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A looking glasse for princes and people Delivered in a sermon of thankesgiving for the birth of the hopefull Prince Charles. And since augmented with allegations and historicall remarkes. Together with a vindication of princes from Popish tyranny. By M. William Struther preacher at Edinburgh.
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Struther, William, 1578-1633.
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further the worke of the Gospel that many Kingdomes should bee confederate to one Impyre that so the generall preaching of the Gospel might haue more sudden passage But now that same Impyre must bee dissolved to make way to Antichrist that from that citie hee may the more fitlie send out his heresie and Apostasie Thirdlie the Pope had an hand in that Removall of the Impyre for what remained hee broke downe by deposing Kings and absolving their Subiects c. And it is worth our remarke that their first Rebellion against the Emperour was for Images which the Greeke Emperours in a godlie zeale had put out of Churches as Onuphrius marketh that Constantine the Pope was the first that durst resist the Emperour Philippieus And after him Gregorie the second was more bold and cutted the Impyre of Italie from the Grecians So idolatrie and rebellion began together and when they had left God in the one they forsook the Emperour in the other But more fullie they weakened the Impyre when Hildebrand and his followers brought in Excommunication c. And it is the Apostles phrase speaking of the removall of the Impyre that shall bee taken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 out of the mids And of the incestuous Corinthian to bee excommunicate hee biddeth take him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And Augustine observeth that the Apostle borroweth that speach from Moses and it hath a different sense in the olde and new Testament in the old it signifieth to sacrifice or slay but in the New to excommunicate and that excommunication now is come in place of killing But Baronius Macta manduca kill and eate hath brought the Evangelicke censure backe againe to the legall killing and so everie way they helped the removing of the Impyre by excommunication breaking the reverence of Emperours in the hearts of people and by usurpation beating them downe and setting other Princes against them Therefore Crantzius writting of Boniface the eight sitting in Imperialibus cryeth out vides Petre successorem tuum Vides Christe Vicarum tuum Quo ascendit superbia servi servorum tuorum Thou seest O Peter thy Successour thou seest O Christ thy Vicare Next as they did cast it downe they exalted themselues so the Pope is Emperour sede vacante Though when the Popedome vaketh the Cardinals haue power and when a Bishoprick vaketh the Chapter hath power yet hee giveth not the like power to the Electors in the â—aking of the Impire His consistorie of Cardinals is in place of the olde Senate and so old Rome is casten in a new mould the Monarchie turned in an Hierarchie as the reward of his oppressing of the Monarchie Bellarmine giveth vs advantage in this point where he granteth that the Pope of old was subiect to Emperors as to their temporall Lords But the Popes authoritie is more and more declared By this confession so long as Popes keeped Apostolick primitiue Veritie they gaue obedience to Princes but whâ—â— they turned Apostaticke they rebelled And therefore this declaration of the Popes authoritie wherof he speaketh is nothing but the discovery of the mysterie of inquitie Among their Demonstrations to proue that Antichrist is not come this is one That the Romane Impyre is not altogether destroyed Bellarmine granteth an inclination and decay of the Impyre and that wee may see almost the vtter ruine of it so in effect hee granteth that it is almost â—uinate but not altogether This is all which wee craue for wee vrge not a totall ruine of the Impyre but such a decay as maketh way for Antichrists entrie But Greizer is more bold and biddeth vs goe to Prage and Vienne and see whither or no the Romane Impyre bee decayed But wee bid him goe to Rome and see if hee finde a Romane Emperour there either in person power or credite For the Question is not of an Emperour of Vienne but of Rome of whom the Apostle writeth and that his sending of vs to Prage or Vienne is a granting of our clame that hee is no more Emperour of Rome His strength now is in no part within these bounds that were Romane Provinces in the Apostles time for then and some Ages following the Quadi Marcomanni c. were bordering enemies