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parliament_n	edward_n	king_n	scotland_n	2,566	5	9.2138	4	false

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A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

Henr. 4. quo supra an ancient a modest and an impartiall Relatour of such occurrents as happened in his time declareth his dislike of the Popes practises and the Germanes tumults against their said soveraigne Lord. Magnum Mundo documentum datum est A great instruction was given to the World that no man should rise against his Master For the hand of Rodolph being cut off shewed a most just punishment of perjury hee feared not to violete his fidelity sworne to the King and his right hand was punished as if other wounds had not beene sufficient to bring him to his death that by the plague of the rebellious the fault of rebellion might bee perceived Thus farre hee The sixth Chapter proveth the same by the testimony of the Writers from the 12. hundred yeares downeward I Will for conclusion produce Otho Frinsingensis Thomas Aquinas Gratianus Philip the faire King of France the Parliament of England in the time of Edward the first Vincentius and Aeneas Silvius that afterward was Pope by the name of Pius secundus Otho Frising in his Epistle Dedicatory before his Chronicle Otho Frisingensis hath an excellent saying in his Epistle Dedicatory to Frederick Barbarossa Cum nulla persona mundialis inveniatur quae mundi legibus non subjaceat c. Although no earthly man can bee found that is not subject to the Lawes of the World and in respect of subjection liable to correction Kings as it were placed over Lawes are not restrained by them but reserved to the examination of God according to the words of the King and Prophet Against thee onely have I sinned It becommeth therefore a King both in respect of the noble disposition of his mind Psal 51.5 and the spirituall illumination of his soule to have God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords ever in his mind and by all meanes possible to take heed that hee fall not into the hands of God seeing it is as the Apostle saith a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God It is more fearefull for Kings then for any other because Kings have none but God himselfe above them whom they need feare It shall bee so much more horrible for them by how much they may offend more freely then other men So farre Otho Thomas Aquinas if the Tractate De regimine Principum bee his maketh three sorts of Kings Aquin. de regimine Princ. lib. 1. cap. 6. Kings by election Kings by subordination and Kings by succession For the first hee saith that they which did establish may abolish for the second wee must have our recourse to him that did surrogate the subordinate King as the Iewes did to Caesar against Herod for the last his resolution is Recurrendum esse ad omnium Regem Deum that wee must flie to God the King of all Kings in whose onely power it is to mollifie the cruell heart of a Tyrant And that men may obtaine this at the hands of God they must cease from sinne for wicked Princes by Divine permission are exalted to punish the sinnes of the people Tollenda est igitur culpa ut cessat Tyrannorum plaga Wee must therefore remove our sinnes that God may take away his punishment Thus farre Thomas Gratianus which compiled the decrees is very peremptory that the Bishop of Rome ought not to meddle with the temporall sword the state of Common-wealths or the change of Princes Hee saith nothing indeed De Regni ordinibus which in his time and a 100. yeares after him never dreamed of any such authority Cum Petrus qui primus Apostolorum à Domino fuerat electus materialem gladium exerceret When Peter whom the Lord had first chosen of all the Apostles drew the materiall sword to defend his Master from the injuries of the Iewes hee was commanded to sheath his sword Math. 26.52 For all that take the sword shall perish by the sword As if Christ should have said Hitherto it was lawfull for thee a thine Ancestours to persecute Gods enemies with the temporall sword hereafter thou must put up that sword into his place and draw the sword of the Spirit Caus 23. quest 8. parag 1. which is the word of God to slay the old man whosoever beside the Prince and without his authority that hath lawfull power and as the Apostle teacheth Rom. 13.4 Beareth not the sword in vaine to whom every soule must bee subject whosoever I say without or beside the Princes authority beareth the sword shall perish by the sword Thus farre Gratian. About the yeare a 1300. beganne a quarrell betweene Boniface the eight and Philippus Pulcher the French King about the collation of benefices Prebends and other Ecclesiasticall promotions Whereupon the Pope wrote unto the said King as followeth Boniface Bishop the servant of Gods servants to his wel-beloved Sonne Philip by Gods grace King of France Greeting and blessing Apostolicall Feare God and keepe his law Wee give thee to understand that thou art subject to us both in spirituall things and temporall and that no gift of benefices or Prebends belongeth to thee If thou have in thy hand any vacant keepe the profits of them to the Successours and if thou hast bestowed any wee decree the collation void and recall it how farre soever it hath proceeded Whosoever beleeveth otherwise wee account him a foole Dated at Lateran the fourth of the Calends of December and in the sixth yeare of our Papacy King Philip returned his haughtinesse a correspondent answer viz. Philip by tho grace of God King of France to Boniface bearing himselfe for Pope Salutem modicam sive nullam Sciat tua maxima fatuitas Little health or none at all Philip. Pulcher Let thy great fooleship know that in temporall things wee are subject to no man And that the gifts of Prebends and Ecclesiasticall promotions made and to bee made by us were and shall bee lawfull both in time past and in time to come For such collations belong to us in the right of our Crowne wherefore wee will manfully defend the Possessours of the said dignities and doe judge them that thinke otherwise fooles and mad men Given at Paris the Wednesday after Candlemasse 1301. Questionlesse this King that did so scornefully reject the Popes chalenge pretended from Christ would little regard the claime of the Nobles derived but from the people The same busie Boniface of whom some write that hee came in like a Fox craftely raigned like a Lyon cruelly and died like a Dogge miserably would take upon him the decision of a controversie betweene the Kings of England and Scotland and commanded King Edward of England either to cease his claime or to send his Procuratours to the Apostolike sea to shew his right and to receive such order from the Pope as justice and equity would require The Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament at Lincolne sent Boniface this answer in the Kings behalfe Whereas our most dread Lord Edward by the grace of God the Noble King of England caused your Letters to bee read openly before us touching certaine occurrents of state betweene him and the King of Scotland wee