Church of England being destitute of Bishops by their monopoly is depriued of the holy sacrament of confirmation Where it is easie to be knowne whether those of the Sorbonne of Paris who haue alwaies mainteined hierarchical order and the dignity of Bishops haue from the yeer 1554. rightly coniectured of their design which is to withdraw from the ordinaries the obedience and subiection due vnto thē if the Iesuits may be sēt forth as Bishops and Curates and by this fulnesse of power haue more authority then the lawfull pastors the Bishops should be but as Vicars destituable at their pleasur S. Paul saith that the power was giuē him not to destroy but to edifie and made scruple to preach the Gospell where Christ should haue bin already preached ne superalienū fundamentū aedificaret Ro. 15. Rupertus interpreting the words of S. Iohn 4. chap Vt cognouit Christus c. saith that the great Mr. of Humility hath taught all the doctors of the Church of the houshold of faith not to intermeddle with nor pester the charges cures one of another although that he were the sun the light it selfe yet he would not manifest himselfe nor shine there where Saint Iohn had first begun to shewe his borrowed light can it be imagined that it is possible to substitute one in the place of the father of the familie with the same power and authority as hee hath to whom nature hath appointed it or as Gerson saith that the ordinarie Pastors which are accountable and answerable before God for their flocke should not haue the guiding and gouernment thereof to conclude that a stranger should haue more priuacie with the wife then the lawfull spouse This is against the aduise of Saint Gregory Non ego honorem esse puto saith he in quo fratres honorem suum perdere cognosco meus namque honor est honor vniuersalis Ecclesiae meus honor fratrum meorum solidus vigor tune ego vere honoratus sum cum singulus quibusque honor debitus non negatur I doe not thinke any honor to bee done vnto mee in that whereby I know that my brethren loose their honour for my honor is the honor of the vniuersall Church my honour is the soliderigour and courage of my brethren then am I truly honored when euery one in particular hath not his due honor and respect denied him Bern. 3. Consid cap. 5. And S. Bernard saith honorū ac dignitatū gradus ordines quibusque suos seruare positi estis nō inuidere You are apointed to preserue maintain the degrees orders of eueryone in his particular place dignity not to enuy them Moreouer the Iesuits doe teach propose and maintaine that the Pope only is infallible the celebration of Councels is but for decencie onely vt facilius canones recipiantur That the Canons may bee more willingly receiued that the Synodall resolutions doe depend not only of the will of the Pope but that hee may dispence with them change and abrogate them when hee thinketh good that the sacred elections are neither from the law of God or nature and appertaine only to the Pope Cardinall Bellarmine in the first booke De clericis chap. 8. and that hee may dispose of benefices yea to the preiudice of the Patrons and of those vpon whom they are conferred etiam sine causa yea without any cause the proper tearmes of Emmanuel Sa in verbo Papa That the Buls constitutions censures and excommunications yea the Bull in coena Domini and the Councell of Trent in that which concerneth the ciuill Policie doe oblige the French men in conscience although the French Church neuer gaue consent thereunto nor did euer receiue them Azorius in the 5. booke the 3. chap. of his morall institutions If that the councels doe depend entirely of the authority and approbation of the Pope as they mainteine and the author of the Catholike institution perswadeth when as in reckoning vp those which are legitimate hee omitteth those of Constance and of Basil which can bee vpon no other ground but for want of being approued and allowed by the Popes as Mariana his Colleague hath written it followeth and see the mischiefe they runne headlong into that all the liberties of the French Church founded vpon the authoritie of the Councels are schismaticall since there is an higher ascendent then that of the Councels that the appellations which are interposed vpon this foundation are grosse abuses and are abhominable it followeth moreouer that the sacred elections haue not their beginning from the law of God that the Primitiue Church the Church of France haue beene in an error vntill the concordate King Frances betweene the first and Leo the fift that you my Lords doe vsurpe vpon the greatest part of the iurisdiction which you haue and the iustice which you sincerely exercise which the Councell of Trent attributeth to Ecclesiasticall persons As the doctrine of the Iesuits peruerteth the Hierarchicall order of the Church so doth it annihilate the authority of Princes and of politique lawes and drowneth