on the Impyre and no parts of it Besides these Provinces that now hee possesseth hee hath not as Emperour but as a Prince of the Impyre Austria is his hereditarie Duchie and hee holdeth Boheme and Hungarie by intrusion so that the Romane Impyre is but a poore 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a naked shadow For curing this blow Doctour Marta hath an odde conceate After hee hath refuted Alciat for affirming the Impyre to haue beene ruinate by the Goaths c. He would proue that it standeth yet in full intergriâ—ie first because the titles and Ensignes of the olde Impyre are sufficient to proue the integritie of the Impyre But that is a weake reason for so the â—atriaâ—ks of Constantinople and Alexandria would be in their former integritie because they keepe their â—unâ—ient Titles By the like reason also the Pope standeth in his former large iurisdiction because he keepeth his titles and Peters Keyes for his Armes But they see the contraire heereof to their griefe for hee wanteth more than the halfe of his auncient bounds as may bee seene by his Provinciale Romanum descryving the bounds of the Popes iurisdiction and Catalogus Annatarum prescriving the summes received at the entrie of Prelats As for Ensignes they overthrow their Assertion the Emperour beareth the double Eagle in signe of the two Impyres the Westerne seated in Rome and the Easterne in Constantinople But these proue the vanitie of his Title for hee can doe nothing in Rome or Constantinople or in anie Province of olde pertaining to them And though the Eagles bee now double yet they cannot doe the twentie part of that that one might when Marius first put it in the Bâ—nners of the Legions His other reason is ridiculous That the Romane Impyre is the whole World and that the Kingdomes of France Spaine c. are quotitatiue parts of the Impyre though no Subiect to the Impyre These are mockeries and no reasons For the Scripture telleth that the ruine of the Impyre shall bee by its division in severall Kingdomes But by his sophistrie it standeth intire not withstanding of that division And what an Emperor is he that hath neither respect nor obedience of Kings within his Impyre who are both greate and mightier than hee in so doing Martaes quotitatiue parts destroy the quidditie of his imaginarie vniversall Impyre And by the same reason the Assyrian Persian and Grecian yea all the foure Monarchies yet stand in their integritie because thâ—se Provinces and Lands over which they ruled are yet extant And the Romane Impyre shall never decay till the last day because thâ—se Provinces shall also continue till then But Bellarmine
Lands because to seeke these things is no other than to cast downe the Apostolicke seate from the rights of her Maiestie d And least the Pope proue tractable these holy Cardinals will bind his omnipotencie with their owne oath that hee should change nothing that is done Heere is barbarous tyrannie bound with roapes of sand They vent their malice and folie but God hath begunne to beholde and judge that tyrannie and possiiblie will restore him without their consent Lastlie if Kings by their power or loue of their people bee secured from forraine violence they haue their last refuge to cause kill him by stobbing poyson or powder-plots And that not onelie Protestant Princes but euen of such as are Papists as the world saw in Henrie the third of France for after excommunication any man may take his life by any means whatsoever But this crueltie must haue a warrand and Scripture shall bee throwne to favour it for these words Peter kill and eate giue power to the Popes to excommunicate depose and kill Kings if wee trust Baronius for Peters Ministerie is two fold sayeth hee to feede and to kill And he is commanded to kill them that is to resist to fight against them and to defeate them that they be not at all And because the Notion of killing soundeth harshlie hee will giue vs a charitable Commentarie of it that killing ought to bee in great charitie That the thing killed bee eaten to wit by Christian charitie to hyde it in his bowels and so that killing is not crueltie but Pietie I doubt if the Pope will count it either Pietie or Charitie if hee felt such a killing And Bellarmine is as grosse though in fewer words For it is the duetie of the head â—aith hee to eate and by eating to send downe meate into the Stomach This is a strange libertie in glossing Scripture and to turne Peter a fisher of men in a Butcher of Kings and the Pope in a Polyphemus to devour men It is like the Iesuite Alcasers conceate on the Revelation He saw how that Booke tortured the Church of Rome