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A04988	A Catholicke apologie against the libels, declarations, aduices, and consultations made, written, and published by those of the League, perturbers of the quiet estate of the realme of France Who are risen since the decease of the late Monsier, the Kings onely brother. By E.D.L.I.C.; Apologie catholique. English	Belloy, Pierre de, ca. 1540-1613.; Aggas, Edward, attributed name.	1585 (1585)	STC 15137; ESTC S108196	138,975	314

assignation for his accusers before the Imperiall Maiestie The Emperour Honorius appointed the Prouost Marcellus for Iudge Arbitrator betwene the Catholickes and Donatistes Dulcius also was Prouost of the Empire who at the pursuit of the Catholickes was enioyned to make vp the processe of the said Donatistes in Affricke as Sainct Augustin doth report and they required to haue them condemmed by his ordenaunces as testifieth Gratian in his decree wherein in an other place is written the opiniō of Pope Pelagius importing that it were meete that hereticks were punished by the seculer power according to which reason Sainct Austen also doth testifie that the Emperour Valentinian sent the Prouost Dalmatius vnto him to assigne him in his priuie Counsaile So as we are not to doubt but that the punishment of heretickes apperteyneth to the Princes temporall Iurisdiction who by his decrees hath limited the punishments which they may deserue 20 In deede it is the duetie of the Priestes and Bishops to know and withall to declare by the holy Scriptures together with the iudgement of the vniuersal Church who it is that hath transgressed the will of God and being a Christian hath departed or disunited himselfe from the body of the Church Those bee the true kayes of heauen which God hath put into their handes and the two Swordes that they beare whereby the Priest sheweth and poynteth out such as are soluti vel legati ab Ecclesia wherein onely consisteth his power to bind or lose in heauen as S. Hierome doth very well note in his opening of y ● place of Sainct Mathewe which concerneth this authoritie as also the Maister of Sentences is of the same opinion neither is this power so small that the faithfull Christians should contemne it For without doubt sinne proceedeth of offence and so immediatly is brought in the bond that thereby we make to Gods enemie which vnlesse we doe reuoke we must of necessitie be driuen out of the Church and as rotten members of the same be giuen ouer to Satan Neuerthelesse he who by contrition for his sinnes and confession of the same will reclayme himselfe doth immediatly recouer three benefites repugnant to the other which are forgiuenesse of sinnes the cancelling and discharge of the Obligation made vnto the deuill and reconsiliation to the Catholicke Church wherein consisteth the true penance that the Priest or Bishop doth minister and enioine vs by vertue of his authoritie to binde or lose in heauen or in earth So as it is euident that the order of Priesthood and Ecclesiastical power hath euermore bene necessary in the Church of God to keepe teach and maintaine our soules in the knowledge of his holy will to the ende thereby to obteine his grace and fauour in the life to come For notwithstanding man was created to the Image of God and of his euerlasting Kingdome whereby he was perfect and needed no other instruction or Schoolemaister yet after his fall and the corruption of our first father he stood in great neede to bee restored to his former knowledge and the fauour of his Creator for the obteyning whereof hee was enioyned to keepe sundry precepts and very straight lawes vnder paine of deadly and euerlasting dānation vntill the tyme of grace wherein it pleased God to breake and take away the vayle and rigor of the auncient law and to forgiue our offences through the passion of his deare Sonne Iesus Christ for the enioying of the fruites whereof he hath left vs in pledge his holy Sacraments for the administrations and discipline of the which he hath cōmitted and sent his Apostles Priestes and Doctors the administrators and guardians of the same In such wise that as the ende and purpose of the Architect is the perfection and finishing of his building house so the onely end and office of the Cleargie is sufficiently to teach vs those things that appertayne to our faith and beliefe reforming our actions by admonitions and gentle perswasions that thereby together with Gods grace wee may atteyne to euerlasting saluation neither hath God giuen them any other dominion ouer vs but onely admonition and instruction in his knowledge setting before vs the reward of well doing and the reuenge of wickednesse in the vniuersall doome of the heauenly Maiestie 21 But in asmuch as the people haue not to deale therewith also that the Bishoppe of Roome in that qualitie which he pretendeth hath no such power his authoritie beeing meerely and simply Spirituall and in no poynt concerning the Realmes of the world what shal we then say if Emperours or other soueraigne Kings were as they are men and subiect to corruption hereticks or otherwise euill liuers were it not a marueilous offence to see them raigne with all power and be as scourges and