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heaven_n	church_n	key_n	peter_n	5,807	5	7.9067	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11519	The history of the Inquisition: composed by the Reverend Father Paul Servita, who was also the compiler of the Councell of Trent. A pious, learned, and curious worke, necessary for councellors, casuists, and politicians. Translated out of the Italian copy by Robert Gentilis; Historia dell'origine, forma, leggi ed uso dell'ufficio dell'inquisizione nella città e dominio di Venetia. English	Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623.; Gentilis, Robert.	1639 (1639)	STC 21765; ESTC S116775	69,818	96

And to give it the more credit and force he caused the Edict to be published in Sicily with a Decree and subscribed by Cardinall Doria and was sent in print all the World over The Court of Rome stood amazed as well for the Edict as for the execution of it done by the Cardinall yet in Spaine they moved not a whit and the Edict remaineth still in force Certainly there cannot be imagined a higher enterprize than to send into a Prince his Dominions a booke in print against his Government and to pretend it to bee Lawfull and that the booke shall be there read kept and sold publickely and that the Prince shall have no power to discover it and withstand it and that under colour of Religion and the authority of Christ given to St. Peter Which pretence will be taken away if we doe but marke the Catholicke Doctrine and the custome of the holy Church whence the truth plainly appeares and Cardinall Baronius his reasons are plainely confuted It is a thing well knowne that unto St. Peter were given the Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven that many holy Fathers and Catholick Writers meanes by the Keyes in the Plurall number the one of Knowledge and the other of Power and that the power ought not to be understood Universally but onely concerning the Kingdome of Heaven which is the Spirituall for the Civill Royall and Temporall power is expresly forbidden him by Christ So the Knowledge is not to be understood of naturall things nor of corrections much lesse of Politicke Civill or Morall things but as St. Paul saith plainely they are made dispencers of Christs misteries onely Wherefore if by the Ecclesiasticall authority a booke be approved to be good in matters of Faith it cannot be condemned as bad by any Secular power but if the booke treateth of other matters as of jurisdiction of Government of Merchandize although it were applauded by all the Prelates of the World yet doth not that prejudice Temporall authority but that it may be condemned It is a great wrong to pretend that because Christ hath given St Peter the Cognisance and power of the Kingdome of Heaven and forbidden him the Earthly one may against his precept extend spirituall things to temporall St. Augustine often saith that grace doth not destroy nor take any thing away from nature but leaving all her owne unto her doth adde unto it Divine perfections The Temporall power hath of its owne nature power to forbid all things which are repugnant to publicke quietnesse and to honesty and amongst the rest writings and bookes which are contrary to it Christ is not come to take away any of this authority from the Magistrates but to leave it intire onely he addes power to his Ministers over things concerning Christian Faith of which men by nature know nothing but onely by Revelation Therefore these ought not to assume unto themselves the power of approving of bookes which belong not to them or to endeavour to deprive the Magistrate of the authority which is given them by God and by nature Cardinall Baronius alleadgeth the Epistles of certaine Writers who have dedicated unto Popes their bookes of Histories or of Law or of concerning Government and have submitted their Workes to the Popes censure and therefore he concludes that to him alone belongeth to approve of all sorts of bookes and that once approved by him none ought any further to meddle with it But this is but a vaine reason since it doth not make any distinction betweene Obligatory binding words and words of compliment Who ever Dedicateth a Booke not onely to a Prince but also to a private man but that he will submit it unto him and that with some Hyperbole of words If we shall upon these Rethoricall colours ground Articles of Divinity we will also finde other Epistles which wee will give the same power to all manner of Persons and wee shall finde many bookes of Phisicke and of Grammar Learning Dedicated unto Popes with such like phrases of speaking and should that inferre therefore that the Papacy is an Office concerning health or a Grammar Schoole Reverence and civill speaking is one thing and that which must bee holden as an Article of Faith is another But because that Baronius taxeth the Princes Officers with forbidding of bookes because they reprove their unjust dealings it will be good to speake a word concerning that because it shall not seeme that we will have unjust things defended nor that any should thinke that it is Lawfull under colour of reproving of things to disturbe the publicke quietnesse One may speake two wayes of a misdeede by way of Thesis or Position vid. in generall without touching either Person or place or time and to reprove in this manner hath bin alwayes held good for the rooting out of vice It is Lawfull for any one to write bookes in this manner Another way is by Hipothesis that is of particular case naming of Persons and other circumstances and that is not permitted to any but to the Lawfull Judge Every one may write against Usury in generall but to touch any particular instrument for usury belongeth to none but to the publicke Judge and the doing otherwise is to put the World in a confusion leaving the managing of businesses unto unjust persons A generality may easily bee considered of and hath neede of nothing but of study and authors but a particularity by reason of the infinitenesses of circumstances requires an exquisite prudence and experience It is easie to say and to prove in generall that the usurping the Soveraignty of a State is unjust and Cardinall Baronius might have thereupon made a long Parenthesis But to come to a particular and say that the King of Spaine usurpes the Soveraignty of Sicily is not a cause belonging to him And if the Kings Officers in Naples and Milan have therefore prohibited his booke they have not forbidden the reproving of unjustice but rather the small wisedome of him who judgeth the present possession of Sicily to be unjust without having so much knowledge as was needfull for the doing of it And if the Pope did approve the booke intending to doe it for the places Ecclesiasticall Dominion and State it is well but if he did meane it also for other Princes States so that it might not be prohibited by those who held it scandalous that had beene an excesse and usurpation of other mens authority which ought not to be supposed of Pope Clement the eight who was a wise Prince And because Cardinall Baronius addes that publicke Officers cannot prohibit Booke sellers to sell bookes without their Licence under pretence of hindering Hereticall bookes from comming in with false Titles because that seeing such a danger they ought with humblenesse to seeke that the Bishops may doe it this also deserves a little consideration And first to take away all ambiguity neither did any approve of doing any thing under a fained pretence that is to cover