deposition seeing Gelasius was dead above 240 years before Chilpericus or Childericus they write him both ways came to be King of France But they say the words of this Canon are found in the Epistles of Pope Gregory the Seventh and therefore they do rightly refer them to him as the true Author of them Now whether it were Gelasius or Gregory the Seventh it is all one as to my present business it is by them confess'd that a Pope was Author of that Rebellious passage Gratian refers it into the Body of their Canon-Law and Pope Gregory the Thirteenth approves and together with the whole Body of the Law the Gloss and Annotations confirms and ratifies it Whence we may rationally conclude that this Doctrine of the Popes Power to depose Kings and absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance though impious and rebellious is so far from being disown'd or detested by all Papists as some now pretend that the Supreme power of that Church has not only approved but establish'd it for Law By the way though you see that Gratian and Pope Gregory say that Pope Zachary was the Man who deposed the French King Hildericus yet an Historian of more Antiquity and Credit than either of them notwithstanding Gregories Infallibility tells us that it was Pope Stephen Zacharies Successor who deposed him So that all agree that A Pope it matters not which was Author of that impiety 3. When the Canon says that the French King was deposed by the Pope because he was INUTILIS c. the Gloss gives you the meaning of that word ...... Non intelligas INUTILS id est INSUFFICIENS tunc enim ei dari debuit Coadjutor sed quia DISSOLUTUS erat cum MULIERIBUS EFFOEMINATUS so that by this Papal Law we see that if the Pope please the greatest Prince may be deposed for a very small matter 4. When this Canon says the Pope deposed the King of France the Gloss notes ..... Ergo Papa deponit Imperatorem And least we should not take notice of it these words in their best Editions of the Canon-Laws corrected purged revised and whatever wicked men had put into the Text or Margent contrary to the Catholick Faith by Pope Gregories command expunged I say notwithstanding all this these words are put in the Margent ....... IMPERATOR POTEST A PAPA DEPONI Whence it is evident that in Pope Gregories Opinion this impious Doctrine and Position though contrary to the true Christian is not contrary to THEIR ROMAN FAITH being expresly in those Glosses and Canons in which their Supreme and Infallible Judge says There is NOTHING CATHOLICAE VERITATI CONTRARIUM Nor is this Pope Gregories singular opinion that the Pope may depose Kings For seeing it has been approved by their Popes and their General Councils as you shall see anon and for some Ages received amongst their Sacred Canons as they call them it is become a necessary part of their Creed and no Salvation without the belief of it to which all their Secular Clergy Archbishops Bishops and whoever has any cure of Souls and all their Regulars at least the Heads and Governors of them are solemnly sworn For they swear promise and vow without all doubtings to receive and profess ALL THINGS defined and declared in the SACRED CANONS and General Councils and so far as they are able to make others receive them too So that all their Ecclesiastiques especially all who have any Cure of Souls do not only believe this impious Doctrine of Popes Power to depose Kings but they swear both to BELIEVE and PROFESS IT and as far as they are able make others do so too How pernicious to Kings and Princes such Principles and such Persons sworn to Profess and Promote them heretofore have been the many sad and Tragical Examples of deposed Princes in the six last Centuries can abundantly witness and assure us And how pernicious for the future they may be unless with care and prudence they be prevented we or our Posterity may unhappily and too soon see Dirum omen misericors qui solus potest averruncet Deus 5. Lastly If we consult Cardinal Turrecremata a very great and learned person who well understood their sacred Canons and in what sense the Roman Church received them he in his Commentary on the Canon before-cited affirmes and endeavours to prove these following Propositions I. The Pope may DEPOSE the Emperor or a King not subject to the Emperor II. The Pope may LAWFULLY absolve Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance III. The Pope may depose Counts Dukes and other Barons without the Consent of the Emperor or those Kings whose Subjects they are IV. Subjects if they have the Popes consent which they are sure to have if it make for his interest may depose their Kings This he farther proves and adds ..... That if the King be a manifest Heretick as all Protestants are with them then THE CHURCH may depose him The Premises consider'd it will highly concern all Protestant Kings and Princes to look to it who as Hereticks are all damned and Anathematiz'd once every year on Maundy-Thursday in their Bulla