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A40038 The history of Romish treasons & usurpations together with a particular account of many gross corruptions and impostures in the Church of Rome, highly dishonourable and injurious to Christian religion : to which is prefixt a large preface to the Romanists / carefully collected out of a great number of their own approved authors by Henry Foulis. Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669. 1671 (1671) Wing F1640A; ESTC R43173 844,035 820

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Id. Anno 1116. § 5. Lateran and also by another Council at f Id. Anno 1119. § 11. Rhemes under Pope Callistus And after this manner was the Emperour Frederick the Second declared deprived and his Subjects quit from their Oaths of Allegiance by Pope Innocent the Fourth in the Council of Lyons the form it self being large I shall refer you to g Anno 1245. § 4. Bzovius and the h Tom. 28. pag. 431. Council it self and the i Sext. de sentent re jud C. ad Apostolicae Decretals But let us step from practice to some of their Decrees they confirm'd in their General Councils to shackle Princes in future times In the Laterane Council under Innocent the Third amongst other things 't was thus order'd by them If a Temporal Lord neglect to purge his land from Heresie being Abr. Bzovius anno 1215. § 3. Binnius c. 3. Crabbe Ib. Greg. de Haeret. C. Excommunicamus desired and admonished by the Church let him be by the Metropolitan and the other Bishops Excommunicated and if within a year he refuse to satisfie let the Pope be informed of it that he may declare his Vassals free from that obedience they formerly ought him and that Roman Catholicks may seize upon his Lands which the Hereticks being thrust out they may possess without any contradiction and keep it in the true Faith Yet let not this be prejudicial to the Principal Lord so that he do no way hinder this proceeding NEVERTHELESS LET THE SAME LAW BE OBSERVED AGAINST THOSE WHO HAVE NOT PRINCIPAL LORDS If any do dispute concerning this Council or the meaning of any word in this Canon I shall not finde my self concerned in it having our Country-man a Vindic. Concil Lateran Dr. Thomas Vane b Controvers Angl. p. 139 140. Martinus Becanus Leonardus Lessius under the name of a Discuss decreti Magni Concil ●a Singleton Cardinal b Adversus G●●l Barclaium in Praefat. Bellarmine and many others great vindicators of this great Council as they call it whom I shall leave to the consideration of the Romanists Yet I could whisper c Vindic. Concil p. 69. Dr. Vane in the ear that he is not honest enough in his answer by taking no notice of the last clause in the Canon which doth not a little enlighten the whole design And as I do not trouble my self to interpret any thing in the Lateran Canon seeing the chief of the Roman Champions Lessius Becanus Bellarmine and others declare expresly that it is meant of the Popes Authority over Kings and for their deposing so shall I not wrangle with any concerning that of Trent a Council of such Authority that they make it the standard of their Faith In the last Session of this Trent political Convention Duels were Sess 25. c. 19. censured as unlawful and indeed no honest true and faithful subject can fight one he taking to himself power of his own life and that of his fellow-subjects against Law Religion and Prerogative and declares those Princes to be held as deprived of those places where they permit them What was the meaning of the words of this Decree I shall say nothing my self but tell you that the French Church took it to deprive Kings for which they bogled at it and they had more reason to understand the meaning of it than any now yet if these grave Divines mistook the sence of that Chapter 't is no fault of mine let the Romanists bandy it out amongst themselves and either tell us the reason why that Council is not exactly received in France and so whether they be Hereticks or no in not complying with a General Council as they call it or that every part of it is in force there and how it came to be so These at this time may satisfie to shew in what a tottering condition their Councils makes Kings to stand in And if the Roman Catholicks desire any more instances I shall refer them to their famous d Discuss Decreti Mag. Concil Lat. pag. 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 c. Lessius whom in this case let them either agree to or confute fight Dog fight Bear and so I quit my self neither troubling my self whether they or Dr. e Remonstr Hibernorum part 5. cap. 10. Caron is in the right As for the Opinions of Popes themselves I shall jumble them with their Canon-law the latter being in a manner the result of the others brain and authority and Pope Agatho order'd that the Popes Sanctions should be received with the same authority Omnes Apostolicae sedes sanctiones acciptendae sunt tanquam ipsius Divini Petri voce firmatae sint Dist 19. c. 2. as if they had been commanded by St. Peter himself Nor according to Pope f Q. 17. c. 4. Nemini est Nicolas must any contradict or question the Orders of that See for according to g Possit jur Can. lib. 1. Tit. 3. Decreta Lancelottus the Popes Decrees are of equal authority with the Canons of Councils and those of h Sess 4. Decret 1. Trent determine that some Traditions are to be of equal force with the holy Scriptures I shall not here spend time in discoursing about the Priviledges said to be given to some Monasteries by several Popes Franc. Bozzius de Temporal Eccles Monarch lib. 1. cap. 21 pag. 225. with a tye by the way of the Kings good behaviour though some make use of such Records for Arguments it being plain by the practice of the Popes and their a Greg. de Elect. C. Venerabile●● de Haeret. C. Excommunicamus Sext. de re jud c. ad Apostol Laws that they declare they have such Authority to depose Kings and quit their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance of which several Popes are so plain in their b Q. 15. C. 6. auctoritatem C. alias C. nos sanctorum Greg. de Haeret. C. Excommunicamus C. Absolutos Canon-law that nothing can be more evident whither I refer you for more satisfaction And that Popes declare that Kings may be deposed appears by their many thundrings of Deprivation against former Princes and of later times against the King of Navarre our King Henry the Eighth and Queen Elizabeth Read in c Annal. Boiar lib. 6. pag. 506. Aventin what Hadrian the Fourth saith concerning this case in his furious Letter and in d Pag. 872. Nonne Rex Anglorum noster est vassallus ut plus dicam mancipium qui potest eum nutu nostro incarcerare Ignominiae mancipare Matthew Paris how Pope Innocent the Fourth thus ranted concerning our Henry the Third Is not the King of England our Vassal nay more our Slave whom with anod I can imprison and commit to a slavish reproach And Father Parsons assured our Country-men that Pope Pius the Fifth affirm'd to him e Rog. Widdrinton's Theolog. Disput cap. 10. §