Bellarmine and Baronius though they still carry on the Design of the first Inventers by some other Methods which they hope will succeed better Nor is it any wonder that a Secular Kingdom should make men more active than the love of Heaven since we daily see how the Kings of the world expend vast Treasures of Gold and Silver and run through all dangers of Death and Battel for their own preservation and the Conquest of their Neighbours The same care which they take in building Forts and Cittadels being taken by the Bishop of Rome in maintaining Seminaries Universities Printing-Houses c. which depend absolutely on him for the securing of all that Wealth and Empire which he hath by his Wit and Policy acquired It standeth him upon for if his Religion falls his Glory vanisheth and his Kingdom is abolished What men will do for Secular Ends beyond all the belief and expectation of the Vulgar we see in Hamor and Shechem the first and most Ancient Myrrour of that kind in the world who for the accomplishment of their desires introduced a new Religion troubling themselves and their Citizens unto Blood meerly to get possession of Dinah Jacob's Daughter 〈◊〉 's Policy is about 2500 years old though much more late When the ten Tribes revolted from the House of David for fear lest they should return to their Allegiance if they went up yearly to Jerusalem according to the Law he set up two Calves for the people to worship and underwent a great expence besides the Gold in the Calves in erecting a new Order of Friests that the people might be kept at home in their perverse Obedience He very well knew those Calves were no Deities yet for secular ends he promoted their worship and was followed therein by all the Line of the Kings of Israel several hundred of years together What Demetrius the Silver-Smith did for Diana of the Ephesians and what an uproar he made purely for Gain in making her Shrines all the Christian World understandeth But the High-Priests Scribes and Elders of the Jews in acting against all the Miracles of Christ and against their Conscience especially in giving Money to the Souldiers to hold their peace when they brought the news of his Resurrection their resisting of the Holy Ghost at his Miraculous Descent these are a sufficient instance of the incredible obdurateness of mans heart and his obstinate 〈◊〉 allures his hopes as the immediate Crown of his Labours The Diana of the Romans is much more prosicuous than the Diana of the Ephesians The fattest places of the Provinces and the greatest Empire in the World are the Game they Play This Dinah animateth all their Strength to impose on the people And for the easing of their own Charge it is a usual thing with Popes to permit their Priests and Fryers for their better support to deceive the people which Dr. Stillingfleet in his Book of Popish Counterfeit Miracles does excellently open in which and in all other Arts and Tricks they have a special connivance provided they keep the poor simple Sheep within the bounds of their Jurisdiction and contribute to the continuance of their Secular Kingdom This is the truth of the Story and these are the circumstances of the whole procedure which remains now to be proved CAP. IV. James Merlin's Editions of the Councils who lately published Isidore Hispalensis for a good Record which is now detected and proved to be a Forgery JAmes Merlin's pains was to publish Isidore with some Collections and Additions of his own He positively affirmeth him to be that Famous Isidore of Hispalis a Saint a Bishop and a Father of the Church though as Blondel and Dr. Reynolds accurately observe S. Isidore of Hispalis was dead 40 50 60 years before some things came to pass that are mentioned in that Book of the Councils Blondel in a Book of his called Pseudo-Isidorus or Turrianus Vapulans Cap 2. observes how the lowest that write of Isidores death fix it on the year 647. as Vasaeus in his Chronicle Others on the year 643. as Rodericus Toletanus Hist. lib. 2. cap. 18. Or on the year 635. as the proper Office of the Saints of Spain or on the year 636. when Sinthalus entered his Kingdom as Redemptus Diaconus an eye-witness De Obitu Isidori Brauleo Bishop of Caesar-Augustana Lucas Tudensts Baronius the great Annalist Mariana Grialus and others agree with the last which is eleven years sooner than Vasaeus So that the general prevailing Opinion is that Isidore of Hispalis died in the year 636. However that we may deal most fairly with them we will allow them all they can desire and calculate our affair by the last Account which is most for