Coenae Domini For had they of Rome power to act according to their Principles Pretences and Interest they would make short work a speedy and thorough Reformation and compel all Protestant or as they constantly miscall them Heretical Kings and Princes to quit their Religion or their Realms and Kingdoms Be it concluded then that according to the Approved and Received Doctrine of the Roman Church Kings and Princes may be deposed and their subjects absolved from their Oaths of Allegiance And for the truth of what I here say we have the Precept and Practice of three Popes Zachary Gregory the Seventh and Urban the Second and three Canons grounded on that Papal Authority received into the Body of their Canon-Law which when you have occasion you may for further satisfaction consult Now if you inquire for what Crimes Kings may be deposed by the Pope whether for Heresie onely for that 's universally agreed on or for other Crimes also John Semeca Author of the Gloss on Gratian gives us a full and Categorical Answer For 1. He proposes the Question Pro quo peccato potest Imperator deponi For what Sin can the Emperor be deposed That he may be deposed is in that Law no Question but an undoubted truth the Question onely is for what Crimes it may be done And the Answer is .......... That he may be deposed for ANY SIN if he be INCORRIGIBLE and not onely for his sins but if he UNPROFITABLY manage that Regal Power And this he proves out of another Canon This is the sad condition of Kings and Emperors by the Popish Canon-Law they may be deposed if they be incorrigible for ANY SIN and sometimes for no sin at least as the principal cause of
and DECREE HIM TO BE ERETNALLY DAMND And for this he cites Pope Gregories own Epistles who best knew his own mind and the meaning of his own Decree So that in the Popes and Cardinals Judgment such an Excommunication is a definitive sentence and a Papal Decree whereby the persons Excommunicate are consign'd and doom'd to Eternal Damnation Whence we may understand the meaning of the Titles usually prefix'd to such Damnatory Bulls of Excommunication such as these .... DAMNATIO Excommunicatio Hen. 8. by Pope Paul the Third DAMNATIO Excommunicatio Elizabethae by Pius the Fifth where it seems by what the Pope and Cardinal before told us that it is not any temporal or not that only but the eternal damnation of Soul and Body which is intended and desired by them in their uncharitable and impious Anathema's and Excommunications Whence also it manifestly follows that all Protestants Kings and Subjects Princes and People who by many Papal Bulls and Anathema's stand actually Cursed and Excommunicated are in a damnable condition and if they die as they do and should without Popish Absolution by this Roman Uncharitable and Unchristian Divinity they are eternally damn'd This I say not that I think such Papal Bulls and Excommunications either have or can have any such effects or bring such danger to Protestants Kings or Subjects as is pretended for I believe and know that they are bruta fulmina insignificant Squibs of false Fire which can neither hurt their Souls here nor hinder their Salvation hereafter But notwithstanding this they may prove dangerous and pernicious to Protestant Princes as they may be and are great incouragements to their Popish Subjects to rebel and disobey their Soveraigns and securely as to any thing of Conscience or Injustice in it act any thing to their ruine For they who believe the Popes pretended Power that he can deprive their Prince of all Royal Power and Dignity and that he has actually done it that he has absolved them from all Obligations of Allegiance and Fidelity due to him that he is a Member of the Devil here and surely to be damn'd hereafter and that to kill him is no Murder I say those who submit to the Pope and believe these Erroneous and Impious Doctrines as all must who believe the Pope or the Roman Church Infallible have too much incouragement not only to disobey and rebel but when they have power and opportunity to take away their Princes Life as being a Person odious to God and Man and by the Pope their Infallible and Supreme Judge by their approved Laws and their General Councils declared to be such especially seeing that if they miscarry in that attempt and while they seek their Princes Life lose their own yet their Names shall in Red Letters be Register'd in the Calendar and they by their Party shall be reputed Martyrs as all know that Campian Garnet and our Powder-Traytors are An honor I am so far from envying them that I should be very glad and so would many thousands more to see our present Conspirators according to their merit referr'd into their Calendar amongst such Martyrs that so we might be freed from the fears of those Prodigious Villains and mischiefs they intended and indeavoured to act here against their Gracious Soveraign the Church and State and there is too much reason to believe that while they live and have