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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29530	An answer to a book, entituled, Reason and authority, or, The motives of a late Protestant's reconciliation to the Catholick Church together with a brief account of Augustine the monk, and conversion of the English : in a letter to a friend.	Bainbrigg, Thomas, 1636-1703.	1687 (1687)	Wing B473; ESTC R12971	67,547	99

to the Pope and could not be resetled in his Rights till he had submitted to become tributary Vassal and Liege-man to this Pope and his Successours and untill he had taken that slavish base Oath Annales Monast Burton p. 270. which was framed in the same words wherewith Vassals and Villains were wont to bind themselves to their proper Lords which may be seen with many other strange Clauses contained in it in the Annals of Burton Monastery p. 270. Oxford Edition That all these things were done by command appears by the Acts or Propositions of Pope Innocent in this Lateran Council Here he breathes in the Spirit of a Conquerour and speaks as Universal Monarch of the World he gives and takes away at pleasure and makes Laws for the keeping or forfeiting Estates He tells what Princes shall be deposed and when and how far their Subjects shall be free to make head against them Vide Addit ad Concil Lateran quartum in Edit Labb and upon occasion not onely to depose but to kill them There he actually determined of the Rights to the Empire in the Cause depending between Otho and Frederick and there he gave away the Estate Lands and Possessions of Raimundus Count of Tholouz to Simon Mountford And as he dealt with Princes so he did with private Persons for there be adjudged the Estates of all Persons to be liable to forfeiture and confiscation upon such faults committed and not onely theirs but those of their Abettors Harbourers or Receivers of them as appears not onely in the Council but in the Decretals lib. 5. tit 7. cap. 13. All this he did and it will be no wonder that he did all this if we consider how much his mind was elevated by his victory over King John and to what a degree of pride and haughtiness he was grown indeed it was so much that no words can express it except his own In Bibliotheca Cottoniana sub Effigie Cleopatrae E. 1. And whoever consults that remarkable Rescript of his to King John and his Heirs wherein he sets down his Title to England in perpetuam rei memoriam may see a sufficient foundation to expect all the rest of those Actions which insued afterwards This may be said of him that he was so far just that he was not partial to any but he treated all alike for as he trampled upon Princes and Laity so he most tyrannically and insolently treated the Clergy too For in the Year 1216. as we see in the Chronicle de Mailros Chronica de Mailros p. 194. Edit Oxon. pag. 194. Oxford Edition we have a strange complaint of the Religious against him that he went beyond all Rule and Order Law and Canon Inauditam inusitatam Dominus Papa Legato concesserat autoritatem faciendi videlicet ut ita dicam quicquid animo ipsius sederet in Clero Populo per Angliam Scotiam Wales constituto transponendi deponendi alios ponendi suspendendi excommunicandi absolvendi Episcopos Abbates alios Ecclesiarum Praelatos Clericos This I presume made Matthew Paris give him that Character f. 245. as a thing well known by the experience of Prince and People Noverat Rex multiplici didicerat experientiâ quòd Papa super omnes mortales ambitiosus erat superbus pecuniaeque sititor insatiabilis ad omnia scelera pro praemiis datis vel promissis cereus proclivis Now such a Man as this is wants a great deal of advantage which another in his place might have had in order to the giving credit or authority to his Actions And if a Council under him be intirely inslaved to him and so much at his dispose that it does not ap pear to posterity that any one man in it did upon the place speak a word either for or against the presumed Acts of it and if yet it be at least probable that all those Acts were not Conciliarily past but mere Propositions of the Pope himself without any consent approbation or regular determination of the Council I think no man living can look upon himself as concluded by them or under an obligation from them But an English-man must have an inward reluctancy and abhorrence to see his Faith increased and his Creed inlarged and himself put into a new danger of being adjudged a Heretick by a sleight and trick of that Man who with intolerable pride and insolence trampled upon the Crown and Dignity of a King of England and as soon as he had done that with an unheard-of confidence challenges to make Laws about Kingdoms Estates and Patrimonies wherein he subjects them to forfeiture and confiscation upon the accompt of Heresie And at the same time he slurs in a word to a pretended Canon that requires a Doctrine to be believed against all sense and reason and such as will indanger all men that are willing to act rationally and discreetly according to their best wits that God hath given them to be adjudged and condemned for Hereticks This certainly must appear hard to English-men to have their Estates brought into such perils and hazards especially since they learn from one of their own Countrey Mat. Paris who was a Monk and so bound to great regards for a Pope and wrote in the Year 1254. that this Innocent was not onely intolerably ambitious but infinitely covetous and so may be presumed really to design and aim at forfeitures and not near so much to regard the clearing and setling the Christian Faith as to make a gin and a trap to catch People and seise upon their Estates under the name of Hereticks He that observes how sneakingly that Word comes into the first Capitulum of the reputed Lateran Council may easily persuade himself of the likelihood of some of these thoughts And if any one shall rub up his memory and add to these the fineness and great management of Rome when they made the Canons of the Sardican Council to pass in the World under the name of the Nicene And in opposition to a plain manifest discovery of the Errour yet to this day to bear up so high as to challenge some great Authority unto them whereas in their own nature they can deserve but very little being made by the broken remains of a Council when the greatest numbers were gone and none remained but the fast Friends and Dependants upon Rome And to this let him add the Remarks that Father Paul gives upon the first Act of the Council of Trent wherein those words Proponentibus Legatis were so closely couched and so supinely passed that few heard them and fewer apprehended the consequences of them yet all the insuing Determinations of that Council were intirely guided and governed by the fatal Powers of them He that thinks of these and many other such like things may apprehend that there is such a thing as art and sleight in the World and if he does that he will not be over