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Whereunto is Maen the Bull of Pope Pau/the Third,
Containing the Damnation, Excommunication, Ge. of King Heury the Eighth,
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thefe Papers publick, thou baft ali- berty to read, and a right to judge; a and that thou maift do it impartially, , (not out of bate or kindne{s to me, but. upon a [eri~ ous and juft Confider ation of the Caufe) I foal neé-
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(2) The reafon why F cannot ex- peat the favour or affenr of my Ad- verfaries,(efpecial- ly of the Jefuirs) is, becaufe Maldo- nate tellsus, Thar Luther and Calvin ¢€ Arch-Herexicks ) are not to be fol- lowed though they fpeak things con- fonant to Scripture Cum facris literts confentanta docent , quendi.
Non St- é Nay Calvinifis'and*Lutherans, Even When They Speak Truth,, are n> more to be
tus juft) thy feverest Cenfure. For, 1. Tu truth, Thave impartially defired , and not indiligently fought ; and if (bythe bleffing of God) Ihave found st, Magna eft veritas & praevalebit, 2t wil prevazl, in de[pight of all Enemies and epeltian GMOrds. iédys@, nat fuper, non immerfalibis undis. Truth we know (efpectally Divine Truth, which concerns our Souls and their Salvation) ever had, and, fo Jong as there are Devils and wicked Men, will have inthis World many Enemies ; who will indeas wour (what they cannot do)to fuppre{s it ; premi poteft veritas, oppriminon poreft. They may dipp, and (for [ome time) keep it under water, but they . cannot drown it. If thefe Papers contaimtruth, (as I hope they do) then I am {ure that every Intelligent Reader,and pious lover of Truth will be its Patron; and (though in this Epiftle I do not follicite him) ready to vindicate st from the Objettzons of its Ad- verfaries. But (on the other fide) if my Reader re- late to Rome, and be poffe[s’d with flrong delufion to believe(againft Realow and Divine Revelation)his Catholieck Caufe,the Papal Monarchy and Infaliibi- lity, it will be invain for me, inthis Epiftle, to de- fire ( what [believe I (a) cannot have) 4is Favoar. — However, he fball have.my Pity and Prayers, That God Almighty would be gracioufly pleafed to open his Eyes, and blefs him with the Knowledge and Love of the Truth.
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hearken'd to, Then To. The Devil. Lutherani & Calvinifie & Deo, e& Ecclefia tanquam pera niciofifimi Hereticé declarati, non magisy. Etiam Cum Vera Dicunt, audiendi: (unt, Quam Dia= abelus. Maldonat Comment. in Matth. 16. verf. 6.p,336-C. Nor is this Ma/donat’s peculiar Opinion; for the Cenfor Librorum, who approves his Commentaries on Matth. tells us, That Om- niainillis juxta Orthodoxam Apoftolice ac Romane-Ecclefiea Dott, inam Summa Chm Ernditione ex~ Poni. Ira Joh. Clavius Oe yillo Libr. Ceavor. i
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2, We know’ tis true, what the great Roman gc-
rator ne fince fai. Humanum eft errare, labi, decipi, Sc. The wu feft men have their miftakes; Ber-
nardus non videt Omnia, & quandoque bonus dor- mitat Homerus. Stace Adam fell,the beft men have their Infirmities,and fometimes err ,even when they defire and {eek Truth, Since the Prophets.our blefjed Saviour and bis Apoftles, left the World, I know no man Inf allible; nor veo de the Pope,who (againft evident Reafon, and the fenfe of Chriftendom ) tre- tends to it. Lor my own part, Ido humbly acknow- ledge my many and great Infirmities ; and for thefe Papers——Hominem pagina noftra fapit,there may be miftakes and errors in them; yet it is my hope and (not ungrounded ) belief, that there are none [uch as may prove pernicious, or (in the main) dangerous ---- Non hic Centauros,non Gorgonas, Harpiafve in- venies. No [uch 46a eg and pernicious errors, as our Popifo Adverfaries maintain, and (fo far as they are able vindicate: {uch I mean as their flupid Doctrine of Tranfubftantiation ( contrad:éfory to Natural Reafon, Divine Revelation, and all our Senfes) their Idolatrous Adoration of apiece of Bread, with Divine (4) worfhip due to God only ) their Sacrilegious robbing the Laity of half the Sa- crament in the Eucharift,contrary to our blefjed S.1- viour’s ti. Command,and the prattice of the Chriftian(d) World (even of the Church of Rome her {elf for above athouland years (as their own great and learned Writers confe[s §9c. I [ay,fach er- rors a5 thefe, I do( and have reafon to) believe, the Reader will not find inthefe Papers. Thoughit be certain and confe(s'd, that every one, even the beft and moft learned Writers are fallible ; yet fo ws
(b) Nallus dubi=- tandi Locus, quin Cultus Latrie qué’ Vero Deo debetar, fic-buic Sacraments exhibendus. Concil.. Trid. Seff. 12. De Eucharifta cap 5.
(¢ ) Match. 29, 27- And they o- bey’d, and‘did aif drink. And Marc.
14.23. (4): Cardinal Bona,De Rebus Li- turgicis,l.2.c. 1 8.ps 491, 492- Parif.. 1692. Lindanus Panopliz,|.4.c.56- p-342-Colon.157 $9-
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The Epiftle to Reader.
Te) Vid. Hiero- nym.adverfus Lucl- ferianos, in fine. Tom Operum.1.p. 230:C6).2,G.
( f ) Cyprian E- pift.71.adQuintum fratrem, p. 140. in Editione R igalts), Parif.1648.
( g ) Extant di- &z Regulz Indici Tridentino prafi- xz,in Calce Con- cilij Tridertini. Antv. 1633.
(h) Libri Valga- vi Jdiomate deCon- troverfiis inter Ca- tholicos G Hereti- cos, nofirs temporis differentes, non paf- fim permittantur, fed dciis.idem fervetar quod de Biblits Vul- £ari-Lingud (eriptis Stat utumeft. bi- dem Reg.6.
they rationally build their Conclufions upon the clear
Principles of Nature,Scripiure,or C/niver{al Trae dition, They may be {ure enough, (and fo may their, Reader too) that they are not actually falfe, nor what they fo write erroneous. However tf the Rea- der find any errors of what nature foever, and cam sake it appear, that they areindeed errors, Ifhalt not (as Laid before.) deprecate his fevereft Cenfure,, éut concur with bim, and Cenfure them my felf, as much as he; and do hereby promife publickly to re- tr 2éi them, and heartily. thank him for the di{cove- *y. For inthis Cafe my Reader and Lfhall both be Gainers, and (in a feveral way) Conquerors--=-(e) Vicimus utérque noftrum,palmam Tu refers mei, E- go erroris;my Reader basovercome me, by manifefi- sng my miftakes, and I (by bis help) have overcome thofe errors ; otherwife, in Cyprian’s Opinson and. Janguage, (f.) Non vincimur cum offerantur nobis, meliora,fed inftruimur. He, who dy his Adverfarses. help and concluding Arguments, £ains the knowledg of Truth, is (in that good Father's Opinion) not con= guered,but inftructed, But tf the Intelligent Reader di{cover any error in thefe Papers,and can,and will really make it appear.tobefo, lethim callit what he will, Victory or Inftruction,] foall.thankfully fub-- mit, and both love. that truth, and him for the.di{- covery of it. ! | | 3. Lknow that this Traét of mine Cas. every one of the like nature.) is already prohibited and. damned
at Rome; for the Rules (g) prefix’d tothe Index
Librorum Prohibitorum, coutrived by the Authori-- ty of the Trent Council, declare all. Books of (4) Controverfies Getween. Catholicks. and Hereticks»: (Proteftants avd Papitts) 2 any Vulgar Tongue pre sbite
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hibited and damued ; neither to be (i) bad nor read by any Papift,under pain of Excommunication, and many other Penalties contained in iheir Canons, Papal Conftitutions,and their Expirgatory Indices. So that although our bleffed Saviour, by his holy x) Spirit,in the Go[pel,command all (even the Common people, for tothofe be writes) to Lxamin-and try all things,to ufe that tinderftanding and difcretion God has given us,to diftinguifh truth from error (for that ss evidently the meaning of thofe words, mivre domuadle- a prove all things, as (I) fober and learned P apifts confe[s) GS when we have done fo, then we muft hold faft that which is good. fay, énthisCafe,in the
woe of our Souls is concerned;though Chriftian pru-
(i) Legentés, ant habentes,-panas in Sacris Canonibus, Conftitutiontbus A- poftolicis, & Inditi- bis Librorum pr oki bi- toram content as, in- - currere volamus. Ita
- Bulla Greg.15. da-
ta Rom. 30. De- © cemb. 1622.
( &).4 Theff. 5.- 21. & Joh.4. 6.
(1) Omnia proba-
+4 tee. Fer Difcritie-
nem dijadicate. Dr. Hen. Holden in Lo-
cums choice of our Religton,wherein the eternal weal or -
dence require it,and our bléfled Saviour, by his A~ -
poftle) command, that we {hould not believe every
Spirit, dat try before we truff, and diligently exa-
min et till we be affured of truth:yet bis pre- tendéd Vi
He forbids all Examination;thofe under bis Tyran-
ny (at leaf the unlearnéd and common people) must —
believe as thé Church believes. that is, all that he propofeth, though it be Tranfubftantintion,. or any thing evidently repugnant to their Reafon and Sen- fes too: They muft (m) renounce their own Reafon, and if he fay that is white, which they fee black, they (7) are to believe what he fays, and not their own Senfes.. All means forthe People to examin, whether it be truth or error, which the Pope and bis Church propofes,is probibited,and deny d them; stor ts it only the Books of Proteffants which write
of Religion tut the Bible and Sacred Scripture too.
even.
car,with an Antichriftian Pride and Im- piety, contradiéts this,and commands the contrary.
(m)Sublato Oms ni Proprio Jadécio, paratus femper fit de nimus, aa Obeditn-- dum Ecclefie. Vide Exercitia -{piritua- lia Ign.Loyolz. To. - lof, 1593-p. 172. Rég.1.
(n) Si quod Orne lis noftris apparet’ Album, Ecclefia Ni« grum definitrit, des bemus quod nigrum: fet pronunciare. I+- bid Reg-13»p.176.
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(a) Hane Catho- licam fidem, extra quam nemo falvus effepote(t, quaim in prafenti Profiteor, cm urraciter Teneo, tandemgue Inte- gram, ufzue ad eX- tremum vite {piri- rum,conflantifiime retinere,c™ confite- ri, & ameis fubdip tis, vel iis quorum cara ad me [pectat, Tinsri, & Predica-. Wb, quantum im me. evit cur aturum. Ego sdem NSpondco,Vo- veo,ac ure. Irain Bulla bij. Papz 4. fuper forma Jura-. menti. Profeflionis
fadel, in Concil..
Trident. Sefi. 24. De Refor’.c. #2, pe 4§2-Editionis An-- verp, 1633.
(b). Recentio es. Hreticé. Catholicos hamines Papeftas vee cant;.& certo nulla fablimiore. Gloria. Titulo Exornaré po- tyiffents Sintideo nobis. viventibus, becfemper Preconia Laudum,2> poft mor- tem, Titulé Sepul- chr aes ut fie Semper Dicawinr Papifte. Barooius Notat. ad Martyrologium fiom O@ 16;:B.p. 707+ Col. Agvipp, i6io,
and promote the Papal Greatse[s and Intereft, (ow which their own depends) will give licence to none toread {uch Proteftant biritings, fave to.thofe, who- (for fidelity to their Cathelick Caufe and Learning)
they judge atle and willing to Anfwer and Confute them : That is,None fhall have Licence toread fuch
(to them) dangerousand:damned Books, fave fuch
as have (2) folemnly Promifed, Vow’d, and Sworn
firmly to believe and conftantly to-hold and profefs
to their laft breath (and,to the utmoft of their Pow-
er,indeavour that others,under them do fo too)their
new Trent-Creed,and fo. the whole Mafs of their Po-
pith Errors and Idolatries contained and command.
ed in it. The Cafe being evidently this; that (af their
Papal Conftetutions be obligatory and obey'd) none are to read or have thefe Papers, fave fuch as
have promifed, vow'd, and (wormnever to believe
them; a8 I have little reajon to defire or hope for thetr favour, {o (be it known untothem)] do as little fear their Confutation, or (what Iam like enough tohave) their Calumutes.
4, Alihough I well know(to fay nothing of othérs) that all our Englifo Papifis (both in their Words’ and Writings) do conftntly callthemfelves Cathos. licks,azd Roman Catholicks ; yet they muff pardon: me, if intlefe Papers, I neither do, nor juftly can call them fo: Papitts I do call them,and (I hope)they: will not be offended, or take it ill, that I do [o. For (0) Baronius (their great Cardinal und Annaliff) having faid,, That the Hereticks (cwe kxow-w hom: he means) call'd them Papifts; be adds, That we could not honour them with a more glorious Title than that of Papifts, and therefore he defires that: they may have the honour-of that Title while they
live,, Ad pS
2 ifs as *
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live,and that (after death) it may be writ upon thcir Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments. For my part, fo tong as they believe and profels their new Trent- Crecd,and the Popes Monarchical Supremacy ,T/ball (according to the Cardinal's defire) call them Pa- pifts,and if 1t be fo honourable a Title (as he [ays it w) let them have it, I foall novenvy them that ho- nour ,but pity their error,who glory zn that which ws indeed their fin aud foame : For the other Title of Catholick which our Adverfaries, (without and a- gainft reajon) appropriate to themfelves ; we grant, and know,that ancrently 1t was, and (when rightly ufed) # aword of agood found and figuification, when it was applied to perjons, (as aCatholick Bi- fhop,or Catholick Doctor, Sc.) #t fignified [uch per- fons as were, 1, Inrefpect of their Faith,Orthodox ; cuho intirely believed and profe(s'’d the trueChriftt- an Faith, rejecting all pernicious and dangerous er- vors,and fo were no Hereticks. 2. In ref{pect of their Charity ,fuch as were in Communion with the Church of Ghriff, without any uncharitable Separation from st,and fonoSchifmaticks. Now that our Adver{a- ries of Rome are (as they pretend) [uch Catholicks, % abfolutely deny’'d ; not only by Proteftants but (ex- cept them{elves) by all Chriftians inthe World,and that upon evident and great reafon; Confidering, 1. Their many and monftrous (c) Errors (contradi- Etory to Sacred Scripture,and the [enfe and belief of the Chriftian World for a thoufand years after Chrift our blefSed Saviour) which they approve and publickly receive as Articles of thesr Faith,in their new Creed, the Trent-Council, aad Roman Cate-
thofe learned perfons 1 have named) to fay that which might (though may
tisfie my Adverfaries. | B 2
chilm ;
(c) Concerning the Errors, Super- ftition and Idola= try of the Church af Rome, ( with which I charges them ) I do nor here name the Par- ticulars, much lefs the proofs of them, Itis not the bufi- nef, of tis Epifile. But many of our learned Writers have long fince ef- fe&tually done it. Such I mean,as Fie fhop Ferwvel, Bifhop Morton, Davenant, Fobn white». Chil- lingworth and Dr. Crakanthorp, and (to omit many more) lately, my learned Friend Dr; Stillingfleet Dean of Pauls, The Rea- der (ifhe pleafe) may confult thefe and find fatisfacti- on. Something also is faid to that pur- pofe,in the follow- ing Papers. But if my Popifh Adver- faries( who are noc eafily,ifat all to be fatisfy’d ) require
me particularly to
make good my Charge; ! fhall un- dertake it; & hope (by the bleffing of God, and the help of the Writings of be it will not ) fa-
The Epittle to the Reader. chi{m; Confidering alfo their many Superfiitionsand — Rupid Idolatry, profeffed and prattifed by themin their facred Offices (their Miflal, Breviary, Hore Be Virginis,their Ritual and Pontifical,&ec.) I fay, thefe things impartially confidered,they may be(and real-
_ by are) Idolatrous Hereticks; but tu smpolfible they foould be, (what they againft greateft evidence pre- tend to) true Catholicks. 2. Confidering the unchri- flianCindeed Antichriftian) Pride and Tyranny of the Pope and bis Party, Excommunicating,Curfing and Damuing all Chriftians fave themfelves,(with- — out and againft that Charity which the Gofpel ree quires and fo Schifmatically cutting off from the Boe
| dy of Chrift whole Kingdoms at a Clap (a Pius the
(a) declaramus Fifth does, (d)in the following Bull) which are predittam Elizabt- things inconfiftent with the Chriftian Temper and hey Tou g, Clarity of atrue Catholick ; I fay thefe things confirm natbematis Senten- ered, and that the ‘Pope and his Party are really tiam incwrriffesee guilty of [uch uncharitable Attions, dividing and op phat a 9 violating the Union of the Church;it evidently fol-
In di&a Pij s.Bul- Jows,that they are fo far from being true Catholicks
la $+ 3e that they are great and formal Schifmaticks; And
therefore they mult pardon me, if inthefe Papers, I
donot call them (what really they are not) Catho-
licks;and for the [ame reafon, I do not call them Ro- man Catholicks. For, as it # neither reafou nor fenfe toca him an Englifob Gentleman, whouno Gentle. man at all; or him a Sorbon Doctor, who never faw
Paris, or ever had or defired that Degrees fo it ts am
like trrational to call him a Roman Catholick, who
yeh és an Erring Schifmatiek, and no Catholick at aul. | 5. I know fome (othercvife learned and pious)
Writers, who fay that thofe words Roman Catho-
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lick are inconfiftent, and imply aContradittion, as figuifying aparticular Univerial. But thisC] confe/s) ts amanifelt miftake. For not only particular Perfons, (of which before) but particular Churches, 22 this or that City be tt great or little have anciently and afually been call'd Catholick Churches,without any Contradi tion or Impropriety. In an Epiftle of a(e)
great Council at Antioch, we find the(f) Bifbop of
that City calldaCatholick, and that particular Church a(g) Catholick Church, Soin the Subfcrip- tions to Nazianzen’s laff W1ll and Teflament, Opti- mus Bp. of Antioch,{ub/cribes thus; Optimus Bp. of
the Catholick (4) Church at Antioch; and the reft of
the Bos: who fubfcribe that Teftament,( and they are fix or feven) ufethe (ame Form. So Nazianzen [ud- {cribes himfelf Bp. of the Catholick Church in Con- ftantinople; Amphilochius B.fhop of the Catholick Church in Iconiam;and fo all the reft.In the Appen- dix to the Fheodofian Code, Pope Vigilius degéns his Encyclical Epifile thus ———Vig)lius (2) Epifco- pus Ecclefie Catholice Urbis Rome : Bp, of the Ca- tholick Church of the City of Rome. So Pope (Ix) Leo the great (and (\) many more Bifbops of Rome) ules the very {ame form.The Popes filed themfelves Catholicz Ecclefie — Orbis, fed) Urbis Rom2 E- pifcopos.The Antichriftian flile of Univerfal Bp. (as Pope (m) Gregory the Great calls it) was not_yet
ufurped at Rome. The Bifbops of Rome then, and
_ their Church,were Catholick,and fo was every Or- thodox Bp. and his Church, as well and as much as they.Conftantinople,[conium, Antioch,©c.and their
(eySynodusinnus merabilinm fere E- pifcoparum (as Vale- fius renders it) a- pud Evfeb.Hift.|.7- c.29.p.278.D.-
(f)besunee xg- Soarnov $y ov] asho- mo pro ‘Pho Ca- tholice. Even Par- lus Samofatenzs, iil he was difcovered tobe an Heretick, wa3call’da Catho- lick. Ibid. c. 30. p. 282.B.
(g) KaSoaixne "Exxanolas "Exio- nor, {peaking of the Church of An- tioch.Eufeb.Ibid.p 282,5-
(h) “Orne "EmommrG@- = Tis: yee ° Ay] by oerny Kasonnins "Ex- xanotas: Teftams, Nazian cum{nvert, contra Julian.Gre- cé Aitonz r61e.p. 126.& apud Leun- claviurn; furis Gra- co-Rom. Ton. 2.p, 203:vide Epiphan: Edit. D: Petav. Parif. 1622. Fom, 2.P. 20.
(i) Vid. App. Cod. Theod. per Sirmondum p. 218.
(Rk) Leo Papa Ecclefiz Catholi- ce Urbis Romez.
Cone. Chalcedon. part. r.num.10.12:8 A&8. (1) Fhe Reader may havea very large Catalogue of fuch Subfcriptions,by Jobn Launoy. Epift.part.1. In Epift. ad Francif, Bonum. (m) Pope Gre- gory damns that proud Title, twelve feveral times, the places are particularly cited by ob. Lau-
uoy ( and he no Lutheran, in the Epiftle ad Bonwm before-named.
Bifbops,
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(n) Vide Augu- ftinum - Breviculi Collat. cum Dona- tiftis, Collar 3.Diei ‘Tom:7. p- 568. E- dit. Bafil. 1569. 8 Epift.67.ad Alipi- ‘um. T0m.2 p.323-
(0) 2 Theff-2. 3, 4 See Bp. jewel on this Chapter, and this Fourth Werfe.Sir Chriftoph. Sibthorp’s Adver- tifement to the Ca- tholicks in Ireland. Dublin 1622.part. 3:C.2.P. 280, 281, 282. &c. Andr.Ri- vet.contra Silve- ftrum Petrafanétam C. 28. P- $375 538. fxc. vid. Georg. Dounamum, Diatr. de Antichrifto,!.3. & 4. Lond.1620.
Bifhops, were as truly Catholick as St. Peter’s Sac- ceffor, or Rome tt felf: The truth is evidently this ;
the Pope and bis Party arein this, nec Chritti, nec
Petri,f{cd Donati Succeflores; they do not follow Pe- ter or our bleffed Saviour,(as they vainly bragg)but that impious Heretick Donatus, whofe damnable Schifm and Herefie they have efpoufed, St. Auguttin (who well knew it) tells us, in(n) feveral places, That the Donatifts aflumed tothemfel ves the Name of Catholick, faid that their Sect was the only true
Church,and fodamn’d all other Chriftians ; and up- on this Heretical Opinion,they Schifmatically fepa- rated from the whole Catholick Church. The Pope
and bis Party (with as little reafon and charity)
do the very fame thing ; they (as the Donatifts anc7- ently) Heretically affirm, That they, andthey only, are truly Catholicks, andtheonly Members of the
true ‘Chriftian and Catholick Church: and ther Schifmatically Separate from, Excommunicate and
‘damn al! other Chriftians.
6. And further(that I may freely [peak what Tre. ally believe) Lam fo far from beleving the Pope and his Party to de (what they vainly pretend) the only true Chriftian and Catholick Church; that I do believe them (and fo did thoufands before Luther, and many whole Kingdoms and Provinces fince) to be Ecclefia Malignantium:an Antichriftian Sect and Synagogue (in fide) bighly erroneous, and (in fatto) as highly impious. And the Pope fofar from being Peter’s Succeffor, and our B. Savious’s Vicar-Gene- ral,that be zs (o) that man of Sin, 6 ’Aymeiver@,That Adverfary of our B. Saviour, andthe great Anti chrift, the Apostle [peaks of, who exalts himfelf CUmp amdvre acyouevoy Ocor 7 oe Bee jue ) above all Kings and
Emperors.
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Emperors, This (I hope) will in part appear b suis is {aidin tbe Fallen salient 4 At pears! Joall defirethe Impartial Reader (who poffibly may vyead this foort Epiftie, and trouble himfelf no furs ther, toread what follows) to confider, Thatthe Pope really and profeiledly does exalt himfelt above all Kings and Emperors, and fo has this Mark of the Beaft,and Indelible Character of Antichrift. That he does [o Exalt himfelf, will evidently appear, thus, 1, Pope Innocent the Third tells the (p) Emperor of Conftantinople (and with prodigious Error and Impudence, indeavors to prove tt out of (q) Scrip- ture) That the (*) Pope is as much greater Than the Emperor,as T he Sun is greater Than the Moon. So innocent the third; and (that we may. be fure bis Succeffors liked it well) Gregory the Ninth appro- ves, andrefers tt into the Body of Canon-Law: Aid (f) Greg. the Thirteenth approves it too;and (with the other Decretals ) confirms it for Law; and tis continued in all Editions of that Law, ever fince. Teas then certain and confef{s'd, ThatthePope Ex- alts himfelf above all thatis call’d God, above all Kings and Emperors; and that he is far greater than they.And if you inquire of the Proportion bow much he is greater? Ifay, 2. That their approved and received Glofles on their Law, (with fome dif- ference of Opinion) calculate how many times the Sun is greaterthan the Moon, and then infer the Pope's Greaine/s above the Emperor. Aid here
1. The Author ef ihe Glo{s, (Bernardus de Botono-
was the man) agood Lawyer, but ( {ure Tam) no good Aftronomer,tetls us, (ignorantly and rédicu- loufiy,)----- That the Sun is greaterthan the Maon,. (and confequently the Pope greater than the Em-
perore
(p)) Vide, Caps Solitz.6. Extra de Major.& Obedien-- tiajand the Lemma totharChap.which is: this--——. Impe- rium Sacerdetiofub- efh co e¢ Obedire Te- Retire
(q} 1 Pet. 2.12. (which place: evi- dently proves the contracy) Jer.t.10. Gen.1.16. Joh.24% 16.Matth, 16:19.
(T) Quanta eft inter Solem & Lu- namytanta gnter Fou~ tificese® Reges aif= ferentia cogno{citur. DittoGap Solita 6.
(f) Bulla Roma data 1380 Juri Can. prafixa.
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(t) Cum igitur terra fit fepties ma- jor Luna, Sol autem otlies major terras reftat evgo,ut Ponti- ficalis Dignitas Quadragefies fepties fit Major Regalt. Gloffa verbo. tater Solem & Lunam. Cap. Solita 6. Ex- trade Major. & O- bedientia. I quote the Edition of the Canon Law at Pa- Ti, 1612.
