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A51221	Of patience and submission to authority a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on the 27th of January, 1683/4 / by John Moore ...	Moore, John, 1646-1714.	1684 (1684)	Wing M2545; ESTC R32113	43,694	66

this argument be justify'd and victorious Rebels may believe they are carrying on the work of the Lord. It may be here worth noting how Honorius I. who was Pope above an hundred years before Zachary did reprove the Bishops beyond the Po who were earnest with the Nobility to set up Arioaldus in the place of Adoevaldus King of Italy against their oath of allegiance and summon them to appear with their Cause before him The Popes it seems yet had not discover'd that they had power to dispense with oaths and cancell the obligation of that duty of submission to Kings which St. Peter had laid upon all Christians It was not in those days revealed that that Text Thou hast put all things under his feet was meant of the Pope and the better to accommodate it to his Holiness that we are to understand by the beasts of the field Men by the fowl of the air Angels by the fish of the sea Souls in Purgatory All put under the Pope's feet Now as to Hildebrand though he was a publisher of new Doctrines yet there will be no reason to believe he brought them down from Heaven if we may credit the account of his morals which is given by his Contemporaries Cardinal Benno taxes him with all the deadly sins each of which upon the commission of it does immediately put a man out of a state of salvation With murthers rapine adultery and constant practice of the Black-art Hildebrand however passes always with Bellarmine for a Saint and Baronius recommends his example to the imitation of Paul V. as the most excellent person that ever sate in the Papal Chair And they have no names bad enough to bestow upon Benno Both of them also insinuate the probability of the Book being written by a Lutheran which goes under Benno's name but Baronius was very unlucky in his conjecture that Reinerus Reineccius was the Father of this supposed spurious Piece when near 50 years before the Edition of Reineccius the Life of Hildebrand by Benno was publisht among the Tracts in the Book entitled Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum It is the main business of these two Learned Men in their voluminous Works to ascribe uncontrollable I may say boundless power to the Bishops of Rome and to maintain their right in the most unconscionable claims to a sovereignty over Emperours and Kings otherwise Bellarmine would never have vented it for truth that the Pope can change the nature of things and that if falling into errour he should command vice and forbid vertue the Church would be bound to believe vertue to be vice and vice to be vertue It being strange that in the same period he supposes the Pope can err he should assign such a power to him as by reason of its inconsistency with the perfections of the Divine Nature we may not ascribe to the Almighty God himself Otherwise Baronius would not have pick'd out of the whole Catalogue of the Popes Gregory VII and Alexander the III. as Patterns for Paul V. to govern himself by At the later of whose Feet Friderick Barbarossa lying prostrate he trampled upon his Neck and began to sing that of David thou shalt goe upon the Asp and Basilisc And to the Emperour who his Spirits boiling within him said this submission is made not to thee but to Peter the angry Pope pressing harder with his Foot did reply both to me and to Peter And Hildebrand the other Pope recommended to Paul V. Henry IV. upbraids with having by money got favour by favour got the sword by the sword placed himself in the seat of Peace and when in the seat of Peace banisht Peace from it Gregory could not but confess himself advanced by violent hands into St. Peter's Chair In which Chair he did dictate or decree That his name alone should be rehearsed in the Churches That he has power to depose Emperours That he ought to be judged by no man That he can absolve Subjects from their allegiance to unjust Princes That he should give himself the title of Christ's Vicar and yet make his Kingdom to be of this World and by his Decrees set aside the plain Precepts of Christ that he should pretend to be the Successour of St. Peter and teach Doctrines directly contrary to those of St. Peter In which Chair he thunder'd out Curses against the Emperours Kings Princes Bishops and demanded Tribute almost of every Kingdom in Europe Engaging them in bloudy Wars and setting their Subjects loose from their duty and obedience He contrived an Oath in such a form to be imposed upon Kings as no honest man could take it Kings are to swear faithfully to observe whatsoever the Pope shall command them Bellarmine's Doctrine truly agrees with this Oath For if the Pope should command a Prince to murther an hundred of his innocent Subjects he was bound to believe it would be a vertue so to doe But the very rage of this fierce and haughty man discharged its self chiefly upon Henry IV. whom he excommunicated four times deposed him unheard and unconvicted and gave his Kingdom to Rodulphus And after a terrible journey in the depth of a severe Winter made him without all his Attendants and stript of his Royal Robes to wait barefoot and fasting three whole days before he would admit him but into his presence he all the time caressing his Mistris in the Castle at Canusium Insomuch as in his own Letter to the Germans upon this occasion he acquaints them that all wonder'd at the strange hardness of his heart and some cryed out of him as not proceeding with the gravity of Apostolic severity but with the cruelty of brutish Tyranny The Church of Liege farther inform us they had read that Hildebrand the onely Pope who hath added to the holy Canons had commanded the Marchioness Mawd as the condition of the forgiveness of her sins to subdue Henry the Emperour but whence say they is this new Authority by which impunity of the sins past and licence for those which shall be hereafter is offer'd to the guilty without confession and repentance These Proceedings do indeed suppose God to have committed to the Pope a power not onely of determining disputable points but as Benedict tells Paul V. of making new Creeds So that is was judiciously observ'd by Aventinus that Hildebrand did absolve men not from their sins but from the Law and Sacraments of Christ undermine the Peace and Piety of our Religion raise War and Seditions indulge Whoredom Murther Perjuries Perfidiousness Rapines Fire and to hide his Ambition did not onely devise Fables corrupt Annals pervert Records but also adulterate the heavenly Oracles Forcing the Divine Writings to serve his Lust by false glosses put upon them And the Councils of Mentz Brixia and Wormes did great service to Christianity and pursued truly the interest of the Church when they deposed