persecutors of Gods Church In this question I am to desire the French to weigh the aunswer of that wise and great personage Sainct Augustin If Emperours sayth he be in error and according to their error do prescribe lawes against the trueth wherby the righteous may be tryed and crowned he aunswereth not that they must be expelled or deposed of their Empire but onely wee must not doe those things that wickedly they commaund Neither doth Sainct Ambrose finde fault with the obedience that the Christian Souldiers yeelded to the Emperour Iulian the Apostata onely he warneth them to doe nothing repugnant to the honor of God S. Peeter perswaded not the Church to depose Nero the conspired enemie of Iesus Christ but contrariwise admonished all Christians to honor and pray for him The holy Legion Fulminatory made no difficultie to go to the Warres and to venture their liues vnder the Emperour M. Antonius the Philosopher a Prince that was but a bad Christian and such a one as contrary to the pietie of Religion made a seuere Decree the markes whereof are yet to be seene in our Pandects and Eusebius Capitolinus Dion Xiphilinus and others doe make mention of the same Tertullian in his Apologeticall treatize sufficiently setteth downe the mallice of the Emperour Seuerus against the Church of the Christians and yet let vs mark what he writeth of their affection to the Prince Wee are saith he discryed vnto the Emperours Maiestie and yet were the Christians neuer proued to bee Albinians Nigrians or Cassians who were the conspirators against the Emperors M. Antonius the Philosopher Commodus Pertinax and Seuerus each after other but contrariwise those that lately tooke the oath condemned the Christians haue bene found to be the Emperours enemies neuer a Christian was there in that faction as knowing that the Imperiall Maiestie ordeyned of God must bee loued reuerenced and honored whose prosperitie as also the welfare of the whole Romaine Empire they are to desire so long as the world standeth for so long shall the same continue We doe therfore worship the Prince according as is lawfull and requisite his Maiestie

friuolous causes and of no importāce whose sentence neuerthelesse was confirmed and againe published by Innocent the fourth successor to the sayd Gregorie and after by Boniface the eight inserted into his sixt booke of Decretals in which place he vseth these wordes of the Scripture Quodcúnque ligaueris c. as an authoritie wherein to ground the execution of his will Bald also and Iohn Andrew very Catholicke Glozers doe confesse that in deede he seemed rather a partie then a Iudge Ni●holas the 3. who followed soone after seeking to take the whole gouernement of the Towne from all but the Pope forbad y t neither King Duke Earle or Marquize should be established or accept the authoritie of Senator or Gouernour therein declaring that the Iurisdiction thereof belonged priuatly to the holy Sea before all other not in respect of Constantines donation but through these wordes In omnem terram exiuit sonus eorum and such other which hee interpreteth as hee thincketh good Which in effect are the very reasons whereupon Boniface the eight excommunicated King Phillip the Faire of France and gaue his Realme for a praye to the first that could seaze vpon it as we reade in his constitution in deede extrauagant in the which he exempteth neither Emperour nor King from his subiection euen in Temporall causes as he saith Also by vertue of that great power Clement the fifth disanulled the sentence giuen by the Emperour Henry the seauenth of Luxēbourg against Robert King of Sicille after hee had procured the proysoning of the same Emperour by a Muncke in ministring to him the Eucharist Which Balde confesseth to haue bene a presumpteous and wrongfull deede Finally by those Tragedies that Iohn the 22. Benedict the 12. and Clement the 6. stirred vp throughout Christiandome against the Emperour Lewes of Bauiere as also in our daies Alexander the sixt and Iulius the second did no lesse neither had any other ground We may see the causes whereby the Popes do pretend authoritie to depose Kings subuert Realmes and giue them in pray to whomsoeuer they thinke good True it is that such of them as haue most dissembled haue euer exēpted the Realm of Frāce Innocent the third writing to the Prelates and French Nobilitie for Iohn without land King of England declareth that he will enterprize nothing against the Maiestie of the French King But Hostiensis who knewe the Storie doth in this place write that the Protestation was contrary to the effect because the sayd Innocent went about to hinder King Phillip Auguste from vsing his feudall right ouer the Dutches of Normandie Guyenne and other the Lands holden by the English and fallē into the lapse through the murder committed vpon Arthur his elder brothers sonne In an other decretal Epistle the same Pope confesseth that the French King in Temporall causes and gouernment of his Realme acknowledgeth no superiour Clement the fifth in his extrauagant for appeasing King Phillip the Faire who was stirred vp by the insolencie of Boniface the eight disanulled reuoked his declarations against the Realme of France and aduowed the same