(u) Alias quin- quagies fepties. Ita Nota in Margine,ad dittum Cap. Solita verbo,iater Solem cx Lunam. Ibid.
(x) Manifefium eft, quod magnitudo Solis continet mag- _ nitudinemterreCcen- “ties quadragies fep- ties duas medt- etates. Vid, Additi- onem ad Gloflam verbo. Inter Solem & Lunam. Cap.So- litz.6.
(y) Palam ef , quod magnitude So- kis continet magni- tudinemLune fepties millies feptingentzes ce quadragies quan ter, © infuper ejus medietatem.\bidem jd dicta additione ad diétam Glofiam.
(Cz) Aurum non tam pretiofius est
peror) (¢) Forty feven times.Tdis 2s pretiy wevl, but auch foort of that Magnitude the‘Pope meant, (af be knew what he [aid )when he affirm’d, That he was as much greater than the Emperor, as the Sun was greater than the Moon.
2. And therefore another (u) Canonift, would have
the Sun greater than the Moon (and fo the Pope greater than the Emperor) Fifty feven times,
3. But this (as too little) does not pleafe the Pope’s
Party aud Parafites; and therefore Laurentius ( another Canonift fays, That it isc )manifeft that the Sun is greater than the Moon (fo the Pope thanthe Emperor) an hundred forty feven times. I omit the fractions;for if the ‘Pope be.147. times greater than the Emperor, methinks it might fa- tisfie his Ambition,fo that he needed not (land up- on the fraction, or little overplus.
4. But this alfo comes far fort of that Magnitude,
which they alcribe tothe Sun above the Moon, foto the Pope above the Emperor for they tell us (y )That the Sun is greater than theMoon(7744%) feven thoufand feven hundred, forty four times, and one half more.To {uch a prodigious greatne/s, does the Bifbop of Rome exalt himfelf. So that if St.Paul (ay true, T hat he is Antichrift, who exalts himfelf above all Kings and Emperors) then it will evidently follow, that the Pope is Anti- chrift;for never man did, or (without Antichri- Pian Pride and Impiety) can fo exalt himfelf. They fometimes tell us in their Law, ----(z)That the Papal Dignity is tobe preferr’d to the Impe- rial, more than Gold is to Lead; and (zf Gratian
pluinbo, quam Regia Dignitate (it Altior Dignitas Sacerdotals. Gratian Can. duo funt 1g. Di-
flindt..99.
fay
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[aytrne) it was the Pope who faidfo. Andthe Glofs gives the reafon of this Papal (a) Great- ne{s above all Kings ; Becaufe Kings and Princes are to fubmit their Necks to the Popes Knees;(4e
might have faid, and their (b) Mouths to the Popes Feet,which the Emperor ts bound to kifs). That thu Impious and Antichriftian Dottrine, Ithink evident;and I have {ome reafon to believe that intelligent and impartial Fudges will think fotoo,and yet it has heretofore, and ftill # appro- ved and (as Catholick) received at Rome. For, 1.lhat Decretal of Pope innocent the Third,was by Gregory the Ninth made a Law,and(amongft other Decretals) by him commanded to be recei- ved a Law, inall(c) Uxiverfities and Papal Gonfiftories,about 450. years ago,and fo continues to this day. 2. For the Gloffes before-mentioned, they are not only inthe (d) old Editions of their Law, but were approved and confirmed after- wards by(e Gregory the Thirteenth(and [o ftand approved and confirmed to th day) who exprefly tells us, That the Law being by his (f;) command receiv d, corrected and purged; no man (for the future) fhould dare toadd, detract, or change any thing init, |
(a) Quia Cola Regum ce Princi=, pum fubmittuntur GenibusSacerdotum. (By Sacerdotes here the Popesare prin- cipally mieant,3s is evident both by the Text and the Glofs ) Gloffa ad diGum Can. verbo. Duo funr.
(b) Papsexcipit Imperatorem ad of= culum pedis ——ut primum videt Pa- pam, deteéto Capite, illum, genu terram tangens,vener atur-- ce Pontificns pedes Devote ofculatur. Lib. S:crarum Ce- remoniarum,Rom. 1560.1. 1. Tit. §.p. 22.Co].2,3.
(c) Volentes at hac tantum Compi- latéone utantur Uni- ver fi in Fudicin Co in Scholisy Cte Greg.9. in Literis Acad. Bononienfi, dat.1230. Juri Ca- nonico Prefixis.E- dit.Lugd.1661.
(d) Edir.Parif-1 520. cum Gloffis. (¢) Vide Bullam Greg. 13.datam Roma, Anno 1580. Cor-
pori Juris Canonici prxfixam. (f) Nulli liceat Lioris Canonicé Furis,de mandato noftro Correctisy Recognitis,e Expurgatis qnicquam adders, det, abere,vel immutare,cc. Woid.didta Greg. 13-Bulla,
In foort, whether the Champions of the Church of Rome aud Catholick Caufe, (as they call it) will think what is {aid inthefe Papers, worthy of any Anfwer, or no, | know not. But in cafe they do, foal make them if I miftake not)a very fair offer,which (if accepted ) will much leffen their pains and la- t | C : bour,
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(e)They-tell us, that ic was our B. Saviour himfelf, who Conftituted Peter and his Suc- ceflors. Supream Monarchs of the
Catholick Church. Chriftus Catholicam Ecclefiam, uni Soli in Terris Petro, Fee trique Succeffori Rom.Poatifici,inPoe teftatzs Plenitudine, tradidit Gubernan- dam. So Pius the Fifth in his Bull of Excommunication of Eliz. In Princi- pio. And Bellarmine fays—— --Succeffio ex Chyrifti /nftituto, cm Fare Divino eft, guia Ipfe Chriftus Jnftituit in Petro Pontificatums; ideo quicunque Petro fuc- cedit,a Chrifta acci- pit Poatificatum.De Rom. Pont.!.2.¢.12. §.utautem.Cum Pa- pa in Petri Cathe- dy2 Sedeat, fummum in coDignitatis gra- dum, nonnullis Hu- manis Conftitutioni- bus, fed Divinitus datum agnofcit.Ca- techif, Trident. Part.2.c.7. De Or- ' dinis Sacramento. §.28 vide Can, Sa-
bour yet [o,as (af they performthe Condit rom annex. ed) fet i meh ) effeciually do their bu- fine{s, and make me their Profelyte : The thing I meanis this; If they can from Scripture, (by any one Cogent and Concluding. Argument’) prove any one of thefe following Propofitrons (and unle|s they be all proved, their Papal Monarchy:caunot ftand) I will grant the reft, and give them the Gaufe, I fay then, if they canmake it appear, + aS 1, Ehat our blefled Saviour before his Afcenfion; did conflitute Peter his Vicar, and gave him fuch a Monarchical Supremacy. and Jurif(diction (asis(g) now contended for) over the Apoftles and'the whole Church. For sf Peter bad no (uch Power he could not transfer it to ha Succeffors; it being im- poffible, that they /bould have that Power (Jure Succeflionis) which their Predecefforsnever dad. 2.Ifthey can prove that St. Peter, while he lived, did exercife fuch Power and Supream Jurifdfcti- on,even over the Apoftles,&c. By their own (h) Computation St. Peter lived 34.0r 35. years after the Afcenfion of our B. Saviour,and was( as they fay) Bifbop of Antioch 7. aud of Rome 25. years. Now tf itueither do, nor camappear, that in all that time he exercifed any [uch Monarchical Power or Furt{dittion; we may {afely conclade, either that be had no [uch Power (whith « moft true )or betray d his truft in not making ufeé of it, for his Mafters Glory, and his Churches good ; which (I {uppofe) our Adverfaries will not fay. In this Cafe, Idemeft non efle & non apparere ;
crofancta. 2. Dift. 22.8 Gloffam & Turrecrematam. Idem. (hh) Baroniws fays, that Peter fufs
fered Martyrdom Anno Chriffi 69. and therefure 34+ or 35. years after our blefied Saviours Paffion. Annal. Tom, 1.ad-Ann, 69. §. 1. ds
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and therefore our Adverfaries muft pardon us, sf we do not believe (what they cannot prove) St. Peters Monarchy.
3. But let it be fuppofed which neither has been,nor
can be proved ) that Peter had, and executed [uch Power ; let them make it appear that it.was not Perfonal and Temporary, to ceafe with his Per- fon, (as the Apoftlefhip did) but to be transferred tofome(z)Succeflor. For sf st was temporary , and ceas'd with St. Peter’s Perfon,then whoever (after Peter’s death) pretends to that Power, is not bone fidei pofleflor, but an Impious and An- tichriftian Ufurper.
| 4. But let all thofe ‘Particulars be fuppofed, (which
being untrue,cannot poffibly be proved thatPeter had and executed [uch Power,and that it was to be tran{mitted to his Succeffor; Let them make it appear that the Bifhop of Rome was that (4) Suc- ceilor, that Peter was (as they fay ) 25. years Bp. of Rome,or 25.days,or that he ever was at Rome: For, if it be fo far from truth that Peter was 25. years Bp. of Rome, that it cannot appear from Scripture, that he was ever Bifoop there at all, or that he ever was at Rome. It will evidently
» follow,that the Pope és not St. Peter’s Succe Sor, and fo can have no Title(Jure Succeffionis )to that
Supremacy,they fay,Peter had: It being impoffible that the Pope fhould [ucceed Peter, if he never -preceeded him in the Bifboprick of Rome.
5. Let them make tt appear,that our bleffed Saviour, ~ while on Earth, either exercis’d or had fuch a -
‘Temporal Monarchy, as the (/.) Pope now chal-
C2 lenges
Ci) Bellarmine fzys, that ’tis evi- dentin Scripture, that Peter’s Supre- macy was to def- cend toa Succeffor Aliquem Petro Succedere,deducitur Evidenter ex Scrip- turis.De Rom.Pon. },2.c. 12. §. Obfer- vandum Tertio.
(k) Bellarmine tellsus, Thatiris not exprefly in Scripture, that the Pope is Peter's Suc- cefior, but thit muft be proved by Apoftolical Tradi- tion.Rom. Pontifice faccedere Petro, son habetur expreffe tn Scripturis,fed habe= tur extraditione A- peftolicd. Bellarm. diéo loco.
(4) They con- ftanrly tellus, the Pope has two Swords; and of the Temporal Sword they fay —Figu- rat Pontificalis hic gladius poteftatem fummamTemporalem, a Chrifto ejus Vica- rio collatam; juxta illad, data eft mibé
omnis Poteftas.. in
Colo ch in Terra,
~ ¢p alibi, dominabi-
tur 4 Mari ufquead Mare,eo a Flumine, ulque ad Terminos
Orbis Tervarum. Liber Sacrarum Cerimoniarum Ecclefiza Rom, Roma. 1560. Lib. 1. Tit. 7. ‘ De Enfe benedicendo, p: 36.Col. 1.
"eu ee ee Te See en oe et —_— > ow Sa —~ -¢ _ 1 te
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fm) Vide Me- thodum Veronia- nam, fen modum, guo quiliber Ca- thojicus poteft So- lis Bibliis, Religio- nis prztenfa Mini- firum evidentér mutum reddere, &c. Authore Fran- cifco Verono Pari- fienfi, Soc etatis Jefu Throlog. Co. Ion. Agrip 1610. Vide Jac. Mafeni}, mediratam Con- cordi:m Proteftan- tium cum Catholi- cis, ex verbo Dei.. _ Edit.Colon. 1661.
(n) Francif, Vee.
soni. Scientiam, é doGiffima Societa- te Jefa. prodeun- tem, veperamur, fententiam liben- ter fequimur, & la- bores, optimo fuc- ceffu 4 Deo dona- #0s,honoramus. A- drian.& PetrusWa- kenburch in Exam. Princip. fidei, &c. Exam.3.§, i. num. $-p.1ih,
lenges as his Vicar. or unle{s this appear,alt
ther pretences to {uch Power, (as Vicars of our
B. Saviour) will be vain and irrational;it being
— pinpoffible that the Pope or Peter fhould derive from him that Power which he himfelf neither had, nor ever bere on Earthexercis’d,
Thefe are the Foundations upon which the Papal Monarchy ( Spiritual and Temporal) is built; and if thefe fail, the whole Fabrick will and muft fall ; and therefore they are concern'd, by [ome real and rational proof,te make them good. Now tf our Ad- verfaries can and will make tt appear,from Sacred Scripture, that Peter ever had or exercifed {uch a Power,as ts pretended; that it was not perfonalin him, but to be tran[mitted to his Succeffur; that he was 25. ears Bp. of Rome, and actually transfer- ved that Power tohis Succeffor there; or that our B. Saviour ever had or exercis’d fuch aterrene 6 temporal Power, as they pretend the Pope ( as his Vicar) bas from him:1 {ay,let them make all, or any one of thefe Particulars appear from Scripture, and Iwill confels,and retratt my error. Nor is the Cone dition unjuft or unequal, when lrequire Scripture proof. For they themfelves conftantly affirm that the Pope has right to bis Monarchical Supremacy Jure Divino; 4y the Conftitution of our B. Saviour, and Divine Right; and this their Popes,Canonifts and Divines (with great noife and confidence, but no reafon) indeavour to prove from Scripture,mifer ae bly miftaken and mi apis a T know, that their late (m) Fefutical Methodifts ((o much(n) magnify'd by their Party) require of Proteftants to confute their Popifb Doétrines (Tran{ubftantiation, the Sa- crifice of the Mafs, Purgatory, 8c.) by exprefs.
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words of Scripture) wot admitting of Confeguences,
however deduced from plain Texts as ‘Premiffes. This method of theirs (beng irrational and (0) des
monftrated foto be) Ifball not tye them too: But if
they can prove any of the aforelaid Pofitions by the
exprefs words of Scripture, or 4y good Confequences
deduced from it, or (what they pretend to) C/niver- fuland Apoftolical Tradition;} foall admit the proof.
Nay, Ifoall make our Popifh Adverfaries two fur-
ther, and (if that be poffitle) fairer Offers.
1, Let them prove éy any juft and concluding reafon whatfoever, that any Chriftian Church ia the World acknowledz’d, or the Church of Rome her felf affemed and publickly pleaded for fuch a Pa- pat Supremacy, as (p) now they pretend to, for 1000. years after our B. Saviour ; and (for my own part) I will confe{s and retract my Error.
2. Let them prove, ty any {uch concluding reafon, that any Churchinthe World Eaftern or Weftern, Greek or Latin) did acknowledge what now the Pope and his Party fo earneftly and vainly con- tend for) the Popes Infallibility,azd his Suprema- cy over all General Councils,for 1500 years after
our beled Saviour; and for my part, Cedat Jiilus
Agris, manus dabimus: captivas, I will retrad what here Ihave affirmed, and be (what I hope Inever foall be) their Profelyte.
To Conclude, have no more to fay, (my Adverfaries will think I have (aid too much) fave only to de- fire the Readers, who fincerely and impartially defire truth and fatisfa&ion,to read and coufider the Murgent aswell asthe Text. Intha, they
(0) Vide Difpur-. de fidei ex {crip ris demonftratio-- ne, contra novam nonnullorum Me- thodum, Per Joh. Dallzum. 8°, Ge- nev2, 1610.
(p) They do now pretend to po- teftatem Summam Temporalem; as the Book of thir Sa- cred Ceremonies (a little before ci- ted) rells us, That our bleffed Saviour gave Peter (and in him the Pope) C@- leftis t» Terveni Ln- periy Fura. Cans Onines, 1.Dift.22. Power to depofe Kings and Empe-- rors, abfolve their Subjects from. Oaths of Allegi- ance, and’ difpole’ of their Domini- ons. Plat. in vita Greg.7. Conc. .La- teran.fubinnocent. 3-Can.de Haret. 3. Hence it was, that Bonif. 8. (that Proe digy of Antichri- fiian Prideand Im- piety) inthe So- lemn Jubilee fhew- ed himfelf. to the People the firft day in his Pontifi- calibus, and the next day,Impersalé habitu, Intula Cefa-
rea Infignis, gladium ante fe nudatum juffit deferré.& fedens alta voce teftatur, Ecce. duo gladd}.
Vide Paralip, ad Chron. Urfpergen. ad An. 1294. P: 3.44 have
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Note yen!
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(2) It is notori- oufly known how many Decretal E- piftles have been forged, and fathe:- ed upon the Anci- - ent Bifhops. I fhall
only inftance in the fifth Epifile of chat pious Pope sand Martyr, Clemensthe firft; in which he pieads for a commu- nity of all thingsin _the world, even of Wives. COMMUNES K- fus Omnium, que fant in-hot mundo, - Omnibus effe Debu- dt. In'omnibus Sant Sine Dubio,&> Con- juges. ‘Fol. Séchar- dus and James Mer - lin have that Epi- ftle,and thofe very words; and Gratz- an “has refert’d them ibto the Ca- non Law. Can.di- Je&tiffimis. 2. Cauf. 12. Quail. 1. and there they are ftill inall the Editions of that Law, even that corre&ed:and
have my Pofitions aud the proofs of them,in plain Enghifbsln the Margent,the Authorities and Au- thors Irely upon, intheir own words, andthe Language inwhich they writ: and Ihave ( for the Readers eafe, not my own) cited not only the Authors and their Books but the Chapter, Para- graph, Page, and moftly the Edstions of them : That {othe Reader may with more eafe, find the places quoted, and judge whether I have cited and tranflated them aright. It « notorioufly known, that our Popifhb Adverfaries have pu- blifhed many forged Canons and Councils, many Spurious (a) Decretals and {uppofititious Traéts, under the names of Primitive Fathers, and Ane cient Bifbops ; that they have foamefully corrup- ted the Canons of Legitimate (b) Councils, and
_ thoufands of other Authors ; making them (by
adding and {ubftratting words or Sentences) fay what they never meant,or not.to [ay what indeed they did both mean and (ay: andthu they them- felves have (without Jhame or honefty) publickly own'd, intheir Expurgatory Indices ; and after all th fraud and falfsfication of Records, thefe Apocryphal Books and {uppofititious Authors are continually produced by them (for proofs of
approved by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth. () I ‘thall inftanceonly in one, the 28. Canon of the Council of Chalcedon, as it is fhainefully corrupted in Gratian. Can. Renovant. 6. Dift. 22. -avhere,r. {t isin'the Original, deiCoyev de finimus,|tatuimus; for which Gratian has,Petimus. 20In the Original Canon, itis recoCurécg “Pwpn, Sencor Roma; but Grattan has Superior Roma. 3.1n the Original, it is, fox reeobaa, eAqualéa Privilegias But Gratian has Similia privilegia: as being unwilling that Conftantinople fhould have equal priviledges with Rome. 4. In the Original Canon, it js ——— y\ Ey gol "Exxanorassnots,8cce That Conftantinople fhould be equal to Rome, in Ecclefiaftical Matters, etiam in Ecclefiafticis. But Gratian (in contradiéion to the Canon) fays, Non tamen in Ecclefiafticis,exc.So it was in Gratiangn the old Editions;only in the later Editions of Gratian (An.16 12,16 18,166 1,8&c.) this laft corruption is ackaowledg’d,and (which is not u- fualy mended, Bar other corruptions remain fiill, in their laft and beft Editions of Gratian.
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their Errors) againft Proteftants who well know, and (as many fober menof their own Com- munition) juftly condemn {uch impious Roman Arts ——Nectaliauxilio, nec defenforibus iftis Chri- ftus eget. Truth needs nofuch forg’d and falfe | Medium’s to-maintain it; nor will any honest man ufethem. Sure lai, Thave notin this Di{- courfe, built the truth of my Pofitions upon the Teftimonies of our own Proteftant Authors, (knowing that our Adverfaries would with {corn reject thery Teftimony) nor of any [uppofititious or | fpurious ones. The Teftimonies and ‘Proofs Ihave guoted,and relyupon, are drawn from Scripture, the genuine Works of the ancient Fathers and Councils, or (which ad hominem, muff be valid) from their own Councils, the Popes Bull, their Canon Law, their Cafuifts, School-men, Sum- mifts, the Trent Catechifm, te Book of the’Sa- cred Ceremonies of the Roman Church,thesr ap- proved and received Publick Offices, ([uch as _ their Miflal, Breviary, Ritual, Pontifical, &c, ) which Authorities (if Ido not mifquote, or mi- Stake their meaning) are, and(to them) muft be juft proofs of thofe Pofitions for which Ihave produced them, But let the Evidence of the Te- ftimonies, and the Authority of the Authors quo- ted,be what it will; I have little hope,that they will gain any afjent from our Adverfaries ; fo Long as they believe the Infallibility of their Pope _ and Church,and their Learned Men are folemn- ly {worn, firmly tobelieve their new Trent Creed (the whole Body of Popifo Errors) to their laft breath, and to Anathematize and damn what Do- chrine foever contradicts it, For while they are
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offe(s'd with thefe Principles, it may betruly — | rey them, i was {aid of the Luciferae Hereticks én St, same Soc “ap — Ms offe, quam perfuaderi,.you may fooner baffle , The puimnde them: They will (tn defpite o Premiffes) hold the Conclufion ; nor foall the cleareft demonftration overcome their blind Zeal : and Affection to their Catholick Caufe. However that God Almighty would be grace fly picaied j to ble(s us andthem, with aclear knowledge of Sacred Truth, with a firm belief, and (in dange- — vous times) upon undaunted and pious ondieiee of it, is and fhall be the Prayer of
Thy Friend and Servant
06.3. 1689.
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The Damnation and Excommunication of Elizabeth Queen of England,and her Adherents, withan Addition of other
punifhments.
Pius Bifhop, Servant to God’s Servants, for a perpetual memorial of the matter.
: E that reigneth on 7 high » to whom is given all Power in
Heaven & in Earth, commit- ted one Holy, Catholick and Apoftolick Church (out of whichthereis no Salvati- on) to one alone upon Earth, namely, to Peter the Prince of the Apoftles, and to Pe- er’s Succeflor the Bifhop of Rome, tobe governed in ful- nefs of Power. Him alone he made Prince over all People, and all Kingdoms, to pluck up, deftroy, fcatter,confume, plantand build, that he may contain the faithful that are Knit together with the band
Damnatio t Excom-~ municatio Elilabe- the Regine Angliz, eigue Adberentium,
cum aliarum pena-
rum Adjectione.
Pius Epifcopus, Servus Servorum Dei,ad per- petuam Ret memori- Ath.
, Egnuans in Excelfis , cui dataeft Omnisin Calo ce? in Terra Po-
teftas, unam Santkam, Catho- licam & Apoffolicam Ecclef- am (extra quam nulla eft falus) Joli in terris, videlicer, A- postolorum Princip: Petroy Pe- trique Succeffori Romano Pon- tifici, in Poteftatis plenitudine tradidit Gubernandam, Hune unum fuper omnes Gentes, & omnia Regna Principem confti- tuit, qui evellat , deftruat, dif- Ppet, difperdar, planter, G a dificer, ut fidelem pepulum, mu- tue Charitatis nexu constri- lum in unitare Spiritus contineat , faluumqne @& itn- D
of
+4 TS feo ar #5 7 Was a a] on
Pope Pius the Fifth’s Bull
of Charity, in the Unity of the Spirit, and prefent them
columem fuo exhibeat Jalvato- —
rt. : a
fpotlefs, and unblameable to their Saviour.
s.r. In difcharge of which Funétion, we which are by God’s goodnefs called to the Government of the afore- faid Church, do fpare no pains, labouring with all ear- neftnefs, that Unity, and the Catholick Religion ¢ which the Author thereof hath for the trial of his Childrer:7s Faith, and fer eur amend- ment,. fuffered to be punifh- ed with fo great Afflictions ) might be preferved uncor- rupt: But the number of the ungodly hath gotten fuch power, there isnow no place keft in the whole World, whichthey have not aflayed to corrupt with their moft
wicked Doctrines: Amongft:
ethers, Elizaberh, the pre- tended-Queen of Exgland, a Slave of Wickednefs,.lend-
ing thereunto her helping.
hand, with whom, as in a’ ‘Sanctuary, the moft pernici- ous of all men have founda Refuge. Thisvery Woman having feized on the King-
§.1. Quo quidem tn munere obeundo, Nos ad preditte Ec- Glefie gubernacula Det Benig- nitate vocati, nullum laborem intermittimus, omni operacon- tendentes, ut ipfa Unitas, &- Catholica Religio ( quam iliu Aytlor ad probandam fuorum fidem, & corretlionem noftramy. tantis proceliis conflitiari per- mifit) integra confervetur. Sed: Impiorum numerus tantum po- tentia invaluit » ut nullus jam. in Orbe locus fit relittus, quem ills peffimis dottrinis corrumpere
fon tentdrint , adnitente inter
éeteros flagitiorum ferva Eli- zabeth, pratenfa Anglie Re~ kin, ad quam, veluti ad afy- lum, omnium infeftiffimi pro- fuginn invenerunt. Hec adv: Regno ocenpato, fupremi Eccle- fia capitis locum, in omni An- glia, ejnfque pracipnam An- thoritatem atque Furifdittionem: monftruofe {ibe ufurpans, regnum iplam jam tum ad fidem Ca- tholicam & bonam frugem re- duttum, rurfus in exitium mi- Serum revocavit,
dom, and monftroufly ufurping the place of Supream Head’ of the Church in all England; and the chief Authority and Jurifdiction thereof, hathagain brought back the faid King- com into miferable deftruction, which was then newly re- duced to the Catholick Baith and good Fruits. §. 2,
de tint Se BE ew oy b eee oe y yr Ute yerer hs
PP ee Ss a Pee ey Oe!
againft Queen Elizabeth.
hand inhibited the exercife of the true Religion, which Mary lawful Queen of fa- mous memory, had by the help of this See reftored, af- ter it had been formerly o- verthrown by Henry the Eighth, a Revolter there- from; and following and embracing the Errors of He- reticks, fhe hath removed the Royal Council confifting of the Englifh Nobility , and filled it with obfcure men, being Hereticks , oppreffed the Embracersof the Catho- lick Faith, placed impious Preachers, Minifters of Ini-
uity, abolifhed the Sacri- fice of the Mafs, Prayers, Faftings, Choice of Meats, Unmarried Life, and the Ca- tholick Rites and Ceremo- nies. Commanded Books to be read in the whole Realm containing manifeft Herefie ; and impious Myfteries and Inftitutions, by her felf en- tertained , and obferved ac- cording to the Prefcript of Calvin, to be likewife obfer- ved by her Subjects 5 prefum- ed to throw Bifhops, Parfons of Churches, and other Ca- tholick Priefts, out of their Churches and Benefices ; and to beftow them and other
§.2. For having by ftrong
§. 2. Uf mamgue vere Religionis , quam ab illius de- fertore Henrico VIII. olim everfjam, Clare 14m. Maria Regina legitima, hujus Sedis Prafidio reparaverat , potentt wiann inbibito, fecutifque & amplexis Hereticorum errori- bus, Regium Confiliumex An- glica Nobilitare confettum di- remit , iludque obfeuris home nibus Hereticis complevit , Catholice Fider cultores op- preffit, improbos Concionatores, atque Impietatum Adminiftros repofut, Miffe Sacrificium , Preces, Fejunia, Ciborum dileclum, Ritufque Catholicos abolevit. Libros manifeftan Harefim continentes, toto Reg- no proponi, impa Myfteria, t inftituta ad Calvini Pre- Scriptum & fe fufcepta, & ob- fervata, etiam & Jfubditis ob- Servari mandavit. Epifcopos, Ecclefiarum Rettores , & alios Sacerdores Catholicos fuisEccle- fiis,& Beneficiis ejicereyac de it- lis & alits Eccleftafticis rebus in hareticos homines disponere,déqs Ecclefie caufis decernere anfay Prelatis Clero, & Popule,ne Ro- manam Ecclefiam agnofcerent, neve ejus Preceptis , Santtio~ nibufque Canonicis obtempera- rent, Interdixit, plerofque in nefarias leges fuas venire , & Romani Pontificis Axnttorita-
D 2 Church
Pope Pius the Fifth’s Bull
_—.)
