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A68462	The right, and prerogatiue of kings against Cardinall Bellarmine and other Iesuites. Written in French by Iohn Bede, aduocate in the court of Parliament of Paris, and published by authority. Translated by Robert Sherwood.; Droit des roys, contre le cardinal Bellarmin et autres jésuites. English.	Bédé de la Gormandière, Jean.; Sherwood, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 1782; ESTC S113797	80,394	213

Ioh. 6.15 My Kingdome is not of this world they should content themselues with the keyes of heauen without taking by force the keyes of Citties they should auoide it as did our Sauiour Ioh. 18.36 if men would make them Temporall Lords and should not take vpon them a ciuill iurisdiction no more then did our Sauiour who when one said vnto him Luk. 12.13 Maister bid my brother diuide the inheritance with mee answered ô man who made mee a iudge or diuider ouer you Neither yet in criminall matters after his example Ioh. 8.10.11 Woman hath none condemned thee shee said none Lord and IESVS said neither do I condemne thee go and sinne no more So our Sauiour reiected the office of a Temporall Magistrate exercising the charge of a true Spirituall Pastor to inuite sinners to repentance yet without approuing vice But if these men will perswade vs that in processe of time to wit after Constantine the Church should change her course of life and leaue the Ministery to take vpon it command I will stay to beleeue it till they produce some Prophesie of this future change and will beleeue touching this pretended authority that which CHRIST saith of the dwelling places in his fathers house Ioh. 14.2 If it were otherwise I would haue told you And passing further I say that if the Church in her most perfect forme hath had no such superiority we ought to keepe this perfection instituted of God and if heathen Princes haue bene ackowledged three hundred yeares for Superiors of the Church which made a part of their state it were to do iniury to Christian Kings to deferre vnto them lesse honour then the Apostles and the Primitiue Church haue deferred to heathen and Infidell Emperours And the fable of the donation of Constantine serueth to no purpose it being acknowledged false by the most learned Iuris-consults antient and moderne as shall be handled in the ninth Chapter hereafter But though we should agree to them concerning the priuiledges that Princes haue giuen to Church-men Esdras chap. 7. yet we must not thereby conclude that Kings haue lost their authority to reforme the Church and to giue lawes vnto it For seeing it is a case royall to make Lawes in a State ● placet l. de sacros Eccl. Cas r. li● 6 it pertaineth onely to the King to ordaine them and although hee make them not without taking aduise of the expert in euery Art or Science yet for all that it will not be said that they are statutes or ordinances of the Iuris-consults or Diuines which haue bene called thereunto Whence it followeth that the Kings power is not lessened by the comming of our Sauiour who hath limited the charge of the Apostles and of their lawfull successours to the Preaching of the word and administration of the Sacraments as he had appointed Priests vnder the Law for the vnleauened bread perfumigations and sacrifices And indeed the Emperour Iustinian extendeth no farther the Christian Lyturgie and the office of Bishops Nouel 7. c. 11. de Ecclesiast bonis Cuiac tomo 3. pag. 549. Gal. 1.8 in his seuenth Nouel vpō which Doctor Cuias writeth in the same sense Seeing thē that to make Lawes in a State is a case of Soueraignety that neither the King nor an Apostle neither yet an Angell from heauen can adde to or diminish the substance of Gods Lawes but onely the circumstances which respect comelinesse and the execution of them what inconuenience is there that the ordinary authority be interposed in Lawes Ecclesiasticall Seeing also that the Church is within the State made a part of the same and is subiect to the Soueraigne of the whole territorie being in France and England one of the three Estates of the Kingdome whereof the King is head and Superiour as wel of the Clergy as of the Laity Now that it is not lawfull for any whosoeuer hee bee to adde or diminish the substance of the Law or of the Gospell of God here is the prohibition first as touching the Law Deut. 4.2 Yee shall put nothing vnto the word which I command you neither shall yee take ought therefrom that yee may keepe the commandements of the Lord your God c. And in the Prouerbes Pro. 30.6 Adde nothing vnto his words least thou be found a lyar The like is said in the Gospell Though wee Gal. 1.8 or an Angell from heauen preach vnto you otherwise then wee haue preached vnto you let him be accursed And both of the Law and of the Gospell it is ordeined 1. Cor. 4.6 That yee might learne by vs that no man presume aboue that which is written Reu. 22.18.19 For saith Saint Iohn if any man shall adde c. God shall adde vpon him the plagues written in this booke and if hee diminish c. God shall take away his part out of the booke of life Wherefore Emperours haue maintained them in this