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A13155	An abridgement or suruey of poperie conteining a compendious declaration of the grounds, doctrines, beginnings, proceedings, impieties, falsities, contradictions, absurdities, fooleries, and other manifold abuses of that religion, which the Pope and his complices doe now mainteine, and vvherewith they haue corrupted and deformed the true Christian faith, opposed vnto Matthew Kellisons Suruey of the new religion, as he calleth it, and all his malicious inuectiues and lies, by Matthevv Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1550?-1629.	1606 (1606)	STC 23448; ESTC S117929	224,206	342

deposing Princes nay to assirme that this great authority is prositable for Princes Ghineard a Iebusite was hanged in Paris anno 1594. for writing and mainteining diuers seditious positions concerning the Popes authority in disposing the crowne of France and translating the same from the family of Bourbon Parsons in his warne-word p. 2. f. 127. alloweth the deposing of Henry the 3. of France neither would he haue desired that the Bull of Pius the sift against Queene Elizabeth might be suspended against the Papists but that he imagined that she was iustly deposed the same man in his seditious booke of titles lib. 1. c. 1. endeuoreth to proue that the succession in kingdomes by necrenesse of blood is by positiue lawes of the common-welth and may vpon iust causes be altered by the same in his third chapter he pretendeth that not only vnworthy claimers may be put backe but also that kings in possession may be chastised and deposed his drist in the fourth chapter is to shew that the people sometimes may lawfully proceed against princes is it not then strange that the factious schollers of this seditious teacher are still harbored in the bowels of this state William Rainolde a rinegat English-man in a certeine treatise set out vnder the name of William Rosse and titled de iusta reip Christianae supra reges impios haereticos authoritate c. doth in expresse termes defend the wicked league of the French rebels against the King and giue the people power to depose their kings the same man in the 2. chapter of that booke assirmeth impudently that the right of all the Kings and kingdomes of Europe is laid vpon this foundation that common-welthes or the people may depose their kings I us omnium Europae regum regnorum saith he hoc fundamento nititur quod resp possint suos reges deponere In all Europe therefore it will be hard to find more arrant traitors then himselfe and his complices Bellarmine lib. 5. de pontif Rom. c. 6. saith it is not lawfull for Christians to tolerat a king that is an insidell or an heretike if he goe about to draw his subiects to his heresie or infidelity non licet Christianis tolerare regem infidelem aut haereticum si ille pertrahere conetur subdit os ad suam haeresim aut infidelitatem a hard sentence against his Maiesty if Papists had power to iudge him Emanuel Sain his booke called aphorismi confessariorum holdeth these aphorismes in verbo princeps viz. that a prince may be deposed by the common-welth for tyranny and also if he doe not his duty or where there is iust cause and that another may be chosen by the greatest part of the people in the word tyrannus he affirmeth that a tyrant may be deposed by the people although they be sworne to bee obedient vnto him if being admonished he will not amend now to the Popish faction all are tyrants that will not admit their Popish superstition though otherwise they bee neuer so mild and gentle and so it appeareth they accompt of our gratious king whom of late they haue sought trecherously to murder If then we admitte this common doctrine of Papists of the Popes authoritie in deposing Kings and giuing them Law we diminish the authority of Kings and make them subiects to the Pope which is a matter abominable to be either taught or beleeued we doe also indanger not only the state of all Kings but also of their kingdomes for how can any King stand against the violence of the Pope if he haue authority to depose Kings by this vsurped authority Gregory the 7. wrought Henry the Emperor and his subiects many troubles Paschall the 2. made the sonne to rise against the father and the subiects against their Princes and in the end caused the en peror to be taken prisoner and to resigne his Empire the same man also as he subdued the father so quarreled he with the sonne and caused his subiects to take armes against him Innocent the 2. by force of armes thought to vanquish Roger King of Sicilia and in a pitched field had preuailed against him if the sonne had not succoured his father Roger. Adrian the 4. and Alexander the 3. did so farre preuaile against Fridericke the first that he held the stirrop to the first and was troden vpon by the second Celestin the 3. proudly demeaned himselfe against Henry the 6. casting the crowne from his head with his foote as he kneeled before him as we reade in Rogor Houeden Innocent the 3. brought the Emperors Philip and Otho to destructiō by his furious persequution the same man caused King Iohn of England to surrender his crowne and was the cause of the losse of Normandy to the English Neither did he alone offer wrong to Iohn King of England for before his time king