Church Livings. upon- Here- ticks, and to determine of Church Caufes, prohibited the Prelates,, Clergy, and People. ta acknowledge the Church of Xome, or obey the Rrecepts.and Canonical.San- ctions thereof, compelled moft of them to condefcend to her wicked Laws,.and to abjure the Authority and O- bedience of the Bifhop of Rome, and to acknowledge her to be fole Lady in Tem- poral and Spiritual matters , and this by Oath; impofed Penalties and Punifhments upon thofe. which obeyed not , and exatted them of thofe which perfevered in the unity of the Faith and their Obedience aforefaid , caft
the Catholick Prelates and Rectors of Churches in Prifon,.
tem. atque obedientiam abjura-
re; feque folam, in Temporali-
ee ea
a
bus é Spiritualibus Dominam —
agnofecre jurtjurando. coegit; paenas Ce fupplicia in eos qui diio non fem Audientes , Impofuit, eafdemque ad iis, qui in unitate fideiy & predidia Obedientia perfeverarunt, Exe- git. Catholicos Antiftites, & Ecclefiarum Rettores in vine cula conjecit 5 ubi raultt diu- turno Languore & Triftitia Confethi, Extremum vite diem mifere finiverunt.
[Picua & notoria funt, & grae Viffima. quamplurimorum Teftin monio, ita comprobata, ut nul-
lus omnino locus-Excufationis 5. Defenfionis, aunt. Tergiverfatior
nis relinguatur, .
where many,of them, being fpent withlong languifhing and forrow, .miferably,ended their lives. All which things, fee-
ing they are manifeft and notorious to all Nations, and by
the graveft Teftimony of very many fo fubftantially proved, that there is na place at all left for Excufe, Defence, or Evae
fion.
6.3. We feing that im- pietiesand wicked actions are multiplied one upon ano- ther; and moreover, that the perfecution of the faith- ful, and affliction for Religi- on, groweth every day hea- vier and heavier, through the
§. 3.. Los multiplicantibus altis atque aliis fuper alias Im- pietatibus, c facinoribus , & preterea fidelinm perfecutione , Religionifque afflittione, impul- Ju &. Operé d. Elizabeth guo- tidie magis Ingravefcente, qus- niam illins animum ita obfirma-
Ins.
Que omnia. cum apud Omnes Nationes per-
ere oe ee Pe el Lie ye
: aoniaih Cue Elizabeth.
thitigationand Means of the faid Elizabeth, becaufe we underftand her mind to be fo hardned. and indurate , that fhe hath not only contemned the godly Requefts and Ad- monitions of Catholick Prin-
ces, concerning her healing -
and converfion, but alfo hath not fo much as permitted the Nuncios of this See, to crofs the Seas into. Exgland:, are {trained of: neceflity to be- take our felves tothe Wea- pons. of Juftice againft her, not being able to mitigate our forrow , that we are drawn. to.. take punifhment upon one,.to whofe Ance- ftors the whole State of Chriftendom hath been fo much bounden. Being there- fore fupported with his Au- thority , whofe pleafure it was to place Us (though un- able for fo great a burthen )
tum atque induratun Intelligi- mus, ut non modo pias Carholi- corum Principum de fanitare @ converfione, preces, monitionef- que contempferit , fed ne hujus quidem fedis ad ipfam hac de caufa Nuncios in Anglian» trajicere permiferit , ad Arma Fuftitia contra eam de neceffi- tate converfi, dolorem lenire non poflumus, quod Adducamur in unam animadyertere ,. Cujus majores de Republica:Chriftiana tantopere meruire; Illins stae que Andoritate fuffulti, Qui Nos: in hoc Supremo Fuftitra Throno, licer tanto Oneri Im- pares, voluit Collocare, de A+ poftolice poreftatis» plenttudsne declaramus predittam Eliza- beth Hereticam, haretico- rumque fautricem , eique adha- rentes in preditlis , Anathe- matis fententiam incurriffe-, effeque a Chrifti Corporis unita- te precifos,
in this Supream ‘Throne of Juftice; wedoout of the fulnefS of our Apoftolick Power; -declare the aforefaid Elszabeth , being an Heretick,. and a favourer of Hereticks, and her Adherents in the matters aforefaid, to:have incurred the fen- tence of Anathema’, and to be cut off fromthe Unity of the
Body of Chrift..
§. 4.. And. moreover;..we dodeclare Her to be depri- ved ofher pretended Title to the Kingdom aforefaid, and
of all Dominion, Dignity,.
and Priviledge whatfoever. .
§: 4. Quin etiam ipfam pra tenfo Regni preditti jure, nec+ nonomnt qnocunque Domi- mio, Dignitae, Privilegioqus privatam,
S. S-
"Pope Pius the Fifth's Bull, &cc.
§.5. And alfo the Nobi- lity, Subjects, and People of the faid Kingdom, and all o- thers, which have in any fort fworn unto her, to be for e- ver abfolved from any fuch Oath, and all manner of Du-
ty, of Dominion, Allegiance, and Obedience; As we alfo do by Authority of thefe Prefentsabfolve them,and do deprive the fame Elizabeth of her pretended Title to the Kingdom, & all other things abovefaid. And we do Com- mand and Interdict all and e- very the Noblemen,Subjects, People, and others aforefaid, that they prefume not toobey her, or her Monitions , Man-
§. 5. Et etiam Proceres, Jubditos, & populos astii Regni, ac ceteros omnes quitllt quomo- docunque juraverunt. A Fu- ramento lujufmodi , ac omm prorfus Domini, Fideliratis , & obfequit debito, perpetuo ab- Solutos, prout Nos illos Prafen- tium Auctoritate abfolvimms,e privamus eandem Elizabeth pretenfo Fure Regni, aliifone Omnibus fupradictis. Praci- pimeufque & Interdicsmus Uni- verfis & fingulis proceribus , Subditis, populis , & altis pra- dittis , ne ill ejufve monitis , Mandatris, & Legibus audeant obedire. Oui fecus egerint, eos fimili Anathematis Senten- tid innodamus,
dates, atid -Laws: And thofe which fhall dothe contrary,We do innodate with thelike Sentence of Anathema.
§.6. And becaufe it were a matterof too much difficul- ty, to convey thefe Prefents toall places wherefoever it. fhall be needful ,; our will is, that the Copies thereof, un- der a publick Notaries hand, and fealed with the Seal ofan Ecclefiaftical Prelate , or of his Court, fhall carry altoge- ther the fame Credit with all People, Judicial and Extra- judicial, as thefe Prefents fhould do, iftthey were exhi-
§.6. Quiavero diffietle nimi effer, Prefentes quocungue illis Opus erit perferre, volumusy ut eorumexempla, Netarij public mann, € Prelati Ecclefiaftics, ejnfue Curie Sigille Obfignata eandem illam prorfus sit in Fudicio, & extra illud, ubique Gentinm faciant,guam ipfe Pre- Sentes facerent, fi effent exbibite vel oftenfe. Dat’? Rome, apud Santtum Petrum, Anno Incar- nationisDominica 1570. 5.Cal, Mai; Pontificar? noftri _Auno 5.
bited orfhewed. Given at Rome, at St. Peters, in the Year-of
the Incarnation of our Lord, \1570. the Fifth of the of Aday, and of our Popedom the Fifth ‘year. a
Calends
ae eee een PRR ANIMADVERSIONS
AND
OBSERVATIONS
Upon the Impious: ; Extat hzc Bulla in Damnation and Excommunication rin .sseten 2. pag. 229. 0 F
O. Elizabeth PTUs oe Amoig7o,
Efore I come to a particular and diftin& Exami- - nation of the feveral Parts and Paragraphs of this Impious Popifh Bull, I fhallin general obferve, __ I. That Piws V. was not the firft or only Obferv Pope,who ufurped this Extravagant and Anti- ehriftian Power oyer Kings and Emperors; to damn, de- | pole,
2
Bullario Romano. -
8 Objervations on the Pope’s Bull
(a) Carolus Sigo- nofe, and deprive them of all their Royal Rights and Im- on meEne i‘ perial Jurifdiction , for both his Predeceflors and Succeffors neice ry. approved, and with prodigious pride and impiety, exercis’d
b) Omnium Confen- ; ‘ Pe qui pi fuch Power. “‘Thatthis may appear, I fhall give the Reader
ginibus vencratio- {ome inftances, extant upon Record, in their own Popifh
wards pte nae g Annals and Hiftories. 7 a bol ian 1. Pope (4) Conftantine ina Council of Italian Bifhops (it was about the Year 714.) Anathematife’s all who de-
tim, Diro in eum ape -compofito Carmi- ny’d the worfhipping of Images,and (6) particularly and
ne, Poenis Iaferc- by name damns the Emperor Philippicus to the Torments of J “ie pia bie Hell. So Carolus Sigonius tellsus,and Martinus Polonus, de -Regno Veale and the Fafciculus Temporum concur with him. lib.o.p.219.Extae 2. After Pope Conftamtine, Gregory the fecond, and Gre- bant preclara Gre- gory the third,fucceed (¢ ); and both of them Excomma- oor i Se cer nicate the Emperor Leo J/aurus , for this only Crime , a pe ere becaufe he was againft worlhipping of Images; and cris Interdicere, & though the Jralians had {worn Allegiance to him, yet Jurata Talia obe- they null that Oath: And the Hiftorian commends thefe ditntia Sholiare non Actions of thofe two, Popes, as excellent Examples. a spe 2 poe for Pofterity. And Platina fays, that Gregory the third gini bus fi pastegens (2) Excommunicated the Emperor Leo, and deprived him of prebuiffet. his Empire. -
, A) Gregorius3. 3. ToGregory the third, fucceeded Pope Zachary, and Leonem /mperio & (if Gratian fay true) hee) depofed Childericus King of
Se hes France, and abfolves his Subjects from their Oaths of vita Gregorij 3. Allegiance, and gives his Kingdomto Pipin = And this (¢) Zacharias Papa hedid, not for the great Crimes of Childeric , but becaufe Regem Francorum, he was unprofitable, and unfit for the Government 5, not melee ines that a was agi the ( I ) cree eee he quod evat inutilis was Effeminate , ana aiffolute wit omen. And from depoluit és Fran- this Canon, Fob. Semeca (the Gloflator ) infers, Thar cigenas a yuramento —¢he Pope may depofe the Emperor, and provesit by citing o- scant 5 ther Canons; And by the Authority of Pope (g) Gelafius, Caul.15. Queft. 6. who tells Avnaftafius the Emperor, that he had power to (£) Non quod infuffi- Depofe him, and provesit from the Example of this ciens {ed quod diffo- Pope Zachary. Iknow, that what Gratian, and tutus erat cum muli-
eiibuseo efeminatus. Gloflibid.verbo Jnstilis. (g)Gloflibid.verbo Alias; the
+
againft Queen Elizabeth.
9
the Canonift, fay, of Pope Zachary’s Depofing Childeric, is evidently untrue, (and by many ( 4) demonttrated fo to be) yet it ftands uncenfur’d in their laft and beft (4) Edition of the Canon Law, which Pope Gregory. XIII. (.&) approved and publifh’d, as moft correct. And they further tell us, That Clemenr. Vill. publifhed. an (1) Exact Correction ofall the Glofles and Additions to the Canon Law, andyet this of Pope Zachary?s de- pofing Childertc ( and, what the Glofs fays ofit ) is nei- ther leftout, nor any way cenfur’d. Whence it isevi- dent, that they approve the Doctrine of depofing Kings, and (having no juft reafon for it) forge Inftances to proveit.
Pope Hildebrand, or (m) Gregory. Vl. depofeth the Emperor Henry 1V.. by rhe Authority given (n ) by God, (as he fays ) of binding and toofing both in Heaven and Earth; And then he (0) abfolves his Subjetts from their Oath of Fidelity, and thea prohibits them to y bim. This Bull isdated at Rome, Anno Domini 1075. and five years after he Excommunicates, and Depofes him again too. And implores the Affiftance of Peter and Paul, in this his Excommunication and Depofition of the Emperor ; that the World may ( p ) know, that as they have power to bind and loofe in Heaven, fo they have power on Earth to give and take away Empires, Kingdoms, Principalities, Dukedoms, Earldoms, and ( according as they {hall deferve, and he is (q) Fudge of that) the poffeffions of all men. This power hefays, Peter had; and fo be, and the Bifhops of Rome have it too, and that from God, as Vicars of Chrift, and
“Peter’s Succeffors. And fo by this moft Erroneous and
Impious Doctrine, the Popes have a Power ( which nei- ther Peter, norany, norall the Apoftles ever had) to difpofe of all mens Temporal Eftates in the World, whether they be Supream or Subjects.
( b) Vid.. Joh. Lausoium Epift. Tom.7.p.117,118y Sc. & p. 245, 245, &c. ~Hottomanni Franco-Galliam, c- 13+ Ds 96,97,98. :
(i) Vid. Edit. Paris 1612.81618.
(&) Vid Bullam Gregorij. 12. dat. Romz. 1. Die Ju- lij. F580. .
(1) Vide Indi- cemLibrorum Pro- hibjtorum = Lufita- nicum Olyfipone, 1624. Pp. 350° ifs Carolo Molinzo.
(m) Vide Bul- Jarium Romanum
‘Romz. Anno1638.
Tom. 1p. 49-
( 2) Poteftate a Deo data Ligandi & Solvend! in Coe- lo, & in Terra. - bid.
(0 ) Omnes Chri. Rianes 2 vinculo Fur amentl, quod fim» bi faciunt, aut faci ent, abfolvo, & ut nullus ei ferviat, fim cut Regt, interdice Ibid. §. Je , _ Cp) at Mundus intelligat, quia ff poteftis in Calg liga re & folvere,poteftis in Terra Imperia, Regna,Principatus, Mar chias, Ducatus,
Comitatus, < Omninm Hominum poffeffiones, pro meritis tollere, unicuique & Concedere. In ditto Cullario Roman. Bulle Excommunicationis. Her. 4.§.10. p.§t.Col. tr. €q )Sive Roman. Pontificem Supremum in Ecclefid Dei Fudicem. Ira Gregorivs. 13. in Bulla data Roma, 8. Ae
i or
1575. In Ecloge Bullarum Lugdunl. 1582. p. 359. Col. 2. E
s. After
Io
Obfervations on the Pope's: Bull i
~ Cr) Vide Bul- Jam. 13. Gregorit. 6 datum Rome. Anno 1239. In
-Bullario Romano y
- Tones p.89,90-
(f) Vid.-Con-
Ritutiosem Ejus 3:
dar.Lugduni 1245. In Bullaris Roma- no, Tom. I. p. 94,
(t) Damnatio —
& Excommunica-
tio Friderici. 2. I-
bidem.
{ u_) Cam Fratri- bus & Sacro Conci- lio,deliberatione di- ligenti habitd. Yb. diaz Conftitutio- mis. §. 6. Bullarij didi. P- 95- Col. Ie Hin. uluma.
(x-) Non fine Omnium audientt- . am 8 Circumftan- tiun fiupore. & horro:e.Matth. Pa- ris.in Hen.3.ad An- num 1245. p. 663° hin. 33.
ee
gs. After this, Pope Gregory. IX. (7) Excommunicates:the-
Emperor Friderick, \l. Abfolves his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance, lays an Interd:cton all his Cities, . Caftles, andiVillages, Excommunicates all that favour him, orany way aihift or obey him, commands the Ger-
_ wan Bifhops.(upon pain of Excommunication ) folemnly
to publifh this Excommunication with all their Impious: Solemnities, ringing of Bells, lighting and then extin- guifhing Candles, &c. |
6. After this. Pope (f ) Jnnocent 1V. Cin the like form).
Excommunicates and Depofes the faid Frederick, The Lemma.Or Title prefix?d to the Bull is-thus (+ ) Ze Dam- nation and Excommunication of Frederick. Il. @&c. And left this might be thought arafh and inconfiderate Act: ofthe Pope, hehimfelftellsus,. That ( «) bedid diligent- ly deliberate about it, with ls Brethren ( the Cardinals he means ) and the Sacred Council, thé General Council of Lions.) 1 know, that A<atthew Paris fays,. that he pu- blifh’d that Bxcommunication in that Council , not without the ( x) Horror.and. Amazement of all who heard it. “But Platinatellsus 4That it was done bythe ( y,) general. and con- current confent of the Council: And Innocent himfelf ex- prefly fays, Fhat it was done ( Frederick Excommnni- cate) by the ( 2°) Council it felf ;. (andtherefore the Ma- jor part muft concur.) and if it was net fo, that Pope was not only fallible, but actually falfe : And it is a4 confiderable Obfervation which A@arthew Paris has, (and therefore I thall not omit it) when he tellsus———-Tbar fome did pofirively. affirm, ( and he believed it ) that( a) Innocent. LV. did above allthings earn ftly defire tovnin the
( ¥ ) Fredericum Omninm Confenfa Imperio & Regnis privavét. Platina. in vira Fanocentij.:4.p.
209, Col. 1. Edit. Col. Agripp 1626. (2) Quem( Fridericum ) Concilinm generale Lugdunen- fe Caffaverat & condemnaverat. Matthew Paris in Hen. 3, ad An, 1250. p. 773. lin- ujtima: (a) Anongallis.affirmative dicebatur , quod Dominus Papa fitienter & fuper Ome nia defiderabat , Fridericum ( quem magnum Draconem vocabat ) peffundare, ut ipfo {uppedit ato «> conculcato, Reges Francorum c Anglia, altofque Christianitatis Reges, ( quos omnes Rogue los & Serpentulos effet dicebat-) facilius, Exemplo dicti Friderici pertervitos , Conculcaret , c Bonis fuis, ac Prelatos corum, ad Libitum fpoliaret. Matth. Paris. in Hem 3. addidum Annum 1250. p.774. lia, 2. &c.. ;
Emperor
——_—*> r,
, “againft Queen Elizabeth.
If
Enperor Frederick, ( whom he called the great Dragon ) thar, he being trampled upon, the King of France, England, and |
other Chriftian Kings, (whom he calld dimunitive = and little Serpents ) affrighted with the fad Fate of Frede- rick, might more cafily be kept under, andthey and their Pre- lates fpoiled of their Goods, and by him plundered. Sothat althoughhe, and other Popes did pretend, ( asappears by their Bulls ) that they depofed Kings for the Extirpa-
tion of Herefie, the Prefervation of the Catholick Faith, and Chriftian Religion ; yet ’cis evident to any intelligent
and impartial Judge of their Actions, that it was their prodigious ambition and covetoufnefs, their inordinate and erroneous defire of Dominion, of Rule and Riches, which made them ufurp and exercife a power to depofe
_Kingsand Emperors, which St. Peter ( from whom they
pretend to have it ) never had, nor pretended to. :
7. Pope Paw.IIl. (}) Excommunicates, Curfes, Depofes
and Damns Henry, Vill. of Exgland, and all who adhere to him, favour or obey him; abfolves his Subjects from ail Oaths of Allegiance; commands them all, under pain of Excommunication, not toobey him, or any(¢)
- Magiltrate or Officer under him, nor to acknowledge the King
‘or any of his Fudges or Officers to be their Superiors, And fur- ther ( witha {trange Impiety and Impudence ) he declares King Henry and his Complices and Favourers and their Children and Defcendents to be Infamous, incapable to be Witnefles, make Wills, or be Heirs toany; Incapa- ble to do any legal Act, and rhat ix any Caufe(d) of Debt, or any other Caufe Civil or Criminal, none flould be boundto anfwer them, and yet they bound to anfwer every body. And to omit the reft, ¢ for I fhall at the end of thefe Ob- fervations, fet down the whole Bull ) he commands the (¢) Ecclefiafticks (Secular and Regular ) to quit the King-
dom, and not to return, tillthe Perfons Excommunicate, de-
(>) Vide Bul lam.7. Pauli.3 dat. Rom#.3. Cal.Sept. Anno. 153%. In Bullario Romano. Tom, 1.p. 514. E- ditionis = Romz. 1638. .
(c ) Mandantes, ut ab Henvict Regis, fuorumque Officialie um, Fudicumts Mae giftratunm quorum- canque Obedienta penitus: ¢» omnino recedant,necillasst fuperiores vecognof- cant , néque corum Mandatis Obtempe- rent. Diz Bulla. §. 10,
Cd) Et Nuki ip- fis, fed iff aliis [u-
per Cqocunque debito, > negotio, tam Civiliquam Criminali, de jure vefpondere teneantur. bid. S.
Ile (€) Prelatis quoque & Cateris per(onis Ecclefiafticis mandat Jub.penis.in Bulla Contentis , quatenus de Regno Anglie difcedant,nec revertantur, donee décti Excommunicati, privaté,maledicti, @& damnati merucrint ablolationis Beneficium. Ibid. §. 13.p. 516. |
FB, 2 prived,
Iz
eee,
Obfervations on the Pope’s Bull
¢f) Cambdens Elizabeth. lib.3. p- 360, 361. ad An- mum 1988.
( g ) See a Book with this Title----- Important Confide- yations.8cc. written by the Secular Prieftshere in Eng- band, printed Anno 4601. and reprin- ted with other
Tra&s , with this Tile
prived, curfed and damn’d (the King and all his Loyal Subje&s he means ) be abfolved from their Cenfures. This. Bull, though fram’d and ready to be publith’d, yet the Execution of it was fufpended for three years, and then actually publifhedin the Year 193%. which was the fifth: year of Pope Paul. III. as appears by the Date of it, in the aforefaid Bullary. And when it was publifhed, as it was in it felf highly Impious, fo (to Hez. VIII, and his. Loyal Subjects ) it was ridiculous; and all the Effect it had was, that it increafed their hate and contempt ofthe Antichriftian pride and folly of its Author. It appeared ( what indeed it was ) Brutum fulmen, and that King had too great a courage and underftanding, to be frighted with an Jgnis fatuus, Papal Squibs,.and Wild-fire,which. could neither warm or burn him.