it in the spirituall power and is herein as opposite and contrary to that which our Theologie doth beleeue as white is vnto blacke nor the sensuall appetite to reason and if that calamities past haue not wholy bereft vs of our memorie we may thinke it to be at this time the miraculous hand of God which when wee least thought vpon it seemed to lay open this occasion not only to make vs see but also feele and touch the cause of our sorrowes The Vniuersitie of Paris teacheth that the spirituall power is no lesse separated from the temporall then heauen is from earth The raigne of the sonne of God and of his Vicar our holy father is not of this world the Church ought not to vse beside the Ecclesiasticall censure and that for lawfull causes and in such forme and manner as is prescribed any other meanes but persuasion and not constraint her proceedings which ought to draw vs to eternall beatitude are simply aduise and direction and not force and rigor that it can in no sort appertaine vnto Ecclesiasticall men to meddle in secular affaires all their intermedling ought to be tied vnto the soule and conscience and their iurisdiction vnto those actions which follow and depend on the administration of the sacraments That by the law of God and nature Kings holding amongst men the highest place next and immediately vnder God haue all politique and ciuil power and that they alone haue power ouer all that which concerneth the temporalty and amongst all Princes of the earth our thrice christian Kings to whom it seemeth that God hath communicated the most liuely markes and representation of his image who doe not auow nor acknowledge that they hold of any one but God alone their scepter and their crowne which he hath had in his speciall protection well nigh from the time that the crowne of the Sauiour of the world
neuer entred into the thought of a French man if this doctrine had not beene that it was lawfull to make any attempt vpon the sacred persons of Kings and permitted to kill them for as they haue taught that Kings may be excommunicated and deposed if they failed to submit themselues vnto the will of this absolute power so they haue also said that it was meritorious to kill them and by the one haue proued the other this is the course they take to proue it Princes by being excommunicate condemned and deposed of publique persons become priuate and particular men without hauing either authority or subiects and so from being Kings they become tyrants vsurpers and perturbers of the common peace and repose Occupantem tyrannicè potestatem quisque de populo potest occidere si aliud non sit remedium est enim publicus hostis Emanuel Sa in verbo Tyrannus Any one of the common people whatsoeuer may kill him who tyrannically vsurpeth the authority if there be no other remedy for he is a publike enemie The obiect of all the enterprises made by Parricides vpon which ground both Cardinall Bellarmin in his Apologie against the King of England pag. 299. and Ioannes Mariana in his first booke de rege regis institutione and the Iesuits likewise author of the booke intituled Amphitheatrum honoris haue all after one manner praised the abhominable parricide of our poore Prince and the Iesuits of Bourdeaux haue both saide and written that this was the cause of their safety which this very doctrine the rashnes of Barriere was armed in the yeere 1593. streng thened by the Counsell of Varrade Rector of the Iesuits against our inuincible King Henry the fourth At which time father Commolet did egge him forward by his outcries Iudg. 3.15 desiring an Ehud of what quality soeuer he were beleeuing that Barriere could not faile of his enterprise or if he did that he would stirre vp the minde of some other to attempt the like A great misfortune that France hath lost this aduantage which in ancient time was attributed vnto her that shee nourished no monsters But God stirred vp his Hercules to the end that he might subdue them of whose hand next after his bountie he would wee should receiue this diuine worke and the miracle of the rising againe of this Estate In this time the Iesuits knew that there rested nothing which could any more be opposed against the victorious armes of our great King that hee was as certainely assured of the honour of conquering his Kingdome as that it iustly appertained vnto him they made shew as if they would take a sweeter and more pleasing tune and for to vphold and preserue their society published the resolution which they said their Generall had made at Rome in the end of the yeere 1593. by the which they were expreslie forbidden to intermeddle with any affaires they protested to obey the same and to renounce all factions to honor and serue the King as Subiects whose clemencie should more appeare in pardoning thâ—m all then in the remnant and surplus of those who had swarued and straied from their duty this is