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A19436	The hellish and horribble councell, practised and vsed by the Iesuites, (in their priuate consulations) when they would haue a man to murther a king According to those damnable instructions, giuen (by them) to that bloody villaine Francis Rauilliacke, who murdered Henry the fourth, the late French king. Sent to the Queene Regent, in answere to that impudent pamphlet, published by Peter Cotton Iesuite, in defence of the Iesuites, and their doctrine; which also is hereunto annexed. Translated out of French.	Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626. Lettre declaratoire de la doctrine des peres Jesuites. English.	1610 (1610)	STC 5862; ESTC S108850	10,755	26

exceeded the limites of the common doctrine did acknowledge that he was subiect to errour and he should be submitted to the censure of whomsoeuer would accept it immediatly after his opinion was brought and the common censure of all the Diuines of our company that he counterpointed that of the said Mariana Martin Becanus in his Answere to the ninth Aphorisme sendeth the Reader to the Councell of Constance shewing that a lawfull Prince cannot loose his superiority although he should become a Tyrant Iaques Gretserus Reader in Diuinitie at Ingolstad in his Booke intituled vespertilio haereticopolicus answering to some obiections that had béene made vnto him concerning the opinion of Mariana saith with Heissius That hee ought to holde with the common consent leauing the particular iudgement of Mariana and that hee himselfe had submitted to that of others Leonard Lessius Reader in Diuinitie at Louaine in his second booke De iusticia iure the ninth Chapter and fourth doubt giueth his consent likewise to the common sentence That it is not lawfull to enterprise on the person of a Prince although hée should abuse his power grounding his saying on the aduertisement of the Prince of the Apostles Seruants be yee subiect to your Masters and not onely to the good and modest but also to the sharpe and troublesome and then hée alleadgeth the aboue named Decrée of the Councell Nicholas Serier writing on the third Chapter of the booke of Iudges in the first question declareth that the Act of Aod neither can or ought to serue for fore-iudging or example to detestable Assassinates Parricides and murtherers of their Kings Iohn Azor in the second part of his morall Institutions the first booke fift Chapter and tenth Question shewes himselfe a much greater enemie of the audacious and sacrilegious attentates of such as shal enterprise vpon the liues of Princes Instructing that it is not lawfull to attempt on the liues of them that doe vniustly possesse themselues of ane State Grounding his saying principally vpon this that no man ought to be condemned before he be heard and without knowledge of the cause in which case any one particular is no competent Iudge As for Lewes Richeome his Apologies doe make peremptory proofe of the vnreconcilable hatred which he beares to the doctrine of such as dogmatise against the authority of Kings And that in such maner as the Lord Pasquire himselfe a criticke censurer of his workes after he hath reported his words in the third booke and first Chapter hee commendeth him and saith that he cannot chuse but loue him adding these words I cannot chuse but honor thee beholding thee to portraite the Idea of obedience which the Subiect oweth to his King A praise which hee might giue to many other of the same Societie who after they had examined this matter with Saint Thomas and the whole Schoole concluded all conformably to the Sorbonne and to that which hath béene determined in the Councell of Constance Such then being the sense and such the sentences of these Doctors very graue and signall men of our company what preiudice can the particular opinion of Mariana bring to the reputation of a whole Order which Order being according to her Institution extreamely iealous for the manutention of those holy ordinances of the Church and respecting the power and authority of Kings who for their temporall estate doe depend onely vpon God haue of long time disallowed the legertie of a drie penne and namely in the Prouinciall congregation of Fraunce helde in this Citie of Paris the yéere 1606. where moreouer the reuerend Father Claudius Aquanina Generall of our Company was required that such as had written to the preiudice of the Crowne of Fraunce might be reprooued and their Bookes suppressed which the saide Reuerend Father afterward did very seriously and exactly being very sorie that by ouer-sight or negligence in his absence and without sight of the worke any one should presume vpon his admittance The words which he vseth in his answere are these We haue approued the iudgment and care of your congregation and haue béene greatly gréeued that no man will looke after the impressions of such Bookes which Bookes neuerthelesse wée haue suddainly commaunded to be corrected and shall haue most exact care hence-forwarde that such things shall not happen any more So that very hardly now is to be found one onely Copy of Mariana except it be by the pernitious liberality of the inheritours of Wechell who are knowne to be of the pretended reformed Religion and haue caused the said Booke to be imprinted at their owne proper charges not so much excited as is easie to be presumed by desire to the publique seruice as particularly to hurt our Company Some are of the mind that they haue added thereto somewhat of their own Others say that those Bookes of the first impression were much worse a controuersie seruing to no purpose for albeit it were so and that no man had lent any charity to this ill-handled penne yet is there no reason why it should rather incommodate the body of our Societie then the writings of Iohn Petit and others the Uniuersities and Orders whereof they were Schollers Batchelers Maisters and Doctours But forasmuch Madame as I made promise in the beginning to expose clearely and distinctly what our opinion and credence is touching the matter proposed I come now to the point which shall make vp the last part of this declaration 1. All the Iesuites in generall and particural will signe yea euen with their proper blood that they do not hold either in this matter or any other whatsoeuer any other faith doctrine or opinion then that of the whole vniuersall Church 2. In the second place that among all the kindes of gouernment and publicke administration Monarchie only is the best 3. That such is the spirituall gouernement of the Church as it came to the Vicar of Iesus Christ the successor of Saint Peter and such the temporall of the State and Kingdome of Fraunce as it holdeth in the person of the King her soueraigne Lord and Maister 4. That Kings are as Homer calls them the children and darlings of God or rather his soules image as Meander saith 5. That they are annointed and thereby surnamed Christes of the Lord to the end saith Simon Archbishop of Thessalonica that each one may vnderstand that they are inuiolable and ought to be respected as things holy and sacred 6. That it is a damnable heresie euen as Saint Ireneus noted it fourtéene hundred yéeres agoe to beléeue that Kings are giuen to men by chaunce or hap considering that all power commeth of God And because saith Saint Isidore of Damieta in the most ancient paintings wée behold a hand comming out of heauen that sets a Crowne vpon their head 7. That whosoeuer resisteth Kings or rebelleth against them begetteth his owne damnation according to the doc●rine of the Apostle 8. That obedience is due vnto them not because they