8. Laftly; asthe Popes proceeding Pius. V. fo thofe who
followed, approved and ( fo far as they were able). put in practice that execrable Doctrine of Depofing Kings. Pope Gregory. XUE. did immediately fucceed: Pius V. and renues and confirms his. Bull. for depofing Queen Elizabeth, and abfolving her Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance ¢ as is. teftified not only by ( f) Cambden, but by the Romith Priefts themfelves, (the (¢ ) Seculars, who feem’d moft moderate ).and in profecuti- on of that damnatory Sentence, the faid Pope Gregory
- did conftitute Fitz-Gerald (an Irifh Rebel againft the
Queen ) General of all the Jrifo Rebels; that fo he and they by Fire and Sword might Execute the Sentence of | thofe two Popes, depofing that Queen Thisis expref- ly teftify’d by Fitz*Gerald (&) himfelf, inan Edict pu- blifh’d by him, after he was General, declaring the Ju-
A Collection of feveral Treatifes concerning the Reafons and Occafi-
on of Penal Laws,¢c.London 1675. In which Collection, pag.76. the Secular Priefts tell us, that Pope Gregory. 13.did excommunicate Queen Elizabeth. (hh) Gregorins. 13.in Ducem ac Ge- neralem bujus belli Capitanenm, Nos Elegit,ut ex ipfius Diplomate conftat : Quod tanto magis fecit, — quia ews Predeceffor Pius. 5. Blizabetham herefium Patronam Omni Regia Poteftate privaverat. Vid. Edi&um Uluftriff, D. Jac. Geraldini,de Juftitia ejus belli, quod in Hibernia pro fide gerit. °Tis
Extantin the Hiftory of the Irith Rebellion, Lond. 1680, in the Appendix, p. 8
{tice
4
~ againft Queen Elizabeth. 13
tice of that Jrifh War, which( he fays ) was undertaken
i for the Catholick Faith, and reftoring itin Jreland. To
; Gregory. XIII. Szxtus Quintus immediately fucceeds, and
4 confirms the damnatory Sentences of his two Predeceffors, and
M (as he who well knew, tells us) Excommunicates and Ci) depofes the Queen, Abfolves her Subjetts from their Oaths — ‘) Cambdens
of Fidelity, and publifhed a Croifado, as againft Turks and Blizaveth. lib. 3. po
Infidels (indeed as afterwards evidently appear’d againft 350) 361»
England and Queen Elizabeth ) and gave ( what he never
had to give ) plenary Indulgence to all whofhould affift in that
War. Nor is this all; Cardinal Allen (k)writaTrai- , (&) Cambden
terous and Seditieus Book, to Exhort allthe Englith and I- ibid. lib. 3. p. 364»
rifh Papifts, to joyn with the Spanifh Forces ( againft their
Queen and Country) under the Prince of Parma: and Pope
Sixtus V. fends Allen (withthat Book, and his own Bull )
snto the Low-Countries, and there agreat number of thofe
Books and Bulls were Printed at Antverpe, to be fent into
England. Were it neceflary, many things now might
be faid, pertinent to this purpofe; but (I fuppofe ) the
Inftances already given, willbe fufficient to convince In-
telligent and Impartial Perfons, That Pope Pius. V. was:
neither the firft nor laft, who ufurped this Extravagant
Power to Depofe Princes; feeing feveral of his Predecef-
forsand Succeflors, for above. 600. years, have owned,
approved, and ( as they had opportunity ) put that Power
in practife : This in General premis’d, I come now to-
confider the Bull of Pius. V. wherein he damnsand de-
pofeth Queen Elizabeth, wherein twothings occur very
confiderable ; |
r. The 7Emyeuoa, or Title prefix’d to the Bull. 2. The Particulars contain’d in it.
__. Forthefirft; the Title prefix’d to the Bull isthus: —— Obfervarion; | =—Dhe Damnation of Elizabeth, ec. where, though Dam- . _ nation may feem a very hard word(as indeed it is,in the fenfe
they ufe it, as fhall by and by appear ) yetit isnot unufual; -
but occurs in other Bulls of the like nature : So we find it
bil
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(1) Damnatio& Depofitio Frideréct. -2. Vid. Bullarium Romanum, Romz, 1638. FOm.1-D.94- Col. 7. Edita erat Bulla ifta An.i24¢. m) Damnatio Een.8. epufque Fau- torum, (rc. In Bul- Jario Romano.ibid. p-514- Col.2. Edi- ta dicta bulla,Anno
1535. ‘& poftea
1538. si n ) Vid. Bulla- rium Romanum Lug- dunj. 1655. im 4. Tomis in Folio, & Eclogen Bullarum 8 motu proprio- rum P i.4,&c.Lug- duni. 1582. 8°. & NovamCollectionem, &c. Eman. Roder. _ Turnoni.1609.fol. where in that one Volume you have above. goo. Bulls, with the Names of 46. Popes, who pu- olifhed them. (0) VideCon. flitut. 22. Julij Pa- pz. 2. InBullario Romano Tom.1.p. 378. Ec Conftitut. $1.Gregorij.13.I0 dictoBullarioT om.
2. p. 348. vide Extravag. Communes, |. 5: Tit.9. cap. Unigenitus. 2. Cp) Decuiffémus cum (Lie therum) Luce clarius,Sanétos Rom. Pontifices Predeceffores noftros, in [uss Canonibus feu Conftituti onibus Nunquam Evraffe. Vide Bulfam Apoftolicam Leopis. 10. contra Errores Lutheri, & fequa- _ cium. Dat. Rome, 17. Cal. Julij, An. 15.20. & Pontificatus ful, Oftavo. Apud Pet.Crab Cone. Tom. 3.p. 715. &c. And his Predecefior, Zulius. 2. faysas much for the Church of Rome,—— S. Sandia Ecclefia Komana, Magiftra fidei, omnium Ervorum Expers, unica, immaculata, &c. Confti- tutto. 27+ Julij.2. data Anno. 1612. Im Bullario Romano. Tom. 1. p. 384. ee
inthe Bull of Pope Junocenr, IV. wherein he Excommuni- catesthe Emperor Frederick. 1]. For the Lemma or Title of that Bull is thus---( 4) The Damnation @ Depofition of Frede- rick. II; Sointhe Bullof Pope Pau. Til. Excommunica- ting Henry, VII. the Title prefix’d to it is----( m) The Dam- nation of Henry. VILL. and his Favourers, &c. Sothat Pius. V. Damning Queen Elizabeth, was not fingular (though Impious ) he had fome of his Predeceflors Forms to follow. I fay, his Predeceflors ; for {do not find that any Bifhops in the World ( fave thofe of Rome ) ever ufed fuch Unchri- ftian, and indeed Anti-chriftian Forms of Excommunicating and Damning Kings and Emperors. And it is obferyable, ‘and wellknown to thofe whodiligently read.and confider the Papal Bulls now extant, ( of which there isa valt ( 2 ) number ) that the Popes of later Ages, when they go a- bout to juftifie fome extravagant Act of their ufurped Power ; they ufually cite ( 0) the Bulls and Conftitutions of their Predeceflors, who had done the like; not formatter of fact barely; but to prove a Right; that becaufe their Pre- deceffors had done fo formerly, therefore they (who fuc- ceeded in the fame Power ) might do ittoo. Now, al- though to arguethus, 4 Fatto ad us, be evidently inconfe- quent and irrational: (no better thanthis Peter ( de fatto ) deny’d and forfwore his Mafter: Ergo, His Succef- fors (dejure) may dofoto. ) Yet, iftheir Principles were true, (as I fuppofe they may think them ) fuch Arguing would be more concluding. For, Pope Leo, X. exprefly Cp) affirms, and publickly declares, in one of their Gene- ral Councils, that itis more clear than light it felf; That none of his Predeceffors, Popes of Rome, Did ever Err, in any of their Canons or Conftitutions. Now if this were true, (as
a
he itn
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-pblickly (+) maintain?d thefe two Pofitions,
avainft Queen Elizabeth —
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it isevidently falfe, and his Afferting it an Argument not only of his Fallibility, but of his great Error and Folly ) That none of bis Predeceffors ever Eri?d, then they might with more Security follow them; for certainly, it can be no great fault or danger to follow an unerring Guide. Efpeci- ally ifit be true which they tell us.
For 1. In their Lawsand Canons, approved by their Su- pream Authority, and retained in. publick ufe in their Church, weare told, (4) That all their Papal Sanébions are fo robe received, as if the Divine Voice of Peter himfelf bad Confirmed them: This (as Gratian there tells us) was Pope Agatho’s Sentence, audis Received into rhe Body of their Canon Law, Revifed, Corretted, and Purged from all things Contrary to Catholick Verity: So(r) Gregory. XV. fays, and con- firms it. Whence it evidently follows; that (in Pope Gregory’s Judgment ) This Sentence of Azarho is not re-
“pugnant to Catholick Verity: And in the fame place it ts
farther declared for Law, ( Pope Stephen. I. is cited as Au- thor of’ that Sentence ) Thar, ({) Whatever the Church of Rome does Ordain or Conftitute, it 1s ( without all Contraditti-
on) perpetually to be Obferved.
2. Thoughthis be ( beyond all truth and. reafon ) high- ly erroneous; yet the Jefuits Cof late.) have gone much higher, and in their Claromont Colledge at Paris, pu- | 1. That our Blefjed Saviour left Peter and his Succeffors, the fame Infalli- bility, he himfelf had, fo oft as they fooke @ Cathedra, 2. That
(even out of a General Council ) he is the Infallible Judge in
Gontroverffes of Faith, both in Queftions of Right and Fatt. This ( as to the main of it; though Erroneous and Impious) is maintain’d by others as wellas Jefuits. F. Gregory de Ri- ves, a Capuchin Prieft, tells us (and his Book.is approved by. the General, and feveral others of his Order, and by Father D. Roguet, a Dominican, and Doctor of Divinity ,
ergo, in Ecclef, Rom. Controverfiarum fidet Judex Infalltbilis, etiam Extra
(q) Sic Omnes Apostolice Sedis Sanéziones accipiene de funt,tanquam Ip- fius Divint Petre voce Firmate fint. Can. fic Omnes 2.. dift. 19. & Ibid. Can. 3, 4, &C.
Cr) Vide Bul- lam Greg. 13. da- tam Romz. 1. Jul. 1580. Jur. Can, prefixam.
CS) Quicquid Statuit , Quicquid Ordinat Romaza Ec- clefia, Ab Omnibus perpetuo & Irrefra- gabiliter eft Obfer- vandum. Ybid. Can. Enim vero, 4. Dift. 19.
Ct ) chrijtum ita Caput Ecclefie Ag- nofcimus , ut éliius regimen,dum in Ce los abiit,primum Pe- tro, dein fucceffori- bus commiferit, & eandem quam habe- bat Ipfe Infallibili- tatem, concefferit, quoties ex Cathedra loqueretur. Datur 5 Concélinm Generale,
tum in soo Suen Juris & Faiti, Vids Expofit. Thefeos, in Col. Claromontano propo-
fitz. 12. Dec. 1661,
i (Fe.
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Cu) Sé chriftz Authoritas non pen- ideret aConcilio, ft adbuc in terris vi- veret.fed Omni Con- cilio Majer effet. Eddem Ratione, & Pontificis Authori- tas,que ipfius Chri- ‘fti Vicariaeft, Con- cilio fuperior eft--e-= Privilegium Infalli-, bilis veritatis, non Concilio, fed Fonté- fici 2 Chrifte Colla- tum oft. Lut. 22.3 2- Gr.de Rives Epi- tome Concil. in Principio pralud.
{X )Ecclefia Ro- mana elt Fudex Con- troverfiarum in Re- bus Fidei, & pins Determinationes Sunt De Fide. Ibid. Prelud. 9. Edit. Lugd. Anno.1663.
( y )Verbum Dei., vel eft Scriptum in Scripturis vel non fcriptum, Traditio- nescvel Explicatum, cum dubia in verbo Scripto aut Tradito Explicantur. Quod fitPrefertimper Pa- pam, five Extracon- ciléa,feuin Concili-
Jo bythe fame Reafon, the Authority of the Pope ( who is Chrifts
ce ) (uw) That as the Authority of Chrift ( our bleffed Savi
our) if he yere.now on Earth, were greater than all Councils ,
Vicar ) is greater than allCouncils too. That the Priviledge of Infallibility was given to the Pope, not to Councils; and then Concludes, That the (x) Church of Rome ( he means the Pope ) is Fudge of Controverfies, and all her Definitions and Determinations are De Fide. Thus De Xives, And three or four years before him, Lid. Basel (a Parifian Doctor and Propenitentiary ) exprefly affirms, That the ( y )Word of God isthreefold. 3. His written Word an Scripture. 2. His unwritten Word, inthe Traditions of the Church. 3. The Word Declared or Explain?d , when doubtful paffages in Scripture or Tradition are explain’d, and their meaning determin®d by the Pope, whether in, or out of Councils; and this (he fays) és the moft approved way, in which men acquicfce, and think, they need look no further, AndhenceheInters, That feeimg this cs fo; we (2) onght not tobe afraid to follow the Pope?s Guidance in Dottrines of Faith and Manners, but acquiefcein his Fudg- ment, and fubmit all our writings to be Corretted by him. nei- ther will nor need Cite any more Authorities, to prove the aforefaid Particulars; That Their Popes may damn and De- pofe Kings and Emperors ( efpecially if they be Hereticks ) andthink they have (as Chrifts Vicars ) a juft Prerogative and Power to doit. Sure 1 am, that thefe Pofitions (though Erroneous and Impious ) are generally maintain’d by the Je- fuits, Canonifts, (4) Schoolmen , and their Followers ( which are very many ) receiv’d into the Body of their Ca- non Law of theirbeft, and ( asthey themfelves fay ) their moft Correct Editions, and approved, and (when they had opportunity ) practis’d by ( their Supream Powers ) their
25. Ufque modus ultimus Magis probatus eft,¢» Majori fuavitate cé Plures acqutefcunt,ut nibil ulterins Contendendum exifiment. Lud. Bail in Prin. Apparatus ad fammam Conc. De triplici verbo Dei, (2) Que cum ita fint, nec Nos debemus vereri eyus ductum fequi, In Dottrind Fides & Morum, ejus Fudicio Nos Shee Scripta Omnia corrigenda fubmittere. Idem in Calce prefationis ad LeAerem, Tom, i. prafixam. ¢{ 2) Vide Aquinatem. 2.2. Quaft, 11, Art.3. Utrum Aereticé fint tellerane di? negat. &ibid. Quzft.i2. Art. 2. “trum Princeps propter Apoftafiam afide, amittat Dominium tn Subditos, tta~quod ei obedire non tenentur ? He affirms it, and {ays —— Ey4s Subditi a Dominia ejus & Furamento Fidelitatis (fi fit Excommunicatas ) Ipfo fatto leberantur.
Popes
againjt Queen Elizabeth.
7
nes and General Councils. Iwovld not be miftaken ; I _heieh that all who now do, or for this Six hundred years laft paft, have liv’din the Communion of the Church
of Rome, eitherdo, or didapprove fuch Papal Pofitions or
ices. Iknow the Sorbon and Univerfity of Paris, and etn in other Countries, have publickly Declared their disbeliefand diflike of them; Efpecially in (0 ) Germany , in the time of Alen, Ill. Hen. AV. Frederick I. He. not only private Perfons, but fome Synods declared the Papal Excommunications and Depofitions of their Emperors, not only Injuft and Impious, but Antichriftian. Igrant alfo, That Father Caron in his Remonfrrantia Fibernorum ( iffome have rightly told the Number ) has cited Two hundred and fifty Popith Authors, who deny the Popes Power to depofe Kings: And though [know that many of his Cita- tions are Impertinent , yet I fhall neither deny nor doubt, but that there are many thoufand honeft Papilts in the out- ward Communion of the Church of Rome, who diflike this Doctrine. But this will neither Juttife or Excufe the Church of Rome, fo long as her Governing and Ruling part publickly approves and maintains it. For, 1. Father (¢ ) Caron himfelf tells us, that ( notwith{tanding his Book , and all his Authorities for Loyalty to Kings ) The Divines of Loyane, The Pope?s Nuncio, the Cardinals, four or five Popes, ( Paulus. V. Pius. V. Alexander. VII. Innocentius X. (he might eafily have reckon’d many more ) did con- demn his Doéttrine, The Inquifitors dam his Book, and his Superiors Excommunicate him, 2. It is confeiled, That the Supream Infallible Power of their Church, refides ei- ther in the Pope, or Council, or both together; And tis alfo certain, That their Popes, in their approved, and (in (4 )publick ufe) received Canon Law, in their Authen- tick Bulls, ( publifh’d by themfelves ) in their General Councils ( and ( e ) with their Confentr ) have approved , and ( for thefe Six hundred years laft paft ) many times
(2) Vid. Johan. Aventinum Anpnal:; Bojorum. Lib. 5,6, 7. Carol. Sigonium de Regno traliz, Matth.pariLge.Ad An.1078 P.fo,re. & p. 13.lim, 1. & p- 958. lim. 30. & 773. lin. go. & p. 974. lite 1. 2. 8 p. 875. where R. Grojthead (for his Tyrannical Ufur- pations ) calls the Pope Antichrift.
(¢ )Remoaftranr: Hibernorum, pai t. 1. Cap. 3. &c.
(d) Volentes Cver- ba fant Gregorij.P a- pe.9. ) at hac Tane tum Compilatione 4=- niverfi utantur, ee in Fudiciis & Sche- lis;c. Bulla Greg. 9. Decretal, prz- fixa.
(e) Innocent. 4. Excommunicates Friderick. 2.in the General Council at Lions, Omnium Con- fenfu, Oc. Platina in vita Innocent.4. And Pope /nnocent himfelf faid con- fiantly that the Council of Lions Excommusicated
| is j : » p. 772. lin. 58.59. And nd Depofed that Emperor. Marth. Paris in Hen. 3. Ad Ann.1250. p 773. lit. 58.59. Ar Pope Puch, 2. rells mit red he Excommanicated the Emperor Hens 4. Fudisio Tetius Ecclefe.
Carol. Sigonius de Regno Italia, !. 9. p. 237. lin. 18. f 2 £ pra@is’d
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Obftrv. 3.
(£) Damnum a demendo, quia dam- num eft Ret diminu- tio unde Damna Lu- ne, apad Gellinm Nod. Atticarum lib. 20.Cap.8. And Varro, Damnuma demptione lid. 4. de i egibus.So Iffodore lib. 5 Orig.cap.22.
(2) Damnum tft anijfio tornm que habucras. Quindili- anus Declamat.120. Anda guod Lawy- er tells me, that Damnare; eft rem fine remedio {ib- levandi tormentis feu Ignominie fen- tentialiter deputare. _ Panormiten.in cap. Damnamus. in. 2. Notab. de fumma Trinit. & fide Ca- tholica.
pra@is’d this Doctrine of Depofing Kings ; nor has the Church of Rome (1 mean the Governing and Ruling part of it ) by any publick A&t or Declaration difown’d or cen- far’d it, as doubtlefs fhe would, had fhe indeed difliked it. Qua non prohibet, cum poffit,jubet. lf any manthink otherwile, and can really fhew me,that their Popes & General Councils
have not formerly approved, or fince have difown’dand dif- .
approv’d this Doétrine : I fhaH willingly acknowledge my miltake, and bethankful tohim for a Civility, which ¢ at prefent ) I really believe Ifhall never receive. However, Grata fupervenient qua non fperantur, 2
3. Seeing itis Evident that Pope Pius. V. ( and his Pre- deceffors in the like Cafes ) callsthe Anathemaand Curfe contain’d inthis Bull, The Damnation of QO. Elizaberh, The next Query will be, What that hard word fignifies, and whatthey meanby it, intheir Bulls? For the Solution of which doubt, and Satisfa@ion to the Query: 1. I takeit to be certainand confefs’d; that the word Damuum( from whence Damnation comes ) fignifies a (f) diminution, or (g ) lofs of fome good things, liad and enjoyed before, or of aright to future good things, and then Damnation (as to our prefent Cafe ) will be a judicial fentence, which ( by way of punifhment) impofes fuch lofs and diminution. 2. As the Damnum or lofs may be eitherof Temporal things here ( as lofs of Honours, Liberty, Lands or Life ) or of Spiritual and Eternal things, (as Heaven and Salvation ) hereafter ; fo the Damnation alfo ( according to the Na- ture of the fentence, and the mifchief intended by it) may be Temporal or Eternal, or both; if it penally inflict the lofs both of Goods Temporal and Eternal. 3. I fay then
(and1 hope tomake it evident ) that the mifchiefintend-.
ed by this Papal Bull, and Excommunication ( fo far as the malice and injuftice of an Ufurped Power could ) endea- voured to be brought upon that good Queen, was not only Temporal, bat alfo Spiritual and Eternal.. This the word Damnation, in the 7Emyeagh, or Title of the Bull, (in their Popifh Conftruction ) intends and fignifies. For the Tem- poral mifchiefs intended to be brought upon that good
Queen,
ca a i
named in the Bull it felf, as we fhall fee anon.
-
againft Queen Elizabeth.
Queen, there is no queftion, they are all particularly For the Spiritual, thatis, a feclufion out of Heavenand Happinefs, and Eternal.Damnation of Body and Soul ; that thetfe alfo were the intended and defigned Effects of this Impious Bull and Excommunication, isnow-tobe proved. And here it is to be Confidered, :
1. That theyconftantly fay, and ( having {trong Delu- fion ) poflibly may believe it; That Hereticks ( and fuch the Queen isdeclaredto be inthe Bull) dying Excommu- nicate, (asthat Queen did, and all true Proteftants do ) are Eternally Damn’d. For, 1. Avery great (b ) Canonit of our own Nation, (while Popifh Superftition unhappily pre- vail’d hete ) tells us, That every Excommunicate Perfon is a Member of the Devil. And for farther proof of this, he Cites (i ) Gratian and their Canon Law, ( and he might have Cited other as pertinent places in Gratian ) who tells us, inanother Canon (k ), Dhar Excemmunication is a Dam- nation to Eternal Death. And Fobn Semeca the Gloflator gives us their meaning of it, That it ts certainly true, when the (1) Perfon Excommunicate is incorrigible , and contems the Excommunication, (as for my partl really doccntemn all their Excommunications, as Bruta fulmina, which nei- ther do, nor can hurt any honeft Proteftant ) fothat by their Injuft Law, and moft uncharitable Divinity, not only Queen Elizabeth, but all Proteftants ( who are every Year
Excommunicated by the Pope, in their Bulla. ( m) Cene
Domini ) are Eternaky damned, and that ¢ Cathedra. A Sen- tence Erroneous and Impious ; and( thoughit be the Popes,
whom they mifcall Jfaible ) inconfiftent with Truth, o Chriftian Charity. |
TY he
2. But we have ( both for Learning and Authority ) a far greater Authorthan Lindwood or Gratian, and )in our days ) long after them ; I mean Cardinal Baronius; who tells us (” ) That Pope Gregory. VII. did not only de- poferke Emperor Hen. AV. but Excommunicate, and Decree him
. Fo2 to
—— ere
(h) Excommu- nicatus eff Wem- bram Diaboli. Lind- wood ad Cap. Se- cul Principes. ver- bo Reconciliatio- ris. De Immunit. Ecclefiz.
( ¢ )Gratian.Can.. Omnis Chriftianus. 32. Caul11.Quatt.
-
(k ) Excommuni- catio eff eAterne Mortis Damnatio. T- dem Gratian. Can. Nemo 41.Cauf.11, Qvait. 3.
(1) Eff Pespetua Lamnatio cum ab Excommunicatocon- temnitur. Gloff, ad dium Can, verbo mortis.
(m) This Bulla Cone often ( with fome alterations ) Occurs in Byllario Romano. vid. Con- ftit.25 Julli.2.Tom 1. pag. 382. Edit. Roma. 1638. & Conftit. 63. Pauli. 5. Tom.3-p.83. ubi reliqua, hujus Bul- lz Exemplaria di- &o Bullario com- prehenfa, indican- tur.
(n) Non modo deponi,fed etiamEx- communicart, C* in c#terno = Examixze Lamnari Decrevit. Baronius Aonnal. Tom.8.ad.An.Chri {ti.593-num.86,
aft
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Co) Gregor. 7. ‘Hib.g.Epift.2.& 23. & lib. 8. Epift. 21.
( p ) Henricus. 4. primam a Gregorio Papaydein ab urba- %05P oftremo & Nobis, Fudicio Totins Ec- clefie, Perpetuo A- nathemate Obliga- tus eff. Car. Sigo- nius de Regno [ta- liz. lib.9. pag 237.
€ 4) Henricum,£E- j4sq; fautores, Adha- rentes (rc. Excom- manicatos Decerni- Museo[gue Anathe- mitis, Maledittio- nis, ( eAterna Pamnationis mucro- me. percutimus. In Bulla Damnationis Hen.8. Dat. Roma. Cal.Sept.An.1535.
C1) Si Imperial, Rrgali, aut Pontif- cali Dégnitate pre- falgeant §.3. dicta. Salle.
(€) Penis que Litle Majeftatis & Herstice previtatis "45 Imponuntur. I-
Idem.
(t) Decernentes ¢at pro Schifmaricis, > de Catholica fide male fentientibus , éam Dathan & A- birot partem Damnationem habere bi formam -
fub pana Malediionis Aiterne.
to be Eternally Damr?d. And for this he (0 ) Cites Pope Gregory’s own Epifiles, who furely beft knew his own mind, and the meaning of his own Decree. a 3. But wehave greater Authors and Authority for this, than Baronius; for Pope Pafchal. Il. tells us, (p) That he had Excommunicated the Emperor Hen. 1V. inaCounedl ; and adds, That by the Fudgment of the whole Church, he lay bound under an Eternal Anathema, And after this Pope Paul, Ill. (4) Damns (thaw’s the word) and Excommunicates our King Hen. VIU. axzd all his Favourers and Adberents; And we {mite them (faith he ) with the Sword of an Anathema, Male- dittion, and Eternal Damnation. \n the Year 1459. Pins Il. ( with the Unanimous Confent of bis Council, at Mantua, Excommunicates and Damns all thofe (even (x ) Kings and Emperors) who {hall Appeal from the Popeto a General Council 4. and that they (hall be punifld as (f) Ivaytors and Hereticks. Pope fulius. 11. afterwards confirms this Conititution of his Predeceflor, as to all the Punifhments contain7d init; Excommunicates and Curfes all Perfons, Ecclefialtical and Secular, of what Dignity foever ( though Kings ) who fhall offend againft that Conftitution, and Decrees that they fhall have (t) their Portion & Damnation with Dathan and Abiron, The Damnation then intended and threatned'in this Impious Bull of Pius. V. ( as in other Papal Bulls of the like nature ) is not only fome Temporal lofs and damage (though that alfo be included and exprefled ) but the Eternal Damnation of Body and Soul, Which further appears by that Famous ( or indeed Infamous, Erroneous and Ridiculous ) Conftituti- on of Boniface. VIII. wherein having: faid, Thar there is but one Catholick Church, out of which, there is no Salvation , and that our Blefled Saviour made Peter and bis Succeffors bis Vicari, Yice-Gerents, and Heads of that Church; he adds, That (u) whoever are not of that Church, and in Subjethion
: Conflit. 22. Pii. 2. § 6.vid. P. Crab. Concil. Tom. 3. p. 650. Col 2. 8 (u) Porro (xbeffe Kom. Pont ifici Om-
ni humane Creature declaramus, dicimus, définimus, @ pronuncicmus Omnino effe de Necefitate
Salutis. Conftir. Bonifacii. 8. dat. Roma. Ann, 1 i Major. & Obed Exirav. Communes.