ability and opportunity they will prosecute those Black Designs Dirum omen misericors qui solus potest averruncet Deus These are the known Positions and Doctrines of the Church of Rome approved and received by the Supreme Authority of that Church which in Thesi when they are believ'd may be very dangerous and when in Praxi put in execution and they who believe such impious Doctrines act accordingly pernicious to all Kings Princes and People especially Heretiques as they miscal them who imbrace not all their Popish Errors in which number all Protestants Kings and Subjects are by them always included And that the Popish Party especially Jesuits since their unhappy appearing in the World as also their Ecclesiastiques Secular and Regular with their adherents have acted according to those Principles for some Ages last past and what Barbarous Murders Depositions of Princes and Fatal Tragedies have been the sad consequences of such belief and actings both our own and Forreign Historians abundantly testifie And here 1. I shall pass by the horrid Murders and Massacres of the poor Waldenses who upon prosecution of the foresaid Principles have been persecuted with Fire and Sword Armies and Inquisitions and very many thousand nay infinite numbers of them as some of their own Writers testifie have been inhumanely murdered Causà indictà inaudita many times especially in France to say nothing of other Countries 2. I desire you to consider that barbarous and prodigious Villany the great Massacre of Protestants in France Ann. 1572. where and when above 30. or 40000. Innocent Protestants in Paris and other parts of France were suddenly and inhumanely Murdered by Papists acting upon such Popish Principles as I have before mentioned And this Horrid Villany was so far from being publickly disapproved and damn'd by the Church of Rome or the Impious Actors punish'd that the news of it was received at Rome with great Joy and giving Thanks to God for it Quasi author consors sceleris fuisse Deus nor was it so at Rome only but in other places too Papists received that news with great joy An evident argument that they approved both that Impious Doctrine and the pernicious effects of it 3. To omit the many Seditions and Rebellions in the time of Henry the Eighth after he had deny'd the Popes Supremacy and Edward the Sixth caused by such Persons and Principles it is notoriously known that the same Party in prosecution of the same Principles and Popish Interest did in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth continually conspire and endeavour to take away the life of that good Queen by Poison Pistol and such other impious and to persons of such Principles usual ways of Assassination to raise Rebellions and Armies having the Popes Assistance and Blessing to incourage them to that Villany to destroy her and her Religion And when all this would not do Heav'n Blessing what Rome Impiously Curs'd Pope Pius the Fifth gives the Kingdoms of England and Ireland to Philip the Second King of Spain and he with the Popes Assistance and Blessing sends his as he and his Holiness imagin'd Invincible Armado to take possession But that vast Armado and the Popish Impious Design were utterly defeated not so much by the Queens Fleet which was very inconsiderable as by great storms and tempests the immediate Hand of Heaven and a most Gracious and Miraculous Providence And this was so evident that the Admiral of that Armado the Duke of Medina Sidonia blasphemously swore That he feared Jesus Christ was turned Lutheran But
Philip King of Spain hearing of the strange defeat and ruine of his Fleet and seeing the Hand of Heaven in it said more soberly ...... That he did not send his Fleet to fight against God to whose Power and Providence he attributed the loss of it but against Men. 4. The Queen being dead Popish Conspiracies did not die with her the Pope and his Party continue as industrious and as to their Designs and Plots as impious as before They saw and knew that King James a Protestant was Legal Successor and Heir to the Crown of England yet used all Roman Arts to hinder his having possession of it and to this end Father Parsons the Jesuite writes a Book to prove what was evidently untrue and he could not chuse but know it That King JAMES had no just Title to the Crown of England though the whole Right of the Saxons and Normans and of the Houses of York and Lancaster were intirely and evidently united in him But when these Popish and Jesuitical Arts prevailed not having neither true Reason or Religion to further their Designs which were impious and irrational they contrive and resolve to execute such a Conspiracy as for barbarous and prodigious Villany neither Heathens nor Hell had till that time ever put in execution I mean the Gun-Powder-Treason which was not any ordinary or before-known Wickedness as the Killing a King or Poysoning a Prince c. but a black and unparallell'd Villany worthy Rome and a Jesuite