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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68462	The right, and prerogatiue of kings against Cardinall Bellarmine and other Iesuites. Written in French by Iohn Bede, aduocate in the court of Parliament of Paris, and published by authority. Translated by Robert Sherwood.; Droit des roys, contre le cardinal Bellarmin et autres jésuites. English.	Bédé de la Gormandière, Jean.; Sherwood, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 1782; ESTC S113797	80,394	213

faulty for hauing obtained of God a royall command in matters of pollicy with what authority will this Cardinall Iesuite maintaine the mixt power which he bringeth into the Church without any commandement or ratification from God Now not onely the Orthodoxall people but also Pagans haue had this instinct of Nature thus farre Cappadoces Iust lib. 38. that being left to their choice by the Romans who had vanquished them they instantly requested them to giue them a King protesting that they were not otherwise able to maintaine themselues and esteeming true that which Herodian saith Herod 4. that as Iupiter hath command ouer all the Gods so in imitation of him it is his pleasure that the Empire of men should be Monarchicall From this sence common to all men it commeth that the warlike Nation of Macedonia hauing bene foyled in warre Iust 7. before they returned againe to the battell went to fetch the cradle wherein their yong King lay and set him in the midst of the Campe supposing that their former mis-fortune proceeded from this that they had not with theÌ„ the good augure of the Kings presence And although ambition carry men thus far either to coÌ„mand or not to obey any but men of quality and merite yet we reade that the Sicilians did beare so great a respect to the last will of their deceased King Iust 4. that they disdained not to obey a slaue whom King Anaxillaus had appointed Regent during his sonnes minority And Xerxes flying from Greece in a vessel so full of men of warre that it was impossible for him to saue himselfe without casting away some part of them said vnto them O yee men of Persia Herod 8. let some among you testifie that hee hath care of his King for my safety is in your disposition And then the Nobility which accompanied him hauing adored him cast themselues into the sea till the vessell was vnburthened The third order of reasons is taken from Gods institution practised in Adam Noah Nimrod Moses Ioshuah yea in expresse tearmes for Saul speaking thus to Samuel 1. Sam. 8.22 Ratificatio retrotrahitur mandato aequiparatur Hearken vnto their voyce and make them a King And if with men ratification be equall to a commandement by much stronger reason with God who is not induced to change his purpose by any perswasion nor forced to doe that which displeaseth him by any violence Now that his will was to establish a King appeareth not onely by his decree and counsaile as then hidden and since reuealed but by his will manifested long time afore in these words Deu. 17.14 When thou shalt come to the land which the Lord thy God giueth thee and shalt possesse it and dwell therein if thou say marke that hee forbiddeth them not to say it I will set a King ouer me like as all the Nations that are about me then thou shalt make him King ouer thee whom the Lord thy God shall chose Note these words against the new heresie of our Iesuite who in his third booke Recognitionum quaest de Laicis vpon this false ground that Kings haue not their authority immediately from God but from the people maintaineth that they are Kings no further then it pleaseth the subiects For by this Text it appeareth that God chose Saul 1. Sam. 10.20.24 Also it is written That after Samuel had gathered together all the Tribes to wit for to cast lots that the Tribe of Beniamin was taken and it followeth after Not any among all the people is like vnto him whom the Lord hath chosen And if the Lot gouerned by God alone be not an immediate vocation from God these Doctors with their blasphemy may as well reiect Mathias from the Apostle-ship and make him an Apostle of men as the King of great Brittaine hath iudicially and to purpose obserued out of whose writings I haue borrowed many arguments inserted in this Treatise Seeing then that this high charge is giuen of God where is the man so presumptuously rash that dares blame this order and will depose him whom God hath established It is therefore God which createth degradeth Kings Dan. 4.22 5.18.21 Prou. 21.1 Deut. 2. and none other which holdeth their hearts in his hand for to bow them as hee did the heart of Darius and of Nebuchadnesar or hardeneth them as hee did Pharoahs and the Kings of Syon For it is written Exod. 6.7.8 Wised 6.3 Power is giuen you of the Lord and Principality by the most high And IESVS said to Pilate Ioh. 19.11 Thou couldst haue no power at all against mee except it were giuen thee from aboue Pro. 