301. Pont, Ann. 8. Cap. una faodam. 3.
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and Obedient tothe Pope, can have no Salvation. And Pius V. inthis very Bull, exprefly fays the fame. For, 1. He fays, That out of the Apoftolick, (x ) Church (he means evi- dently his own Roman Church) there is no Salvation. 2. He declares Queen Elizabeth an (Cy) Heretick, that fhe and all her Adherents had Incuryv?d an Anathema and Maledi- étion, were Excommunicate, and cut off from the Body of Chri. Sothat Queen Elizateth, andall her Loyal Prote- {tant Subjects, who never were, nor could be, (as with- out great Error and Impiety they could not ) fubject to the Pope, nor Members of his Apoftolical Church, are ( by this Bull ) Eternally Dami?d,
4. Bot thisis not all ; for we have greater Evidence , that by the word Damvation in their Bulls, wherein all He- reticks, ( Proteftants you may be fure, who without Truth or Charity, they call {o ) are Curs’d and Excommunicated, they do and muft mean Eternal Damnation, For, 1. Pope Leo. X. in the Lateran (z) Council, ( which with them is General and Oecumenial ) innovates and eftablifheth ( withthe Approbationand Confent of that Council ) the aforefaid Doctrine and Conftitution of Pope Boniface, VIII. 2. The Trent Council doth fo too, and abfolutely Anathe- matizes and Damns all thofe whodo not believe their whole new Creed; (in which there is not onetrue Article, but all Erroneous, many Superftitious and Impious ) and tells us, Jt is the Catholick (a) Faith, without the belief of which, no man can be faved, and {wear firmly to believe it to their laft breath , and Anathematize all who donor. And, (which is further very confiderable and pertinent to confirm what is abovefaid ) they doin that Oath promife, vow, and fwear to receive and imbrace ( & ) All things delivered , defined, and declared in their General Councils, and All(c ) the Coujti- tutions of their Church, -For thefe Particulars are parts of
(x) Ecclefit A- poftolica extra quam nulla eft Salus. io Prin. Bullz.Pii.sg.
( y ) Declaramus Elizabetham Here- ticam eique Adhe- rentes Asathematis fententéam incurri[- fe, effeque a Chrifté Corporistenitate pra cifoss Lbid.§. 3.
(Zz) Cum de ne- cejitate Salatis fit, OmnesChrifti fidelés Romano Pontificé (ubeffe,prout Divine Scripture OS ancto- rum Patrum Tefti- monio edocemur, Conftitutione Boni- facié Pape. 8. que incipit unam San- tlam, declaratur. onree Conftitutionem Ipfam Sacro prefenté Concilio Approbante Innovamus, & Ap- probamus.Conc.La- teran. fub. Léone.
10. Sefl. ro. apud P.Crab.Conc. Tom. 3p. 697. Col. 1. (a). Contraria Omniax» Herefes, ab Ecclefia Lamnae tas & Arathemati- natas Ego pariter Anathematizo.Haing veram Catholica fidem, Extra quam
Nemo Salvus effe Pote2, quam veraciter tenea, Cad Extremum vite Spiritum, Conftanti~ fimé retinere, fpondeo, voveo, juro. Conc. Trident. Seff. 24. De Reformat. in Calce Cap. 12. p.
452. Edit. Antverp. 1633. vata, Indubitanter recipio, & profiteor. Ibid. p. 4§ 2+
Cb) Omnia a Conciliis Oecamenicis tradita, definita , & Decla- (c) Apoftolicas Traditianes , religuaf-
gue Eyifdem Ecclefie Conftitusiones frmifime admitta & amplector. Wid. p. 45t.
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“Cd ) Cone. Tri- dent. Seff. 24: De Reformat. cap. 12- Provift de Benefici- is, &c. Teneantar fi- dei publicam facere profefionemin Rom. Ecclefie Obedientza fe Permanfuros (pone deant ac Furent. p; 432. didtz Edido- nis. And that we may know thatthe Faith they are to profefs and {wear ~to, is the Creed of Pius. V. in the a- fore-named Editi- onof the Council of Trext,at Antverp. 1633. Pim. §. his Creed,and the For- ma JFuramentz Pro- feffionis Fidei, is placed immediate- ly after that 12.cap, Seff. 24. De Refor-
_ Mat. pag. 450+ Obferv. 4.
(Ce) Jer. 1.10.
(£) Petro & Suc- cefforibus, Ecclefi- am, in plenitudine Poteftatis gubernan- dam tradidit. Hune unum fuper Omnes Gentes, dy Omnia Regna —Principem Conftitutt,qui Evel- dat, Deftruat, Viffi- pet, Difperdat, plane cet Ce edificet 5 ut
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that new Creed, to the Belief and Profeflion of which they arefworn. Andthe Trevt Council it felf (as well as the Pope inthat Creed ) (4) requires that they make fuch a Profeflion. Whence it evidently follows, that all their Bifhops, all Regulars of what Order foever, who are pro- vided of Monafteries, Religions Houfes, &c. All Canons and Dzgnitarées in their Church, all who have any Gere of Souls, and all who profefs and teachany of the Liberal Arts, ec. ( for all thefe are required to take that Oath ) are {worn to receive, believe, and profefs all the Definitions of the Lateran Council under Leo. X. and the Conjtitution of Pope Boniface. VIII. which denounces Damnation to all thofe who fubmit not to the Pope, and embrace not their Popifh Religion; and hence it further, and as evidently follows, that not only Queen Elizabeth, but all good Pro- teftants then, and ever fince, ( whoneither did, nor with- out great Error and Impicty, could fo fubmit to their Popes, or believe their New Creed } are, by their Papal and uncharitable Divinity, Erernally Damn?d, Sothat it isnot only fome Temporal mifchief or lofs, but the Ererzal Damnation of Body and Soul, which is threatned, and De- clared to be the Effect and Inevitable Confequence of this againft Queen Elizabeth, and fuch other Excommunicati- ons of thofe whom they call Hereticks. :
4. Inthe beginning of this Impious Bull, we are told by the Pope, That our Bleffed Saviour committed the Government of his Church ( with all plenitude and fulnefs of Power ) to Peter and his Succeffors, And that we might know, how great the Power was overall Kings and Kingdoms, he miferably mifapplies a Text in (¢ ) Jeremy, and fays (f) That our bleffed Saviour did Conftitute Peter alone a Prince, over All Nations, and all Kingdoms, to Pull up, and Throw down, to Diffipate and Deftroy, to Plant aad Build ( in Ordine ad Spi- ritualia ) in Order to the Salvation of his Faithful People, fo that (if we may believe this Infallible Expofitor ) the fame Power which God gave feremy over all Nations and King- doms, to pull up and deftroy them, the very fame did our blefled Saviour give to Peter and his Succeflors. Nor is
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prove their extravagant Papal Power over Kings: Pope 4- lexander. Ul. having told fome of his Brethren, how the (2) Emperor held his Stirrup when he mounted his Palfrey ; In hisnext Conftitution, ( having faid, -That the Diligence of the Bifhops and Paftors was neceflary to pull up, and cut off Hereticks, and wicked-men in the Church ) he Cites the place of Feremy to prove it; and fays, Thar the Power over Nations and Kingdoms, to pull up, caft down, and deftroy, was given to Jeremy ( h), and In Him, to the Evangelical Prieft, to Peter aud his Succeffors, as he there exprefly ex- plainsit. And Pope Paul. Ill. tells us ; («) That he was Vicar of Chrift, our bleffed Saviour, and plac?d in the
Throne of Fultice Above All Kings in the whole World, Ac-
cording to the Prophecy of Jeremy ; And then Citesthe words of Jeremy before mention’d. And (toomit others) Pope Boniface, Vill. Cites the fame Text ( though toas little purpofe ) tothe fame end; to prove the (k ) Popes power above Kings, foasto punifhand depofe them. And before him Janocent. II. in his wild and irrational Epiftle to the Emperor of Conftantinople (1), Cites the fame Text of fe- remy, and another ( Gem. 1.16.) more impertinent ( if that be poffible ) to prove the vait Power of Popes above all ( ) Kingsand Emperors. By all which, Papal Bulls and Contftitutions ( as by many others ofthe like nature ) it mayevidently appear, that they challenge a Power to depofe Kings, and that they bring the Text of Feremy as a ground and proof of it.
. But although their Popes brag, ‘Thar they have (n) all Laws in the Archives of their own breajts, and that they are Supream and Infallible Judges im all Controverfies of Faith; yet their whole Difcourfe and Deductions from the Text of the Prophet Fervemy, isinconfequent, and indeed ridicu-
jor. & Obed. Extrav. Communes.
( g) Cum Afcen- devemus Palfredum noftrum, Fridericus Imp.Stapham tenuite &c.Conftit.8 Alex- and. 3. In Bullario Rom. Tom. i. p. 65. Col. 2.
Ch) Deus Fere= miam, (2 in illo E- vangelicdm Sacer dotem inftruxit di- cens; Ecce Conjtitué Te fuper Gentes & Regna, nt Evellas , detruas, difperdaz, ec. que Poteftas imminet in Romane Antiftite, qué a Chrifto, ut fit Capur Ecclefie, accepit. I- bid. Conftit. 9. p. 65 Col. 2. ‘
C1) Eyus Vices gerentes in terris , cr in Sede Jutitie Conflituti, Fuxta Feremie Vaticini- um,cc. fuper Omnes Reges Univerfe Tors re. {0 Bulla Dam- natfonts Hen. 8. da- ta Kom. 1535.&
1938. ; (k ) Spiritualis Potefias terrenam
jodicare deber, f bona non fuerit : fic Veriticatur Vatici- nism Ferenie, Con- ftitus Te fuper Gene tes,&c, Caprunam San&am.1. de ma-
(1) Cap. Solicit. 6. Extra. De Major. & Obedientia.
(m_) Deus Papam Totius Orbis precépuum obtinere voluit Magiftratum. Bonif. 8. in Bulla. 6. De-
hous,
etalium , (2) Dittum Bonif. 8. Cap. Licet Romanus. De Conftitur. to. 6. Romanus Pontifex} wa Omnia én Scrinio pedlovis fai cenfetur baberes
| Obfervations on the Pope's Bull.
lous, and no ways concerns either Peter, or any of his pre- tended Succeffors. For, 1. This Power which God gave to Feremy, was Perfonal, to himfelfonly, not hereditary or after his death to he continued to any Succeflor; much lefs to Peter, who came above Six hundred years after. That the Popes of this or former Ages, were Succeflors to Peter, both the Popes themfelves, and Popifh Authors univerfally af- firm-;-but ( as yet ) L have found none ( except the Pope and fome few ofhis Party ) who fay that either Peter, or any Pope , was Succeflor to Feremy. It?s true, Pope A- lexander, II]. (in the Place quoted a little before ) fays; Fhatthat Power over Nations and Kingdoms, to pull np, dif- fipare, and deftroy, &c. was (by God) given to Jeremy, andin Himto Peter. So that (by this wild Suppofiti- on ) Peter fucceeded into that Power, which before him, Jeremy had. But (notwithftanding his Infallibility) this is gratis ditlum without any fhadow or pretence of Rea- ion: For he who fucceeds into a Right which another poffefs’d before him, muft do it either, 1. Per generatio- nem & Fure Sanguinis; asa Son fucceeds his Father, or the next Heir, J jus defuntti: and that Peter, or any Pope did this way fucceed Feremy, as none ( with any reafon ) can, Ifuppofe none willfay. 2. Per Confecrationem @& Fure Ordinis ; {o one Bithop fucceeds another in the fame Bifhoprick. Neither could Peter fucceed Feremy this way 3 ’ for Jeremy was never Bifhop of Rome, or any other place, and then cis impoflible that they fhould fucceed him ina Place he never had, and be Succeflor to one who never . was their Predeceffor. 3. A man may be faid to fuc- ceed another, who has anew Commiflion given him, to Execute an Office, which ( though intermitted ) fome had long before him. So fuppofe the King fhould give one a Commiffion to be High Conftable of Exgland, af- ter the Place had been long void ; he who had fuch Com-. miflion, may be faid to fucceed him, who had that Office laft, though One or Two hundred years before. Now if the Pope ( or any for him ) can fhew, that aia aviour
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Saviour gave Peter the fame Commiffion , which God gave Jeremy, and fethimorer Nations and Kingdoms , topullup, diffipate, end deftroy, oc. (as Pope Pins. V. exprefly fays (0) hedid, inthis His imp‘ous Bull againtft Q, Elizabeth ) then will Confefs, that in this Senfe Pe- ter may be called Feremy’s Succellor. But that our blef- {ed Saviour gave Peter any fuch Commiflion ( though the Pope fay it ) is abfolutely untrue, not only without any foundation or ground of Reafon for it inScripture, ( and nothing elfe can prove it ) but point blank againft it. -As our Saviors Kingdom was not of this World, no Temporal Power or Dominion; fo he neither exercis’d any fuch Power himfelf, nor gave Peter or his Apolties, ¢ who, all of them had Equal Power with Peter ) any fuch (p ) Temporal Power over Nations and Kingdoms, to pull up, de- (troy, and diffipare, cc. All the Power they had was Spi- ritual; they could punifh no man (Cunlefs miraculoufly , which the Pope pretends not to) iz his perfon, by lofs of Life, or Liberty ( by Imprifonment ) nor in his purfe, by impofing and exacting Pecuniary Mulcts ; as has been, and might be further demonttrated, were it now my bu- finefs: only ( by the way )I crave leave to obferve, That Pope Piusin this Bull, makes that Commiflion, which - he fays, our blefled Saviour gave Peter, far larger than that which God gave Jeremy. For he tellsus, 1. That our bleffed Saviour did (q ) Conftiture Peter a Prince , to pull up, and defiroy, @c. but thereisno fuch thing in Fe- remy’s Commiflion. 2. That Peter was Conftituted a Prince over (r) Al Nations, and All Kingdoms ; but Feremy bad not fuch Univerfal Power, as is evident from the ({) Text. Butto makethis further appear, itis to be Confidei 7d,
( © ) Regnans ix Excelfis (1. e. Cbri« fas) Ecclefiam oli Petro & Succeffori- bus tradidit Guber- nandam And then it immediately fol- lows Hunt u- num ( Petrum fcilie cet /uper Omnes Gen= t 7s,» Omnéa Regna Principem Con(titue it, qnievellat, deo firnat, difipat, dij~ perdat, plantet, cc. Bulla diGain Prin- cipio.
Cp ) Pope Nicol. 1. (and he as Infal- lible as any of his Succeffors tells ns That Eccles non habet Gladimn nifé Spiritualem,qui non occidit , fed vivifi- cat. Lu tprandusin vita,Nicol. 1. Cap. 107. But he lived | above. 800, years fince , and though Gratian records it for Law ( Can. in- ter hac.6, Cauf22. Queft. 2.) yet the Cafe is alter’d fince and the Glofs up- on that Canon({ver- bo Gladium) tells us, that the mean-
2. That Feremy wasa Prieft, and aProphet; fo that if Pe- ing is;that thePope | | has not the Tem- poral Sword, Quoad Executionem only : the Power of the Temporal Sword belongs to the Emperor, but the Pope makes him En peror, and gives him that Power: and this he proves out of a Decree of Pope Innocent. 3. Cap. Venerabil. 34. Extra. De Ele&. & Electi Pote- ftate. (4) Hancunam ( Petrum feilicet ) Principem Conflituit, Gc. Lid. in di&ta Bulla. Cx) Super Omnes Gentes, & Omnia Regna. ibid. (f) Jer. i. 10. 7 G
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(t ) Vide Corn: A Lapide in Prin. Argument. Com- ment. fui in Jere- miam.
( #) For proof of this, (ee theQuo- tations before Ob- ferv. 2.
(x) Pope Ho- norius, & Pope Vi- gilius. auciently condemned for He- reticks in General Councils; and of Jater times,the Ge- neral Councils of Pifa, Conflance,and Bafil condemned others.
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ter and his Succeffors fucceeded him, it muft be in one of thofe two Capacities. But, 1. ’Tis certain, that nei- ther Peter, nor any Chriftian Bifhop did, or could fuc- ceed him, asa Prieft ; he being a Prieft of Azrox?s Or- der, which abfolutely ceafed at our Saviour’s death. 2. Nordid he fucceed Feremy as to his Prophetical Office. r. Becaufe that was, Extraordinary , Temporary, and Expired with his Perfon. The Prophetical Office was not Hereditary or Succeflive. ’Tis true, fome Prophets preceded in time, and fome afterwards followed: So
(t+) Feremy was after Zfazah about One hundred fixty five
years; Ezekéel after him Four and thirty years, Daziel after him Twenty years. Buteach Prophet hada new Call and Commiflion, and that for particular and diffe- rent purpofes, as isevident by the Prophefies themlelves, 2. Feremy and thofe Prophets were Otowvevsos, Divinely Infpired, and that to an Infallibility, and their Prophe- cies (as Divine, and the Word of God ) referr’d into the Sacred Canon of Scripture ; now although Peter, (not by Succeffion from Feremy, but byanew Call and Com- miffion from our blefled Saviour) was ©%oxveusos, and had fuch an Affiftance of the Holy Spirit, as made him Infallible, and his Doctrine Divine Truth; yet fuch af- fiftance being perfonal in him, (as it was in all Prophets before him ) his Succeflors cannot, without Impudence and Impiety pretend toit, though fome of the (u) Ca- nonifts, the Fefuits, and Papal Parafites, would have us believe ( what the ( « .) World knows to be falfe ) thar they are Infallible.
. Butthat Imay (in fhort ) come to the main fcope and
hinge of the Queftion; the truth is Evident, Tharall thefe Popes in the Expofition and Application of this Text in Jeremy, (notwithftanding their pretended Su- premacy and Infallibility ) are miferably miftaken, and put afenfe uponit, which, before them, never any Fa- ther or Ancient Author did; no nor their own Learned Writers of later times,even when Popery moft prevail’d; afenfe (if 1 may call it fo ) inconfiftent with the true
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and certain meaning of Feremy. For when cis in that Text, I have fer thee over the Nations and K ingdoms, to pulldown, aiffipate, deftroy, plant, aud build ; That which (y) Alexander. \\I. (and other Popes after him ) Cite this Text for, is, to infera Power in Jeremy, ( and from him, inthem) fofar, to pull down, diffipate, and de- {troy, asto Depofe Kings and Emperors, and Abjfolve their Subjetts from all Oaths of Allegiance: Though the Text mean nothing lefs; nor can any fuch Impious Conclufion, by any (fave poflibly Popifh ) Logick, be deduced from it. For whenthe (<) Text fays, J have fet thee over the
Nations, to pull down, and deftroy, &c. 1. The meaning isnot, that feremy (by this Commiflion ) had Power and Jurifdiction, ( per modum Imperantis )as a Prince and Su- perior, to pulldown and deftroy any man, much lefs Kings and Emperors, nay fo far was he from that, that he quiet- ly and patiently {ubmitted to the Authority and Com- mands of Injuft and Impious Superiors, ( as is evident in his Prophecy) and was feveral times ( 4 ) Imprifon?d and caft isto Dungeons, with great danger of his Life , at Ferufalem; and when carried Captive into Egypr,by fome Rebellious Jews, who would not obey the Word of God by him, he was more miferably ufed, and at laft,by them ~ (6) murder’d and martyr’d. So far was Feremy ( after God had given him that ( ¢ ) Commiflion ) from pulling down, or deftroying any man, that ( onthe contrary ) ~ he patiently fubmitted to his Superiors, and was by them "(though moft unjuftly ) punifhed, puli’d down, and at laff deftroy’d. 2. Butthe meaning of that Text evi- dently is, I have fet thee over Nations and Kingdoms, to pull down, deftroy, and diffipate, &c. Per modum Prophe- tants, G Quid Fudicio Fufto fatturus effer Deus, pradicen- tis; Asa Prophet, to foretell what God would do; that ( unlefsthey repented) he would pull down, deftroy, and diflipate thofe Nations and Kingdoms, againft which { by God’s exprefs Command ) he Prophefied. Feremy had no Commiffion, no Power or Authority to pull down, or deftroy any one fingle Perfon, much lefs Kings
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(x) Jer.t. ro. (4 ) He is beaten by Pafbsr. Jer. 20, 1. Apprehended 8 Arraigned. Jer.26. 8. Imprifon’d by Zedekiah.Chap.32. g. and beaten and imprifon’d by the Princes. Jer.37.15. by them put into a Dungeon. Jer.38.6 (b) A [uis Cone civibus in Tapbnis
eAgypti, Lapidibus.
Obrutus, Martyr oce cubuit. Ita Hiero- nymus, Tertul.Do- roth. Epiphan. Tfi- odor. &c. Corn. A. Lapide Comment, in Jerem. in Argu- mento, |
( ¢) The Com- miffion was given him, when he was a Child. Jer. 1, 6.7. when he was 14.0r 15. years old. So Corn. A Lapidein Prin. Argumenti Commentartis fuis in feremiam pra- fixi.
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{ ¢ itis a memo- rable Story weare told to this pure pote; not by any Lutheran, buta Learned $0°bon Do- Gor,an ear-witnefs of it, whofays, That when Pope Jino- cent X. was prefied to Determine the Controverfie be- tween the Jefuirs and 7anfenifts, He ( who was bred a Lawyer )told them that he was No Di- vine, that Divinity was not His Profef- fion, nor bad he ftu- died Divinity.Mon- fieur de St. Amour in his Jéurnal Part. 3. Cap, 12. & p. 520.
(f) Vide Jer. 18. 7 8.Sc. Jer.25.1 5. 16.17. &ce & Cap. 42. 10. & 45+ 4e
Ce) Conftitué Te ut Evehas, ie. at In- bermineris Aoftibus mMels, (Quos Regioni= bus (uz Plantavi) Mé. inde per Bella, CNC evisl{inr ie ni fe vefipuertnt. A Lapl- de.in jer. 1. Jo, ’ Ch}ita Dews 1 lan- tat & Evellit Gens tes : mam Feremias retpfa nec plantavit mec Evulit Gentes. Ergo, ut Evellas co»
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and Emperors; nerdidhe ever do, or attempt any fuch: thing ; he only Prophecied, and premonifh’d them from God, that Deitru‘tion would come upon them for their — fins, but it was God only whw could and did execute that Sentence, and whenthey repented not, deftroyed them. SoinScripture, the Prophet is faid to do thar, which he foretells will be done. Jo/eph in Prifon, tells Pharach’s Butler and Baker, That within rbree days the one fhould be reflored to hws Place, and the other hanged, This coming to pafs (not byany Power of Yofep, for he was a Prifoner ) yet the (4) Text fays, That He re- flored the one, and that He hang?d the other, And this- thofe Popes, who fo often urge this Text of Jeremy 5 might have eafily and certainly known, had they ftudied © Scripture and Divinity as muchas Human Policy ( astco (¢) many of them donot .) For what I have faid is ex- prefly faid in the very Text of Feremy’s Prophecies as he who compares and confiders ( f ) two or three Chap- tersinit, may evidently fee. Surelam, (to fay nothing of the Fathers and Ancient Writers ofthe Chureh i what
I have faid of the true meaning of this place in Feremy> is acknowledg7d even by the Jefuits arid Canonifts ( the greateft Flatterers of the Pope, and Sticklers for his pre tended Supremacy ) who Expound the Text as I have done done. I fhall inftance in One or Two.
. Corn: A, Lapide (a Noted and Learned Jefuit) Expound-
ing this Place of Jeremy, fays thus (g ) Ihave fet thee over the Nations, that thou fhould pull up: That is, ( faith
he) that thou fhouldf? Threaten my Enemies, that unle|s they
repent, Iwill pull them out of the Countries, where I have placed them. Andthenhe tellsus truly, that this is the: Opinion of Hierome, Theodoret, Rabanus, Vatablus, Ly~ ranus, Dton-Carthufianus, andothers. And then headds €h ) That ut is God ( not Feremy ) who Pulls Up 5 and Plants the Nations. So that when tis faid I have fer thee To pull up, and plant the Nations: itis all
Plantes Idein eff quod, ut has Gentes evellendas,, illas plantandas. A Deo. mineris ac Predicess
dem lLbidem..
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one asif he had {aid I have fer thee to Threaten and Preach that God would Pull up and Plant thofe Nations, This _ js that we fay and prove to be the meaning of that Text in Jeremy, and the Jefuit fully Confents, and Acknow-
ledges it to be true. _ Pope Innocont. Mit. in his (# ) Epiftle to the Emperor of Conftantinople, (amongit feveral other places of Scrip- ..ture) brings this Text of Feremy, to prove the Prieft ( ¢- {pecially Perer’s Succeflor the Pope ) to be ( k ) Superior to all Kings: and yet Bernardus de Botono (the ( l) Author of the Glofs there ) when he comes to Explain that Text I have fer thee over the Nations, to pull up, and plant ; he has nothing of Depofing and fetting up Kings: but Conceives the mean ngto be —— That Feremy was fet c- ver (m ) Nations, To pull up Vices, and plant Virtues, He truly Conceives that Feremy was not Conftituted 2 Prince, with Dominion and Jurifdiction over Kings and Emps- rors; to fet them up, or pull themdown, at his: plea- fure; ( to which purpofe many of the Popes produce it) but 4 Prophet, to foretell them, what God would do. That is, He would plant them, if they were Penitent; if not, pull down and deftroy them. So the Author of the Glofs; and they tell us,. that he (# ) writ moft Learn- ed Gloffes: upon the Decretals of Gregory..1X. which ( 0) afterwards had the Approbation of Pope Gregory. XIII. Be it concluded then,. that Pzus. V-and'thofe other Popes before mention’d ( notwithftanding their Infallibility ). have miferably miftaken the true meaning of this place of Feremy. And indeed he who reads and ferioufly Con- fiders the feveral Places of Scripture, which the Popes of the laft 600..years have explained in their Bulls and Decretals, and produc’d as: proofs of their extravagant and ufurp’d Supremacy 3 [fay, he will have juft reafon to believe, that Popes are not the beft Expofitors of Scripture. For Inftance; (to omit others )1 hall refer the Reader to thofe (p)8. or 9. Places, which Pope Innocent, Ul, and Boniface. Vill. have Cited,. and’ Ex- plain’d, intwo of their Conftitutions, both Extantin their
(i )Cap. Solirz.. 6. Extra de Major.. & Obedientia.