the Blowing up of a whole Parliament King Lords and Commons the Murdering of a Kingdom in its Representatives and this in a moment before they could see or dream of any danger But though this for its impiety was a prodigious Conspiracy carried on with sworn secrecie and lay hid in the dark and under ground yet there is no Power or Policy against Providence nor concealing any thing from the All-seeing Eye of our God he saw and gratiously discover'd that horrid Popish-Powder-Treason to the Preservation of his People the Confusion of their Adversaries and nisi periisset pudor if they had any to the Eternal Shame of Papists and Popery their Religion which approves and encourages such abominable Impieties When King James slept with his Fathers and was translated to a better Kingdom out of the reach of such Popish Conspirators and whither without a serious and timely repentance of such inhumane Villanies they can never come their Designs slept not they prosecute their Plots and Conspiracies to ruine our Church and establish'd Religion as much in Charles the First 's as in his Fathers time And at last it came to this issue that other means failing the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury must be made away This was conceived the likeliest means to compass their Ends and bring in that Religion they miscal Catholique and Christian. For certainly such barbarous Murders and Assassinations may possibly promote Turcism and the Errors of Mahomet and if you will Popery but never were nor can be any just means to propagate true Christianity This Traiterous Conspiracy to Murder Charles the First and the Archbishop c. was discovered by an honorable Person to the English Ambassador in Holland and by him to the Archbishop and by him to the King And the Original Copy of the Discovery being found in the Archbishop's Library after his death was then publish'd and is in Print in many hands and amongst others in mine In the mean time our unhappy Civil Wars began and our Popish Conspirators animated by a belief of such Rebellious Doctrines and Principles as I have before mentioned and incouraged and assisted by the Pope are first in Arms and the bloody Rebellion and in Ireland murdered above 100000 Protestants in cold blood without any provocation given but to kill Heretiques which according to their impious and erroneous Principles was lawful and meritorious and thereby promote the Catholique Cause This is notoriously known to both Kingdoms England and Ireland And further when in the process of that fatal Rebellion carried on openly by English and covertly by Popish Rebels that good King was taken imprison'd with design to bring His Sacred Head to the Block for the distance is seldom great between a Princes Prison and His Grave our Popish Conspirators had a Council of Priests and Jesuites which sate in London and signifi'd the condition of their Affairs here to a Council of their Confederates at Paris and they transmitted the Case to Rome from whence Directions and Commands were return'd by the same way back again to London In short it was determin'd that it was for the Interest of the Catholick Cause that the King should die and accordingly their Council of Priests and Jesuites in London Voted His Death This is now Notoriously known to be true and in Print publish'd to the World by a Reverend and Learned Person who if any shall call him to an account for it is so convinc'd of the truth of what he writ that he in scriplis publickly offers and promises to make it good I do not hear that he has as yet been call'd to any account to prove what he publickly and in Print has profess'd and promised to do Nor do I think he will be call'd to any such account because I have reason to believe that he can and will produce such Proofs as will evidently demonstrate both their bloody Conspiracies and the undeniable truth of what he affirm'd 6. By the Premises it may sufficiently appear That the Rebellious Popish Principles and Practices have been very dangerous to all our Protestant Princes and their Loyal Subjects ever since the Reformation and had they taken that effect which they designed and with unwearied wickedness industriously endeavoured they would have proved destructive and both to Prince and People pernicious Nay which I have omitted while this whole Nation continued actually in the Communion of the Church of Rome when Henry the Eighth his Parliament and Convocation all Roman-Catholiques and far from being Protestants had deny'd and lege latâ taken away the Popes Usurped Supremacy that we may be sure the Pope's Practices are suitable to his pernicious Principles Pope Paul the Third Excommunicates Curses and Damns the King and all his Good Subjects Commands him to Abrogate and Null the Laws made against his Supremacy and to appear before him at Rome within Ninety Days and his Adherents and Favorers which were all his Loyal Subjects especially his Parliament and Convocation within Sixty Days They not appearing he Ratifies the Excommunication Deprives him of his Kingdom and Dominions Prohibits peremptorily the King or his Adherents if they die as they did before he Absolved them to have any CHRISTIAN BURIAL and declares them ETERNALLY DAMND Then he layes that most impious Interdict upon the whole Nation forbids all Publick Prayers Masses and Divine Offices Nor this only but he Deprives the Children of Henry the Eighth Born