that which then they touched in their pleading and by their defense put in print and it may bee was the onely reason and consideration that they were not at that time depriued of the Kings grace and pardon The wisdome of the Iesuits consisteth in gaining time vpon such occasioÌ„s their designe neuer dying they attend the commodity that their seed may bring forth fruit in season foure or fiue moneths after at the instant that the King left his armie this Prince the Pourtrait of valour it selfe in the midst of two hundred gentlemen in his house of the Louure is wounded by Chastel a scholler of the Iesuits nourished in their doctrine and hurt in such sort that without the manifest prouidence of God who loued vs at that time this Monarchie had beene vtterlie subuerted and we miserable men had beene depriued of the blessings which hee afterwardes obtained for vs by his incomparable valor his iustice and piety no lesse admired at by all the world then his arme and his sword were redoubted This miserable monster in the presence of you my Lords said hee ought else but that the King although he were a Catholike was yet out of the Church that he yet stood excommunicate that he must be slaine is there any thing here to bee seene differing from their propositions Barriere had said as much before Guignard the Iesuite written it and after a thousand blasphemies vttered against his naturall Prince Henry the 3. added this moreouer against the last King If hee cannot be deposed without warre let armes be taken against him if that cannot be done let him bee killed True enemies of quiet and repose quite contrary vnto the disciples of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who vsed no other armes but their praiers and preached nothing but loue charity and concord Your enterprises against our Kings and their Crownes by your owne confession deserued a greater condemnation then that which was pronounced against you by the decrees what tongue can sufficiently praise the power and effects of the Iustice of this great Parliament which in the middest of the greatest tempests hath alwaies measured her actions by the compasse of the good and honour of this Estate notwithstanding all oppositions your glory shall remaine immortall Plato in his Politickes holdeth an opinion which hath beene followed by many others that there are ages in the which God in person sitteth at the Sterne of this Vniuers doth guid and turne it according to his good pleasure but that againe there are other times in which God neglecteth this gouerment and that then the world destitute of the conduct of his creator taketh a motion contrary vnto that which God gaue it so that the East commeth to be the West and the North taketh the place of the South and that when this vniuersall conuersion doth happen the generations fashions and manners of men are either extinct or changed As Christians we are brought vp in a better schoole and fully resolued that the prouidence of God neuer abandoneth the guiding and conduct of the worlde and doth not in any age permit the Intelligences or Angels which moue the celestiall spheres to depart from the motion and measure which hath beene once prescribed them notwithstanding when calamities raigne in the world it seemeth that God sleepeth and that he will meddle no more with ought the rebellion of the people accompanied with all kind of vices with forgetfulnesse towards God and all sorts of miseries and calamities during the ciuill warre had taken so deepe roote and so strange and maruellous a growth On the contrary with the acknowledgement of our King our Soueraigne and lawfull Prince with the concord of vs who are fellow-Citizens and his Subiects as God more properly made vs to see his presence and his gouernment so likewise he made vs
but there where they were then established by appointment of their letters without expresse permission of the King and particularly within the iurisdiction of this Parliament except onely in the Townes of Lyons and Fleche which they being not willing presently to thwarte nor openly to band themselues against the Vniuersity of Paris whom they knew to bee in the particular protection of this great parliament whose Iustice the brighter it shineth the lesse they dare behold it they haue circumuented the accustomed weakenesse and folly of the simple people vpon which foundation they build their most firme dessignes and by the establishment of one or two and forty Colledges which they haue in the Townes of this Realme in stead of twelue or foureteene which they had in former times haue imagined that cutting off and diuerting the streames which runne into this great riuer they would wholy dry it vp And there is no doubt but that the Vniuersity hath thereby felt a great impayring and that they had conceiued such an opinion of the successe that they already gaue out that men tooke