their advantage Admit Vasaeus in the right that Isidore lived till the year 647. yet the Book which is Fathered upon him can be none of his for it mentions things which came to pass long after It is observed by Blondel that Honoratus who succeeded Isidore in the See of Hispalis is found in the sixth Council of Toledo whereas this pretended Isidore makes mention of the eleventh Council in the same place He talks of the sixth Oecumenical Council in the year 681. no less than 46 years after his own death by the lowest account He writes of Boniface of Mentz slain as Baronius observes in the year 755. which was threescore and sixteen years after Isidores death Yet Possevin upon the word Isidorus Hisp. and Hart in his Conference with Reynolds contend the Author of this Book to be the true Isidore Bishop of Hispalis as Merlin who first published Isidore in print and others did before them Among his Witnesses produced against this Counterfeit the first which Blondel useth is the Code of the Roman Church in which onely the Epistles of 13 Roman Bishops are contained beginning with Siricius Whereas there are in Isidore above 60. whereof five or six and thirty lived before Siricius and were all unknown until the time of Isidore His next Testimony is that of the Bishops of France about the year 865. who concluded that Isidore's Wares then newly beginning to be sold could not have the force of Canons because they were not contained in the Authentick Code or Book of Canons formerly known He next citeth the Council of Aquisgranum An. 816. the Bishops of Paris An. 829. Henricus Caltheisensis Erasmus Greg. Cassander Anton. Contius the famous Lawyer Bellarmine and Baronius the Learned Cardinals The Testimony of Baronius being more largely cited than the residue I thought it meet to search the Author and there I found these following passages Writing upon the Contest between Pope Nicholas and the French Bishops concerning Appeals he beginneth to shew how they complained that the Causes of Bishops which ought to be tryed in Councils by their Fellow Bishops were removed to the Apostolick Chair And they questioned in their Letters whether those Epistles of the more Ancient Bishops which were not inserted into the Body
Elaborate manner That the Bishop of Rome had a secret hand in the contrivance and publication of them is probable if not clear from divers Reasons 1. Before they were published Hadrian 1. maketh use of the Tale of Constantines Leprosie Vision and Baptism by Pope Sylvester things till then never heard of in the world but afterwards contained in the Donation of Constantine a Forgery which in all probability lay by this Hadrian but of his own preparing when he wrote his Letter to Constantine and Irene which Letter was read and is recorded in the 2. Nicene Council on the behalf of Images being sent abroad like a Scout as it were to try what success it would find in the world before he would adventure the whole Body of his Players to publick view For if that were swallowed down without being detected the rest might hope for the same good Fortune if not the first might pass for a mistake and its Companions be safely suppressed without any mischief following 2. The Emperour and the Council having digested the first Legend exposed by the Pope so crastily to publick view the other Forgeries were a little after boldly published in this Book of Isidore together with the Legend and Donation of Constantine which when Hincmarus Archbishop of Rhemes upon its first publication set himself to write against he was taken up so roundly for the same by the Authority of Rome that he was fain gladly to acquit the Attempt for ever And their tenderness over it is I think a sufficient Indication of their Relation to it every Creature being naturally affectionate to its own Brood and prone to study its preservation The Church of Rome was so tender of Isidores Edition that as some say Hinemarus was forced to recant his Opinion and to declare that he believed and received the Book with Veneration 3. It is recorded by Justellus that the forementioned Hadrian was careful to give Charles the Great a Copy of the Councils and Decretal Epistles drawn up as he affirmed by Dionysius Exiguus Daillè accuses the Book of many faults but whether Hadrian or Dionysius were guilty of them is little material only 't was done as a Pledge of Reconciliation after several Bickerings between the Giver and Receiver Charles the Great having several times invaded Rome and now departing thence with Friendship which makes me a little the more prone to suspect