spoken of not any Excommunications Depositions c. of Kings 2. Nor does the Council deny but that every TYRANT may be kill'd but that which they condemn as erroneous is That every Tyrant may and also OUGHT to be kill'd Now this is a Conjunctive and Copulative Proposition and such Propositions are in Logique false when either part is false though both be not So this Proposition Every Man is rational and Learn'd is erroneous because one part is so for though every Man be Rational yet every Man is not Learned In like manner although it will be granted at Rome that every Tyrant may be Kill'd yet that every Tyrant ought to be Kill'd will not be so easily granted For let him be a Tyrant in respect of Title one who is an Usurper and has no right to the Crown yet let him be a Roman Catholique a zealous Maintainer and Promoter of the Papal Religion and Interest or one under whom they find more favour than they did expect from the true King they will not say that he OUGHT to be Kill'd And on this account it was I believe that the Pope and his Party did not think That CROMWEL though a Tyrant OUGHT to be Kill'd or for ought I know ever went about it though they desired and endeavoured to take away the Life of CHARLES the Martyr who had a most just Title to the Crown because they found more favour under him and more freedom from the punishment of Penal Laws than they ever had before or could expect if the true Owner of it possess'd the Crown In Cromwel's time no Oaths of Allegiance or Supremacy were press'd upon them our Liturgy and Common-Prayers were taken away and an Ordinance passed That no Man should be Censured for not coming to Church so that there was no way then to discover or legally convict a Popish Recusant On which ground the Fathers at Constance might condemn this Proposition as erroneous Quilibet Tyrannus c. Every Tyrant MAY and OUGHT o be Kill'd and not deny that every Tyrant MIGHT be Kill'd 3. When they condemn this Proposition as erroneous ...... Every Tyrant may LAWFULLY and MERITORIOUSLY be Kill'd on the same account the Proposition is erroneous and as such might be condemned by them and yet they might believe it LAWFUL to Kill any Tyrant thought not Meritorious 4. When they say a Tyrant cannot lawfully be kill'd per Quemcunque Vassallum Subditum by any of his Subjects this is but poor comfort for Kings or Pinces and afford them no certain Security For if a King be Kill'd it is not much material whether a Native or an Alien be the Assassin he is Kill'd So that notwithstanding all the Council of Constance has said they may hire an Alien to Kill a Protestant Prince as Lopez was to Murder Queen Elizabeth and a Spaniard to Assassinate Maurice of Nassaw or what was really intended and endeavoured and probably had taken effect had not the good Providence of Heaven miraculously hindred it the Pope may give away our Nation and send a Spanish Armado as he did in Queen Elizabeths time or a French Army to kill Prince and People and take possession of it Dirum omen misericors qui solus potest averruncet Deus 5. When that Council denies this Proposition and condemns the Affirmative as erroneous That a Tyrant may be Murdered by any Vassal and Subject it is in the singular number per Vassallum Subditum and hinders not but that more or the major part of the Subjects and Commonweal may do it for although this Doctrine be impious and Heretical yet at Rome it is Catholique or Roman-Catholique and by many of their eminent Writers maintain'd and justify'd 6 But â—astly This Sentence of their General Council of Constance is so far fâ—om proving that for which it is produced That the Church of Rome does not approve the Depositions or Assassinations of Kings that it evidently proves the direct contrary That this may appear and without any going back or trouble to you I shall put in the Margent the words of the Council of Constance though you have them before Now in the words cited it is evident 1. That when they condemn the Killing of Tyrants NON EXPECTATA SENTENTIA AUT MANDATO JUDICIS Not expecting the Sentence oâ— command of the Judge there is some Judge whose sentence and command should be expected For it were ridiculous to talk of expecting the sentence or command of a judge if there were no such Judge whose sentence could be expected 2. Now although to us and in truth Kings and Supreme Princes neither have nor can have any Judge it being necessary that the Judge be Superior in Power and Jurisdiction to the Person Judged otherwise he cannot be a legal