(ky Oftendit Sas Cerdotium preemine=- re Regibus,diito Fe= remie Gloffaad di- ctum Cap. verbo. Solite Benignitatie-
(1) Vide Corpus JurisCan.cum Glof— fis; Paris. 3612 In Nota , Titulum..- Tom. 2.Immediaté’ (feu pagina proxi- m2) fequente.
‘(m) Conftitui 72, ut Evellas | Vitia- fetlécet. & plantes} Virtutes. Glofla ad dictum, Cap. Soli-- tz.verbo, Confti-- tui Te, &c.
‘(D.) Gloffas Ery- ditifimas Edidit. Vid.didtam Notam: In Prin. Tom, 25- Juris Can. Paris. 1612. '
(0) Vid. Bullam: Greg..13-Corp.Ju-- ris Can. prafixams.
Cp) 1. Peter. 2.- 13.14. Jer. 1. to. Gen. 1. 16:17. &c.- Joh.21. 16. Matths _ 16.18.19, Luc.22. 38. Rom. 13. 1. 2: Gen. 1, 1. 1. Cor.- 2. 15%
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(4) That of In- nocent.3. Cap, Soli- te.6.Extra de Ma- jorit. & Obed. And that of Boniface. 8. Cap. Unam San-
étam.1.Eodem Tit.
.Extray. Commun,
Obferv. §.
Cr) Chriftus Et- tlefiam <Apoftolorum Frincips tradidit gubernandam 5 & dune ynum Super Om- nes Gentes Omnia Regna Principem Oonftitut. Dicte Bul'z principio.
(Cs) Matth.ro.2.
(t ) Petrus Apo- flolorum Primus @& erimas, poterat A- poftolts preecipere,e fiin fide aut mori- bus ervarent, Corri- gere,@c. Corn. A Lapide in Matth. 10. 2.
(a) Ceteri Evan- gclifte Mattheum preponunt Thome , Mattheus .Thomam Prefert. Paulus ad Galat.2.9. Facobum primo loco recenfet, ante Petrum & Fo- bannem. Exiftimat. Hieronymus ( {fo E- rafmus {ays ) Ejus effe, Ordinem Apo- ftolorum distribue- re, Qui tiles Blegit :
their ( ¢) Canon Law, in the places before Cited, where the Expofitions and Applications of thofe places, by thofe Popes, are not only evidently Erroneous, but (be- ing repugnant to all good Senfe and Reafon ) exceed- ingly rediculous: fuch as may give their Adverfaries reafon to believe that the Authorsof fuch wild Interpre- tations, arerather Fools than Infallible. :
5. Pope Pius. V. Here in the beginning of this his Bull, calls (r ) Peter ( as other Popes and their Parafites ufually do) Brince of the Apojiles; and tells us, that our bleffed Savs- our did Jer and conftitute him a Prince over all Nations and Kingdoms. From whence, they (Illogically and without any fhadow of Juft Confequence ) would Conclude, Peter?s Supremacy, hisDominion and Authority even over all the Apoftles. For although Peter in the Gofpel ( when the Names of the Twelve Apofties are numbred ) is called (s) ao1@, Primus, and amongft Latin Authors anciently ( Princeps Apoftolorum ) The Prince of the Apoftles ; yet that (¢) Papal Supremacy, which the Popes and their Party generally attribute to him, that they Cas his Succeffors ) might have it themfelves, cannot thence be concluded. So (#4) Erafmus tells us, ( out of St. Héerome ) That the Apo- files in the other Evangelifts, are not reckon?d in the Order they are in Matthew ; left any man fhould thizk, that Peter were firft of all the Apoftles, becaufe he is reckon?d in the firft Place, Matthew reckoas Thomas before himfelf, but Mark after him: Matthew reckons Andrew before James and John, but Mark after them, So St. Paul reckons James before Peter and John, though Matthew puts Peter firft. And Erajfmus there fays further, that Aierome intimates, That the Apoftles were alt ( as to their Apoftolick Office ) Equal. That which makes mebelieve, that what Era/mus Obferves out of Hierome, is true, isthis; The Spanifh Inquifitors have damn?dit, and Cin their Judex (x) Expurgatorius) commanded it to be
snnuens, Authoritatem Apoftolis Omnibus Parem fuiffe, quod ad Apoftolict munevis funttionem
atsinet. Erafmus in Locuat. 1667. p. 289, Col. 1.
(*) Index Librorum Prohib, & Expurg. Madriti. | | blotted
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plotted out. But Erafmus adds further, —— ( y ) That it cannot Logically and firmly be concluded, from the order wherein the Apoftles ave number?d, which of them is to be preferr'd be- fore the reft, becaufe where many are number?d, there is a necef- fity we begin with fome one, and *ris not material which we begin with, And Thisthe Inauifitorslet pafs, without a Delea- tur; they donotcondemn it tobe blotted out, and fo feem to approve it, otherwife it had not pafs’7d, fothat ( even
by our Adverfaries confent )all that can berationally In- :
ferr’d, fromthat Text, where in numbering the Apoftles, Peter is called wea]@, firft, is only (2) a Primacy of Or- der, ( which we willingly grant ) but no Primacy ( much lefs aSupremacy ) of Authority, Dominion, and Jurifdi- ction over the ref of the Apoftles; which the Pope and his Party defire, and we jultly deny. 2. And as wal@ or Primus; {0 Princeps, or Prince (amongft the beft Latin Authors) ufvally fignifies Order Only, orfome Excellent Quality in thofe whoare call’d Principes, without any ( 4 ) Authority or Furifdittion over thofe in relation to whom they are fo call’d. Andthat the Reft of the Apoftles were call’d Principes as well as Peter, 1 have Authentick warrant even the Roman Breviary, reftored according to the Decree of the Council of Trent, publifh?d by Péus. V. ( The very Pope who publifh’d this Impious Bull againft Queen Eliza- beth) and then Revifed by the Authority of Clement. VIII and Urban, Vill. and Printed at Aztverp. 1660. In this Breviary, we have this (6) Hymn, in the Office for the Feaft of St. Peter and Paul;
Ecclefiarum Principes,
Belli Triumphales Duces, Celeftis Aula Milites,
Et vera Mundi Lumina, &c.
Now in this Hymn Perer and Paul too, are call’d Ecclefia- rum Principes, Princes of the Churches , For being a Hymn _ for the Feaft of thofe two Apoftles; Ecclefiaram Principes
_ cannot relate to lefs than two; nor Properly to atte om then
(CY) Certeex Or- dine recenfionis, non Efficacitér Colligi- tur ov Cui [it prae- ferendus 5 fiquidem ubi multi numeran~ tur, aliquts primus fit opportet.Erafmus ibidem, in Matth. TO. 2.
(x) So the word rpaT@ ulually fig- nifies; Ex(ebius calls Simon Magusyrpa- 1@- wdons aivere ws Apynyos. pri- mis Dux Harefeos , {cilicet Primus Or= dine Temporis, non Jwisdittionis. Bu. feb.Hift. Lib.2.Cap. ¥3-P51. Edit. Va~ lefit.
(a) So Homer & Virgil are gail'd Poetarum Principes. So in Tully, Patrone’ Principes, Eminent Advocates. So Pla- to & Ariftotle, Phi lofopkorum Princi» pes,and yet no Dow minion or Jurifdi- étion meant in thefe Expreffions.
( 6) Dicti Brevi- ari) Part. zftiva,ad Diem. 29. Juni), ia Fefto $s. Apafto- lorum Petri & Pau- Ii. p. 476. & in Fe- fto $.Andtez.Nov> 30. Ibidem pag, 780% *
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(c) Vide ‘Com- “mune Santorum in Calce Partis Afti- vex, didi Breviarij, & in Communi A- poftolorum & E. vangeliftarum.pag.
he Cd) Ad matuti- Hum, Invitatorium. Regem Apsitolorum Dominum,Venéte a- doremus.
(-¢ ) Vide Card. Cufan Opera. p. 836. & Gratin. Cauf. 2. Quaft. 7. Can. Eeati. 37. & Thecdoret in Gal. 2-p.27c.where #e- ter and Paul are call'd perydaor x pat Amsodat- & in 2. Cor. 11. 6. P-251-F rincipes A- poftolorum alij pre- ter Petrum.Vid.Bel- larmin. de Rom. Pontf. |. 1 c.42.p. B61. Poteftas cla- vinm tranfivit ad alios Apoftolos, ¢ 4d Omuts Ecclefice Principes,&c. Thefe are the words of Pope Leo (and he Infallible ) ‘cited there by Bellarmine.
(£) Hoc erant ut- tque & Cateri Apo- ftoli Quod fait Pe- trus, Pari Confortio prediti & Honoris
& Poteftatis. Cyprian de Unitate Ecclefia. p. 208. Edit. Rigaltij.
them twoin that Place. Though elfewhere it. (-¢ ) relates to all the Apoftles; as in the Place cited in the Margent 5 when after the Invitatory, (as they call it ) (a) Come let us adorethe Lord, King of the Apoftles , it follows thus;
Eterna Chrifti munera, Apoftvlorum Gloria,
Palmos & Fymnos debitos, Letis canamus mentibus. Ecclefiarum (e) Principes, Beli Triumphales Duces, Calefiis Aula Milites,
Et vera Mundi Lumina, &c.
So that if we may believe their own Authentick Breviary, Publifh’d and Carefully Revifed by thefe Popes, according to the Decree of the Trent Council; All the other Apo- ftles (under our blefled Saviour, and by his Authority ) were Princes of the Chriftian Church as well as (f) Peter, Now I defire to know, how thefe things will Confift ? (g) Pius. V. in this Bull againft Queen Elizabeth, fays, That our bliffed Saviour Committed the Government of his Church to One Only, to Peter, and Conftituted him Only a Prince over all Nations and Kingdoms, ( fo he in his Bull ) and yet the fame Pope, in this Roman Breviary, (for it was Approved and Publifhed by him) and the Hymn here cited, fays, That all the Apoftles were Ecclefiarnm Principes ; and if fo,then Peter was not the Only Prince to whom the Government of the Church was Committed; no, the Commiffion of every Apoftle ( given by our blefled Saviour ) was as unli- mited and as large as Perers. This will appear in all the Particulars of it, equally given to all, as they areexprefly fet down in Scripture, from whence alone, we can furely know, what their Authority and Commiion was. Our blefled Saviour tells them, andus, (bh) 1, As my Fa-
Cg ) Ecclefiam{nam unk
Soli, Petro Comuifit gubernandam, ¢ hunt num Super Omnes Gentes & Regna Principess Confti-
guit. Bulla dicta in Principio.
( b) Joh. 20,24. , ther
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a her Jent me, fofend Iyou. There we havethe Author and
Authority of their Commiffion. The fame blefled Saviour of the World fends themall. 2.. Then he breath’d upon . them, and faid, (2) Receive yerhe Holy Ghoft. There we have the Principle inabling them to difcharge that great Of- fice and Truft repofedin them; It was that Holy Spirit, which gave them,. ©. Infallibility intheir Dotlrine. 2. Power to work, Miracles for (k) Confirmation of it. 3. Then he adds, (/) whofe fins ye retain, they are retained, c,.Here we have the great Spiritual Power given them for the calling and governing the Church, which iselfewhere called, ( ) The Power of the Keys; which confifts in binding and loofing, retaining and remitting fins. blefled Saviour in the Place laft cited, and is (by our.Ad- _ yerfaries ) (2) confefs’d. So that cis evident that the Power of the Keys, the Power of binding and loofing, of retaining and remitting fins,. is equally given to alkthe A- poftles, toeveryone as wellas Peter. 4.. He Aflignsthem their Place and Province, where, and the way how they were to Exercife their. Apoftolical Power —(0) Go and Teach All Nations, baptizing them, and teaching them to ob- ferve all things, whatfoever I have Commanded you. Their Diocefe. was the World —( p).Go ye into All the World, and preach: the Gofpel to every Creature (every man. ).. And the adminiftring the Sacraments, and teaching.men to be- lieve and obferve the.whole Gofpel, was the bufinefS they were to do in that their:Diocefe. 5, And'to ixconrage them to this great and difficult Work,. he gracioufly pro- mifes -his:Prefence and Divine Affiftance, Lo, Iam (q) with you. Always, evento the End.of the World, Thefe are the Powers and Promifes given tothe Apoftles,
and (which to me feems Evident) without difference or
diftinétion, Equally toall ; to Simon the Cannite, (for Cr) foit fhould be writ) as well, and as much as to Simon Pe ter. Ifany think otherwife, if he can, and will (by any
_ Cogent Reafon ) make it appear either, 1. That the fore- ' going Powers and Promifes were not Equally given to all
2..Or. that fome other Power -or Promife
the Apoftles. j H was
For. fo tis Explain’d by our:
¢i) Ibidem. ver.
225
(2) Mark.16.2% (/) Ibid. verf. 23s:
(m) Matths16.19.°
(n) Minijftri Ec- clefie ad Remmiffio-- nem peccati,Per Vir- tutem Clavinm Mi- nifterialiter operan= - tur. Lyran..in-Joh. 20. 23. Wid, Tirt- pum, Menochium, . &c.in Matth. 16. - 19+: ¢.0) Matth. 28. -- FQ. 20.
( p) Mark.16.1,.
(7) Matth. 28.-. 20.
(1) Simon, who.’ Matth.10.4. is calle
ed Simon the Cana--
nite,in the Syriack Verfion there, and Luk. 6.1. iscall’d’. Simon» Cyaams .» which is the Greek word for Cannéta, . or.Cinneus.For the Syriack P88J>- Canna fignifies 2,j-- Aomes Vid. Ang. Caminium, in Ex- plicat. locorum, Ne. Tefl. p. $1.
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Objettio.
(5) Vide Confii- tut. Bonif. 8. Cap. unam Sandctam. 1. De Majorit. & O- bed.Extrav. Com- munes.& Innocent. 3.Cap. Solicitz. 6. Extra. de Major. & Obedientia.
(t) Math, 16. 18. I 9»
(u) Promittit hic Chriftus Petro, quod ipfe & Succeffor E- qus Omnis, fit Eccle- fia SupremumCaput, Princeps G Monar= cha. Jac. Tirinus in Matth.16.18.109.
(xX) Quamvis mor- ‘Talis homo (it Petrus Ejufque Sueceffor , tamen Celefti predi- ditus Poteftate, e& quod tile é Cathedra
decreverit , baben-—
dum eft tanquam ab Ipfo Deo Decretum.
was (in Scripture ) given peculiarly to Peter, whereby he had an Authority and Dominion over the other Apoftles and the whole Church, to make 4im Only a Prince over all
Nations and Kingdoms, (as Pope Pim. V. inthis his wild
Bull confidently affirms } I fay, he whocan and will make © both or either of thefe appear, fhall have my hearty thanks
forthe Difcovery, and I hall ( for the fucure ) have a bet-
ter Opinion of Peter?s Supremacy , which (at prefent) I take to be a groundlefs Error, without any proof or pro- bability. »
I know that the Popes in their (s ) Conftitutions, and their Party ufually urge that place in ( ¢ ) A4atthew to prove Peter’s ( and thence their own ) vaft and Monarchical Su- premacy over the whole Church, ( even the Apoftles them- felves not excepted) the words T hefe Thou art Pe- ter, and upon This Rock, Iwill build my Chnrch_—~And I give untothee , The Keys of the Kingdomof Heaven. From this Place, ( moft irrationally, and without any Senfe or Confequence) they infer, That (u) Peter, and every Suc- ceffor of his, was Conftituted Supream Head, Prince and Mo- narch of the Univerfal Church. Sothat what Peter or his( x) Succeffor fhall (& Cathedra ) Determine and Decree, is to be received, asif God himfelf had decreedit. So Tirinms, and their Canon Law, in their moft Correct Editions. Though this be Erroneous, and evidently Impious, yet Tirinws, Gratian, and their Canonifts are not fingular in this point, another Learned Jefuit ( in his Commentary onthis Place ) tells us, That when our blefled Saviour fays, On this Rock will I build my Church, he peaks of (y ) Peter, as theFunda- | mental Rock, on which the Church wbhult. And headds— (x) That though our blefJed Saviour was chiefly that Fundamen- tal Rock, yet Peter and the Popes of Rome Jucceeded him, as his Vicars, with Supream Power, Gc. This place, they con-
Idem Ibidem, ad verf. 19. Gratian. Can. 2. Sic Omnes. dift.19. (y ). De Petro ut Fundamentali
Petra loquitur Chriftus.Joh. Stephan. Menochius in Matth, 16.18.
(Z ) Chriftus eft Fundamen-
talis Petra Precipue, fed ei Succefferunt Petrus e& reliqui fummi Fontifices, ut Ejus Vicarié Cum
Summa Poteflate: Mewochius ibid. p. 41. Col. 2. vid. Gratian. Can. In nono. Dift. 25,
_ Ceive,
enough to a bare Affertion.
-.€) Foan certainly was.
p. 807. ad Annum, gor.
againft Brioni asabicale 4
ceive, concerns no Apoftle but Peter, and proves his, and his Succeflors Supremacy.
Tothis, Ifay, 1. That all they fay, inthis particular, js gratis diétwm for they only fay it, without any pretence of proof. If we will take their bare word, we may, o- therwife we may chufe;, for they bring no proof to prove their Expofition of this Text, fuch as might conrmand and neceflitate our Affent. Andthen a bare denial, is Anfwer For ( as St. Hierome {ays in the like cafe ) an unproved Polition, eadem facilitate rejici- tur, qua Affirmatur. 2. Whenthey fay, our bleffed Saviour was a chief Fundamental Rock,on which the Church was built, and that St. Peter and the Popes fucceeded him, with Supream Power. They confequently muft fay Two things; 1, That
our bleffed Saviour left his tlaceand Office of being the
Fundamental Rock, to Peter, when he left this World. For ifhe kept it, and ftilldokeepit, neither the Pope nor Peter could be his Succeflors. Noman can be Succeflor and fucceed into a Place till his Predeceflor leave it. Linus neither did, nor could fucceed Perer in the Bifhoprick of Rome, whilft Peter liv?d, and poflefs’d it himfelf ; fo that by this Erroneous and Impious Do@Grine, they have dif
plac’d our blefled Saviour from being the Fundamental
Rock, on which the Church is built, and inftead of him,
have plac?d Peter firft, and then particular Popes fuccef-
fively.. And then let the World judze, in what a mik- rable Condition the Church of Chrift muft be. 1. When the Fundamental Rock on which it was built, was an( 4.) Idolater, as AMarcellinus was. 2. Oran Heretick, as (6) Liberius, (¢ ) Honorius, (a) Vigilius, @c. were, 3. Or an Impudent whorilh Woman, as Fohannes Anglicus, or Pope 4. Or when many Popes toge- ther, no lefs than Fifty (by the Confeffion of their own Learned men ) were (f) Apoftaticc pores quam Apoftolici.
Refponfio.. ¥.
(a) Marcellinus Pontifex ad Sacrifi- cia Gentinum duns, Deos alienos Adora- vit.’ Jat.in vit.Mar- cel.
(0) Cum Arianis fentiebat, rc. Plat. in vit. Liber.
(c) Honorius Sy- nod. 6. damnatur. A&. 18. vid. The- oph.Chronagraph. Pp. 299. Zor. Ana- ftaf. Biblioth.in vi- tis Pontif.p, 54. Francif. Combefis in Au€tario Bibli- orh.Greec, Patrum. Tom.2.p.66,Syne- | dus Niceaa.2.apud Joverium. Part. 1. p-106.Col 2,
(d) Vid. Synod. 5-& Rich. Crakan- thorp. in Vigilio Dormitante. Ed. Richerium in Hift.
Concil Generalium p. 302. (2) Vid. Plat. in vita Johan. 8. & Notas Car. Annibalis Fabroti , ad vitas Pont. Anaft. p.290, ( f}) ¥id. Genebrardi Chronol, circa fnitium feculi. ro. 1. 4.
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ee
(£) Tune faediffi- “gna Rom.Ecclefi a fa- cées, cum Rome Do-
~minarent uw fordidif=
fina Mevetvices,qua- rum arbitrio, Intru- derentur in Sedem ‘Petri ecarum Amafij Pfeudopontificessque non nifi ad fignane datempora,in Cata- logo Rom. Pontif. feriptis Quis enima feortis intrufos fine lege,legitimos dicere poffit Romanos fuiffe Pontifices? Baroni- us Annal.Tom.1o. cad An. 912.§. 14- p:663.vid.eundem ad An.897.§. 8. p. -624- &ad An.925. §.10. p.688. Edit. Annal. Antverp. 1618. vid. loca & hic adde. (b) Poft Clem.4. ewacat Sedes.Ann.3.- m. 2. dies.10. Poft Nicolaum.3. vacat. ‘Sedes. Ann.3. Poft Clement. 5 vacat Sedes. Ann, 2.m.3. d.17.Platina in E- dus vita.
3. Or when the Popes were fuch:(g) Monftrous Villains, as were put into, and out of St. Peter's Chair by Impudent Whores ,.made Popes by Violence and Simony , fuch ( as even in Baronius his Fudgment ) none fhould, or daredcall true Popes, whofe names were recorded only to fil up the Caalogues of the Roman Bifhops. -6. Orin the Vacancies, when for (+b) two
or three years, ‘and (if fome (+) Writers fay true )fome- ~~
time for Eight years, there was no Popeatall, and fo ( by this Doétrine ) the Church had no Fundamental Rock at all, for feveral years together, ~7. Laftly, Or whenthey had for near (k) Fifty yearstogether, nyo or three Popes at the fame time; when it was Impoflible they fhould be all Legiti- mate, and true Succeflors of St. Peter, and ( what they pretend -to ) Vicars of Chrift our blefled Saviour; and which, or whether any of them, were fuch indeed, none did, or could know: Nay, ’ciscertain, (and muft by out Adverfaries be confefs’d, unlefs they will deny their own received Principles ) that fometimes, all of the Pretenders were Impious Ufurpers of the Papal Chair, without any - Jult Right or Title to it. Then the firlt Gouncilof (7) — Pifa met (andit was a General One, confifting ofabove.
-600.'( m) Fathers) there were Two Popes in being (fuch
asthey were ) Gregory. XII. and Benedit?, X11. who were both (#) Damn7d and Depofed, as Perjur’d Perfons, Schij- maticks, and Hereticks, @c. and that by an unanimous Con- fent and Decree of that Great Council. At the Council at Conftance ( four or five (0) yearsafter ) there were three Popes; the two beforenamed, Gregory and Beneditt, (who would not fit down, though damn’dat Pifa, and Fohn. XXII. For the two former, what Villains they were, the Council of Pifzhas toldus. For Fohv. XXIII. the Council of Con-
“~ (é) Sunt qui {cribunt, -poft mortem Nicolai.1.Sedem vacafle Ann.8. menf.7. d. 9. Platina in
Calce vite Nicolai. 1.
Ck) Yo that great Schifm, commonly reckon’d for the 27. Schifm in
‘their Church; which begun about the year 1378. “rbaaus. 6. being Pope at Rome,and Clem. 9, cat Avignion. (1) AnnoDom. 1409. or as others. 1410. (m) Longus A Coriolano, Summa Con. p. 857. Col. 2. (2) In maxima Prelatorum Frequentia, utérque Pontifee ab dis damnatus eg, utroque tanquam Perjuro, Schifmatico, Harttico é Pontificats dejecto. Idem Ibidem ol.1. (0) Concil. Conftantienfe Anno.141g¢.
Stance
ad me M
againft Queen Elizabeth.
— ¥
dh
’ iveshim this Character mi time he was Pope) notorioufly Scandalous to the
“Church, that his Life was damnable, and he in his Conver{ation
sete : iL adds, (in
ley of Impieties nor to be nam’d: And the Counci lds, ‘tied Piksiske Sentence of his Depofition) (q ) That he nee broke his Vow, his Oath, and Promife made to God, and his
‘Church, that-he was Notorioufly Simoniacal, and by his difhoneft
eftable Life and Manners notorioufly Scandalous, ec, N ofa if cbefe ( i fuch other ) Popes be the sos ‘Rock upon which the Church is built, ( and this ot fay, and would: have us believe it ) She muft of neceffity be in : miferable Condition, and the Gates of Hell muft ise againft her, when they evidently prevail againft the Roc ; upon which ( they fay ) the is built 5 for ifthe — Foundation fail, that whichis built uponit, muftevi a fall and come to Ruin. This is the firft osetia their Doctrine, manifeftly Erroneous but thisis not all ; For there is a fecond Confequence of it,both Erroneous, pad indeed Blafphemous. For, 2. when they fay, that ae f= Jed Saviour was the Fundamental Rock,on which the Churc was built, and that Peter and the Popes after, did fucceed him in that Place and Office, cum Poteftaris plenitudine, ( {ays Pins. V. here ) Gun Summa Poteftate (as others Generally) Henceit follows, That the prefent Pope has (and every one of his Predeceflors had ) the fame Power required to the being of a Fundamental Rock, which our bleffed Sa-
‘viour had. Forifthey fucceed him in the fame Place, and
ith 4 Supream Power, then they have the fame Place and ai ber blefled Saviour had. His Power neither ay nor could be greater than Poteftas fumma (fummo non ic tur Superiws, there can be nothing higher than the higheft, nor fuperior to the Supream ) and if Peter had, and every pitiful Pope has poreftarem Summam, then they have a Pow- er as great, and equal tothat our bleffed. Saviour had before
he Refigned it to his Succeffors: But I might have faved the
vi is ; *Cl | ?d and ex- f proving this; for *cis Acknowledg scely AlieePa in their Roman Carechifin ( ex Decreto Con-
Peter
(p ) That he was a Per-
(Pp) Nobis Legiti- me Conftat. Johan. Papam.23. atempos re quo fuit affumptus, ulque nunc,Papatum tn Scandalum Eecle- fie notorium rexiffes vitaque [ua Damnae bili ejX{que Nephan- ais moribus, populis exemplum vite Male prebuiffe. Concil. Conftant. Seff. 10.