Dionysius too for one of those Danaum Dona which are given like Nessus his Shirt when wounded by Hercules to his Enemies Wife for the destruction of her Husband Be it how it will it shews that Hadrian I. was a busie man that he understood the influence and power of Records what force they would have upon the minds of Lay-men and that his eyes and hands were sometimes busied in such Affairs But that which above all other Arguments discovers the Popes to have a hand if not in the Publication yet in the Reception of the Forgeries is this that the Roman Canonists Ivo Gratian c. have digested them into the Popes Laws and they are so far countenanced by the Popes themselves that almost from the time of their publication throughout all Ages since they have been received for Authentick in the apal Jurisdiction and are used as such in all the Ecclesiastical Courts under the Popes Dominion as the chief of their Rules for the deciding of Causes So that they are not only fostered but exalted by the Authority of Rome The Glory which they acquired in the Throne of Judgment advancing them for a long time above the reach of Suspition The Veneration which is due to the Chair of Holiness was their best security By the influence of the Popes Authority they were received into the Codes of Princes being as we shall shew out of Baronius in the next Chapter introduced into the Capitular Books of the Kings of the Franks by Benedictus Levita and at his instant request confirmed and approved by the 〈◊〉 Chair The Forgeries in Isidore being scattered abroad it is difficult to conceive to what a vast Height the Roman See by degrees 〈◊〉 The Splendour of so many Ancient Martyrs 〈◊〉 together with so many Canons and Decrees in her behalf so far wrought that her Bishop came at last to Claim all Power over all persons Spiritual and Temporal to have the sole power of forgiving sins to be alone Infallible to be Cods Vicar upon Earth the only Oracle in the world nay the sole Supreme and Absolute Monarch disposing of Empires and Kingdoms according to the Tenour of the Doctrines contained in those Forgeries wherein he is made the sole Independent Lord without Controul able to do what ever he lifted Some few Ages after this first Publication of Isidore there were other Records put forth though lately seen yet bearing the countenance of 〈◊〉 Antiquitie which so ordered the matter that according to them the Evangelists brought their Gospels to S. Peter to confirm them and several books of S. Clement S. Peter's Successor were put into the Canon of the Holy Bible the whole number of Canonical books being setled and defined by his sole Authority In token doubtless of the Power Inherent in all S. Peter's Successors at Rome to dispose of the Apostles and their Writings as they please S. 〈◊〉 own Canon for that purpose being numbered among those of the Aposiles That the Pope was uncapable of being judged by any that no Clergy-man was to be Subject to Kings but all to depend immediately upon the Bishop of Rome that he was the Rock and Head of the Church was the constant Doctrine of all those Forgeries when put together with many other Popish Points of less concernment sprinkled up and down in them at every turning Cui bono Among the Civilians 't is a notable mark of Detection in a blind Cause whose Good whose Exaltation whose Benefit is the drift and scope of things and 't is very considerable for the sure finding out of the first Authors That they are Forgeries is manifest Now whose they are is the Question in hand and if Agents naturally intend themselves in their own Operations it is easily solved How excessively the World was addicted to Fables about the time of Isidore's Appearance we may see by the Contents of the 2. Nicene Council Dreams Visions and Miracles being very rife in their best demonstrations and among other Legends a counterfeit Basil a counterfeit Athanasius a counterfeit Emperour maintaining and promoting the Adoration of Images As may perhaps in another Volume be more fully discovered when we descend from these first to succeeding Ages The Counterfeits in Isidore being mingled with the Records of the Church like Tares among Wheat or false Coyns among heaps of Cold lay undistinguished from true Antiquities and after Hincmarus his ill success were little examined by the space of 500 or 600 years Some small opposition there was made in particular by the Bishops in France and