Gregory VII as not elected by God but one who impudently obtained the Popedom by fraud and money subverted Ecclesiastical Order disturbed the Kingdom of the Christian Empire menaced death to the Body and Soul of a Catholick and Pacific King defended a perjured King sow'd discord among Friends strifes among the Peaceable scandals among Brethren divorces between Man and Wife c. To come to the last scene of this high-spirited Pope who put the Christian World all into commotion if we may believe Paul Bernriedensis a Writer on his side and publisht by Gretser the Jesuit these were his last words I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity therefore I die in banishment but if we will give credit not onely to Matthew Paris but Sigebert Gemblacensis and others and to what Cuspinian found in most ancient Records He dying to the Cardinals assembled about him did confess he had greatly sinned in his Pastoral Charge and stirr'd up the wrath and hatred of God against Mankind by the instigation of the Devil and that on his death-bed he did extremely grieve for the trouble he had given Henry the Emperour and so did absolve him And after all why should it seem strange to any man that Gregory VII should use crown'd Heads so coursly when he had such a mean opinion of Royal Power as in an Epistle to Heriman Bishop of Mets to declare that Kings owe their beginning to those men who knew not God and who by the agency of the Devil and by Pride Rapins Perfidiousness Murthers and all kind of wickedness got the dominion over them who by nature did stand on the same level with them And in the same Epist Who doubts but that the Priests of Christ ought to be accounted the Fathers and Masters of all Kings and Princes And that Gold does not more excell Lead than the Sacerdotal Dignity the Royal Power And likewise That there is more power granted to an Exorcist since he is made a Spiritual Emperour i. e. Conjurour to cast out Devils than can be to any Lay-man on the score of Secular Dominion Now was there ever a greater Patron of Republican Principles than this Pope who most malitiously and falsly lays the foundations and original of Kingly Power in the Lusts and Sins of Men assisted by the Devil Could Knox Milton Rutherford Goodwin or any Commonwealth's Man of them all have spit ranker Venom at Kings or spoke with greater contempt of their Authority than Hildebrand who makes them Servants to the Priest and their Power less than that of one of the most inferiour Officers in the Church And having made this report of the life and behaviour of Hildebrand and cited the Authours upon whose Authority it does rely I conceive I need not tell the Reader that the Writers I have dealt with were all of the Church of Rome and generally confest to be the most eminent and judicious Historians in these Matters and that most of the notorious Crimes charged upon Hildebrand do not appear more from others than from his own words to be found in his Books of Epistles Neither will it be easie to free Bellarmine from much disingenuity in going about to take away the credit of Jo. Aventinus's History for that he does not name the Authours from whence he has it when in the period immediately above that Bellarmine quotes out of Aventinus concerning the faults of Henry IV. Aventinus declares that he follow'd the Public Authority of the Letters Diploma's Edicts Rescripts that passed between Henry and Hildebrand still preserved in their Libraries And that he did not charge either of them with any vice which was not owned by their Friends nor praise any vertue in either which was not before ascribed to them even by their Enemies But how far Bellarmine was from relating things thus honestly we may rest satisfied from the Citation now mentioned Where he has from Aventinus transcribed the Vices of the Emperour but concealed his Vertues which next follow Now had we time it would not be hard to shew how the Bishops of Rome who did tread in the steps of Hildebrand have been for the most treated with the same sharpness and disrespect How the Princes have asserted their Rights conferred by God against the unjust Intrusions of Popes And with what contempt and neglect they have receiv'd their insolent Messages in all Countries I produce an instance or two ancient and modern When Boniface VIII writ to Philip the fair of France to give him to know he was subject to him in matters Spiritual and Temporal and that they were Fools who thought otherwise His answer was Let your Holiness's wonderfull Wisedom know that in Temporals we are subject to no body They that complain of the indecency of the King's Language must observe it is the same the Pope used first and that his Holiness should not have provoked his Son to wrath When Sixtus V. sent out his Bull against the King of Navar pronouncing him a Heretic and that he had cut off his right of Succession to the Crown of France The King in his Remonstrance does affirm That as to the feigned crime of Heresie whereof he is falsly and unjustly accused he affirms that the Pope saving due respect to his Holiness does falsly wickedly and malitiously lye And that he is of all Heretics the greatest as he undertakes to prove in a free Council assembled according to the Laws I farther observe under this head that the Popes did take upon them first onely to confirm the Emperours by putting the Crown on their Heads and from thence afterwards they pretended to a right to depose them And yet among all the Eastern Emperours none but Justinus I. and Petrus Altissiodorus were crowned by Popes He by John I. and this by Honorius III. And in the Western Empire this custome commenced but in Charles the Great upon whose Head Leo III. placed the Crown in gratefull consideration of the excellent services he had done the Church against the Lumbards Now should it be said that the relation we make is of matters done at a remote distance from our times and that we may presume the Doctrines of deposing and killing of Kings though not yet condemned by the Church of Rome to be disown'd by all the Members of it since some of them have writ expresly against them and none of them have lately given us any occasion to charge them with holding these wicked and unchristian Doctrines To this it may be answer'd that although the present Pope Innocent XI has censured sixty five lewd and pernicious Propositions taught by Jesuits and other Popish Casuists if that may be call'd a censure which is so very soft and gentle yet he has slipt over this Doctrine so frequently taught by the same men That a Prince excommunicated or depriv'd by the Pope may and ought to be deposed or killed by his own Subjects or any whatsoever