Henry the second had receiued a great scorne of the Pope in the cause of Thomas Becket Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. with great fury set vpon Friderike the 2. and emploied Christians that had made vowes to fight against the Saracens to the ruine of the Emperor Iohn the 22. Benet the 12. and Clement the 6. with implacable hatred prosequuted Lewes of Bauier and that for no other cause then for that he tooke on him as Emperor without the Popes allowance and for the same cause Harold encurred the Popes displeasure not submitting himselfe to receiue his crowne of the Popes faction Boniface the eight while he sought to subdue Philip of France and the houle of Colonna in Italy troubled both Spaine and Italy the Popes of late time haue caused all the stirres in Germany Italy France Flanders England and Scotland the leaguers of France were confirmed in their rebellion by the Pope and droue King Henry the third out of his pallace and killed him by a Dominican Frier as he beseeged Paris and long withstood the king now reigning Vpon the excommunication of Paul the third the papists of England rebelled against King Henry the eight in his bul of excommunication recorded by Sanders he commanded his subiects to resist him and to throw him out of his kingdome principibus viris ac ducibus Angliae saith he caeteraeque nobilitati praecipit vt vi armis se Henrico opponant illumque è regni sinibus eijcere nitantur by the Popes excommunications the rebellion was raised in the North of England by the Erles of Westmerland and Norththumberland and diuers tumults in Ireland against Queene Elizabeth nay albeit our King be not denounced excommunicat yet did the gun-pouder Papists seeke to blow him vp with the principall men of England neither had the Spaniards anno 1588. any better ground to inuade England then the Popes commandement and warrant Seeing then the Pope taketh vpon him a superiority ouer all Kings seeketh to depose all such as will not conforme themselues to his will it is much to be wondred that Christian princes that doe embrace his doctrine

not to be held with heretikes they endeuored lately to persuade the emperor Charles the fift likewise to breake with Luther Paul the 3. in his bull against King Henry the 8. did pronounce them accursed that would not breake oathes and couenauts made with him or with his subiects Eugenius the 4. was the cause that Ladislaus King of Poland did breake with the Turke the like practises haue diuers Popes vsed to cause subiects to rebell against Princes Innocentius the 3. moued the English contrary to their oaths to rebell against King Iohn and the like course did Paul the third take against King Henry the eight and Pius the sist against Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory the late traytors were diuers of them tied by speciall oathes to King lames but with gun-ponder they meant to blow away oaths and honestie Finally it may truly be said of the Pope and his complices that they take themselues no further bound by their oathes then their profit requireth so one said also in expresse termes of them multis annis iam peractis nulla sides est in pactis for many yeares they haue regarded no compactes and by this stratagem they haue preuailed against the Emperors and other Princes and setting the Christian world vpon a flame haue warmed themselues by the fire We read also that diuers leagues and treaties of peace by the wicked perswasions of Popes and their adherents and agents haue beene violated The Spaniarde and English in time past enterteined peace one with another but Pius the fifth by his agents set the one nation against the other by the practises of Popes and their agents we find that the freuch King Charles the 9. broke the articles of peace both with his subiects and other Princes and caused many thousand innocents to be murdred and massacred throughout his kingdome anno 1572. Philip the 2. King of Spaine had not broken the priuiledges of the low countries nor the articles of the pacification at Gant anno 1576. but that he was moned thereunto by the continuall perswasions of the Pope nay Paul the third doubted not to curse all those that would not breake with king Henry the 8. vpon his excommunication Furthermore by the lawes of nations warres are either publickely proclaimed or after refusall of restitution of goods wrongfully taken by some heraulds or others denounced but the Pope contrary to all lawes caused the Spaniardes anno 1588. to come against England before any warre was denounced the same course also did Paul the 3. hold in his warres against the Germans neither doe the papists end euour any thing more then to take Christians on sleepe and so to steale vpon them and to cut their throates and this appeared lately most clearely in the cruell conspiraracy of the ponder men and vndermining papists Great respect is alwaies had to ambassadors and agents sent to treat of war or peace And this is * C. in●gentium dist 1. confirmed by the lawes of al nations but Popes haue oftentimes euill entreated the Emperors ambassadors Gregorius 7. nuntios Henrici Imperatoris carceri mandauit as we reade in Orthuinus Gratius in certaine epistles set downe together with the Emperors life another Pope killed Frederic the 2. his ambasladors