Pragmatical Constitution we Decree them to be dispased and grant them to remain under the Right and Tenure of the H. Roman Church Poor Priests are fain to cheat the people by witty Miracles and small Devices at Shrines and Images for a little Silver and Gold The best of them can attain no more than Lordships and the Territories of Subjects As the Manours evidence which are given to our Lady of Loretto and those Lands which Jesuites squeeze out of dying men with the fear of Purgatory But the Pope and his Cardinals find it not suitable to their State and Dignity to juggle for less than Empires and Kingdoms and therefore soar high you see in the present Donation Wherefore saith the Emperour we have thought it convenient to change and remove our Empire and the power of our Kingdom into the Eastern Countries and in the best place of the Province Byzantium to build a City after our Name and there to found our Empire Because where the * Head of the Principality of Priests and of the Christian * Religion is ordained to be by the Coelestial Emperour it is not just that the Earthly Emperour should there have any Power Here is a high Career of notorious He resie and Blasphemy together S. Peter was called the Prince of the Apostles but the Pope is the Head of the Principality nor Head of the Priests only but of the Christian Religion which I think none but our Saviour can possibly be It smells rank of Blasphemy but that the Priestly and Imperial Power should be incompatible is Rebellion and Heresie It shews how incompatible Popish and Imperial Power is Yet all these things are ratified by other Dival Sanctions made by the Emperor though recorded no where as you may see in the words following BVT all these things we also have decreed and ratified by other Dival Sanctions and we decree them to stand unblemished and unshaken to the end of the World WHEREFORE we protest before the Living God who commanded us to Reign and before his Terrible Judgment by this our Imperial Constitution that it shall not be lawful for any the Emperours our Successors nor for any of our Nobles and Peers or for the most Ample Senate or for all the people of the whole World now or hereafter from hence in all Ages lying under our Empire by any means to contradict or break or in the least to diminish these things which by this our Imperial Sanction are granted to the Holy Roman Church or to all the Bishops of the same But if any Breaker or Contemner of these shall arise which we do not believe let him be knotted and ensnared in eternal Damnation and find the Saints of God and the Princes of the Apostles Peter and Paul Enemies unto him both in the Life present and in that which is to come and being burnt in the lower Hell let him perish with the Devil and all the wicked The great Council of Chalcedon consisting of 620 Fathers lies under this Sentence because they made the Patriarch of 〈◊〉 equal with the Bishop of Rome If Constantine the Great did make it with the consent of all his Nobles and the whole Senate before all the Princes and People of Rome as is pretended in the Donation It was too publick a thing not to be heard of and too remarkable to be let pass in silence Since therefore it is incredible that so many Fathers should wilfully fall under the Curse it is certain the whole Donation is a Counterfeit Howbeit as the Substance of the Act so the Ceremony is worth the observation But 〈◊〉 the Page of this our Imperial Decree we laid it with our own hands on the venerable Body of the blessed Peter Prince of the Apostles and there promising to that Apostle of God that we would inviolably keep all these things and leave them in charge to be kept by the Emperours our Successors we delivered them to our blessed Father Sylvester High-Priest and Universal Pope and to all the Popes his Successors the Lord God and our Saviour Jesus 〈◊〉 allowing 〈◊〉 for ever and happily to be enjoyed And the Imperial subscription The 〈◊〉 keep you many years 〈◊〉 and blessed Fathers Dated in Rome on the 〈◊〉 day of the Kalends of April Our Lord Flavius Constantinus 〈◊〉 th fourth time and Gallicanus being Consuls A NOTE No Emperour being ever accustomed to stile himself Our Lord c. Those words Our Lord Flavius Constantinus coming out of Constantine's own Mouth bewray the Donation as made by some other unless he were at the same time both his own Subject and his own Emperour CAP. XXII The Donation of Constantine proved to be a Forgery by Binius himself He confesseth the Acts of Sylvester which he before had cited as good Records to be Counterfeit THose things saith Binius in his Notes which are told concerning the Dominion and Temporal Kingdom given to the See of Rome are manifestly enough proved to be likely by what we said