8.15 Also in the Prouerbs it is said By mee Kings raigne and Princes decree iustice The obedience therefore which is due vnto them is grounded on this Law written with the finger of God Exod. 20.12 Honour thy father and thy mother For the name Father is attributed vnto them not onely because they containe particular persons in their duty but also for the body Ecclesiasticall for they are called Esa 49. Nursing fathers of Gods Church for to containe it within the discipline of the Law are not theÌ„selues children of the same to be vnder the rod and chastised by priuation from their kingdomes Yea rather the Apostle saith to the Romanes Let euery soule bee subiect vnto the higher powers Rom. 13.1.5 for there is no power but of God And hee addeth wherefore yee must be subiect not because of wrath onely that is to say for punishment but also for conscience sake Whence it followeth that the authority of the Prince is of Diuine right seeing it bindeth the soule and conscience which hath onely God for superiour Law-giuer And for to take away all ambiguity from equiuocating Doctors who distribute of powers temporall and spiritual ouer some subiects the Apostle expouÌ„deth what these powers ordained of God are 1. Pet. 2.13.14 Whether it be to the King as vnto the Superiour he excepteth no persoÌ„ or vnto Gouernors as vnto theÌ„ which are sent of him Therefore vnder the name of powers are coÌ„prehended the kinds of lawfull gouernment namely Monarchicall Democraticall and Aristocraticall And to manifest it more clearely the Apostle designeth these powers saying that the Prince beareth not the sword for nought Rom. 13.3.4 It is then the power of Princes which beare the sword whereof hee speaketh and not of them which beare the Crosier staffe for they are subiect to the temporall Magistrate as it is written 1. Pet. 2.17 Feare God and honour the King comprehending in two words the doctrine of the first and second Table as the Wise-man also doth in his Prouerbes My sonne Pro. 24.21 feare God and the King and meddle not with them that are seditious or according to the naturall translation with men which innouate or transforme themselues Now the reason of this prohibition is that they which are desirous

of the aduerse parties and will see if it was so at the beginning Neuerthelesse before I enter into this discourse I will most humbly entreate your Maiesty to beleeue that in the same I intend not to comprehend the good and holy Bishops and Priests which haue kept themselues in their duty as lawfull successours of the Apostles in fauour of whom it is written Hee which receiueth you receiueth me and whose feete are blessed bringing the glad tydings of the Gospell of peace These wordes wee borrow of purpose that wee may shew on the one side that wee bring nothing of our owne and on the other side that from time to time the truth hath not remained without witnesse and that this gangreene which we cut off had not gotten ouer all the members of whom also good Clergy-men being the successours at this present will not take it ill if wee reproue the actions of some Siluesters Iohns Gregories Bonifaces Iulius Alexanders Sixtus who haue oftentimes set all Christendome on fire and in bloud knowing that such spots respect not them no more then the Apostle-ship receiueth blame by the treason of Iudas For the faithfull Pastours sighed in their time to see such a disorder in Church wherein vice carried away the most part of the world Also from time to time not onely the Kings Officers but the best among the Clergy also haue opposed themselues that they might restraine such vsurpations Although on the other side the Pope set vp new orders depending on him in such sort that they durst Preach none otherwise then hee listed and them that flattered him most were the best Beneficed So disobedience to parents was followed with rebellion against the Magistrate yea against the Prince so farre as to say that it was necessary to saluation to beleeue that the Pope is God on earth To take away which false opinion and to hinder least in consequence of the same any attempt against our Kings I haue reported some actions of Popes which shew that they bee very farre off from that holinesse they pretend This is the onely end of this Treatise and not the desire to blame any of that order would to God they had bene the true successours of the Apostles so much would I haue honoured them in their charge as I detest the vicious But seeing wee are in processe betweene the King and this new power wee must agree vpon a Iudge superiour to them both for to ground their rights And as the King hath here aboue verified his right by the Law and by the Gospell by the Law of Nature the Law of Nations and the Ciuill Law not making vse of the Sentences of his Soueraigne Courts and of his Statutes So also I thinke that euery man of sound iudgement will beleeue that Bellarmine ought not to ground his mixt power vpon the Canon