notice of their worth and that they were esteemed necessary that the Vniuersity sought them and offered them the Colledges of Plessis du Mans and of Cholets to ioyne them to that of Clermont they reported vnder hand that the City of Paris should come to that passe at length that it should giue them the Colledge of Nauarre or that any other should be built them as large as that But God would that the smoke of these ostentations should doe no hurt but to the eyes of the Iesuites and that the fruit and contentment of their reuenge hath fallen out otherwise then they expected for they confesse that the Vniuersity remaining as it doth without admitting or receiuing them into it their other Colledges cannot long continue and that their designes for the instruction of youth wil be well nigh fruitlesse and to no purpose whereunto in as much as they are stirred vp with the desire of rule and by the consideration of that greatnesse to which they aspire not being able to be withheld by the force of the lawes of our Vniuersity by the authority of your decrees nor the conditions of their reestablishment we are constrained to discouer one of the mysteries of their ambition Although that the Iesuits greatly wronging learning doe mangle and diuersifie the ancient authors that they are altogether ignorant in the secret of the tongues yea that in the Colledges where they account themselues setled and established to continue as in Italy and in Sauoy they do altogether contemne them and reade no other books but such as are composed by those of their own society notwithstäding the reputatiō of learning is highly esteemd the which they can neuer vsurpe nor adde vnto their trophies as long as the Vniuersity continueth without Iesuites Ammianus Marcellinus writeth that it was sufficient for the Physitians of his time in recommendation of their knowledge to haue studied in Alexandria so it addeth vnto the merit of any man be he neuer so learned to haue studied in Paris the strangers euidently shew it in seeking the alliance of the Vniuersity of Paris to grace their schooles as that of Pauia called her selfe as Crantzius writeth her daughter that of Milan her sister as witnesseth Paulus Iouius in the life of one of the Galeaces Besides this reputation of great importance which can giue or take from them the choice of the best wits they cannot manage the instruction of youth according to their minde any where else as well as at Paris the seat of the Empire the place where the royalty resideth whereon the eyes of France are set the residence of the great soueraigne assemblies no where out of Paris is there such ciuilitie out of Paris little experience is to be learned in affaires elsewher the course of the world is not knowne To conclude it is the braine of the body of this estate if they cannot possesse this part their hope is halfe frustrated First because that imploying for the instruction of the youth of other Cities men of little vnderstanding which had more need to be taught then to teach and being constrained to keepe the most able and sufficient they haue to make shew and muster withall the children doe not onely not profit by them but neither are they able to discharge what they haue vndertaken so that the assurance which they giue out of their lectures failing the Vniuersity should be replenished as shee doth begin with schollers which they retaine with all their might Secondly instructing the youth out of Paris vsually and most often the best wits doe leaue them and escape their hand then when hauing gotten more knowledge their iudgement is augmented they are diuerted by a quite contrary instruction vnto theirs so that their haruest neuer commeth to perfection for to confirme and settle their doctrine and institution they must alwaies haue their eye vpon their scholler whom they themselues doe fashion and inure to affaires of the world so that he taketh nothing in hand but by their aduise direction and order and hee must yeeld them an account of what he doeth they neuer let loose the bridle after they haue ingaged him in some matter which concerneth his particular interest and they haue long time had experience that by meanes of the bringing vp of the children of those of Paris they know the secrets of houses they gouerne the hearts and wils of those who commit vnto their trust that which they hold most deare a great augmentation of their power Another reason yet more weighty and of greater force is this The Kingdome of France hath at all times had the Colledge of Sorbonne in singular reuerence and estimation founded by our good King Saint Lewes it honoreth her resolutions and the consciences of men doe willingly submit themselues to her decrees the French Church taketh great assistance from the authority thereof which is so much the more legitimate by how much the more it is very ancient deriued by tradition