( 4) Foban. 23. Schifmatis nutritt- Viti, 2 VOLO, promi|~
fo, & Furamento per
Ipfum Deo, Ecclefice & huicConcéliapre- [titis divimativum, Simouiacum notori= vm,fuis Inboneftis Co —Deteffabilibus vita & moribus Ec- clefiam Dei ¢ Pom palum Chriftianum notorie {candalizan-~ tem. Idem Concil; Seif. 12. in fenten- tia contra Johan, 23. definitiva.
cilij Tridensins, juffu Pii. V. Edito) in which they faythat —
‘teams
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~-(r) Catechifmus Romanus. art. 1. Cap. lo. §§. 11.92. » €5) Toid §13.p. 327. Edit. Parif. 4635.
(+) Matth.6.19.
c4) Vid. Chry- foft. in Matth. 26. - Hom.8 2. pag. 702+ Edit. 16.07. Ifiod. Pelufiora.l.1.Epift. 235. Aug. Retract. 1. 1.c.20. 8 De ver- bis Dom. Serm, 13. Tom, 18.Col. 58. ira Cyrillus & A- nonymus. in Cate- tena Nicetz Serra- - sum Epifcopi ad ‘Matth. 16.18. vide Catenam Graecam in Matth.per poffi- num jefuitam Cap. 16. 18. Hilarius Pi- ctantenf. De Trini- tate.l.2.p.25, Edit. Krafmi. Theophy- ja&. in Matth. 16.
18.
(x) Index Libro- rum Prohibir & Kixpurg. Madriti. 3667. in Defid. E-
rafmo.p 289.C0h. i,
Peter was (r ) Caput & Princeps Omnium Apoftolorum. And then it there follows, Chriftus (s) Petrum Univerfi Fideli- um GentrtsCaput, ut Qui ei fucceffit Eandem Plane T orius Ec- clefia Poteftatem habere voluerit, At was our blefled Saviour’s will, That Pererfhould have The fame Powsr our bleffed Sa- viowr had, Sed Apage nugas Impias & Blafphemas. The bare recitation of fuch wild Pofitions, thould and will be Confutation enough to all fober Chriltians; who are foli- citous to maintain our blefled Saviours Honor , and- will never give that Place or Power tothe Pope or Peter, which is folely and eternally due to their Redeemer. |
3. But further, when our Adverfaries, upon that Place of Atatthew (Thon (t) are Peter, and npon-this Rock I will build my Church \ would have us believe, Thar Peter was that Rock, while he liv?d, and his Succeffors after him, And thence infer their Supremacy. They muft pardon our Infidelity, if we believe it not. For, 1. They do or might know , that not only Proteftants, but the Fathers, and (#) An- cient Ecclefiaftical Writers generally, by Rockin that Text, underftand wer Peters Perfon, but either the Proféffion of his Faith he there made, or our blefled Saviowr. But our Ad- verfaries like not this Deétrine;. And therefore when Hi- lary had truly faid Unum hoc eft immobile fundamentum, Una hac eft felix fidei Petra, Petri Ore Confefla ; and Erafinus had put this Note inthe Margent, Petram Interpretatur Ip- fam Fidei Profeffionem , and when the fame Erafmm on Math. XV1.18. had cited Auguffin for the fame fenfe of the place, which Hilary gives ; And had put inthe Mar- - gent Ecclefia non eft fundata fuper Petrum. The (x) Spanifh Inquifitors’ command it to be blotted out of Era/- mus his Text and Margent ; Although Hilary and Auguftin, and many others ( as they well knew ) faid the fame thing. 2, And thistruth is fo Evident, that not only the Fathers, and Ancient Authors, but Sober and Learned men in the Church of Rome, even in darkeft times when Popery unhap- pily prevailed, were of the fame Judgment; And by the Rock in this Place of Adatthew, [upon this Rock, I will build
my Church | widerftand not Perer, but that Gonfeffion of bis
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Faith there made, tobe meant. So(y) FohaSemeca, Au- thor of the Glofs upon Gratian, and(z) Nic. Lyranus, and Anjel, Laudunenfis, Author of the (2) Interlineary GLfs, upon his Text of Matthew; by the Rock on which the Church was built, underftand Chrift C our bleffed Saviour ) and not Peter (>). Anda late Learned Sorbon Doctor (though he would feem to fay, that Perer was that Rock ) yet ac- knowledgeth, that by that Rock, the (c) Faith of Peter might be meant, and not his Perfon. Nay, whichis more confiderable ( and may feem ftrange to the Reader ) the Fathers of the Treze Council exprefly fay, That the (d) Creed or Profeffion of Faith, which the Church of Rome ufeth, (the Conftantinopolitan Creed they meany and there fet it down ) #5 The Firm and Only Foundation, again{t wiich the Gates of Hel can never prevail, and our prefent (¢ ) Text is in the Margent Cited for it, whence it evidently ap- pears, that thofe Fathers at Trest have Declared, Thatthe Creed, or true Faith of Chrift, isthat firm Rock, and The
Cy ) Super bane Petram 3 1. ¢. fuper tidei Tue folidita- tem. Can.loquitur. 18,Cauf.24.Quet. 1. verbo.Petram,in Glofla.
(Z) Super bane Petram, quam Cone felfus es5hee. Chri finm. Lyranus in March. 16.18.
(a) Super banc Petram, 1. €. Chri {ium in quem credite Gloffa Interlinea- tia in dium Lo- cum.
(5) So Grego- rius Magnus in 7. Pfalmos Poeniten-
tial. Tom. 2. Ope- rum Parif. 1619. pag. 908. D. ebriftus eff Petra, a qua Petrus Nomen Accepit, & Super Quam (¢ edificaturum Eccle- fram dixit—— Quod Ecclefia nullis Perfecutionibus fit fuperanda, Ipfe Super Quem edificata eft, O- flendit, cum ait, Porte Inferoram non prevalebunt contra eam. So Strabo Fuldenfisin his Ordin. Gloff. on Matth. 16. 18. circa Ann. 840. And after them Lyraaus (in the Place cited ) who though he wasa Francifcan Frier, and flourifhed almoft Four hundred years ago, and in many things ( as thofe times were ) Popifh enough; yet he was not come fo far, as to make Peter, or any but Chrift, the Rock on which the Church was buile: And again,6n the 1 Cor, 3-11. Solas Chriftus eft Fundamentum Ecclefte, quod ex fe firmitatem & ftabilitatem habet. And the Glofs on their own Canon Law, fays, Tinat Chrift was the Rock; for Boniface. 8. in that famous Extravagant. Cap. Unam Sanctam. 1. Indeavouring to prove the Papal Supremacy from feverat Places in Scripture 5 he adds, That the Authority givento Peter and his Succeffors by our blef- fed Saviour, was not Human but Divine. Ac Authoritas licet bomini data,non humana, fed potius Divina, ore divino Petre data & Succefforibus, &c. The Glofs onthefe words, Et autem he ¢ Aus thoritas. p. 191. fays thus Hac Authoritas eft Divina, quia firmata eft in Petra firma, in Chrifto, qui erat verus Deus: & quod fit Divina, quia fundata in eo; patet ex Evangelio; quia Chriftus loquebatur cum dixit, fuper han: Petram 3 id eft, [uper meipfum (qui {um Petra, & qui fieni- ficor per Petram) edificabo Ecclefiam meam, ita Gloff. verbo, Eft autem bec Authoritas, Ad. Cap. Unam San@am. 1. Extrav. Commun. CC) Super hanc Petram, i. e. Super Jpfam Petru, feu Petram feu Cepham, vel Super Fidem Petii que est Catholica. Dr. Hen. Holden in Ar- notat. in Nov. Teftam. Parif. 1660. ad Marth. 16. 18. & ad 7. Matth. verf. ec.
Cd) Synodus Statuit , premittendam effe Confeffionem Fidei — Synbolum fided 3 quo Romana Ecclifia utitur, tanquam Principium ac Fundamentum firmum ac u“nicum , contra quod porte Inferé nanquam pravatebunt. Conc. Trident, Seil. 3. Feb. 4. Ann. 1546.
(¢) Matth 16. 18.
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({) Per Petram, Confeffionem Fi- dei inselligunt Chryfoftomus,Cy- rillus, Hilarius, & Rom. Pontifices, Leo magnus, Aga- tho,Nicolaus, & A- drianus primus in fuis Decretalibus. Stapleton, Princep. Fidei Dod. De- monftr. Contrav. 201. 6.¢. 2.p.207. 208. ~ (RB) Lequitur Do- minus ad Petrnm 3 Ego dicoTibi, quia Tn es Petrus, & Su-. per hanc Petram «- diftcabo Ecclefeam meams Super Ilam unum edificat Ec-
clefiam. Catechif..
Trid. ex Decreto Conc. Trid. 4 Pio g. Editus. Part. 1. Cap.1o.de.9.Sym- boli Art. §. 52. p. rige Edit. Parif. 1635.
(b) Matth. 7. 24. 25.
(i) 1Joh. 2.4. Se
Only Foundation on which the Church is built, and againft which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail; and if thar Faith be the only. Foundation of fuch firmnefs, then the Pope is not. For if there be another, then that isnot ( what the Trent Fathers fay itis) the Only Foundation, And laftly , it isvery confiderable, what (f ) Stapleton ( their Learned Profeflor at Doway, and great Champion of their Church ) confefleth (and: without great Impudence, he could not
‘deny it ) that not only Chryfoftome, Cyril, and Hilary; but
four Popes, Leo, Agatho, Nicholas, and Adrian ( each of them the firft of that name ) have, in their Decretal Epi-- files, declared, That the Rock on which the Church was built, wasnot Peter?s Perfon, but his Faith or Confeffion of: it. This was the Opinion of thofe ancient Popes, and they as infallible fure as any. of their Succeffors. By the way, (that we may obferve the Contradiction. amongit our Adverfaries, notwithftanding the pretended Infalli- bility of their Church ) The. Trent Catechifm fays Cg) That Peter Only was the Rock on which our bleffed Saviour built his Church. And this the Author (or Authors ) of the Catechifm pretends to prove out of Cyprian, and fome others there named. -So thatifthe Trent Council fay True: the Greed, or the Confeffion of the Catholick Faith, is the On- ly. Foundation on which the Church is built, but if the Zvene Catechifm be inthe Right, Peter Only is that Rock and Foun- dation. Now feeing it is impoffible, that both thefe Po- fitions fhould be true, it Evidently follows, that there is. an Error in the Council or Catechifm, or ( which I ra- ther believe ) in both.. That this may further appear, I fa
a That cis certain, and generally Confefs’d, That 4 Lively Faith, and a firm belief of the Gofpel, is a Rock and Foundation againft which the Gates of Hell cannot prevail. Our blefled Saviour tells us, That be (h) who hears hist Sayings, and doth them; ( he whoreally and praétically believes the Gofpel ) builds upon a Rock, And St. Fohn tellsus, That Such Faith is (i) vittorious, nay vitkory, and cannot be over-
come. Hence it is) that in the Liturgy of St. Tames, ‘s the
Pe ee OP IS Te ee ete we eS el wee hee
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the Adminiftration of the Eucharift, they pray ——That God would blefs the Sacred Elements, that they might be dfe- Elyal, to the ( k) Eftablitbment of the Holy Catholick, Church , which he had Founded and Built upon the Rockof Faith, But though Faith anda firm belief of the Gofpel, be a Rock, yet "tis not (as the Tremt Fathers fay ) the Ouly Rock, on which the Church is built. Peter was a Rock. too; this cur Adverfaries Confefs, and earneftly Contend for. But ne- ther was he the Ozly Rock though the Trent Catechifm and Popifh Writers commonly fay fo )nor fuch 4 Rock, asthey (-without any Reafon or Juft Ground ) would have him.
That this may appear, it isto be Confidered, °
Pope Nicol. 2. Ecclefia fuper Fetram fidei fundata. Gratian.Can. Omnes. 1.
CK ) Orat S1-0% dos, ut Saera Syinbo- la Omnibus cedant, ES SMeLY by Tihs = J ‘
Yies, x Kasoar* uns Exnadvoias nv eMusrlwous st TH Ie rpcey 795 a2 sews, In Lick “ac. Gree. Pari. 1550. Pp: 20. vid. Fabr: Stipulenfem in
Marth. 16.18. So Dift.22. And the
Apoftle in his Canonical Epiftle ( Jude 20. ) advifeth all, to buéld np themfelves on their mut
boly Faith. —
41.) That ( by Evident Scripture ) our bleffed Saviour is
‘the Prime and Chief Fundamental Rock on which the whole
Church is built. (1) Behold (fays God by Say ) I lay in
Sion, for a Foundation a Stone, a precious Corner Stone, 4
Sure Foundation, cc. 1 know that in the Vulgar Latin of (m) Sixtw..V. and (2) Clemens, 8. itis untruly ren- “der’d Lapidem pretiofem in Fundamento F undatum. “Whence (0 ) Bellarmine will have it meant of Perer, and
fo of the Pope; who(inhis Opinion ) is Lapis pretiofus
in Fundamento fundatus, But had the Cardinal confulted ‘the Hebrew Text, or the Verfion of the Septuagint, or (p) Hiercmes Verfion of both, and his Notes upon them; he might have feen his Error - But though Bellarmine 'Expound this place of Z/zy, to be meant of Peter; yet (q) Peter bimfelf (who underftood that Text as well asthe Cardinal ) refers it to our bleffed Saviour, fo does “(7 ) Paul too; andif this be not fufficient to Convince “the Cardinal, and fuch other Papal Parafites; our bleffed Saviour expounds it not of Perer, but himfelf, and that
C2) ¥a.28.16,
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( 2) Edit.Rom. I $52.
( o ) Bellarmine, in Prafat. ad Libr. de Pontif. Rom. vid; R. Crakantly. Contra Spalatenf. Cap.81.§.3.p.612.
(p) Vid.Hiero- nym. in Ifaiz 28. verf. 16. Hfiodor. Clarius in. 1. Gor. 3. 10. Fundatiji- mim Fundamentus Chriftus.
(4) 1 Pet. 2.6, 7. 8.and AQ: gta. (7 Rom, 9. 33.8100. WCor 3.11. & 1 Corto. | 1
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Cf) Math. 21. 24. But tlough Paul and Peter,and eur blefied: »Savi- our himfelf do-ex- pound the. word Rock.on which the Churchis built,noe to be meant of Pe- ter,but Chrife the Mejiah,(asappears by the - foregoing ‘Texts) yet Maldo- nate the Jefuie
( whofer words: I:
fhall cite anon {ays ---That tis very far from fenfe fo to exe pound it. Maldona- rein Match.16.17. p- 339. Col. 1.E. And yet Card. Cu- fanus fays, That Chrift. was that Kock. Operum p. 826. And fo cyrill in the Aurea Cate- ba Gree. Patrum in Pfalmos David. so. per Dan:Barbaram Patriarcham A qui- lejenfem; Venet. 1569. ad verfi2. Pfal. 39. (alias. 40%
P.400:401.50 Gre-): gorius Magnus: in.
9. Plal.: Poenitent. Tom. 2. pr98e.D. So, Chryfoftom,&c
(t) 1. Per. 2.5, -
(4) Eph.2.20: (x) Rev.21.14.
Cy) Noveritis Symbolum hoc effe Fandamentum fuper
afer hehad (/,); faid:to Peet bou-anes an xpon this\RockJ will build my Charch,
(2.) This being granted (.as of neceflity it muft.) that our~
blefled Saviour is the: firft Immoveable Rock; and moft fare Foundation on whichthe Church is built , Itis alfo granted; and mutt befo, ( Scripture exprefly faying it.) That Pe-
ter 6s: AF enndation too, on which the Church is built. But.
in. a way far different from that our Adverfaries dream’ of; ( forthey do but dream; nor will any Confidering and Intelligent Perfon think them well awake when they writfuch things ) For,,1, When weifay, That-Peter is a Foundation on which the Church is built; our meaning is. not, that he has by this, any Prerogative or Superiority, much lefs-( what our Adverfaries pretend :) any Monar- chical Supremacy over the*reft of the Apoftles, and the
whole Church; for every one of the Apoftles is, as
well and as-much a Foundation of the Ghriftian.Church, . as Peter. The (t) Apoftle. tells.us, That the.Church: $5 4 foiritual Howe, whichis built upon ( uw) The Foundation of the Apoftles and Prophets, Fefus Chrift being the Chief Cor- ner-ftone, And St. Fobnto the fame. purpofe {peaking of the Church, the New Jerufalem,. fays —— ( x ) The.G- ty had Twelve Foundations, and in them the names of the Tivelve Apoftles of the Lamb, In thefe Texts all the Apo-
Mtles ( Fames and Paul, aswell.as Peter ) ‘are foundati-
ons ofthe Church equally, and without.any diftinétion or difference, no Prerogative given to Peter above the reft; much lefs that -vaft Monarchical Supremacy. which is pretended to. Boththe Greek and Latin Fathers fay, That the Gofpel, the Chriftian Faith, .or:the Creed. ( which contains the Sum of it.) or Peter?s Confeffiow of our bleffed Saviour to be Chrift the Son of the Living God, ,( which is
the Chief Fundamental Article ofour Faith, I fay, That
(in thofe Father’s Judgment) this Faith is the-Foundae tion on which the Church is built, St. Auguftin, Explain- ing the Creed tothe Catechumens, has thefe words —— Cy) Know you: ( faith he ) rhar:.this Creed is the-Foundation
quod adificinm Ecclehe firrexit. Aug. lib, 3. de Symbolo ad Catechumen. Tom 9.
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on which the Edifice or Building.of the Church israifed. To the fame purpofe.T heophylaé tells us——(z.) That the Faith which Peter confe/s°d, was to be.the Foundation of the faith- ful,that is of the Church. Thisis.a:Truth fo evident, that a Learned Jefuite, having citedand approved (4) Alca- zar, (a zealous Roman Catholick) for this very fame Opinion, does not only receiveand approve, but large- ly and undeniably proveit,.out of Clemens Romanus, Au- guftine, Hierome, Ruffin, the (6) Trent Council , and:(c) St. Paul: And then adds (da) That other Councils and Fathers fay the Jame. Another (¢) Learned Jefuite confefles, ‘That it was the Opinion of many AncienpFa- thers (yet he endeavours to corfuteit) that thofe words (upon this Rock I will build my Ghurch );|.are thus to be underftood—— Upon this Faith, or Confeffion of Faith which thou haft made, That Lam Chrift the Son of she Living God) will I build my Church ; And then hecites many Fa- thers to prove it; and immediately quotes St. Augu/tine, and (with little refpect or modelty) fays ——That (f ) Auguftine’s Opinion. was further from fenfe, then thofe he __ therecited, becanfe he made Chrift the Rock, on which the _ Church was built. |
, ASH ieoroyia nv Ouoroynous , Oluersoy Mehnree AVLE TOY MmSEUEN~ tev» Toeophyla&. in Matth. 16.19, 18. |
(a) Alcazar's words are thefe—- Cenfeo Apaltolos ideo fundatores Ecclofiae diciy quia fedei Summam ediderunt , em effufi Cruoris Tee ftimonio,necnon pre- dicatione ¢ mira- Culis in hominum a- nim —infeverunt. Corn. A‘Lapide in ‘Apocal. 21.14. p. 112. Col.2.C,
(>) Cone. Trid. Seff. 3: Apéffolicum Symbolum vocat fire Mum atque Unicum Fundamentum, cone
tra quod porte Inq Paulo fuit Fattum.
feré non prevalebunt. Idem, ibid. Col... E. (¢) Tale Fundamentum a “a Cor. 3.10. at Sapiens Architettus Fundamentum pofui. Idem, ibidem. (d) Idem dicunt alia Concilia & Patres. \bid. (¢) Sunt inter veteres Authores, qué Interpretantur fuper bane Petram 5 ie. fuperhanc Fidem 5 aut fuperhanc Fidei Confefionem qua me Filium effe Dei vivi dix- afiz : ut Hilarius, Greg. Nyf[enus, Chryfoftomus, Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Ambyofius in Eptftolas Payli, exc. Maldonat. in Math. 16..17..p.339.Col. 1. E. (f) Longins etiam a fenfu vecedens Auguftinus interpretatur, (oper hanc Petram, 1. ¢. fuper-meipfum, quia Petra erat Chrifius. “Mal-
donat: ibid.
(3.) Itakeitthen for certain, and .confefs’d, (and fo does _ avery (g) Learned Jefuite too, that the twelve Foundati- ons, inthat Place in the Revelation before cited, (Cap.21.
14.) fignifies the Twelve Apoftles on whom the Wall of ( the New Ferufalem, or the Church of Chrift was built, 12+ 4psftotos 5 ipfo- Yam enim humeris quafi innixus Ecclefie murus recumbite Ideo enim torum nomina fundamentis Infcripta funt, ut figni-
ficetwr iplis effe fundamenta c fundatores Chec enins duo codem recidunt) Ecclefie, Corn. A Lapide in Apoc. 21, 14. p.312. Col.1.D.
(g). Certum eft aq pad omnes hee 126 Fundamenta_( Rev. 21014.) fenificare
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(b) 1 Tim. 3.45.
3 Cér.3.9.16-
(i) 1 Pet. 2.5- (k) Eph. 4 1 Ie 2
(1) Eph. 1.22. 23. ‘The Chxrch which is bis Body.
(m) 1 Cor 3. 95 to. And J (fays Paul) as a Mafler- Builder.
(n) Ye are God's building, and.as a skilful Mafter-buil- der, Ihave laid the Foundation. 1 Cor.
I
3. II, 12. where
eopos,peritum figni- ficat. copdss 6 TwY Ociay tuxcspQ- Hefychius.
(0 ) Fandamen- tum pofuts i-e.prima initia fidet Annun- eiavi.Lyranus. An- munchavi vite @tere ne fundamentum, 1d eft, chriftum. Fab. Stabulenfis. Td ais "RugsCeias Oeuz- aloy. Theodor.vid.
- Cor,A LapideinA-
pocal.21.F 4. p.312. Co).2.E. vid.Grot. ip i Cor.3.10.Rom, ¥¢.20.Hebr.6,1.Ita etiam Lyranus & Glotfa Interlines- ria.” ,
and therefore their Names € as St. John fays ) were writ- ten on thofe Foundations, to fignifie, that the Apoftles ( Paul as wellas Peter) were Founders or Foundations of the Chriftian Church. And that this may more diftinet- ly appear, and from Scripture it felf, that every Apo- ftle, (as wellas Peter) is a Foundation of the Chriftian Church, we areto confider. Firft, That in Scripture the Church is commonly call’d (4) 4 Houle, the Houfe of God; and every good Chriftianis a (¢) Hvely Stone which goes tothe buslding of that fpiritual Houfe. 2. Our blef- fed Saviour call’d and fent ad his Apostles, (as wellas Pe- ter) to(k) build this Houfe, He gave fome <Apoftles
- for the edifying (2s ctxedvuty) or building the body of Chris,
Thatis, the (2) Church. 3. The Apofles all of them, Paul (m) as wellas Peter) were ALaSter-Builders of this Houfe. Evident itis (inthe Text cited ) that St. Paul was a Mafter-Builder, and St. Perey wasno more 3 nor is he any where in Scripture, exprefly faid to be fo much 3, though I believe, andgranthewas. 4. The Means by which thele AZaSter- Builders edify’d and builtthe Church, were thefe : Their diligent preaching of the Gofpel, (firft, end more infallibly Communicated tothem, then to any others) Their pious and exemplary Converfation,which made their Preaching more effectual, and gave Reputa- tiontoit, and themfelves; Their confirming with Mira- cles, and fealing the Truth of it, with their Blood and Martyrdom. 5. Hence, the Gofpel it felf and our Chri- ftian Faith, iscall’d the Foundation of the Church; as may appear by what is faid-before, and by St. Pasl, who ex- prefly (7) calls it fo. For that Foundation, which he ‘there fays he had laid at Corinth (as may appear from the
_ Context) was the (0,) Gofpel he had preach’d among
them. Sothat (by the Authorities above cited) Ithink it may appear, that Divines( Ancient and Modern, Pro- teftant and Papiit) feem toagree inthis; That there is a double Foundation of the Church, Doétrinal and. Perfo- nal: The firft isthe Gofpel, orthofe holy Precepts, and gracious Promifes contain’d in it; On the belief and —
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practife whereof, the Church folely relies for Grace here, and Glory hereafter; And therefore , they are commonly and jaftly cali? the Foundation on which the Churchis built. Whenceit is very ufual in Scripture, to fay, that by Preaching the Gofpel, the (p) Church is edi- fy'4 or built. And becaufe our blefled Saviour immedi- ately call’d all his Apoftles, gave them Authority, and the Infallible Afiftance of his Spirit, and fent them to preach the Gofpel, and they { with great fuccefs) did it, converting Nations, building or founding Churches ) therefore they were call’d Adaffer- Builders, Founders, and Foundations of the Chriftian Church; as our (qg) Adver- . fariesconfefs. Now (as tothis Particular) as the Apo-
‘ftles were Founders or Foundations of the Chriftian Church; Peter hadno Preheminence or Prerogative a- bove the other Apoftles ; He wasno more Petra, a Foun- der or Foundation of the Church,then the other Apoftles. Nay inthis (if any) certainly St. Paul might challenge a Preference and Preheminence above Peter himfelf, or any
_of the reft.For he( with truth and modefty enough,(r tells: rubs
us-——That in preacing the Gofpel he laboured more then they Al: (And (f) Ireneuws gives the reafon of it ) His Sufferings were( +.) more, He planted more Chur- _ches, He writ more Epiftles, then they all5 ( his being Fourteen, and all the reft but Seven, and they (in refpect
of his, fhort ones too; whichthen were , and ever fince °
have been, and (whilethe World ftands) will be Do- ctrinal Foundations of the Chriftian Church. But that which makes more againft Peter’s Supremacy , and for St. Paul?s Preference before him, (at leaft his Indepen- dence upon Perer (as the Supream Monarch oftheChurch) is; That he tellsthe Corinthians, That the care of (u) All the Churches lay upon him, Nor that only, but that he made Orders and (x) Confitueions for all thofe Churches, So -F Ordain
which they were bound to obferve
* Vid. OrigincmcontraCelfum, Graco-Lat. P- 49- peeluvae
(faith
(u) 2 Cor. 11. 28. (X) 1 Cor. 7. 17+ szws ty THs ExnAnoias mbouts Miaragtouets
(7) A&. 9. 27. i Cor.14. 3.5. $o St. Paul’s Authori- ty was given him for Edification,. or’ building the iia: 2Cor, ro.