in our Notes upon the former Epistle as well as by the Munificence of the Emperour himself never enough to be praised Observe here the modesty of the man He ought to prove the Instrument itself but that he throws by and talks of the Dominion and Temporal Kingdom 2. Neither will he undertake to prove it certain but likely that the Dominion and Temporal Kingdom was given to the See of Rome 3. He cites his Notes on a counterfeit Epistle to make it likely For the Epistle going before was the Epistle of Melchiades which he confesseth to be a Forgery 4. The Munificence of the Emperour makes it probable that he gave away the Empire to the See of Rome If you will not believe this you are an hard-hearted man for Binius says it His Notes upon the former Epistle to which he refers you are these That the things which are written in this Epistle concerning the Donation of Constantine to Melchiades and Sylvester are true is proved not only from hence but most firmly also by the Authority of Optatus Milevitanus a most approved Writer For he writeth lib. 1. cont Parm. that Constantine and Licinius being the third time Consuls to wit in the year of Christ 313. a Council of 19 Bishops was held at Rome in the Cause of Caecilianus and the Donatists in the Lateran in the House of Fausta which was the Seat of the Roman Bishop Truly he doth not expresly write that the House was given to Melchiades by the Emperour but since no reason doth appear for which it is necessary that the Convention of 19 Bishops should require larger Rooms out of the House of Melchiades that wherein the foresaid Synod was assembled to wit the Lateran or House of Fausta can by no prudent person any more be doubted to be given by the Emperour to Melchiades the Bishop of Rome The Lateran is not so much as named in the Epistle of Melchiades but that he left
the Imperial Seat which the Roman Princes had possest and granted it to the profit of the blessed Peter and his Bishops Which considering what follows is far more fit to be understood of the Emperours leaving Rome and granting it to the Bishop whence they pretend he did go on purpose So that the agreement between Optatus Milevitanus and the Epistle of Melchiades is very small or none at all But admit that Melchiades and Optatus Milevitanus had said both of them that the Lateran was given to Melchiades what is that to the Dominion and Temporal Kingdom A single House instead of an Empire Though that the House was given Optatus Milevitanus doth not affirm even by Binius his own confession How the things in this Epistle should be concerning the Donation of Constantine to Melchiades and Sylvester is difficult to conceive because Melchiades was dead before the Donation was made to Sylvesier It is very unlikely therefore that Melchiades should make mention of that Donation His Epistle talking of Constantine his being President in the H. Synod that was called at Nice is a manifest Imposture Melchiades being dead before the Nicene Council as is before observed Yet hence it is proved that Constantine 〈◊〉 a Donation to Melchiades and Sylvester Binius holdeth fast the Donation though he lets go the Epistle Like a Lo gician who lets go the premises but keeps the conclusion For it is most firmly proved by Optatus Milevitanus What is proved by him That Constantine the Great gave the Lateran to Melchiades How is it proved Why he testifieth that a Council of 19 Bishops met in Fausta's house in the Lateran Truly he doth not expresly write that the house was given to Melchiades But it seemeth probable to Binius his imagination And so it is most firmly proved by Optatus Milevitanus a most approved Writer Thus those things that are told concerning the Dominion and Temporal Kingdom given to the See of Rome are manifestly enough proved to be likely by what we said in our Notes upon the former Epistle But it is better proved by the continual possession of those houses by the space of thirteen Ages until now as he afterwards observeth Though the length of an unjust Tenure increaseth the Transgression Having first proved the Donation he proceedeth thus Hoc Edictum à Graecis persidâ Donatione quâ juxta illud Virg. 2. Aeneid Timeo Danaos Dona ferentes donare solent acceptum mutilum esse ac dolosè depravatum hae rationes evidenter demonstrant These following reasons evidently shew this Edict of Constantine by the persidious Donation of the Greeks to be maimed and treacherously depraved He enters upon the business gently pretending at first as if the Donation were true that it was depraved by the Greeks But afterwards when he