from our fathers vnto vs accompanied with all sufficiencie learning and piety the Iesuites would haue gotten an absolute victory if they could haue ruinated this fortresse of the French Church and of our beliefe they should be without feare of euer seeing either their doctrine or the bookes of their society condemned or controlled It is not then succour or ayde which the Iesuits seeme to offer the Vniuersitie but to speake properly they seeke her ouerthrow and with what face dare they maintaine that our doctors are defectiue and faulty Gamaches du Val le Clerke Ysambert Hennequin doe instruct so faithfully and plainely that by learned lectures the schoole of the Sorbonne hath her exercises continually replenished with fiue hundred daily Auditors For instruction in humane learning there are as sufficient as euer there were Marsille Morel Bourbon Granger Hardiuiliers and others the least of whom hath more knowledge and
THE ARGVMENT of Mr. PETER de la MARTELIERE Aduocate in the Chart of Parliament of Paris made in Parliament the Chambers thereof being assembled FOR THE RECTOR AND VNIVERSITIE of Paris Defendants and Opponents against the Iesuits Demandants and requiring the approbation of the Letters Patents which they had obtained giuing them power to reade and to teach publikely in the aforesaid Vniuersitie Translated out of the French Copie set forth by publike Authoritie HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ⧠Jmprinted at London and are to be sold neere S. Austins Gate 1612. TO THE HONOVRAble Sir THOMAS FLEMMING Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of England MY Lord The same reason which first incited mee to vndertake this taske hath beene a principall motiue likewise emboldening me to offer it vnto your Lordships view and to presume to publish this discourse vnder the protection of your Lordships name The matter heerein handled is a notable famous controuersie arising between the ancient and renowned Vniuersity of Paris and the new and infamous yet cunning and powerfull sect of the Iesuits referred vnto the determination of Law Iustice and vpon the pleadings formally and iudicially argued and discussed the Actor a man of Law a learned and famous Aduocate as this his elaborate Argument doth sufficiently testifie and by a learned Doctor and Rector of the Vniuersity of Paris stiled os Themidis fori deliciae The persons and place before whom and where it was represented the Presidents and Counsellors in that great Court Parliament of Paris the sterne and guide of the Common-wealth and affaires of France the iustice and authority whereof amidst the cruell rage and tempests of ciuill wars as a firme anchor vpheld and preserued the same from most apparent shipwracke As then it cannot be accounted I trust superfluous and impertinent in me whose studie is conuersant in the Lawes of this Kingdom to intermeddle with that which is within the compasse of my profession and to ioine the view of the Lawes customes of other Nations and their manner of proceeding with those of our owne since that all humane Lawes haue but one soule which is reason one onlie function which is the peace and quiet of Estates and Common-wealths So I hope it will not be deemed presumption or rashnesse in that I present it vnto your Lordship who worthily presideth in a supreme Court of Iustice not inferiour vnto that of Paris in regard either of antiquity or Maiestie the Basis and pillar of this great Monarchie the firme supporter of the roiall Crowne and dignity To you my Lord who in regard of the place to which your worth learning piety eminent virtues haue iustly aduanced you do bear that honorable stile of Lord Chiefe Iustice a most significant title denoting the speciall charge and interest wich is committed vnto your Lorship in the execution of Iustice which you most sincerely wisely and religiously doe exercise with all integrity moderation to you who by reason here of are of the Law and professors thereof Deus tutelaris a Patron and Protector and therefore what our industry can effect is but a smal acknowledgement retribution of duty to be offered and dedicated vnto you Besides the subiect of this discourse is chiefely against that new excesse of impietie and King-daring doctrine of the Iesuites which like a contagious disease hath infected all the quarters of Europe bred strange combustions in Estates and bene the cause of most desperate attempts against the venimous poison whereof there is not a more forcible preseruatiue then the seuerity of your Iustice nor hath there bene euer any stronger bulwarke defence of the sacred authority persons of our Kings in all times and ages then the common Lawes of this Land Statutes of the Realme of the which your Lordship is the Chiefe-gardian and by due execution doe addelife soule vnto them These reasons my honorable Lord haue moued me though with the