and competent Judge and to say That Kings and Supreme Princes have any Superior on Earth where they are Supreme is a contradiction 3. But at Rome it is otherwise the Roman-Catholiques do constantly affirm That both the Pope and the People are Superiors to Kings and may pass sentence on them and declare them Tyrants 4. And therefore if Subjects may not kill Kings who are Tyrants without such sentence or command but must expect it then if thy have expected and have it then they may kill them lawfully and meritoriously For exceptio firmat regulam in non exceptis 5. And 't is to be observed that it is Sententia vel Mandato Judicis by the Sentence or Command of the Judge So that if any private Person have the command of the Pope or People who are the Popish Judges in this case or the Sentence of either of them declaring any King to be a Tyrant then this is Warrant enough by their impious Popish Politiques for any private Person to kill such a King From which Roman-Catholique Doctrine it evidently follows that when in our late Civil Wars and unhappy Rebellion the Parliament had declared CHARLES the Martyr a Tyrant any particular Person without Erecting an High Court of Justice as they miscall'd it might lawfully have Murdered him 6. It is to be further observed that by their Popish Principles Tyranny and Heresie in Kings are crimes equally deserving Deposition and Death and every Heretical King is a Tyrant with them Whence it follows 1. That if the Pope command any one to kill a Protestant or which with them is all one an Heretical Prince then according to this Decree and Doctrine of the Council of Constance he may lawfully do it 2. Or if he give no such command but pass a definitive Sentence against any such Prince and in a Damnatory Bull declare him an Excommunicate and Deposed Heretique or Favorer of them then any private Person has sufficient Warrant and Authority to Murder him So that when Pope Pius the Fifth had Excommunicated Queen Elizabeth by this their Popish Divinity any one of her Subjects might without any further Authority or fault have Murdered her Now whether
or to be Born of Queen Anna and all the Children of his Adherents and their Descendents none excepted of all their Rights Priviledges and Goods Moveable and Immoveable and makes them for the future incapable and deprived of all Dignities Honors Offices Rights Fees c. which otherwise they might have obtain'd and this he does knowingly and by the Plenitude of his Power Then he goes on and declares the King and his Adherents and Descendents to be Infamous Persons disabled to be Witness to make any Will or Testament or to receive any Legacy or Benefit by the Testament of any other Forbids all Men to have any Conversation Commerce or Trade with them on pain of Excommunication and loss of all their Goods c. And further Commands all Christian Princes quacunque dignitate Imperiali aut Regali fulgeant Kings and Emperors no way to favour the King and his Adherents and Nulls all Oaths Compacts Treaties c. made or to be made to or with the King or in favour of him or his Adherents and gives Authority and express COMMAND to all Christian Princes and their Armies by Sea or Land to turn their Arms against the King and his Adherents and compel them to return to the Unity of the Church and Obedience to the Pope And whoever acknowledges Henry the Eighth to be King or any way Obeys him and will not in Obedience to the Popes Command expel him and them out of the Kingdom and their Dominions all their Goods Moveable and Immoveable Moneys Merchandizes whether within or without England are to be seiz'd on and by the Popes Authority possess'd and kept by any who can catch them And he there gives them such Thieves and Robbers full power to enjoy and possess such Plunder'd Goods of the Kings or his Loyal Subjects as in their own Right and Propriety And if they take any Inhabitants in England Native or Alien who Obey the King and Disobey the Pope then all so taken are to be Slaves to those who take them So that impious Bull in contradiction to the Laws of Nature and Scripture Reason and Christian Religion Our Blessed Saviour the Prince of Peace came not to destroy but to save not to Depose Kings and Emperors Absolve their Subjects from the Obligations of their Natural or Sworn Allegiance or to Arm them against Governors and as his pretended Vicar does promise them a Reward Remission of Sins here and an higher place in Heaven hereafter for Rebellion and Murdering their Brethren Fellow-Subjects and Christians for believing and maintaining that Truth which by the Pope and his Party should be miscall'd Heresie No he was the good Shepherd who laid down his own life for his Sheep and when they stray'd and err'd from his Fold he did not hire and send Dogs or Wolves to worry them but with infinite Patience and Mercy went himself to seek them and being found though erring and out of his Fold laid them on his own shoulders and with great love