not to be subiect to his Sea by vertue of the sayd constitution The same Pope also protested that the power which his Officers vsed against the said Kings subiects during his being in the Realm was by the permission of the sayd Lord King as appeareth by the protestation the same time enrouled in the Court of Parliamēt for in trueth it hath euer more bene resolued and is a cace most certaine that the King of France doth vpon earth acknowledge no superiour in whatsoeuer cōcerneth the pollicie gouernement of his Crowne neither was euer subiect to the Romain Empire from the which he wrested the Gaules with the point of the sworde And although the French Kings were sometimes Emperours them selues yet did they neuer submit this Crowne to the Diadem Imperiall whereupon the Kings Atorney general would not suffer the Emperour Charles the fourth beeing in the Parliament there to make a Knight without king Charles the 5. his expresse permission As also the Emperor Charles the fifth passing through Fraunce obteyned the good will of King Frances the first to pardon sundry offenders because no other then his Maiestie hath power or authoritie ouer the temporall causes of his Realm among which is vndoubtedly the punishing of transgressions yea euen of heresie of the which wee now speake the notice and Iurisdiction whereof haue euer more bene left and with good reason belongeth to the seculer Magistrate because we ought to consider the lawe of God first in this world whereto the politicke and temporall Magistrate preseruer of the societie of men and earthly policie for the auoyding of confusion and trouble forceth euery one to obeye Secondly in the worlde to come wherein God onely iudgeth and punisheth not leauing in this worlde in respect of himselfe any Magistrate to be the auenger of the iniurie to him done in y ● transgression of his ordinances For the Priestes who are the guardians and Schoolemasters of Gods lawe are not cōstituted Iudges but easie Phisitions to the soule and Gods commaundements are no such Sanctions as importe punishment but most louing doctrine and admonitious otherwise if by the sworde we should be forced to the obseruing of Gods lawe the desert were small Vppon which poynt the Apostle sayd Not that wee rulee ouer your faith but are helpers to your ioye And in an other place All Scripture is inspired frō aboue and is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct to righteousnesse Hee saith not to force or to punish Chrisostome very carefully deuideth the royall power from the ministerie of the Gospell saying that the ministerie is a function committed by God to the ende to teach without weapons also that it is no power to giue or take awaye Realmes neither to make lawes for politick gouernment Our French Bishop S. Hilarie writeth as much to the Emperour Constantius also against Auxentius Bishop of Millan And this the good Fathers learned at the mouth of the Sonne of God our Lord Iesus Christ when he sayd to his Apostles The Kings of the nations haue dominion ouer them but it shall not be so with you In an other place hee promiseth them that they shall sit with the Sonne of God whē he shal come in Maiestie to iudge mankinde but that contrariwise so long as they remaine in y e world exercizing their Ministerie they shall bee brought before Kings and politicke Magistrates for his sake so farre shall they be from being Kings and Iudges themselues The head of the Church euen Iesus Christ fled when they sought to make him King declaring y ● his Kingdome was not of this worlde wherfore he would not be iudge among those that were at controuersie yea he submitted himself to the Kings of the earth paying vnto them the tribute which was vnto

thē due together with that which was assessed vpon the heads of euery of his Apostles euermore referring the reward of his grace reuenge of trespasses against him committed vnto the kingdome of heauen enioining his Apostles to doe the like and to imitate his example as they haue done The Apostle Sainct Paule sayd Let no man that fighteth in the Lordes warfare trouble himselfe with the matters of this life Againe The minister of the Lorde ought to be louing to all men meet to teach paciently bearing with the wicked with modestie reprouing such as withstād the trueth Briefly in one word to say all there be two kinds of Iurisdictions the one earthly cōmitted into the hands of Kings and Princes to whome euery one of whatsoeuer degree or calling Spirituall or Temporall Priestes Bishops or high Priestes ought to obey as it is written Let euery soule bee subiect to the superiour powers vpon which place Chrisostome sayth the Apostle vsed this word euery to shew that there is no creature that may be exempt whether he be saith he Apostle Prophete Euangelist Priest Monk or other whosoeuer We also finde that in the Primetiue Church before pride Ambition tooke roote in the Bisshops hartes that the Popes of Rome neuer made any question thereof Wee haue also amoug vs a request exhibited by Boniface the first to Honorius Emperour of the West wherein hee beseecheth him to decree that afterwarde the Bishops and Popes of Rome might not bee chosen by fauour or any other vnlawfull meane whereto