is a little warm in the Argument and somewhat further off from his Sophistical Defences he falls foul upon it as a Counterfeit and rejects it altogether as in the close will appear to the considerate Reader But here let us see what Arguments he produceth to prove it maimed and treacherously depraved 1. Because it pretendeth the Primacy of the Church to be granted by a Lay-man which was immediately given to Peter by God himself and by our Lord Jesus Christ as is manifest by those words Thou art Peter and upon this Rock will I build my Church 2. The Emperour by this Edict is made to give a Patriarchal Dignity to the Church of Constantinople Which if it be true how then could Anatolius the Bishop of Constantinople be said to take the Patriarchal Dignity to himself long after even after the Council of Chalcedon was ended Leo Gelasius and other Roman Bishops resisting him How could the Church of Constantinople be a Patriarchal See at this time wherein even the name of Constantinople was not yet given to Byzantium 3. This Edict was first published by Theodorus Balsamon out of the Acts of Sylvester the Pope falsly written in Greek under the name of Eusebius Bishop of Caesarea not that he might do any service to the Church of Rome but that he might shew the Patriarchate of Constantinople to be the eldest Which Acts of Sylvester were not known till a thousand years after Christ coming then forth in Eusebius his name out of a certain Book of Martyrs but were now increased by the Addition of this Edict of Constantine His design is if it be possible to clear the Church of Rome of this too palpable and notorious Counterfeit And for that end he would fain cast it on the Treacherous Greeks that he might thereby acquit the more Treacherous Romans Which he further pursues in the clause following The new found Hereticks that oppose this Edict of Constantine translated out of Greek into Latine with such great endeavour and impertinent study let them know that in this they rather further our Cause than fight against us Who do our selves with Irenaeus Cyprian and other Holy Fathers as well Greek as Latine profess the Priviledges of the Church of Rome not to be conferred and given of men but from Christ to Peter and from Peter to his Successors Where the 〈◊〉 are so great we need not make a Remark on the common Cheat his vain Brag of the Fathers But this we may observe that whereas the Popes Claim is somewhat blind to the Prerogative which is pretended to be given to S. Peter Binius hints at a proper Expedient to make it clear For suppose our Saviour made S. Peter the Rock on which he built his Church How comes the Pope to be that Rock Since S. Peter being an Apostle immediately inspired and able to pen Canonical Scripture some of his Prerogatives were Personal and died with him He tells you that the Priviledge was granted from Christ to Peter and from Peter to his Successors So that it was not Christ but Peter that gave it to the Bishops of Rome Now it would extremely puzzle him to shew where Peter gave that power to the Bishops of Rome in what place at what time by what Act before what Witnesses All he can produce is S. Clement's counterfeit Letter and that miscarries But in opposing the Edict of Constantine the Protestants further their Cause rather than fight against them Is not this a bold Aslertion Their Popes have laid Claim to the whole Empire of the Western World even by this very Edict or Donation of Constantine And yet the Protestants did nothing when they proved it to be a Forgery This Donation is an old Evidence proving the Divine Right of Peter's Primacy and the Popes Supremacy Did they promote their Cause that proved it to be a Cheat Certainly they that have Fingers so long as to grasp at an Empire and Foreheads so hard as to claim it by Frauds will stick at nothing they can conceive for their advantage Is it impertinent to discover Knavery in the Holy Roman Catholick Church or Imposture in the Infallible