and labor brought them home to his Fold from which as his Sheep may and yet not cease to be his Sheep they had erred We read indeed that our Blessed Saviour gives Peter Commission to FEED HIS SHEEP and his LAMBS But we never read that he whose Kingdom was not of this World gave any Commission to Peter or his pretended Vicar to raise Armies to kill and indictà causà to Murder them Though I know there are some who from pasce oves with bad Logique and worse Divinity conclude that the Pope has Power to kill Heretiques Like that Monk Erasmus mentions who with great Zeal for the Catholique Cause and greater Ignorance endeavoured to prove that the Church might kill Heretiques from that passage in the Apostle HAERETICUM DEVITA that is says the Monk who had no Greek and little Latine DE VITA TOLLE take him out of this life that is kill him Sed è diverticulo in Viam 7. From the aforesaid reasons I think we may with good consequence conclude that the Pope and his party ever since Henry the Eighth de facto assum'd the Supremacy which de jure was his before have been in a perpetual Conspiracy against the Lives and Religion of our Protestant Princes at least till the Happy Return of our Gracious Soveraign whom God preserve who being by the good and Miraculous Providence of Heaven Restor'd to His Fathers Throne His own Right and Inheritance a blessed Peace and all the happy effects of it did immediately follow to the great comfort and benefit of the whole Nation The Government of Church and State before shatter'd and ruin'd by a horrid Rebellion Begun Incourag'd and Promoted by the Pope and his Jesuitical Party was happily Restored and by Law establish'd the Just Rights and Liberties of the Subjects assured to them and confirm'd a Gracious Act of Oblivion and Pardon of Illegal Seditious and Rebellious actions against the King and His Laws granted and the blessing and benefit of all these extended to Papists as well as other So that beside their Obligation to Obedience and Loyalty by their Natural or Sworn Allegiance there lay upon them an Obligation to Gratitude for those signal favors they received from the goodness of a gratious Prince So that it was the beliefe and hope of some that the foremention'd Popish Principles and Practises had been forgot or laid aside and that the Roman Catholiques as both in words and writings they publickly pretended would be very Loyal Subjects But these were vain hopes for notwithstanding all obligations to obedience and gratitude even since His Majesties Happy Return the Popish Party have carried on their Plots and Conspiracies against their gracious Prince the establish'd Religion and the Peace of our Church and State with as much industry and impiety as formerly Which now evidently appears by their impious Conspiracy by the blessing of God very happily though lately discover'd That you may in the General know what this Plot is and that I do not miscall it when I say it is an Impious Conspiracy I shall give you two Authentique Testimonies I. Our gratious King calls it A BLOODY TRAITEROUS design of POPISH Recusants against His MAJESTIES Sacred PERSON the GOVERNMENT and the PROTESTANT RELIGION II. The House of Commons in a Vote of that House approved by the Lords say thus ........ Resolved c. That this House is of Opinion that there HATH BEEN and STILL IS a DAMNABLE and HELLISH PLOT contrived and carried on by POPISH RECVSANTS for horresco referens ASSASSINATING and MURDERING THE KING and for SUBVERTING the GOVERNMENT and rooting out and DESTROYING the PROTESTANT RELIGION By what is already said I suppose you may see what the Roman-Catholick or Popish Principles and Practises have been are and while there is a Pope and a Party to believe and incourage such Practises ever will be and how dangerous such Principles are and when put in execution how pernicious they
if they do occur that I have mistook their meaning as to the purposes for which they are produc'd 3. Or if neither of these can be shown if he can make it appear that the Church of Rome has by any publick Act or Declaration disown'd such pernicious Principles and Positions and damn'd them as erroneous and what they really are impious I do hereby promise him that I will be what I hope I never shall be one of the worst sort of Christians in the World I mean a Roman-Catholique Farewel Your Faithful Friend T. L. a Nuptiae Parisinae Laniena Protestantium in Gallia Anno 1572. Vide Thuanum ad dictum Annum b In an Almanack commonly sold since His Majesties Happy Return call'd Calendarium Catholicum the Gun-powder-Treason is call'd Cecil's Contrivance It was printed 1662. c The aforesaid Popish Calendarium Catholicum or Catholick Almanack at the end of it about Holy-days set apart by Act of Parliament d And yet Ribadaneira Bzovius c. reckon those Gunpowder Traitors amongst the eminent Martyrs for their Church and Religion as you shall see anon And Father Parsons calls Garnet Executed for High Treason and the Gun-powder Conspiracy .......... An Innocent Man who suffer'd Unjustly that he lived a SAINTS Life and accomplish'd the same with an HAPPY DEATH dying in DEFENCE of JUSTICE In his Book against the Oath of Allegiance call'd A Discussion of the Answer of Dr. William Barlow c. p. 22 23. e Vid. Stat. 1. Eliz. cap. 1. 