the same most Catholike Prince maketh an aunswere worthie such a request In the time of Odoacer King of the Herules who began to raigne at Rome in the yeere 471. and ruled full 14. yeres after hee had put to death Orestes and his Sonne Augustulus the last Emperour of the West vntill Charlemagne there were goodly decrees published and receiued in the Church by the Clergie vntill such tyme as Theodoricke the Wisigot whome Zeno the Emperour of the Eeast sent into Italy had ouerthrowen hym Pelagius the first made confession of his faith and sware in the hands of Ruffin the Embassadour of of Childebert King of France Pope Leo the fourth sware and protested that he would and did intend to obserue the Lawes which the Emperour Lothair the first sonne to Lewes the Meek and Neuew to Charlemagne made at Rome in the presence of Pope Eugenius the second whereof some are inserted into the Booke of Digestes the inscription whereof do import that the Emperour made them ante ianuas beati petri ad limina in atrio which was the place where the Christian Emperours were wont to make and publish their Edicts if we maye beleeue Cassiodore and others The said Emperour also created certaine Magistrates in the Towne to exercize the imperiall Iurisdiction The same Leo doth sufficiently declare what respect the high Priests of Rome did in those daies beare to the Emperours when he sued to the same Lothaire and his sonne Lewes the second to conferre the Church of Rheatine or Tusculum to one Colonus a Deacon assuring their Maiesties of his sufficiency and promising in the name of the sayde Colonus that he should praye to God for them This was the same Leo that pleaded his cause and purged himselfe of the treazon whereof hee was accused before the Emperour Lewes the seconde sonne to the sayd Lothaire as appeareth in the decree of Gratian. The like declaration did Pope Iohn the eight make to the same Emperour Lewes the second sonne to Lothaire By the decretall Epistle of Honorius the third who liued about the yeere 1216. it appeareth that as yet the remembraunce of the Emperours lawes was not vtterly abolished out of the Catholick Church and that the Priestes and high Priestes had not as yet wholy shaken of the yoke of y ● same no not in those that they terme Spirituall causes as if any question were moued of an oath in law for the decision of proces in which cace he reneweth the auncient edict of Martian and Iustiniā the first To cōclude for the stopping of the mouthes of those that doe maintaine that the Pope Bishops or other of the Cleargie may establish any earthly Kingdome apart which shal not bee subiect to the Emperours and Kings of this world but rather such a one as may at pleasure commaunde and supplant the same let them dilligently search throughout the whole Scripture what authoritie the Kings and Princes of Israel had ou●r the Priestes and Cleargie in Gods lawe which since the tyme of grace is not deminished and there shall they euidently finde their great authoritie ouer them notwithstanding it was neuer lawfull for the Kings to execute the office of the Priestes for vndoubtedly the ministerie is one thing and the orders discipline of the Cleargie is an other and meerely temporall The other head of Iurisdiction is in heauē which we are to looke for at the iudgement of GOD and yet not to perswade our selues that the lawe of Iesus Christ is lame or vnperfect because in it it conteineth not any punishment or earthly reuenge of trespasses against euill liuers considering that the same beeing heauenly and spirituall it will yeeld reward or punishment in the euerlasting world so that as sayd Alexander Seuerus of periury Whosoeuer offendeth against God hath God a sufficient reuenger our good God hath referred to himselfe all the punishment to the end the sinner may haue meanes to acknowledge his offence and repent the same in this world True it is that if y e earthly Magistrate hath in his pollicie taken any order for such causes then is it his office to reuenge the iniurie done to his edicts and decrees for so as saith Isidore The Kingdome of God encreaseth through the meanes of earthly Realmes to the ende such as be of the body of the Church if they offende or blaspheme may be punished by the rigor of Princes and so that discipline whereto the Church can not binde them may neuerthelesse bee preserued through the authoritie of Monarchies The like wherof haue bene vsed against heretickes by all Christian Princes especially in our France by an infinite number of lawes both olde and newe of our most Christian Kings And in troth if the Bishops or Priestes should take notice of the punishmēt of hereticks it would breede confusion of Iurisdictions and offices aswell might the Goldsmith be iudge of the golde that himselfe had wrought The Phisition of his owne cure to bee briefe euery one should pleade and decide his owne cause contrary to al reasonable order The example also of the Apostle Sainct Paule whome the Iewes accused of heresie doth sufficiently teach vs when by himself it appeareth that he was brought before Festus the Emperours Lieutenant vnto whom the accused did confesse that y ● notice of his cause did apperteine and therefore required