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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

who established the Priests in their charge yea Salomon deposed the Priest Abiathar And Nehemias restored the seruice of God caused the Law to be read and enterpreted making the people to vnderstand it by reading And if the Spirit of God taught Nehemiah this forme of enterpreting the Law by the holy Scripture which conteined then but the bookes of Moses and a few others of the old Testament how dare men taxe the Scripture of obscurity now that it is illustrate with the Commentaries of the Gospell of the Sonne of God and with the gloses of the Apostles Euangelists Certaine it is that this forme of enterpreting the Scripture by it selfe wil not be reiected vnlesse it be of such as the Apostle speaketh of 2. Cor. 4.3 If our Gospell be hid it is hid to them that perish in whom the God of this world hath blinded the mindes Now all those Princes were not Priests and therefore did nothing but in the quality of Kings exercising the charges depending of the Crowne True it is that sometimes one and the same man was both King and Priest as Melchizedec but it was in asmuch as he figured the onely King Priest and eternall Prophet of his Church to wit our Sauiour And if Cardinall Bellarmine will at this day bring in a mixt power into the Church either hee will make vs still in expectation of the Messias by such figures or will manifest vnto vs vnder the Gospell that which Pope Nycholas speaketh of in these termes Nichol. Epist 8. Before the comming of CHRIST some haue bene typically Priests and Kings as Melchizedec which the Deuill would imitate in his members Out of which words may be gathered that if there bee found since the publication of the Gospell any person exercising both the functions that hee is a member of the Diuell according to the opinion of Pope Nicholas who fauoureth not in that the Bishops that be Lords Temporall and Spirituall And as Kings fully discharging their office were blessed of God so they tooke not vpon them any thing pertaining to the office of the Priests and Leuites neither intermedled they with making vnleauened cakes sacrificing of Calues or sprinkling of the bloud vpon the Altar for in this case it was permitted the Priests to reproue and God did punish them for it So Azariah the chiefe Priest said to Vzziah 2. Chron. 26.18 It pertaineth not to thee to burne incense vnto the Lord but to the Priests the sons of Aaron that are consecrated for to offer incense And not onely the chiefe Priest but the least hauing charge in the Church may admonish in conscience in godly manner all Kings Emperours after the example of Nathan and Saint Ambrose Bishop of Milan who shut the Temple against the Emperour Theodosius For it is not a case reserued to the Bishop of the first sea to put Kings in minde of their conscience to make knowne vnto them their sinnes it is the Law of God that speaketh and not man whose person or degree is not considerable but his Diuine commission After this manner vnder the Law yea from Adam vntill our Sauiours comming in the flesh Kings haue behaued themselues with the Priests Christ was borne in the yeare of the world 3963. and all the Church for the space of foure thousand yeares CHAP. IIII. That since the comming of our Lord IESVS in the flesh the authority of Kings ouer Ecclesiasticall persons is not diminished THERE is nothing truer then this Proposition of our Sauiour Mat. 5.17 I am not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it Also Ioh. 18.13 My Kingdome is not of this world Whence it followeth that the Iustice which is Patrimoniall to all Princes is not taken away from them ouer one part of their Subiects That IESVS hath not established any other power aboue their Estate for to dispense their seruants of their allegeance due vnto them that hee hath not taken away from them the command that they had in time of the Law ouer the Church to reforme it ouer the Doctors of the Church to assemble them and ouer the chiefe Priest to depose And therefore Saint Paul saith that Kings are established as well to maintaine piety and religion as honesty and pollicy 1. Tim. 2. To the end saith hee that wee may lead a peaceable and quiet life in all godlinesse and honesty For why should the yoake of the Gospell which CHRIST calleth light to all that will vndergoe it bee heauy on the necke of Kings to whom God giueth titles and prerogatiues aboue all other men calling them the CHRISTS Ier. 4.20 or annointed of the Lord And as our Sauiour is called the light of the Gentiles 2. Sam. 21. 1. King 14. 1. Sam. 13 1● 〈…〉 in the song of Simeon so also is the King called the Lampe of Israel and Moses and Dauid Men of God And in the Psalme speaking of this authority I haue said ye are Gods all children of the most High Whence come then those heresies that already take roote in all the society of new Doctors That Kings are rather slaues their Lords that Popes haue degraded many Emperours Bel. de Pont. lib. 1. c. 5. lib. 3. c. 16. lib. 5. c. 8. Emanuel Sa Iesuite in his Aphorismes Printed at Antwerp v. Princeps v. Clericis but neuer any Emperour deposed one Pope That Bishops may depose Kings and abrogate their Lawes That Ecclesiasticall persons dwelling in a Kingdome are not the Princes subiects and cannot bee iudged by them though they iudge Princes Now who is it that seeth not the iugling deceit of the Iesuites throughout the Chapters of this Treatise neither can the Cardinall bring any reason to the contrary and although wee agree in this that Kings are ordained of God for the people yet wee must discouer the fallacy of these Doctors equiuocating in the word for which is applyable both waies to serue and to command So wee agree that Kings are for the people but it is as the soule is created for the body and the head for the members to wit in a superiour degree to command and not to set the feete aboue the head Thirdly if this Doctor will not attribute to himselfe more authority then CHRIST and the Apostles haue done who in this world subiected themselues to it hee will not hold Kings in the ranke of slaues And if it had bene needfull to abase them in this estate the Lord IESVS had power enough to make the proudest stoope But if neither hee nor his Apostles haue enterprised any such thing then when the Church was in her purity it followeth that the perfection of the State Ecclesiasticall dependeth not on the superiority of Magistrates Soueraigne or subalternall And seeing the Apostle commandeth his successours to bee imitators of him 1. Cor. 11 1. Phil. 3.17 as he is of CHRIST they should say one to another as Christ did of himselfe

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