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A63805 A dissvvasive from popery to the people of Ireland By Jeremy Lord Bishop of Dovvn. Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. 1664 (1664) Wing T319; ESTC R219157 120,438 192

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Clement the V. condemn'd the Order o● Knights Templers he disown'd any justice or right in doing it but stuck to his power Quanquam de jure non possumus tamen ex plenitudine potestatis dictum ordinem reprobamus that is though by right we cannot do it yet by the fullness of power we condemn the said Order For he can dispense alwayes and in all things where there is cause and in many things where there is no cause fed sub majori pretio under a greater price said the Tax of the Datary where the price of the several dispensations even in causa turpi in base and filthy causes are set down Intranti nummo quasi quodam Principe summo Exiliunt valvae nihil auditur nisi salve Nay the Pope can dispense supra jus contra jus above Law and against Law and right said Mosconius in his Books of the Majesty of the Militant Church For the Popes Tribunal and Gods is but one and therefore every reasonable Creature is subject to the Popes Empire said the same Author And what Dispensations he usually gives we are best inform'd by a gloss of their own upon the Canon Law Nota mirabile quod cum eo qui peccat Dispensatur cum illo autem qui non peccat non Dispensatur It is a wonderful thing that they should dispense with a Fornicator but not with him who marries after the death of his first Wife * They give Divorces for Marriages the fourth degree and give Dispensation to Marry in the second These things are a sufficient charge and yet evidently so and publickly owned We need not aggravate this matter by what Panormitan and others do say that the Pope hath power to dispense in all the Laws of God except the Articles of Faith and how much of this they own and practice needs no greater instance than that which Volaterran tells of Pope Innocent the VIII that he gave the Norvegians a Dispensation not only to communicate but to consecrate in Bread only As the Pope by his Dispensations undertakes to dissolve the Ordinances of God so also the most solemn Contracts of Men Of which a very great instance was given by Pope Clement the VII who dispensed with the Oath which Francis the I. of France solemnly swore to Charles the V. Emperour after the battel of Pa●y and gave him leave to be perjur'd And one of the late Popes dispenc'd with the Bastard Son of the Conde D' Olivarez or rather plainly dissolv'd his Marriage which he made and consummated with Isabella D' Azueta whom he had publickly Married when he was but a mean person the Son of Donna Marguerita Spinola and under the name of Iulian Va●easar But when the Conde had declar'd him his Son and Heir the Pope dissolv'd the first Marriage and gave him leave under the name of Henry Philip de Guzman to Marry D. Iuana de Valesco Daughter to the Constable of Castile And now if it be considered what influence these Doctrines have upon Societies and Communities of Men they will need no further reproof than a meer enumeration of the mischiefs they produce They by this means legitimate adulterous and incestuous Marriages and disanul lawful Contracts They give leave to a Spouse to break his or her Vow and Promise and to Children to disobey their Parents and perhaps to break their Mothers heart or to undo a Family No words can bind your Faith because you can be dispenc'd with and if you swear you will not procure a Dispensation you can as well be dispenc'd with for that Perjury as the other and you cannot be tied so fast but the Pope can unloose you So that there is no certainty in your Promise to God or Faith to Men in Judicatories to Magistrates or in Contracts with Merchants in the Duty of Children to their Parents of Husbands to their Wives or Wives to their contracted Husbands of a Catholick to a Heretick and last of all a Subject to his Prince cannot be bound so strictly but if the Prince be not of the Popes persuasion or be by him judg'd a Tyrant his Subjects shall owe him no Obedience But this is of particular consideration and reserv'd for the III. Sect. SECT II. THere is yet another instance by which the Church of Rome does intollerable prejudice to Governments and Societies In which although the Impiety is not so apparent yet the Evil is more own'd and notorious and defended and that is the Exemption of their Clergy from the Jurisdiction of Secular Princes and Magistrates both in their Estates and Persons Not onely in the matters of Simony Heresie and Apostasie but in matters of Theft Perjury Murther Adultery Blasphemy and Treason In which Cases they suffer not a Clergy-man to be judged by the Secular Power untill the Church hath quit him and turn'd him over and given them leave too proceed This was verified in the Synod of Dalmatia held by the Legats of Pope Innocent the III. and is now in the Church of Rome pretended to be by Divine Right For it cannot be proved that Secular Princes are the Lawful Superiours and Iudges of Clergy-men unless it can be prov'd that the Sheep are better than the Shepherd or Soxs than their Fathers or Temporals than Spirituals said Bellarmine And therefore it is a shame sayes he to see Princes contending with Bishops for Precedency or for Lands For the truth is this what ever the custom be the Prince is the Bishops Subject not the Bishop the Princes For no man can serve two Masters the Pope is their own Superiour and therefore the Secular Prince cannot be So both Bellarmine and Suarez conclude this Doctrine out of Scripture And although in this as in all things else when he finds it for the advantage of the Church the Pope can dispense and divers Popes of Rome did give power to the Common-wealth of Venice to judge Clergy-men and punish them for great Offences yet how ill this was taken by Paulus V. at their hands and what stirrs he made in Christendome concerning it the World was witness and it is to be read in the History of the Venetian Interdict and not without great difficulty defended by Marcus Antonius Peregrinus M. Antonius Othelius and Ioachim Scaynus of Padua beside the Doctors of Venice Now if it be considered how great a part of mankind in the Roman Communion are Clergy-men and how great a portion of the Lands and Revenues in each Kingdom they have to pretend a Divine Right of Exemption of their Persons from Secular Judicatories and their Lands from Secular burthens and charges of the Common-wealth is to make Religion a very little friend to the Publick and Causes that by how much there is more of Religion by so much there is the less of Piety and Publick Duty Princes have many times felt the Evil and are alwayes subject to it when so many thousand persons are in their Kingdoms