell Wars betweene the Houses of Lancaster and Yorke and brought all England into an horrible Combustion What he meant by this I know not unlesse to verifie the Proverbe Omnia Romae venalia I will not urge the dispensation whereby the Pope released King Philip the second of Spaine from the solemne Oath by which he was bound to maintaine the priviledges of the Netherlands though this Papall indulgence hath scarce as yet left working And been the cause of so many hundred thousands slaine for this last forty years in the Netherlands Neither will I urge the Pope encouraging of Henry the second and his sons to the last of them against the French Protestants the cause of the first three Civill Warres And lastly of the Leavyings of Byrons in which there hath perished no lesse number then in the Low-Countryes For our Country it affords an example of fresh memory since we should have had as furious Warre as ever both upon us and amongst us in the daies of our late famous Soveraigne Queene Elizabeth if Pope Pius his Bull Could have gored aswell as it could Bellow Therefore it were not amisse to answer by a Herald the next Pontificall attempt of like nature rather sending defiance as to an enemy then publishing answers as to one that had here to doe though indeed he had never here to doe by any lawfull power either in Civill or Ecclesiasticall businesse after such time as Brittaine was won from the Romane Empire For howsoever it were ordered in some of the first holy generall Councills that the Bishop of Rome should be Patriarch over these quarters yea or it were supposed that the forged Canons by which he now challengeth more then precedency and primacie had also been made indeed yet could this little help his claime in Kingdomes that hold not of the Empire For those right holy Fathers as in matters of Faith they did not make truth But religiously expounded it so in matters of Ecclesiasticall Government they did not create provinces for themselves But ordered the Countries which they then had They were assemblies of all the Bishops in the Romane world and with the Romane dominion only they medled Requisite it is that the faith which they taught should be imbraced in all Countryes As it ought likewise to be entertained if the same had been in like sort illustrated not by them but by a generall Councill of all Bishops in the great Kingdome of the Abissines which is thought to have been Christian even in those daies But it was not requisite nor is that the Bishops of Abissines or of India should live under direction of the Patriarch of Alexandria and Antioch Questionlesse those godly Fathers of the Nicene And of the Calcedonian Councill so thought For they tooke not upon them to order the Church Government in India where St. Thomas had preached nor to range the Subjects of Prester Iohn as we call him under any of themselves much lesse to frame an Hierarchie upon earth whereto men of all Nations whatsoever should be subject in Spirituall obedience If Constantine or his Successors the Romane Emperours could have wonne all Asia like it is that in Councils following more Patriarchs would have been ordeined for the Ecclesiasticall Government of that large continent and not all those vast Countryes have beene left unto him of Antioch or Constantinople But since contrariwise the Empire became looser the Patriarchs whose Jurisdiction depended upon the Empire become loosers also We grant that even in the times of persecution before Christian Bishops durst hold open assemblies there was given especiall honour to the Bishops that were over the chiefe Cities That unity might the better be preserved and heresie kept out of the Church But this honour was no more then a precedence a dignity without Coactive power extending no further then to matter of Religion And not having to doe save in the generall way of Christian love with any strangers We therefore that are no dependants of the Empire ought not to be troubled with the authority be it what it may be with any assemblies of godly Fathers yet all Subjects of that Empire ordeined for their owne better Government But rather should regard the Bishop of Rome As the Islanders of Iersey and Garnsey doe him of Constance in Normandie that is nothing at all since by that French Bishops refusall to sweare unto our King those Isles were annexed to the Diocesse of Winchester FINIS Gen. Cap. 1. ver. 28. Generall History Lib. 2. Cap. 2. 28. S. 4. T. 3. First Warre Second Warre Anno Domini 1569. Anno. 1573.