Though matters are so carried as if she were great enough to be her own Support and without being founded on any other were her own Foundation All I shall observe is that Hadrian 1. and Leo 9. have been very zealous and tender of these Records that Benedictus Levita got them confirmed by the Roman Chair that several Popes since Leo 9. have imbraced countenanced and furthered them as Pope Paul V. and Sixtus V. in particular that Isidore Mercator whom Baronius confesseth to be a Cheat is the common Father of the Popish Compilers That the Codes or Tomes of the Councils at this day received in the Roman Church for good and Sacred Records are by these Collectors James Merlin Peter Crab Laurentius Surius Carranza Nicolinus Severinus Binius Labbe the Collectio Regia old Ivo Gratian c. have digested these Impostures and recorded them as the Sacred Authenticks of the H. Catholick Church that whole Armies of Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Doctors Schoolmen Jesuites Monks Fryars Canonists c. have cited them for many Ages as true Records that Turrian in particular with divers others have set themselves strenuously to defend them that they have imposed the Cheat upon Kings and Emperours that the Forgeries are backed with the Authorities of Popes Emperours Kings c. All no doubt having a zeal but not according to knowledge that is being exceeding regardful of the Interest of the Chair and studiously maintaining the Temporal Kingdom of the Church as they call it but erring in the manner While they thought this the way to advance her which is now become her apparent shame and a probable means without sudden amendment to bring her to Confusion That Princes may a little more clearly see into the Mystery of these counterfeit Decretals it is meet in the close of all to expose to the view of the World one Passage out of many other which we have passed over in silence The Design of it touches Kings and Emperours to the Quick though for greater security to the Chair it be covertly expressed It is in the 〈◊〉 of S. Peter to the people of Rome in S. Clements Letter to S. James and it is commended to the consideration of the World by all the Popish Compilers of the Decrees and Councils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 downwards 〈◊〉 revived in the first Epistle of 〈◊〉 as Binius observes And expresly repeated because they will make much of it in the counterfeit Letter of Fabianus a Roman Bishop and Martyr that lived about 1400 years agoto this purpose When he had said these things and many more like unto these looking upon the people again he said And you my dearest Brethren and Fellow-Servants obey this Man that presideth over you to teach you the Truth IN ALL THINGS Knowing that if any one grieveth him he receiveth not Christ who intrusted to him the Chair of Teaching and he that receiveth not Christ shall be judged not to have received God the Father and therefore neither shall himself be received into the Kingdom of Heaven c. But ever coming together to Clement Date omnes operam proipso sentire it is an Emphatical expression make it your business to be of his Opinion and with your utmost study to shew your 〈◊〉 towards him Knowing that for every one of your sakes the Enemy is more inraged against him alone and stirs up greater Wars against him Ye ought therefore to endeavour with your utmost study that being all knit together in the Bond of love towards him ye may cleave unto him with a most perfect affection But you also be sure to continue unanimous in all Concord that you may so much the more easily obey him with one Consent and Vnanimity For which both you may attain Salvation and he while ye obey him may more readily bear the weight of the Burden laid upon him They must with their utmost study favour him and bend all their Charity to each other for this very end that they may cleave the faster unto him for doing which they shall attain Salvation This environs the Popes Chair with Armies of Well-wishers and Servants But the Dangerous Passage follows which shakes all the Thrones and Kingdomes in the World Lest they should be an Army of silly Sheep and simple Doves wanting the Serpents Fraud and Sting He admonisheth them further that they all must be Enemies to their Popes Enemies and hate all that he hateth I leave Kings and Princes to judge of the words Quaedam etiamex vobis ipsis intelligere debetis c. Some things also ye ought to understand of your selves If there be any thing which he dares not evidently and manifestly speak out for fear of the Treacheries of evil men As for Instance If he be an Enemy to any one for his Deeds do not ye expect that he should tell you Be ye not Friends with such an one but ye ought prudently to observe and to do his Will without any Admonition and to turn from him against whom ye perceive he is an Enemy nor so much as to speak to him with whom he speaketh not c. That every one in fault while he covets to regain all your Friendships may the sooner make haste to be reconciled to him who is over all and by this return to Salvation while he begins to obey the Admonitions of his Superiour But if any one shall be a Friend to those to whom he is not a