possession conformable to their title And beginning in the Constitutions colected in the Code of Iustinian the thirteene first titles are all filled with Lawes for to rule the Church in which first of all the Aduersaries of Royall authority shall obserue De Episcopati audientia that there is one title which attributeth simple audience to Bishops and not iurisdiction for to shew that they haue not any portion of Empire it forbiddeth (a) Lib. 1. Tit. 5. them to reiterate Baptisme to paint or graue on earth the (b) Lib. 1. Tit. 7. image of our Sauiour And in the Nouels the Emperour ordaineth of the punishment of Ecclesiasticall persons (c) Nou. 123. ca. 20. euen by the whip Of the creation and consecration of Byshops That Synods (d) Nou. 123. ca. 10. should bee held euery yeare Forbiddeth to celebrate the mysteries in priuate (e) Nou. 58. houses Item ordaineth that Bishops (f) Nou. 137. c. 6. Nou. 146. vt liceat Hebraeis should speake aloud when they celebrate Baptisme and the Eucharist Ordaineth that the holy Bible should be translated into the vulgar tongue that the people might reade therein their saluation L. Constantinopol 24. C. de sacros Eccles his verbis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Yea when the Emperour had translated the seate of his Empire to Constantinople although there was then a Byshop of Rome yet he declared that the Church of Constantinople was the Head that is to say the chiefest of all others To this is referred that in Nou. 83. Menna is called Vniuersalis Patriarcha in fauour of whō the Emperours said hee had granted that priuiledge to the Clergy not to bee conuented but before their Bishops that in certaine cases onely Now the cause why the Emperours translated their seate from Rome was because they held but very little in the West parts Gaule and a good part of Germanie were occupied by the Frankes or Frenchmen Spaine by the Sarazines Gothes and Vandales Italy in horrible confusion

condemneth for a Hereticke whosoeuer resisteth them Gl. v. multorum can vidua dist 34. For by that account wee must beleeue the glosse which defineth her onely to bee a whore that hath had to do with more then twenty and three thousand men and that he that marrieth such a beast meriteth remission of sinnes Cap. inter opera charitatis de spons lib. 4. decretal Wee ordaine saith the pope that for all such men as shall take common woemen out of the stewes and marry them that same shall profite them for remission of their sinnes And how dare pope Gregory couple that abomination with the merite of the holy passion It pertaitaineth onely to the mother of whoredomes to enhanse her wares so high to giue course to such tresure Now such and the like impostures of the Court of Rome being knowne by the Christian Churches caused men to appeale for some clauses and abuses in such decrees and the King maintained himselfe and his people in the Christian liberty without contradiction till the yeare one thousand one hundred thirty seuen in the raigne of Charles the Yong whose constancy the pope would try about the prouision of the Arch-bishopricke of Bourges as likewise of Phillip his successour Anno one thousand one hundred eighty against whom pope Innocent stirred vp the King of England and caused wars betweene them And as for Lewis the ninth called also Saint Lewis because of his piety and iustice who was king in the yeare one thousand two hundred twenty seuen he gaue peace to the Albigenses perceiuing as Haillā saith that they were hated of the pope principally for that they cried out against the dissolute liues of Church-men hee also tooke away the sale of Offices To this holy Prince Histories ascribe these qualities that hee was a gardian of the Lawes a protectour of the Church the head of the Nobility and Father of the People Hee caused also the Byble to bee published in the French tongue My Lord your Maiesty is descended from this great prince betweene his and your comming to the Crowne is so great a resemblance that your subiects do hope for the same graces vnder your authority name descent age place of Coronation nature instruction regency publication of your Edict of peace all agree Hee beganne to raigne at twelue yeares of age was crowned at Reines remained vnder the regency of his mother though shee was a stranger and a Spaniard For the Regency For Frenchmen are ashamed to referre lesse to the last will of their King then did the Sicilians vnto theirs named Anaxillaus Iustin 4. who gaue for Regent to his sonne a slaue that had bene faithfull vnto him But in case of such a gouernement in whom else can there be found a more tender affection then of the mother or neerer then taken out of the bowels To come againe to our deliuerers aboue whom appeareth most Phillip the fourth surnamed the Faire who in the yeare 1320. had to doe with a a prodigious monster of a man pope Boniface the eighth who wrote to the king in these termes Annales Nicholas Giles Wee will that thou know that thou art our subiect both in Spirituall and in Temporall things To which the King answered beginning thus Sciat fatuitas vestra c. Let your sottishnesse and fond temerity know