discouery of mine owne imperfections to hazard these first vntimely fruites of my idle houres on your Lordships fauourable acceptance wherein I shall haue receiued full content my desire intention beeing only to yeeld vnto your Lordship an humble acknowledgement of that reuerent regard and due respect I owe vnto you and to testifie that I am Your Lordships in all dutie deuoted GEORGE BROWNE AN ADVERTISMENT to the Reader READER To the end that thou fall not into this discourse abruptly I haue thought it not impertinent by way of Preamble to insert this short aduertisment touching the first institution of the Iesuites with their beginning and proceedings in France and the occasion of this present controuersie which may serue not only for an introduction into the discourse ensuing but also for an explanation of sundry passages alleged therein Whatsoeuer is here related I haue taken partly out of Steeuen Pas quier sometime Atturney generall of the King at Paris in his 4 booke of Epistles last epistle which I wold not conceale the rest I haue collected out of the histories of France As for the Vniuersity of Paris I shall neede to say little for it is sufficiently set foorth in the discourse but that it was first founded by Charles the Great in the yeere of our Lord 791. and that the Sorbonne so often mentioned is nought else but a famous Colledge of Diuines founded about the yeere 1253. by Lewis the 9. called Saint Lewis as my Author saith or as others write by Robert brother of the said King Now as concerning the Iesuits this Order first arose in Christendome about the yeere 1540. the Author and Founder therof was one Ignacius Loyola a gentleman of Nauarre who all his life time had followed the wars and being hurt in the Towne of Pampelona which is the chiefe City of Nauarre whilest his wounds were a healing he fell to reading the liues of the Fathers resoluing vpon the pattern of their liues to frame the tenor of his owne afterward ioining with some others who were some 10 in number they altogether swore a kind of Societie and Ignatius beeing cured they made voiages to Paris Rome and to Ierusalem and at last retired themselues into Venice where they made their aboad some few yeeres and seeing they had many followers remooued thence to Rome where they began to make publike profession of their Order promising two things especially the one that their principall end and scope was to preach the Gospell to the Pagans and Infidels for to conuert them to the Christian Faith the other freely and without reward to instruct Christians in good letters and for to fit and accommodate their name to their deuotion they termed themselues religious men of the Society of the name of Iesus They presented themselues vnto Pope Paul the 3. of the house of the Farneses about the yeere 1540. which was the time that Germany began to take armes by reason of the alteration of religion and because that one
tempests wherewithall we all thought wee should haue beene vtterly confounded A cursed doctrine which whether it bee written or spoken in publike or secret there is not any one touch thereof which hath not beene as the point of a dagger at our heart The King by his warres labors and victories had reestablished with France all Christendome had obliged all Princes and people the two third parts of the world had the Lilies grauen in their hearts and thought themselues interessed in his prosperity France being in flourishing estate neuer saw her selfe in better case to succour her friends her Prince was of immortall valour of an admirably strong complexion whose felicity did dazell the eies of all his enemies when the Princes of Germany most strictly allied vnto this crowne did instantly desire her helpe and protection against the oppression of the house of Austria to which the Iesuits are most deuoted our King had not omitted any exhortation or perswasion whatsoeuer to remoue the warre and to cause that the matter in question should be handled and decided in any other maner knowing better then any other that necessity alone can iustifie the armes of Christians against Christians and being not beleeued he prepared for the liberty of Germany such succours as his conscience his honour and his duty could not haue denied But willing before his departure to giue vnto France and vnto all the world the contentment of the coronation of the Queene a Princesse crowned and adorned with all vertues in the very height of our best estate of our greatest content Extrema gaudij luctus occupat ioy and sorrow lead one another by the hand the King passing through the middest of his most affectionate City amongst his most faithfull seruants glorious in maiestie was stroke in the side with a knife of the same temper that those of Clement Barriere and Chastell were of his heart was presently in a swound stifled in his blood what are there to be found