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A45900 The Popes threatning letter to the French King, or, The present grand controversie between Pope Innocent the XIth and the most christian King Lewis the XIVth about the regalia, &c.; Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Ludovico Francorum Regi Christianissimo. English & Latin Catholic Church. Pope (1676-1689 : Innocent XI).; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689. 1681 (1681) Wing I204; ESTC R21181 7,738 14

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divinae legis ac libertatis Ecclesiasti●ae Zelatores qui gravissimam hanc toti Franciae Regno immo Ecclesiae universae communem causam pari constantia spiritu apud Majestatem tuam agerent sed metu quodam ut ipsis quidem videtur justo ignoscendoque ut nos autem judicamus vano non solum Episcopali officio sed etiam magnanimitati aequitatique tuae injurioso retenti silent expectantes dum humilitas nostri à filiali tua in hanc sedem observantia impetret quod à Regia Justitia Ecclesiis suis debitum poscere ipsi non audent Itaque in his Literis nostris illorum omnium justum dolorem preces ag nosce quini mo Dei ipsius voluntatem ore te nostro alloquentis ac serio monentis ut praedictum decretum quicquid ipsius occasione adversus Ecclesiae libertatem jura actum gestumque hactenus fuit corrigi emendarique omnino cures Alioquin mag nopere veremur ne subire aliquando debeas quod tibi in aliis literis denunciavimus nunc iterum ac tertio inviti quidem quantum pertinet ad sensum amoris in te nostri sed Deo nos interius monente aperte denunciamus coelestis irae animadversionem Nos sanè neque hoc negotium per literas amplius urgebimus neque desides erimus in adhibendis remediis quae traditae nobis divinitus potestati competunt quaeque in tam gravi periculoso morbo omittere sine gravissima neglecti Apostolici muneris culpa non possumus Nequc tamen ullum inde incommodum aut periculum nullam quantumvis saevam ac horribilem tempestatem pertimescemus ad hoc enim vocati sumus neque facimus animam nostram pretiosiorem quam nos probé intelligentes non forti solum sed etiam laeto animo subeundas esse tribulationes propter Justitiam In quibus in Cruce Domini nos unicè gloriari oportet Causam Dei agimus quaerentes non quae nostra sunt sed quae Jesu Christi Cum eo propterea non nobiscum tibi erit negotium in posterum cum eo scilicet adversus quem non est Sapientia non est Consilium non est Potentia Nos postquam Ministerii nostri partes plantando rigando sicut oportet impleverimus expectabimus dum operi det incrementum Deus à quo accurata prece flagitare non desinemus ut verbis hortationibus hisce nostris vim robur infundat Majestatis tuae animam ad salubriora consilia flectendo unde mereri tu possis nos laetari res tuas omnes secundiore indies cursu flue●e subditas imperio tuo gentes perpetua atque optima pace florere tibiq Apostolicam benedictionem amantissimè impertimur Datum Romae c. die Decembris 29. 1679. Copia vera To our most dear Son in Christ Lewis the most Christian King of the French Innocent the XI Pope OUr dearest Son in Christ c. We have already in two former Letters at large and clearly shewed unto your Majesty from the unanimous Testimony even of almost all French Writers themselves and the very Records of the Kings Exchequer how injurious unto the Liberties of the Church how contrary unto all right both Humane and Divine and how different from the constant manner and example of all your Royal Ancestors was that Edict seven Years since by you set forth wherein you command that that custome of receiving the Revenues of Vacant Churches which they call the Regalia should be extended unto such other Churches as were never heretofore liable to any such Burden or Imposition In which Letters as we are bound by our Pastoral Office and for the Fatherly Care we have of your eternal Salvation we earnestly request of you that you would command that said Edict and other after Decrees against the Rights and Liberties of those Churches to be abrogated and abolished And truly such is the merit of the Cause it self such our opinion of the Royal justness and greatness of your Mind that we certainly hoped your Majesty by speedily putting all things again into their ancient Channel would have eas'd our Heart of any farther trouble about this so great Affair that is otherwise busied about so many other matters in the Care and Government of the Church But after that we have waited several Months which since the sending of our last Letters for the proof of our patience have passed away we as yet see no answer to those Letters nor any good effect of them Nay farther we are given to understand for certain both by the Letters and Discourse of many that Collations and Canonical Institutions are stopped that the Authority of Bishops is trampled upon the order and discipline of rhe Church disturbed and overthrown and new Practices contrary to those of the Ancient Church and the Divine Institution are introduc'd by the Secular Power and that not timourously and by stealth but openly by the Kings Authority We do not here repeat least we should loose our labour how many Scandals and Complaints how many Inconveniencies will from hence arise to the Gallican Clergy what danger and peril such an Example may import to the Universal Church what a blot it will be to your Name and Honour what a sting to your Conscience These things we have sufficiently manifested in our former Letters They are indeed sufficiently evident of themselves Notwithwanding our sincere and Fatherly affection towards you and that noble Kingdom will not permit us yet to be silent when God's Honour is so much injured and you your self are in so great danger But a most inward passion of Heart doth constrain us yet again to ask and beseech your Majesty by the bowels of Jesus Christ that being mindful of the same Christ's words unto such as had charge of the Church He that heareth you heareth me you would rather hearken unto us who are to you as a Parent and that a most loving one too when we give you true and wholesome Advice than to the Children of diffidence who only mind earthly things who by Counsels in appearance advantagious but indeed pernitious do remove the glorious foundations of the Kingdom it self laid and consisting in a reverence of holy things and the maintenance and defence of the Church its Rights and Authority Who truly if they would be such as their dignity and place and your singular bounty towards them requireth them to be they should rather imitate the integrity faithfulness of those who being heretofore in like place as History tells us and it is lately inserted into the Ecclesiastical Records of France have somtimes in the like case with great freedom of speech admonished the Kings your Predecessors that they would remember what and how religiously with an Oath they had promised unto God when at their entrance upon the Government they were anointed with holy Oil viz. That they would to the utmost of their power endeavour