that brought newes of his good successe in Palestine the Marques of Montigni and earle of Bergues in the beginning of the troubles of the Low countrey being sent into Spaine to mediate some good conditions with the king were imprisoned and done to death and now they are esteemed simple that wil trust the Popes vassals or treat with them without hostages Finally by the lawes of nations kings haue soueraigne power ouer their subiects and neither can subiects abandon their Princes nor oppugne them nor may kings oppresse their subiects or suffer them to be massacred by the adherents of antichrist or others but by the doctrine of papistes all Kings are subiect to the Pope as they teach in the chap. vnam sanctam extr de maiorit obed and diuers other places the same also is prooued for that diuers Popes take vpon them to take away Princes crownes the Popes do dispense with the oathes of Princes made to their subiects and with the oathes of subiects made to their Princes of which many calamities doe proceede Papa cum Achaiae principem saith Pachymeres lib. hist 1. c. vlt. iureiurando quod Paleologo dederat soluisset contmentium bellorum causam praebuit the Pope absoluing the Prince of Achaia from his oath giuen to Paleologus was cause of diuers troubles one following vpon the necke of another and the like inconueniences haue followed vpon the like presumption of Popes in taking vpon them to controll kings and to stirre their subiects against them but what need we to seeke for examples in ancient histories when the calamities hapning in France by occasion of the league against the King and in England and Ireland by the Popes insolent excommunications and dispensations in this case are so fresh in memorie is it not then maruell that so many nations should embrace the doctrine of Popery that is so repugnant to the lawes of nations and rights both of Princes and subiects founded on the lawes of nations CHAP. XXXV That Popery dissolueth the bondes of kinred and alliance and ciuilitie THere is no bond straiter then that which is betwixt parents and their children and naturally men are enclined to loue their kinsmen and allies but this false religion which is professed by Papists and founded vpon the Pope dissolueth all bandes of alliance and kindred and setteth the children against the parents and the parents against the children Paschale the 2. and his adherents as Helmoldus testifieth armed the sonne against the father Paschalis Pontifices Germani saith he silium Henricum contra patrem armarunt vicerunt likewise Gregory the 9. made Henry the sonne head of a strong league against Frederic the 2. his father as is testified by Auentinus in annal Boiorum Henricum Caesarem saith he missis legatis aduersus patrem conspirationis valentissimae principem facit the same man speaking of Innocentius the 3. assirmeth that he set coosen against coosen brother against brother and sonne against the father Spectante atque concitante Romano sacerdote saith he Philippus Otho cognatas acies inter so committunt frater aduersus fratrem silius aduersus parentem consligere cogitur Marius Belga lib. de schism c. 4. sheweth how certaine Popish prelates set the sonnes of Ludouicus Pius against the father that Gregory the 4. consented vnto it contrariwise Pius the 5. as we reade in his life written by Hierome Catena testifieth how Philip the 2. of Spayne consented to the death of his sonne Charles suspected not to fauor popish religion non pepereit filio suo proprio saith he abusing the words of holy Scripture sed dedit eum pro nobis he spared not his owne sonne but gaue him for vs. In the histories written concerning the persecutions of the

promised safeconduct to all that would come to Trent but contrary to the same Vergerius and others were excluded out of the synod and diuers doctors comming out of Germany could not be heard to dispute and hardly escaped with their liues out of the place Charles the 9. of France anno 1572. with monstrous oaths and solemne promises drew the Queene of Nauarre the admirall and many other noble-men and gentle-men vnto Paris but it cost them full deare and lost them all their best men for there that noble Queene was poisoned there the king of Nauarre was taken prisoner and the rest trecherously murdred and so farre was the Pope from condemning this fact that he caused the same to be set out in tables in his pallace among the triumphant acts of Popes In France and Flandres vpon surrenders of townes seldome did our aduersaries regard either oath or promise diuers edicts haue beene published by the French king for the pacification of troubles but they prooued nothing but traps and engins to take men that ment simply and plainly the capitulation with them of Sancerre was megerly performed The duke of Alua and his complices contrary to promise murdred the garrison of Arlem Narden Zutphen and diuers other townes Of late we thought our selues secure hauing peace with all the world but euen then we were neerest danger and could not haue escaped it if God had not discouered the mine the powder the traine and the whole packe of traytors In the yeare 1588. while the agents of Spaine and England were treating of peace the enemies came vpon vs hoping sodenly to ouer-whelme vs with warres being taken vnprouided