(q) Ideoenim A= poftolorum nomina
_Fundamentis Eccle=
fie infcripta (unt. Rev.21.14,ut /igne- ficetur ipfos effe Fun- damenta c Funda- tores (hac enim duo codemrecidunt) Ei= clefie. Corn. A La- pide ubj.fupra, in APOC. 21.14 P3120
¢r) 1 Cor.1g,102. I laboured more a-
bundantly then. they- All. And 2 Cori ts
23. (f)Plusxeliqauiss quia ili, wt pluri- mum, Tuden predie cabant,quorum faci- lis Catechizatio( cum Legem & Prophetas admiferunt) Paulus Gentibus, qui utraj- que negabant. rer haus adverf,Hare- fes gs C-41-P.379- C. Edit. Feu-Ar- dentij. Ks
/ (t)2 Cor.11.22, Tlacwy “Exxanciey
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(y) Cone. Trid- Seff. 4.in Decreto de Edit. Sacrorum ‘Librerum.
CZ) Atantoo- pas; Inde diareJ- fees Editium, did- rakisy Conftitutio. Gloffz veteres in Calce Cyrilli, &c.
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Cb \°Tots 7m xanbeio —Exeives vevouoSeTHKey—— BUC yOMOSTOY Te yard HAe 1 heod, th 1 Cor. 7. 17+ Ot- eamenins and Theo- phylatt fay to the fame purpofe, on the fame place. a 1Cor.16.1. C)Tis eixspe~ y@- xnpvé. Photius Epift. 117. p.rg8. & ibid. p.109. , Kd) TaiiaG- J BN as, x5 mien TH eixsuivn Paulus autem peculéaritér Orbi Univerfo. Nie col. Methon. de
Corp. & Sang. Chrifti in Magna Bibl. Patrum: Tom 12. p. 619.
(faith he) iA the Churches. So our Englifh truly ren- ders it. I know the Vulgar Latin (which the Trent (y) Fathers ridiculoufly declare Authentick ) renders it o- therwife — So J teachin all Churches: but the ( z) word there, fignifies not to teach, but properly to (4) Or- dain and Legally Conftitue, Define, and Command. So that thereupon Obedience becomes due from thofe who are concern’d in fuch Conftitution or Ordinance. And
this Theodoret tookto be the true meaning of that Text ;
and therefore hefays, That Pauls Ordaining +n all Chur- ches , was giving thema(b).Law, which they were to o- bey. Sothat here are two things exprefly faid of Paul in Scripture, and that by himfelf , who beft knew, and was Teffis idoneus, & Siaveve@-, a Witnels beyond. all Exception. 1. That the care of all the Churches lay upon him. 2. That he made Ecclefialtical Laws and Conftitutions for them All: whereas (inScripture) no fuch thing.is faid of Peter, .or any other Apoftle. Upon confideration of the Premifes,fome of the Ancients have call’d St. Paul, A Preacher tothe whole World; So(¢) Pho- tins and Nicolaus Methonenfis Epifcopus, {peaking of feve- ral Apoftles Officiating at feveral places ; as of James at Ferufalem, Fohn in Afia, Peter and Paul at Antioch, ec. Hesadds 5 concerning (d) Paul— larly Officiate to the whole World, -And,to the fame pur- pole Zheodorer , Expounding the words of the Apoftle That the care of All the Churches lay upon him, He fays, That the (e) follicitude.and care of the whole World lay upon Paul. Morethanthis cannot be faid of Peter, nor is there half fo much faid of him, as of-St. Pax/ in Scripture. Had Peter told us That the Care of All the Churches lay upon him, and.that he made Orders and Conftitutions, to be obferved in All Churches, ( both which are exprefly.{faid.of St. Paul) the Canonifts and Popifh Party, would have had fome pretence (who now have
(e)Tidons ths oixeusuns
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meWpipoo TAY wteuvay Univerfi Orbis Tirraram follicisndinem mecum gtro.Theod.in 2 Cor.11.28.
none)
That he did particu-
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none) for” Peter’s Supremacy. I urge not this, to af-
ctibe to Panl, that Supremacy wedeny'to Peter, ( For” neither had they, nor‘any other Apoftle, any fuch thing)
but only'to thew; That St. Paul (his ‘Labours, Sufferings, themany Churchesfounded by him , and his Canonical
Writings confider’?d) may be thought (not without rea-
fon) a more eminent Founder‘of the Chriftian Church,
then’St: Peter; 2. But as it is, and muft be confefs’d. by Divines, Ancient and Modern, Proteftants and Pa- pifts, That the Gofpel is the Doctrinal Foundation, and
that Petra, onwhichthe Church ‘is built’; So ‘there is al- fo a Perfonal Foundation, evidently mention’d in Scrip- ture’ Imean Perfons, on whom the Chriftian Church is built: And they are
1. Our bleffed Saviour. 2. His Apottles.
_ 1. That our bleffed Saviour'is'a Rock, and that xa? 7EE- __ x. Our bleffed exav; themoft firm and immoveable Rock on which the Saviour. Churchis*built, is evident’ from the { f) Scriptures before’. Vode Marthe cited. Such'a’Rock; as Peter neither was, nor could be, g Spear 2 vig see much lefs any of ‘thofe they call his Succeffors.. For, r.Our’ Cor.3.11.8-1 Cors bleffed Saviour was , and {till isa Rock on (g) which’ (as 10-48 Adhg.tts Trenaustells us) the’ Univer fal Church ; both before and fince : ae fs th - his coming intothe'World; was built. He was(h) promi- gon sine crane
. i am fed by God prefently after the fall of Adam, and then fuc- ee
ceflively by (i) all the Prophets; His Death and Paffion' was” id tye Euan a Propitiation , aswell for the Sins of thofe who (k)li- Aw cis 7 Ozuérree « ved before,-as ours who'live after it; and thofe Promifes of oe tery the Mefliah were fuch, as all the Patriarchs, Prophets, and egy eibor; “flee
he co Dubie 8 LLOVse4S “Tee Deere avis. Vide Hieronymum in locum ; & 1 Pet. 2. 6, 7. ubi Tfalam citat, & eadem pene verba habet, qux apud 70. Interpretes hodié Extant. Vide Procopium in‘ Ifai.-44. p. 504+ &° Fabrs Stapulenfem in Matth. 16. 18. (g) Chriftus lapis [ummus Angularis Omnia fuftinens, in unam fedem Abrabe Colligens cos, qué in Utroque Teftamento apti {unt in'edifecationem Deis Ire~ nzus lib. 4.cap. 42. pag. 380. Edit. Feuardentij. (b) Gene g. tgs (4) A&, 33,182. . 24, Lucy 1670, & Lucy 24.27. (Rh) Heb.9 + 1S.
Pious.
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(1) Hebr.11. 13. Vid.Eufeb Hift.|. ¢. €.2. p, 6. B. Edit. Valefij. Tero > Ol bm TAs mpadTys ety pwmopovbes miy- Jeg ,8CC. Omnes.ab o- vigine Generis hu- mani qui juftitie laude floruerant, ut Abraham, Moles, & Quicunque postea ju- fii, Omnes Corisium agnoverunt 5 eique tanquam Dei Filio, debitum cultum Ex- bibuerunt. Ex De- monftrat.Evang.l.1. Capp. 5.6.°
(m. Saoas toy Xesdy ndkour. Chriftam diftinété cognitum habuernnt. Eeéfeb. Hift.l.1.c.4. p.16.B.
(n) “eye Xer s1ayes ef x, Ut oyo- fart «Si non no- mine, reipfa tamen Chriftianos, Idem plane haber Augu- fiinus, Retrad. 1,1. €.13.
(0) Galat.3.8.
{p) Luc. 24.25 2%, 29+ 44.
(q) A&. 26.22, 23.and Ad 28.23.
(7) Lombard.
Sent. 1. 3. Dift. 25. vide Juhan. Marti- nez de Ripalda ad
diéam DiftinGionem.
Pious men before Chrift did (D kyow and believe, Nay, Cif we believe Ex/ebius ) the Promifes of the Meflias ,. were ( m ) clearly and diftinktly revealed to the Ancient Patriarchs and Prophets (though in a lefs degree and meafure of clearnefs ) and their Belief and fuitable Obedience fuch, that < though they had not the same, yet. they might truly be (n) call?d Chriftians before Chrift.. The Apoitle telis us, That the (0) Gofpel: was preached to Abrabam and fo it was to all the Azcient Church, by the (p) Pro- phets; who foretold them of the Incarnation, Patlion , and Refurrection of Chrift. It was the Gofpel St. Paul every where preach?d, and yet he fays, that He preach- ed No ( q) other Things , then thofe which the Prophets and Mofes did fay fhould come. And this is a Truth fo mani- feft , that ( to fay no more of the Ancient Chriftian Writers) (7) Peter Lombard, and the Popifh School- men, writing de Fide Antiquorum, of the Faith by which the Saints, before our blefled Saviour, were faved; they all fay , that they then ‘(as ‘we now) were faved by Faith 22 Chrift their Redeemer. The difference was, 1.T hey believed i” Chriffo Exbibendo, we in Chrifto Atk Exbibi~ to. 2. Their Faith before our blefled Saviow’s coming, was more imperfect and implicite, Owrs (fince he is - come, and the Gofpel clearly publifi’d) much more Perfect and Explicite. This I fay, to prove that our blefled Saviour was the Rock, on which the Church un- der the Old Teftament was built, and (in this Particu- lar) fuch a Rock and Foundation of the Church as Peter never was, nor could be; it being impoifible he fhould be a Foundation of that Church which was founded al- moft Four thoufand years before he was born. 2.Our blef- fed Saviour is a Rock and Foundation, on which the whole Chriftian Ghurch is built, even the Apoftles themielves, as wellas others: who (all of them, ( /) Peter as well as Paul) (£) Auguftinus in Evang. fecundum Matth, Serm. 13. Tom. 10.p.
$9.9. Bafil.1569. Super banc petram quam confel[us es, dicens, Tu es Chriftus Filius Det viusy adificabo Ecctefiam meam. 1d eft, Super meipfum edificabo EccleGam meam. Super Me edificabo Te,
non Me fuper Te
dificerur fuper Petram, non Petra fuper Petrum Wid.p.59.A.
Non inPauli, necin Petri. Nomine baptixati fumus, fed Chriftis mt Petrus a-
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in ré{pect of Chrift ( who is the great immoveable Rock, which fuftains the (t) whole Building ) are Superfiruttions ; though otherwife, in refpect ofthe Chriftian World con- verted by their Preaching, they are call’d Foundations, yet only Secundary Foundations , all of whichare built upon the Principal and prime Foundation Jefus Chrift (#). So
inthe like Inftance, all the Apoftles ( Peter as well as the
reft) were both Sheep and Shepherds. 1. Sheep, in refpect of Chrift, who is the (x) great and (y) chief Shepherd.
(z) Sheep hear my voice, ( {ays our blefled Saviour: ) The Apoftles did fo ; when he call’d them, they heard and obey’'dhim. Again, J lay (a) down my life for my Sheep ; fo he did for his Apoftles, elfe they could not have been faved; And therefore they alfo are his Sheep. 2. Yet they were Shepherds too ( fent by, and fubordinate to the
great and chief Shepherd Fefus Chrift ) in refpect of the
Church and Chriftians, over which the( 4) Holy Ghoft had fetthem. 3. Our blefled Saviour is fuch a foundation and founder of bis Church, as does not find, but make thefe Lively Stones, which are the Materials with which he builds it. He gives hisSpirit, and by it Grace and a Lively Faith, which things alone make men Lively Stones, and fit for
that Building. This no Apoftle, (not Peter, much lefs
any fucceeding Pope ) ever did, or could do; nor ( with- out great folly and impiety ) can pretend to. 4. Our blef- fed Saviour is fucha Rock, fuch a Foundation and Founder ofthe Church, as was and is Proprietary and the fole true Owner of it ; 7tis his Honje, purchafed with his precious Blood ;
Ct) “Amivre” yao deusar@ 6 Xessbs, &C. Omni- um fiquidem funda- mentum eft Chriftus, qui [ibi ad mota, fi- xa firmaque [utines at. Procopius in Cap. 44. Ifaiz p. 504. And a lictle after TeS¢- Hertones Xe. Ec- clefie idem funda- mentum feckt,qué Ip- fe Fundamentum eft, fuper quod & nos, tauquam Lapides pretiofe , fuperftrui- mur. Procopius ib. pag-519. Omnis Ec- clefie Compages in nitétuy Cm» Incuime bit, ut nunquam ca- dat,fummo Angnlar2 Lapidé Chrifto Fefirs
Vuguitin. Bnarrats in Pial. $6. Tom 8s pag. 955. Operum Bafil. 1569.
Cu ») Fundamin- tum eft folus Chriftws vel fides Ipfius. Oba je&. Apoc. 21. 14. Apoftols funt Funda menta. Soli. Fuse damentum proprie
eft illud quod habet firmitatem c& ftabilitatem in fe; fic Solus Chriffus eS Fundamentum. 2. Jmpro-
fic Apofoli dicuntur fundamenta qui primitus Adheferunt Chrifto. Lyranus ing Cor. 3
vid. Pet. Lombard. in locum. pag. 73. CG. D. Chriftus primus Laps & Angularis 5 (9
prie, tlud quod adberet primo Fundamento; ficut funt Lapides primarij Fundamento inh«ventes :
Chriftum Apoftoli ec Prophete, fuper illos, Nos edificaté (umus. Maldonatus in Matth. ic.
pag. 342. And again
Multi in eodem Fundamento Lapides funts fummus & prim
lus eft Chriftus , e: preter illud, Fundamentum Alind nemo poteft ponere 5 faper ilud autem, ei: 2
alia funt, que conituntar, Fandamenta : nam ce Apoftoli ce» Prophete Fandameptum Appellescur (ed ipfo (immo Angulayi Lapide Chrifto Fefue Eph, 2.20. Maldonat.in Matth. 7.24. p. 178. CX) Tov mimevarar Tesldrwv Tov ueyay. Hebr. 13.20. Cy ) “Agyerviuays i Pets
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and he ever had, and {till hath a Magifterial and Imperial power over it, to rule and govern it; He is (¢) King of — Saints. QYis true, the Prophets and Apoiltles are called Foundations and Founders of the Church; Thofe of the Fudaical Church, before our blefled Saviour’s Incarnation ¢ thefe of the Chriftian Church, after it. But the Power, and.
* the Authority, the Prophets or Apoftles had, ( even the
- €d) Hebr. 3.5.6. Maons tv otn@s ut famulus : Chriftus 6H rev cinovs fuper domum, ut Filins & Dominus. .
Ce) 2Cor.4 5. Cf) chrifias Pe- trum Univer fi fideli- um Generis Caput Conftituit—— nt qui Et Succeffit 4
Eandem Plane Toti-- us Ecclefie Pote(taq
tem babere voluerits.
Catechifmus Tri- dentinus Part. 1. Cs.
To. §§- F112. &
pracipue. §, 13. pe. m7. Edit. Parif,
163 S 2. The Apoftles. Cz) Matth.10.1. 2.3. &c. Mark. 3- 4. Lok. 9.1. &O
Ch) Paulas Apo- folus non ab bomé=
mibus nee per boris nem, Gal.t.t. ode anrons segvoSey » &c. Dominus eum wocavit celitus,ho-. mine non wus Ad- minifiro. Theode- . wetinloc. Now Pe tro.
Cuma
Eftius in lo-.
ereatelt of them ( AZfes, or Peter ) was only AGnifferial., the Authority of Servants, deriv’d from our blefled Sayvi- our, andexercifed under him. So the Apoftle tells us-— (d) That Mofes was faithful in all his Houfe y (i.e. inthe Ju- daical Church ) As aServant, but Chrift as a Son, over his Own Houfe , whole Houle Are We, &c. So inthe Chri- ftian Church , the Apoftles ( all of them) were Prime and Principal Minifters, from and under Chrift, to call and buildthe Church. ‘They were Servants of Chrift, and ( for his (e ) fake ) of the Church: they had A4izifterium, but not Imperium: Neither Peter, nor any other, had that vaft Monarchical Supremacy over the whole Church, which is) — ( not without great Error and Impiety ) pretended to;. > when they blafphemonfly fay That Peter (f) was our bleffed. Saviow?s Succeffor, and’ ( by him) Conftituted the Head of the. Univerfal Church, with the very. fame Power our bleffed Saviour had, But this they fay only, without any ovine or Probability; and fo tranfeat cum cateris errori= ws. yy Be 2. But although we fay, ( and have evident Reafon and Authority for it.) That our blefled Saviour was the one and only prime and chief foundation and founder of the Church, and all the Apoftles ( Peter as well as the Reft ) Superftrutti- ons in refpect of him; yet we know and acknowledge, that ( both in Scripture and Antiquity ): they are called Founda tions.and Founders of the Chriftian Church in refpect of the Churches, call’d, Converred, and Conttituted-by them; but all Equally fo, Pererwasno more a foundation than Paul, or James, or Joh. For, 1. They wereall zmmediatelycal?d by our (g ) bleffed Saviour, without any dependence (hb )- . upon Peter, orany body elfe, (-as.is Evident in the Te) i
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felf ) And this is generally confefs’d by the Popifh Com-
'_-mentators, even the Jefuits, fuch as Tirinus, Adenochius,
ec. I fay, all the Apoftles had this zvmedzate calling to their Apoltlefhip, from our blefled Saviour, except Adathias 5 and he was not chofen by Peter (who neither knew nor had any fuch Supremacy, as without allreafon, is now afcribed to him ) but the ( ¢ ) Colledge of the Apoffles, and confent ofthe faithful there prefent. Andthough alearned Jefuit, ( zealous for Peter, andthe Popes Supremacy ) would have Peter to be the (k) Direttor in that bufinefs (the Elettion of Matthias ) yet he cannot deny, but it was done by the com- amon (1) confent of-the Apofiles and Brethren. 2, As the A- poftles all of them, ( Adathias excepted ) had their ca#Im- mediately and Equally from.our bleffed Saviour, without any dependance upon St. Peter ; fo they had their Commiffion emmediately from him, and init, the very fame Power, e- qually given toall.. The fame power given to any one, ( e- ven St. Peter) was given to everyone. This is Evident, 1. From thofe plain Texts where their (#.) Commiffion
and Apoftolical Power is giventhem by our bleffed Saviour, 9
before the Refurrection; whenthey were fent to the ( #) Jews only; andthe very fame Power equally given to all. 2. And from thofe other ( as clear and plain ) Texts,where- in (after the Refurrection ) they had commiffion and Au- thority given them by our blefled Saviour, to preach 10 ( 0) “all Nations; where it is As my Father fent me, fo Lfend you, and Go ye, ec. All equally fent, no difference or di- {tinction of the Perfons, as to any Priviledge or Prece- dence, no Degrees of Power more or greater inone, than every one. Their Commiffion and Authority givenin it, was the very fame,. and equally given.to all the Apoftles. ~Thefe Truths are fo evident in the-Text, that fome fober Popifh Writers do both profefs and induftrioufly prove them. Franc: AViforia, ( prime Profeflor of Divinity at Salamanca in Spain, and ( as they efteemed. and called him ) an(p) Excellent and Incomparable Divine) propofes and proves thefe two Conclufions. 4. All the (q) Power the
» Apoftles had, was ( by them ) received immediately from Chrift. K 2 2. All
(i) Matthias a Collegio Apoftolorum fattus eft Apoftoluss /ta Eftius in Gal. IIs
(k ) Hee omnia facta funt divigente Petro, qui totius O- peri fuit Choragys. A Lapide in Cap. 1. AG. Apoft.p.s7. Co}. 1.C,
C1) Apoftolic.- terique fideles Com- muni confenfu Nomi= narunt duns, 8ece A Lapide, ibidem.
( m ) Matth.10- T. 2. 3. &c. Mark. | 3-13. 14.15. Luk.
I
(n) Matth. 1o6 6
§-6.
Co ) Matrh, 28. 18.19.Mark.16.156 £6. John. 26.22.23.
(p) Francif. A Vittoria. SS. Theol. Salamanticenfis A-
Cademia, in prima-
tid Cathedra Pro- fefloveEximio & In- comparabili. tta ha- bet Libri fui Epi- graphe feu Titulus.
(4) Omnem Po- teflatem, quam Apo- fi oli babuerunt,reci- perunt Immediate a Chrifio. ViGoria Preledt. 2. De Po- teft. Ecclef, Cones
3+ P+ 84.
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(r) Apoftoli Om- neshabuerunt egqua- lem Poteftatem cum Petro. Ibid. Conc.
4. p. 85.
Cf) Quod fic In- telligo; quod quili- bet Apoftolus habact Poteftatem Ecclefia- (ticam in toto Orbe, ce» ad Omnes Aitus ad quos Petrus ha- buit. Ibid.
— () Non loquor de ilis Aétibus, qué fPectant ad folum famnam Pontificem,
ut Congregatio Generalis Concilij. {bidem.
2, Allthe (x) Apoftles had Equal Power with Peter: And then he Explains his meaning thus Cf) That every A- poftle had Ecclefiaftical Power in the whole World, and to doe- very At, which Peter had powerto do. But then ( to pleafe the Popeand his Party) he Exeepts thofe Acts which were pro- per and belong?d (t ) ‘peculiarly tothe Pope, as Calling of aGe- neral Council, But this is gratis dictum, without any pre- tence of proof, or probability from Scripture, and evident- ly contradictery to the known practice of the Chriftian World, after the Emperors became Chriftians, who alone
(and not the Pope ) call’d all the Ancient Councils; as is.
fully proved by alate and Learned (4 ) Sorbox Dottor.
(«) Vid. Hift.Conc. Gene-
ralium, per Ed. Richerium Do&. & SociumSorbonicum. Colen. 1680. where he clearly proves, — i
the firft Eight General Councils were call’d by theEmperors. : §. Butto proceed; That place in (x) AZatthew isurg-
(x) Math.16.19.
Cy) Cap. Solicit. 6. Exrra De Ma- jor.& Obedientia. vid. Baron. Tom. ¥1.ad ann. 1076.§. 25. 26.
(x) Cap. unam Sand.1.De Major. & Obedientia. Ex- travag.Com
(a) Beliarm. de Pont. Rom. ] 5.c.7 §. Item; & §. fic enim.
(2) Conc. Late- ran. fub Leo. Io. Seff.11. apud Bini- um.Tom.9. p,153- A.B.
(¢c ) Hénoratus Faber Societatis Jefu, libro cui Ti- tulus Una Fides,UniusEccle-
ed inthe foregoing Objection, to prove the Monarchical
Supremacy of Perer I give unto thee, the Keys of the
Kimgdom of Heaven, and whatfoever thou {halt bind on Earth,
fhall be bound en Heaven, @&c. NowthatI may give a fhort
and diftinét Anfwer to this place: I confider,
1, That this Text is generally urg’d (though moft Imper- tinently ) to prove Peter’s and the Popes Power over Kings and Emperors. So (y) Innocent, Ill. Cites it to prove, that the Emperor is fubjett to the Pope. To the {ame purpofe Pope Boviface. VII produceth it, in his Impious and ( as tothe Nonfence and Inconfequence of it ) ridiculous ( z) Extravagant; which( 4 ) Bellarmine approves, and Leo. X. and his (6) Lateran Council (which they call a General one) Innovates and Con- firms; and yetalate (c¢ ) Jefuit, exprefly tells us,( and you may be fure, with the (4) Approbation of his Su- periors ) Thatthe Keys were given Only to Peter. Thefe, and many more, quote this place to the fame pur- pofe.
fie Rom. Delingz. 1657.Cap.19. Cujus Lemmaeft; Claves Regni Celorum Duntaxat Petro Date
juerant.
Cd) Prodiit dittus Liber, cumfacultate Superiorum, & Privilegio Cefarto.
2. It
againft Queen Elizabeth.
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2. Itiscertain ( and (¢ ) confefs’d ) that our bleffed Sa- vionr inthis place of Adatthew, doesnot Aétually give St. Peter the Power ofthe Keys (be what it will) but ( pro futuro) promife that he will give it. For it is in that Text, didea, dabo, Iwill give, not I have given, or do give; and therefore they muft fhew fome other place in Scripture, where