any minds so vnnaturall so diabolicall as to conspire as to attempt the death of a Prince so behouefull so amiable vnto his subiects so equitable vnto his neighbors so necessarie for all Christendome There was not time enough to bring him backe to the Louure before his eies were setled in his head his lips pulled vp within his flesh his blood clotted like ice in his beard can we thinke on it a quarter of an houre without pulling out our heart he which filled all with his power this soule of the world this masterpeece wonder of nature this valiant warlike hand falleth and is taken from vs without any other warre then that of this doctrine by the hand of the most hideous most cruell and most fearefull monster that euer was vpon the earth by a more then hellish and infernall furie Let any man reade the confessions of Barriere and of Chastel let them bee confronted with the answeres of this execrable parricide there is not any difference at all betweene them the markes of this doctrine doe visibly appeare therein That the King was a tyrant and fauoured heretickes against the will of the Pope who was God vpon earth that the Preachers had sufficiently explained the cause which had moued him to doe it Stupide and blockish fellow it is true and why should it be dissembled in all other points concerning this subiect he had subtilties and euasions and was very cunning therein you haue heretofore vnderstood as much Master Iohn Fillesac a worthy Curate of the Parish of Saint Iohn Master Philip de Gamache the Kings Professor in diuinity another Israelite Coeffeteau heretofore Prior of the Iacobines all diuines of great merite can witnesse it and hee of their owne companie who confessed him better then any other who put him in minde of his conscience and bad him take heed of accusing those who were innocent Alas you were a thousand times more secure you Emperors and Kings enemies of Christians who amongst the greatest persecutions which the Church endured in the middest of the great and frequent martyrs which suffered by your authority and commandement haue seene no other weapon nor defence then that of praier of orisons of praise and thanksgiuing but that of teares as Gregory Nazianzene witnesseth without that any of those who truly adored Iesus Christ yea in the hottest of all their torments and persecutions once thought either in word or deed I doe not say to make any attempt vpon your persons but to be the cause of the least trouble or least commotion of your Estate O Gospell of peace doctrine of sweetnesse and charitie to what vse are you emploied what aduantage is giuen to Infidels and miscreants to continue their hate against the Church in stead of louing it what coales of Gods diuine vengeance do you pull vpon your heads O France how farre different was the censure of your innocent schoole the yeeres immediatelie precedent when your King Henry the 2 vpon the selfe same subiect and to deliuer Germany from the vsurpation which Charles the fift would haue made vnder colour of religion did leade sixtie thousand French men all Catholiques euen vnto the Rhene and so farre that he made him giue ouer his booty can we learne out of the history of any one Diuine in those daies or one subiect which thought himselfe lesse obliged vnto his Prince or which bare him lesse affection for that cause And yet 6. yeeres before our very doctors of Sorbonne had framed articles for the condemnation of the heresie of the Lutherances inserted into the body of our ordinances and vpon the which the Councell of Trent laid the principall foundation of the resolutions concerning that doctrine but the schoole of the Iesuits had not yet taught nor published that Kings might be deposed vpon any secret intention or presumption He whom God had most visibly exalted who did obscure the memory of the most fortunate and happy Monarchs the most pretious and sacred person of all Christendome to whom the holy Sea was beholding for the tranquillity it enioyeth the holy father for his quiet and repose he who had renounced the safetie of his owne to endeare you vnto him who made the clemency of his iustice to triumph in fauour of you receaued so ill a recompence for his bounty and goodnesse by your doctrine a doctor of the Church said that it was in the power of God to pardon a Virgin defiled but not to restore her to her virginity euen so fareth it with your fidelity and allegeance towards Princes after you haue once made your vowes vnto your Generall The inspirations and visions with which these vndertakers say the are possessed are they not the inuentions and subtilties of this doctrine for to corrupt and peruert the mindes of men and to transforme the dispositions of their vnderstanding and will to the end that the fantasie and apprehension which they haue taken may the more easily be so imprinted in their imagination that they may neuer