Friend or speak to those to whom he speaketh not he is one of them c. This dangerous Intimation is a sufficient hint sor Jesuitical Souls He declares his Principle that he is an Enemy to some contrary to our Saviours Order and gives order to his Disciples to guess at his meaning and without any publick notice to execute the same Hatred removes its Object he hates and they must do his Will without Admonition If they mistake his meaning provided they do it out of Zeal he can easily connive at it which suits with their Practises of Poysoning Emperours Murdering Kings attempting on Queens their Massacre at Paris the Gunpowder-Treason c. The Instruments of which Acts are by such Records rather favoured than discouraged and some of them Canonized rather than punished in the See of Rome FINIS * viz 〈◊〉 all the world to the Roman Chair This is the Canon opposed by the Forgeries * Dr. Stil Sermon on Acts 24. 17. pag. 45. * Dr. Stil Sermon on Acts 24. 17. pag. 45. Iren. Proem Lib. 1. cap. 1. 〈◊〉 Lib. 1. cap 〈◊〉 Vin. Lir. cap 39. Ibid. Ibid 〈◊〉 An. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5 6 7 8. Ibid. 〈◊〉 S. Bern. Serm. 〈◊〉 in Cant. S. 〈◊〉 Ibid. Ibid. Confer cap 7. Divis. 5. Bin. Tom. 1. Tractat de Primat c. Concil Nicen. 1. Can. 4. Concil Nic. 1. Can. 5. Concil Carth. 6. Epist. ad Celestin. Epist. Concil Carthag 6. ad Celestin. Baron Daillè concerning the right use of the Fathers lib. 1. cap. 4. Concil Chalced. Act. 16. Tom. 2. Concil Concil Chalced. Can. 28. Greg. lib. 6. Epist. 30. Lib. 4. Epist. 32. Lib. 6. Epist. 30. Greg. lib. 4. Epist. 34. Helvic Chronol Platin. in vir Bonif 3. Piatin in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Concil Nicen 2. Act. Baron An. 〈◊〉 5. nn 6. 〈◊〉 ibid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 84. Ibid. 〈◊〉 An. Gen. 34 1 Kings Baron An. Christ. 865. nu 4. Baron An. 865. nu 6. An 865. nu 7. Ibid nu 7. Bellarm. de Rom. Pont lib. 〈◊〉 cap. 14. Confer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de Rom Pont. 〈◊〉 I. cap. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 De Epistolis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in vita Marc. Bell. de Rom. Pont. lib. 4. cap. 9 Baron An. Christ. 357. Liberii 6. nu 32 33. Bfn. in vit Liberii Bellarm. ut supra Bin. 〈◊〉 pist 3. Damasi in Epist Hieron ad Damas. Ibid. * Clausule insuesa sus picionem 〈◊〉 15 The Forgeries Fathered on the Holy Ghost Blondel cap. 6. Earon in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vid. Turrian Can. 84. In 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Clement E. pist 〈◊〉 Ibid. Vid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nicol. Epist Dedicatad Sixt V. Nicol. 〈◊〉 Lectori Nicol. T. pogr Lectori No Legatus à Latere Nicol. ibid. 〈◊〉 de Concil Eccles. lib 〈◊〉 cap 〈◊〉 In Nat. Martyrol ad 〈◊〉 April Daille pag. 45. c. Things put into the Councils of Nice and Ephesus 〈◊〉 Nicolinus A 〈◊〉 for the Popes An. 520. ** Cunning honest men like Merlin's Printer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An. 〈◊〉 An. 〈◊〉 S. Peter's order about the 〈◊〉 ary * Clerke An. 184. An. 158. Colos. 2. 18 19. Easeb. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An. 296. Peter Crab An. 304. An 309. An. 311. * Bin. Not. in Constant. Edict A Forgery beginning in the Name of the Father Son and H. Ghost * All the Nobles and the Se nate converted in a moment * Not built Ibid. Constanti e the Great gives his Cloaths to S Peter and S. Paul in heaven The Popes Guard Secular Power The Popes Army The Popes Horses False Latine and Nonsense Ibid The Popes Modesty 〈◊〉 the Great the Popes Groom or Stirrup-holder Ibid. The Popes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Popes 〈◊〉 Ibid. The Pope the Head of Religion The Sanction of the Decree Council 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Gregory the Great 's Blasphemous Title Bin. Not in Const intin 〈◊〉 Forgeries in the Name of Eusebius The Acts of Sylvester forged Greg. lib. 〈◊〉 Ep. 30 Greg. lib. 4. Epist. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 * Pope Leo. 〈◊〉 citet the Donat on * The Gravest and most Learned Doctors among the Papists use it without any suspition Constantin Donat. Ibid. 〈◊〉 a Forger Theod. in Colos. 2. Epiphan Hares 60. Lib. 1. de SS Beatcap 20. Bin. in Concil Rom. 〈◊〉 Sylvest 〈◊〉 Bin. in Ep Ashan ad Marc 〈◊〉 in Epist. Julii Epist. Concil Carth. 6. ad Calestin Ibid. Bel. de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2 cap. 25. Ibid. Ibid. * Bin. Marg in Clement Epist. 1. * Fab Epist 1. * An. Christ 238. S. Peters Forged Oration * The Roman Bishop