No treatie could be more solemnly agreed vpon or confirmed then the pacification of Gant after the surprise of Antwerp yet was neither promise nor oath kept therein but rather vnder confidence of these promises and oathes many poore people were surprised First then wee say that our hope is that God will destroy them that speake lies and not hold them guiltlesse that shall sweare falsly dishonoring his holy name this we are assured that he abhorreth the bloody and deceitfull man Secondly we may rightly conclude that such as looke for performance of oathes and promises at the hands of the Pope and his complices further then necessitie and profit vrgeth them are verie ignorant of their doctrine and practises we may say also that they are very weake and simple for once any plaine dealing man may be abused but to offend diuers times in one fault and oftentimes to runne into the same trap argueth great weakenesse negligence and wilfulnesse Finally albeit princes that liue vnder the Popes lawes were willing to keepe touch and to performe promises yet we must remember how easily the Pope dispenseth with oathes and how necessary it is for them to breake all couenāts if the Pope once declare the cōtrary party to be an heretike or schismatike In the Clementine Romam de iureiurando the Popes forbid all princes vnionem parentelam confoederationem that is peace contracting of alliance and confederation with such as are their enemies and if any contract be made then must the same be dissolued vpon paine of excommunication when the Pope pleaseth so all the assurance that Christians can haue of amitie with the Popes vassals dependeth on the Popes pleasure and his pleasure is founded vpon his profit and necessitie and our securitie standeth in watching their mines and gunpowder treasons God grant therefore all Christians grace to beware that they be not entrapped with false and perfidious promises nor vndermined with their subtilties nor blowne vp with treason and giue our aduersaries that light of reason that they may see that oathes made by the name of God in iust and honest causes are not to be dissolued either by the Pope or any other nor their treasons to be warranted by any Popish facultie CHAP. XLVI That the chiefe founders and mainteiners of Popery haue beene commonly noted for wicked and prophane men FAithfull Christians and the citizens of the city of God as the Apostle teacheth vs Ephes 2. are built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Iesus Christ being the chiefe corner stone but our Sauiour Christ was an high priest most holy innocent and vndersiled and his Apostles and Prophets were holy men and endued with speciall graces fit for that function let vs then see what manner of men the first authors and principall vpholders of Popery haue bene that by the different qualities of the one and the other we may the better esteeme of true religion and more perfectly learne to hate the superstition heresie tyranny and all the abhominations of the Popes of Rome and their wicked faction The mystery of iniquity beganne to worke in the Apostles time as S. Paul testifieth for then false teachers beganne to spread their poison and after the departure of the Apostles rauening wolues entred into the Church not sparing the stocke by little and little also heathenish and Iewish ceremonies began to be receiued in diuers places and as S. Augustine saith the world grew full of presumptions but Antichrist began not to shew himselfe openly before the times of Phocas the emperor who at the ernest solicitatiō of a Platina in Bonifacio 3. Boniface the third granted that the church of Rome should be called and accounted the head of other Churches so then the principall agent in the erection of the papacy was Phocas a barbarous Thracian by nation and a common soldier by tumult aduanced to the empire and one that began his reigne with the slaughter of his master of the Empresse and their children The next was Irene a proud insolent and cruell woman that among others murdred her owne sonne for vnto her time the worship of God continued in the church of Rome without any notable corruption but she with the helpe of Adrian Bishop of Rome and other superstitious persons first brought in the idolatrous worship of images and Saints Gregory the 7. was the first that by force dissolued Priests mariages and exalted the miter of the Pope aboue the crownes of emperors and kings taking vpon him first to depose them from their seats but among all the Popes you shall not finde any more abominable Beno testifieth he was a necromancer a murderer an empoysoner and a sacrilegious and impious person the synode of Brixina condemned him for diuers abominable crimes Matthew Paris in Willelmo conquastore writeth that being readie to depart this life he confessed that by the Diuels perswasion he had prouoked the wrath of God against mankind he threw the sacramēt into the fire because he could obteine no succh answere of it as he desired and liued scandalously with Mathilda a fit fellow therefore he was to aduance the whorish sacrilegious and murdrous religion of the later Rome that is so much degenerated from the former Paschall the 2. that atchieued that which Gregory the. 7. and others his predicessors had begun was a periured