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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08697	A letter of a Catholike man beyond the seas, written to his friend in England including another of Peter Coton priest, of the Society of Iesus, to the Queene Regent of France / translated out of French into English ; touching the imputation of the death of Henry the IIII, late K. of France, to priests, Iesuites, or Catholicke doctrine.	Owen, Thomas, 1557-1618.; Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 19000; ESTC S1326	18,060	49

conformably to the Sorbones and to the Decree of the Councell of Constance These then being the opinions and the determinations of these doctors graue and principall men of our Society what preiudice can the particuler opinion of one Mariana bring to the reputation of a whole Order the which being according to the Institute most carefull to maintaine all holy ordinances of the Church and bearing respect to the power and authority of Kings who for the temporal depend on God only hath long time since disauowed the lightnesse of this rouing pen and namely in the Prouincial Congregation of France held in the Citty of Paris the yeare 1606. where more then this the Reuerend Father Claudius Aquauiua General of our Society was requested that those who had written in preiudice of the Crowne of France should be repressed and their bookes suppressed Which the sayd Reuerend Father did afterward very earnestly and exactly being most sory that by ouer-sight he being absent and knowing nothing nor hauing seene the workes one should vse therin his consent the words which he vseth in his answere are these VVe haue approued your Congregations iudgment and carefulnes and haue byn very sory that no body perceaued the fault vntill the bookes were printed the which notwithstanding we haue presently commanded to be corrected will vse great care herafter that such things happen no more And so it is that now you should scarce haue found so much as one copy of Mariana if it had not beene for the pernicious liberality of the heyres of VVechell who are knowne to be of the pretended reformed Religion and haue printed the same booke at their owne costes and charges moued not so much as it is to be presumed with desire to serue the publique as to hurt in particuler our Society Some haue thought that they haue added somewhat of their owne others haue iudged that the bookes of the first impression were yet worse but this controuersy serues to no purpose for although it were so and that no body had holpen the first so imprudent pen yet is there no cause why that one mans pen should more hurt the body of our Society then the writings of Iohn Petite and others his like should hurt the Vniuersities and Orders of which they were Schollers Bachelers Maisters and Doctors But Madame seeing that I haue heere aboue promised to expound clearly and distinctly what is our opinion touching the question we haue proposed now I come to it which shal be the second part or this discourse 1. All the Iesuites generally and particulerly will confirme euen with their own bloud that they haue not in this matter or any other any beliefe doctrine or opinion then that of the Catholike Church 2. That amongst all sorts of gouernement and publicke administration the Monarchie is the best 3. That such is the spirituall gouernmēt of the Church which is vnder the Vicar of Iesus Christ successor of S. Peter such is the temporall gouernment of the State and Realme of France which dependeth of the person of the King our Soueraigne Lord and Maister 4. That the Kinges are as Homer calleth them the children and fosters of God or rather his own liuely Images as sayd Menander 5. That they are annointed and therfore called the Christs of our Lord to the end as sayth Simeon the Archbishop of Thessalonica that euery one may vnderstand that they be inuiolable and should be respected as holy and sacred things 6. That it is a damnable heresy as holy Irenaeus noteth 1400. yeares agoe to thinke that Kings are giuen to men casually seeing that all power comes of God and therfore sayth S. Isidore of Damieta in the most ancient pictures we see a hand put out of heauen which setteth the Crowne vpō the head of Kings 7. That he which resisteth kinges or rebelleth against them purchaseth to him selfe his owne damnation according to the doctrine of the Apostle 8. That obedience is due vnto them not for that they are vertuous wise potēt or indued with any other laudable qualitie but because they are Kings established by God himselfe 9. That our Kings of France are the eldest children of the Church enioying rare and singular priuiledges aboue the common of other Kinges of the world 10. That it is not lawfull to denie to thē obedience much lesse to reuolt against them although they were vicious froward hard to suport as the same Apostle speaketh 11. That being such we ought to pray for them as the Prophet would haue to be done for the prosperity of Nabuchodonosor and his sonne Baltazar that the afflictions losse of goodes persecutions and other in commodities which are endured patiently not rebelling therefore against their Superiours are things very acceptable to God conforme to the praise which in like case S. Paul giueth to the Hebrews and to that ordināce w ch he hath published in the Church saying Euery soule be subiect to the Superiour powers 12. And therfore that not onely it is not lawfull to lay hands vpon their Persons but that it is an execrable parricide a prodigious trespasse and a detestable sacriledge 13. That the decree of the Councell of Constance in the 15. Session ought to be receaued of all and maintayned inuiolably 14. That the declaration of the Sorbon of the year 1413. that also of the 4. of Iune of this presēt yeare is good wholsome holy 15. That euery one should stand vpon his guard and take heed of diuers bookes that are spread abroad contrary to the Lawes the reading of the which is not onely in this matter very dangerous but so much the more to be feared by how much the Authors of them being to our great griefe separated from the Catholike Church make no accompt neyther of the Councell of Constance nor of the Catholike Censures and Doctors aboue mentioned yea rather which is to be lamented they are the more obstinate in their opinions by opposing themselues and thereby they thinke to get the greater praise and admiration from others I would cite bookes quote the places and alleadge the words were it not that it is farre better that such thinges remaine swallowed in the bottomlesse pit of forgetfulnes and that it is more to the purpose to make knowne that innocency is far stronger then recrimination And for the same cause also I would haue abstained altogeather from this aduertisment had it not beene to shew thereby that the body of our Society cannot be infected by the opinion of one only person the which hath beene so authentically disauowed by the same no more then those of the pretended reformed Religion doe not hould themselues any whit interessed by the erroneous Doctrine of some of theirs whome they reiect difauow and condemne being willing to liue with vs vnder the Lawes of our Realme and with the obedience and voluntary submission which we do render to the Scepter of our Kinges