5. Eliz. cap. 1. 13. Eliz. cap. 2. f Vid. 1. Jac. cap. 7. 3. Jac. cap. 4. g Vid. 12. Car. 2. cap. 30. In the Preamble h Statut. 16. Rich. 2. cap. 5. i Statut. 24. Hen. 8. cap. 12. 25. Hen. 8. cap. 19. 37. Hen. 8. cap. 17. 26. Hen. 8. cap. 1. k Parliamentum secundum 2. Mariae cap. 1. l The Bull by which Hen. 8. was Excommunicate was Dat. Romae 16. Cal. Januarii Pauli Papae 3. Anno 5. Vid. Bullarium Cherubini Tom. 1. pag. 704 Edit Lugduni 1655. m Vid. Coke's Reports Part. 5. de Jure Regis Ecclesiastico and Calvin's Case 7. Report Sir John Davis his Reports in the Case of Praemunire c. n Vid. Literas Acad. Oxon. Hen. 8. Dat. 27. Jul. 1534. o Art Ed. 6. 1552. Art 36. p Art 5. Eliz. 1562. Art 37. q Articuli Hiberniae 1615. Sect. 57. r Editae 1559. in calce post Injunctionem 53. s Canones 1603. Can. 1. 2. t Can. 1640. Can. 1. c. u See our Saxon Laws by Mr. Lambert Spelman Concil Tom. 7. Whelogus c. w Vid. Cod. Theodosianum cum Doctiss. Gothofred Notis Cod. Novellas Constitut. Justiniani x Casar ut primùm Pontificem videt illum DETECTO CAPITE genu TERRAM TANGENS VENERATUR iterum cum appropinquet ad gradus sedis Papae genu flect it ac demum cum ad Pontificis pedes pervenerâ—t illos DEVOTE osculatur Sacrarum Ceremon Sanctae Rom. Ecclesiae Lib. 1. Tit. 5. pag. 22. Col. 3. Edit onis Rom. Anno 1560. y 2 Thess. 2. Vers. 3 4. z Pontifex Romanus NEMINI omnino mortalium reverentiam facit assurgendo manifestè caput inclinando aut detegendo Romano autem Imperatori postquam illum SEDENS ad osculum pedis suscepit ALIQUANTULUM assurgit Magnis etiam Principibus PRIVATIM adventantibus cum NON EST in PONTIFICALIBUS aliquantulum assurgit TANQUAM reverentiam faciens c. dictus Liber Sacrar Ceremon Lib. 3. Pag. 113. Col. 2. a Liber VALDE PROBATUS sayes Possevin In Apparatu sacro in Christ. Marcello b He must execute Stratoris Officium be Yeoman of the Stirrup says Card. Baronius Annal. Tom. 12. ad An. 1177. Sect. 38. c Dicto Sacrarum Caremoniarum lib. 1. Tit. 5. p. 26. Col. 3. d Tho. Walsingham Hypodig Neustriae p. 588. e Baronius Annal. Tom. 12. ad Annum 1177. Sect. 124. f Idem Annal. Tom. 12. ad Annum 1155. num 13 14. g Ibid. num 13. h Ibid. num 14. i Sacrar Ceremoniarum S. Rom. Ecclesiae lib. 1. Tit. 5. p. 23. k Hen. de Knighton de Eventibus Angliae lib. 2. p. 2420. Math. Westmonast ad Annum 1213. p. 272. l Ut sibi successoribus FIDELITATEM facâ—ret Baronius Annal. Tom. 11. ad Annum 1079. num 25. m Libro ad Hen. 8. pro Ecclesiasticae Unionis Defensione Romae apud Antonium Badum Asulanum p. 25 26. It is in Folio but the year when 't was Printed not express'd n SACERDOS in suo munere REGI PRAECIPIT NON CONTRA Ibidem p. 26. col 1. o Henricus Rex LUCIFERI SUPERBIAM imitatur dum se ipse VICARIUM CHRISTI constituit Ibid. p. 17. col 1. p Polus Card. de Concilio p. 91. Editionis in 8 o. q 2 Cor. 11. 5. 2 Cor. 12. 11. r Act. 25. 10 11. s Imperator PAPAE JURE DIVINO SUBJECTUS â—tiam in TEMPORALIBUS Azorius Institut Moral Tom. 2. lib. 10. cap. 6. p. 1041. t Unicus DEI VICARIUS PONTIFEX ROMANUS habet SUMMAM potestatem IMPERIUM super OMNES REGES Principes TERRAE Blasius Bagnus de S. Romanae Ecclesiae Dignitatibus Tract 7. p. 83. u Ibid. p. 84. x Ibid. p. 89. y Ibid. p. 85. * Ad Can. Nemo 13. Can. Aliorum 14. Caus. 9. Quaest. 3. z Glossa ad cap. Unam Sanctam de Majore Obed. in Extravag Commun Verbo porro subesse in Respect ad 3. Argumentum a Luc. 22. 38. 1. It cannot appear that Peter had them both 2. Nor that they were given him by Christ. 3. Nor that they signify'd two distinct powers 4. Nor that Peter might use them both who was severely condemn'd for using one Mat. 26. 51 52. b Glossa ad dictum Cap. Unam Sanctam c Glossa verbo Papa ad Prooemium Clementinarum d Glossa ad Cap. Cum inter 4. verbo declaramus De verb. Signif in Extravag Johan 22. e Censura in Glossas Juris Canonici Colon. 1572. p. 13. 14. 52. f Vide Bullam ejus datam Romae 1. Jul. 1580. praefixam Juri Canon Paris 1612. g Anno 1580. h Paris 161â— i Index Expurgat Hispan Juxta exemplar Madriti 1667. p. 99. k Ibidem p. 112. Col. 2. l Ibidem m Ibidem n Edit Jur. Canon Paris 1612. Clement Col. 4. in margine ad Prooemium Clementinarum o Abrah Bzovius de Pontifice Romano Coloniae Agrip. 1619. says 1. Papa est Christianorum Monarcha cap. 1. 2. Mortalium supremus cap. 3. 3. A quo Provocatio nulla cap. 16. 4. Judex coeli in judiciâ— terreno supremus cap. 32. 5. Arbiter Orbis cap. 45. p Vide Approbationes libro Bzovii De Pontifice Romano praefixus iu Approbatione Inquisitoris Apostolici Cum de praesentis Operis SINGULARI eruditione SOLIDAQUE IN FIDE AC MORIBUS DOCTRINA tam ex DOCTORUM CALCULO quam ex Authoris CELEBRI NOMINE satis CONSTET censeâ—