therefore he cast it in a new mould and exponeth her destruction Cap. 18. of her conversion to Christ and the fire of Gods anger that destroyeth her to bee the flame of Gods loue turning her to Christianity A fansie contrar to sense reasoÌ„ for this destruction is threatned as a plague to Rome not promised as a blessing So these men wil never want a colour for their cause so loÌ„g as they play the Quâ—dlibitars to draw every thing out of any thing But this glosse is coÌ„trare to the Text which speaketh only of the conversioÌ„ of the Gentiles the Fathers exponded this eating of the Churches turning the Gentiles to her selfe by Baptisme so Augustine He said to Peter kill and eate that is kill them as they are corrupt and make them the thing that thou art And this is contrare to Baronius for the end of his eating is to destroy them alluterlie but the end of this eating is to saue them by grace And Baronius himselfe in cold blood and free of preiudice before the question arose betwixt the Pope Venice What that heavenlie vision meant the event declared so that we neede no humane interpretatioÌ„ for it meant that the Gentiles shuld be turned to the Church by Baptisme And their owne Onus Ecclesiae telleth vs from what Spirit such glosses and practises come it is not pastorall loue but a divellish malice to scatter kill and destroy This libertie of glossing is that which Basile and Nazianzen call duleuein Hypothâ—sei to serue their turne and to make the sense of Scripture currrent with the occasion or time as Cusane affirmeth But such dealing Christian Princes are in the worst casâ— of any men Pagan Princes are without the Popes iurisdiction and free of his censure Kings vnder the Law had authoritie over the high Priest but now the Pope clames more power than the high Priest had And though Subjectes of any qualitie bee excommunicate they are neither cast out of their possessions nor killed by vertue thereof They say by word that when a King becommeth Christian hee loseth not his earthly kingdome wherevnto he had right but acquireth a new right to an eternall Kingdome If it bee so as it is indeede how is it that vnder the Pope Kingdomes are looseable onelie because of Christianitie They fall heere in that same inconvenient they would eschew that Christianity is hurtfull to Kings and Grace destroyes Nature The cause of this difference is that they are Kings and by their place come in Competition with him who will be absolute Monarch over all For the Pope sayeth Suarez hath the height of both powers and is both high Priest and a temporall King This is a stumbling blocke to hold infidell Princes from Christ The Turks stumble at popish images and at the Siege of Vien when their Canon brake in pieces the images that were set on the wals to keâ—pe the Towne they cryed with disdaine Take vp the Christians gods Their Transubstantiation is another stumbling block wheÌ„ in one houre they will create adore and eate their god And that made Averroes to cry The Religion of the Iewes is for Swine The ReligioÌ„ of Mahumetanes is for Chidren The ReligioÌ„ of Christans is of impossibilies Therefore Anima mea cum Philosophis my soule with the Philosophs So this excommunicating killing of Kings maketh infidell Princes abhorre Christianitie whose first reward vnder the Pope would bee this base abusing Therefore the Turk holdeth him with Mahumet and though hee honour his Muffti and vse his counsell in great matters yet hee keepeth him alwayes subject to him in Civill things CHAP. VII That Vsurpation now is the prime Article of their faith THis was some-tymes no Tenet of Doctrine no not a Probleme in the Schools yea when it began Sigibert called it an Haeresie It was not so much as res fidei a matter of faith but now it is made de fide an article of faith and that not a commoun one but caput fidei an head article of faith It is both their negatiue and affirmatiue confession Negatiue If this proposition bee denyed that the Pope may depose hereticall Kings the Catholicke faith is abiured said Suarez And who deny this falleth in Paganisme and in the sinne against the holy Ghost said Alvarez Pelagius It is their affirmatiue confession because this is the maine and principall point of faith sayeth the Cardinall and the chiefe hinger wherevpon all the contraversie turneth And vnder the counterfitte name of Skulkenius hee sayeth that this Papall power is the hinger the fundation and in a word the summe of Christian Faith And Cardinall Peron in his diswasiue oration to the communalitie of France calleth it the greatest matter wherevpon the safetie of all Christendome dependeth By this