that in Temporall things we haue none but God for superiour c. And the King not content with this commanded a Lord of Languedoc an Albigeois of the house of Nogaret to seise vpon this pope Which he did and hauing cuffed him on the mouth with his gauntlet cast him into prison where he died leauing behind him this Elogium or praise in diuerse hystories Io. Andr. Bald. c. 1. de feud gl ad 6. Decretal He entred into the Popedome as a Fox raigned as a Lyon and died as a Dog For hee entred into such a phrensie that hee gnawed off his owne hands with rage O that the deceased King your Maiesties father were aliue and that hee saw the letter of that ambitious prelate commented on by a Cardinall Iesuite who durst publish a booke of it would he not haue commanded that arch-hereticke to bee brought to him bound hand and foot and cast into the prison of his palace for to bee condemned and suffer the like execution that the Legates of pope Benedict did before the pallace after they had seene their Bulles torne in peeces the 29 of Iuly Papon Arrest lib. tit 5. Arrest 27. anno 1408 in the raigne of Charles the sixt And what do such men thinke they haue to do with children Yea rather with a flourishing State war-like allied peaceable fortified with money and furniture for the warres With God himselfe protectour of the most desolate widdow and poorest Orphan and therefore of the Regent of the children of his Annointed and of the State which by his grace hath now so long time subsisted I returne to Boniface and passe vnder silence that his Bull was in the presence of the King cast into the fire by the Earle of Artois that his Nuncio's were committed to prison and prohibition made that no man should carry mony to Rome nor prouide any for dispatch of Benefices that the King transferred the popes seate to Auignon which remained there three score and foureteene yeares after that in those times were sixe Anti-popes yea three at one time all three deposed by the Emperour Sigismond especially Iohn the 23 conuicted of horrible crimes So was Clement the seuenth who had sowed vp fiue Cardinals in sackes and cast them into the sea and three more hee beheaded and burnt their bodies to ashes which hee caried euery where with him in chests with Cardinal hats set on the same that it might bee knowne what they were And we must not omit that Iohn the twentieth two was deposed for hauing vnaduisedly excommunicated the Emperour Lewis of Bauiere Since in the raigne of Lewis the eleuenth pope Eugenius found himselfe agrieued at the pragmaticall sanction or confirmation of the decree made in the Councell of Basill for the election of Prelates collation of Benefices c. But the King vsed a Soueraigne remedy and which was ordinary with his predecessors for he forbad that any money should bee carried to Rome neither was that a light punishment for it was found that the Pope drew out of France yearely a million of Gold Suet. in vita Iulij Caesaris which was the tribute that the Romans raised out of all the Gaules Which might very profitably bee employed on Hospitals Colledges and Spittles in France without passing any further Against all these disorders many good Doctors haue exclamed among others Saint Bernard and his schollers Also Sauonarola a great and learned man among the Clergy who was held to haue had the gift of prophesie said to King Charles the eighth that God called him into Italy for to reforme the Church and in deed being

before Rome the walles of the Citty fell downe Then hauing entred the Citty and brought forth his Cannon out of Saint Markes for to plant it against the Castell the breach was made without shooting against it but for all that Sananorola was not beleeued because saith the Historie part of the Coūcel were corrupted with money for that the Cardinall of Saint Malo gouerned the Kings treasurie These delaies called to the Crowne King Lewis the twelfth who sent the Cardinall of Amboyse to Trent to the Emperour Maximilian and to Ferdinand King of Arragon to consult about the reformation of the Church not in the members onely but also in the head Which caused Pope Iulius who had a contrary intention to solicite the King of England to diuert Ferdinand from this purpose by giuing him the inuestiture of the Kingdome of Naples and besides to allie himselfe with the Switzers by meanes of a thousand Florins giuen to each Canton The King notwithstanding lost not courage but assembled the Prelates of his owne Kingdome in the Citty of Tours about an hundred yeares agoe in September last See Du Till in the end of his Chronicle and in the same were giuen Catholicke dicisions against the Pope which stands for Law against such as would at this day perswade Frenchmen that they must not succour their confederates nor make warre otherwise then it pleaseth Rome The King did more with the Emperor for he published a Councel at Pisa which the Pope that hee might auert the same assigned at Saint Iohns of Latran In those times was inuaded the Kingdome of Nauarre by Ferdinand of Arragon against King Iohn de Albret whom the Pope had excommunicated in hatred of the succours hee gaue to the King And at that time Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard being hurt and maimed within Pampelune which the King besieged deuised to erect a society of Iesuites that should vphold from thence-forth both the vsurpations of his Maister and the title vpon which they are grounded to wit the power of the Pope which they extoll aboue the goods life and honour of Kings and for this effect they haue a vow which no other religious men take It is a blind vow which maketh them moue subiects against their Princes Now the Popes continuing their proceedings in the raigne of Francis the Great the King had for enemies the Emperour the King of England the Duke of Milan and others notwithstanding hee letted not to say boldly That if hee were constrained to goe into Italy to get his absolution hee would go so well accompanied that they should send to meete him Since the Popes making vse of religion for to trouble the States of Christendome to hinder from any more speaking of reforming the Head as the Emperour Maximilian King Lewis the twelfth had determined to doe France being very much weakened Pope Sixtus the fifth made a league excommunicated the deceased king then King of Nauarre and my Lord the Prince of Conde who the sixt of Nouember 1585. fixed vp their oppositions with an appeale as in case of abuse and gaue the lie to Sixtus the fifth calling himselfe Pope in that hee termed the King and the Prince Heretickes Which proceedings Gregory the foureteenth continued against King Henry the third and all his seruants whom hee excommunicated by his Nuncio Landriano sent into the Capitall Citty of the Kingdome Here was the time that Frenchmen should haue feared if this scar-crow had bene to bee feared by the seruants of their King The capitall Citties were reuolted such as remained still vnder the name of the King were in many places retained in their duty by force there were few souldiers and no money But an excellent counsell a graue Senate of faithfull seruants to the King The sentences of Tours and of Chaalōs one expers terroris Achilles it is therefore said by sentence of Court that this Bull shall be burnt in the publicke place by the hands of the common executioner decreed against Landriano Nuncio Inhibitions are made that no man shall cary money to Rome or prouide any for the dispatch of Benefices Gregory the foureteenth entituling himselfe Pope declared enemy of the peace of the Catholike vnion of the King and of the State and adherent to the conspiracy of Spaine the fautor of rebels guilty of the most destable parricide committed in the person of King Henry the third Since that King Henry the Great hauing maintained with his authority the liberty of the Gallican Church the fautors of the Popes power contrary to the ordinance of God ceased not till they had murthered him as they had before done his predecessor And immediately after haue published their manifestation touching the pretended Temporall power of the Pope vnder the name of Cardinall Bellarmine Iesuite Which Treatise the Court of Parliament at Paris hauing seene gaue their solemne sentence the most Soueraigne Courts of the great or gilt chamber of the Tournelle and of the Chamber of the Edict or mixt Court being assembled which containeth these words The Court doth prohibite and forbid all persons of what quality or condition soeuer they bee Sentence of Parliament of Paris on the 26. of Nouember 1610. vpon paine of being held guilty of high Treason that they shall not receiue keep communicate Imprint cause to bee Imprinted or expose to sale the said booke containing a false and detestable Proposition tending to the euersion of Soueraigne powers ordained and established of God to the raising of the subiects against their Princes withdrawing of their obedience inducing to attempt against their persons and States and to trouble the rest and quiet of the Common wealth Enioyneth c. Behold how and by what meanes the State-royall hath bene maintained against the proceedings of Popes But if there bee at this day any that would bring into France new matters more pleasing to the aduersaries that is to say to the Iesuites those new counsellours are bound to produce like proofes for their opinions as wee haue done for ours taken out of Historie But it shall be to purpose in a matter of such importance that they present themselues in publicke the halter about their neckes after the manner as in old time the new Law-giuers did that they may presently be cut short in case they perswade not their auditors This course wil assure the Kingdome and deliuer your Maiesty from many importunities CHAP. VII What is the power of Ecclesiasticall persons And that the Pope is not grounded in the pretentions of Cardinall Bellarmine neither on Diuine nor humane law or right AS they that incroach vpon the rights of Kings imitate that Emperour who said if the Law bee to bee broken it must be done for a Kingdome so we haue obserued that another head of the same Common-wealth lead an army into Affrica for to with-draw the enemy out of Italy According to which stratageme wee will passe ouer the Alpes descend vpon the place and examine the power