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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30395	News from France in a letter giving a relation of the present state of the difference between the French king and the court of Rome : to which is added the Popes brief to the assembly of the clergy, and the protestation made by them in Latin : together with an English translation of them.	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689. Ad archiepiscopos, episcopos, totumque clerum in regno Galliae. English & Latin.; Fall, James, 1646 or 7-1711.; Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France. Cleri Gallicani de ecclesiastica potestate declaratio. English & Latin.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5839; ESTC R21875	22,511	40

you made to the Secular Magistrate by whom this Cause was judged against you for We wish the remembrance of that might be buried in oblivion and would gladly have you dash out those words out of your Letters so that they might not remain upon the Records of the Gallicane Church to your eternal reproach As for what you bring for your own defence concerning Innocent the Third Benedict the Twelfth and Boniface the Eighth there have not been wanting some who have by Learned Treatises demonstrated how frivolous and foreign they are to this matter and it is so notoriously known that it is needless to mention it with what zeal and constancy those great Popes defended the liberty of the Church against the Secular Powers So little reason have you to maintain your error by those precedents We do readily allow of and commend the Resolution of relaxing the Discipline of the Canons according to the necessity of the times where that may be done without any prejudice either to Religion or a good life and we add with St. Austin That things are to be sometimes endured for the good of unity which ought to be abhorred if considered according to equity Nor are the tares to be rooted out if there is danger of plucking up the wheat likewise with them But all this is so to be understood that it may be done only in some particular case and for a time and upon an urgent necessity as was done by the Church when she restored the Arrians and Donatists to their Churches upon their abjuring their errors that so the people that had followed them might be the more easily governed But the case is very different from this when the Discipline of the Church is weakned and the foundation of the whole Ecclesiastical Discipline and Hierarchy is indeed overthrown through the whole extent of so great a Kingdom without any limitation of time and with the manifest danger of establishing a precedent which may spread much further These consequences must certainly follow if We should suffer the things to be put in execution which have been lately done by The Most Christian King even with your consent in the affair of the Regale against the Authority of the holy Canons and chiefly against the General Council of Lions and against Our mind that has been long ago signified to you in that affair and contrary to that Sacred Tye of your Oaths by which when you received the Episcopal character you bound your selves to God to the Roman Church and to your own particular Churches and if we by delaying longer should suffer this evil to become more inveterate and should not in imitation of the examples of our Predecessors and according to that Supream Authority over the whole Church which is given by God to Our Meanness condemn it and that the rather that by the abuse of the Regale the Discipline of the Church is not only overthrown as is notoriously evident but even the purity of the faith is brought in danger which you may easily gather from the very words of the Kings Edicts by which the Right of conferring Benefices is ascribed to the King not as flowing from any Concession of the Church but as a Right innate and coaeval to the Crown Nor could we read that part of your Letter without horror in which you say you have departed from your Rights and have transferred them on the King as if you were the Masters and not the Guardians of these Churches that are trusted to your care and as if the Churches themselves and the Spiritual Rights belonging to them could be brought under the yoke of the Secular Power by the Bishops who indeed rather ought to become slaves themselves for setting them at liberty You your selves did acknowledge and confess this truth when upon another occasion you declared that the Right of the Regale especially in that branch of it that belongs to the Collation of Benefices was a servitude that could not be brought upon the Church but by her concession at least by her consent By what right then have you conferred that on the King and since the holy Canons forbid the alienating the Rights of the Church how could it enter into your minds to alienate these Rights as if you could derogate from the authority of the Canons Call to mind what that renowned Abbot of Clarevall writ excellently to this purpose whom you justly call the Light not only of the Gallican but of the Universal Church when he was putting Pope Eugenius in mind of his duty He bids him remember that the Keys of the Church were delivered to him but not the Sheep themselves There were others that kept the Gates of Heaven and were the Pastors of the Flock but whereas every one of these have their several Flocks assigned them to him were the whole trusted one Flock under one Shepherd and that Eugenius was not only the Shepherd of the Sheep but of the Shepherds themselves and therefore according to the appointment of the Canons the other Bishops were called to a portion of the care but he to the fulness of the power But as it is expedient to give you warning of the obedience and submission that you owe this holy See which We though unworthy do now by the Divine appointment govern so our Pastoral care doth stir us up now at last to set about the discharge of our Apostolical Office which we have hitherto delayed perhaps by an excessive long suffering being willing to give time to repentance Therefore We through the authority of Almighty God committed to us do by these present Letters Condemn Rescind and Annul what has been done in this your Assembly in the affair of the Regale together with every thing that has followed thereupon or that may happen to be attempted for the future and We declare them to be for ever Null and Void though these things being of themselves manifestly Null it was not necessary to interpose any Declaration for annulling them Yet We hope that you your selves having considered better of this matter will by a speedy retractation consult the good of your own consciences and the honour of the Gallicane Clergy of which Clergy as hitherto some have not been wanting so we hope that for the time to come others will not be wanting who following the example of the good Shepherd shall be ready to lay down their lives willingly for their Sheep and for maintaining the Inheritance conveyed down to them from their Fathers As for our part We are ready according to the duty of our Function and by the assistance of Divine Grace to offer up the Sacrifice of Righteousness and to maintain the Rights and Liberties of the Church of God and the authority and Dignity of this holy See not trusting in Our selves but depending for all things on God who comforts and strengthens Us and who commanded Peter to come unto him walking on the waters for the fashion of this world passeth away