Law for that were to bee iudge in his owne cause to alleage vsurpations for good titles The same iudgemeÌ„t must we giue of the allegations of all the domesticke witnesses and pensionaries of the Pope infected with the new maximes of the Canon-law brought in since fiue hundred yeares whose testimonie hee produceth in the beginning of his booke Which may serue for answere in a word against all such depositions of reproachable witnesses And hereby is cleerely manifested that the Pope hath not whereon to ground his pretensions neither in diuine nor humane law or right seeing that his owne is not authenticall to his profite But if hee will be obeyed let him imitate our Sauiour who grounded his authority on an irrefragable proofe saying in Saint Iohn I seeke not the witnesse of men Search the Scriptures for in them yee thinke to haue eternall life and they are they which testifie of me According to which rule Paul Sylas were examined in Berea Act. 17.10.11 for it is said that the men of that place searched the Scriptures daily to see whether those things were so In imitation of whom wee will see if it be so and will conferre the holy Scriptures and the Iesuites imposture together and if hee refuse this tryall wee shall know that he is one of them that Tertullian speaketh of in these words Tert. lib. de resurrect Constraine Heretickes to proue all their questions by the holy Scriptures they cannot subsist And if the King for to proue the authority of his Temporall right contented himselfe with the Law of God which is Spirituall how should the Cardinall dare to accuse it of insufficiency for to sustaine a right which hee pretendeth Ecclesiasticall And if it bee sufficient whence commeth it that till our Sauiours comming in the flesh that is for the space of foure thousand yeares his pretended authority was neuer heard of And after CHRIST till the Emperour Constantine were nothing but horrible persecutions for the space of about three hundred yeares yet there was no speech of dispossessing Augustus nor Nero or their successors Also our Cardinall maketh onely Hildebrand to be the chiefe whose testimonie hee alleageth in the beginning of his booke now hee was Pope in the yeare 1073. Neither will the blasphemous answere of the Iesuites serue who say that the Church had not power enough to make it selfe to bee acknowledged For I pray you could not the Lord IESVS armed with the rod of yron spoken of in the second Psalme haue beaten to peeces such Emperours Saint Peter whose shadow healed the sicke Act. 5. 8. cha 13.11 who confounded Simon Magus strucke with death Ananias and Saphira and Saint Paul who smote Elymas that resisted him with blindnesse would they not haue subiugated the persecutors if it had bene lawfull for them to exalt themselues aboue the powers that beare the sword But contrariwise they knew that it was written Eccles 8.2.4 He answereth not there That shall be the Pope Take heed to the mouth of the King to the word of the oath of God Item Where the word of the King is there is power and who shall say vnto him what dost thou They knew also that from the beginning our Sauiour had beaten downe that presumption saying Mar. 10.43 Whosoeuer will bee great among you shall bee your seruant Againe Mat. 20.26 The Kings of the Nations haue domination ouer them c. Luk. 22.25 but it shall not bee so among you c. Mat. 22.8 Bee not yee called our Maister for one is your Maister to wit CHRIST and all yee are brethren Also when Saint Paul reckoneth vp the Offices of the Church hee saith God hath ordained some in the Church as First Apostles secondly Prophets thirdly Teachers c. And if that power so much spoken of had bene established of God Saint Paul would not haue forgotten it for seeing hee treateth there of the degrees of Pastors it had bene a fit place to speake of it and insteed of putting all the Apostles in one ranke saying first Apostles if that had

before Rome the walles of the Citty fell downe Then hauing entred the Citty and brought forth his Cannon out of Saint Markes for to plant it against the Castell the breach was made without shooting against it but for all that Sananorola was not beleeued because saith the Historie part of the CouÌ„cel were corrupted with money for that the Cardinall of Saint Malo gouerned the Kings treasurie These delaies called to the Crowne King Lewis the twelfth who sent the Cardinall of Amboyse to Trent to the Emperour Maximilian and to Ferdinand King of Arragon to consult about the reformation of the Church not in the members onely but also in the head Which caused Pope Iulius who had a contrary intention to solicite the King of England to diuert Ferdinand from this purpose by giuing him the inuestiture of the Kingdome of Naples and besides to allie himselfe with the Switzers by meanes of a thousand Florins giuen to each Canton The King notwithstanding lost not courage but assembled the Prelates of his owne Kingdome in the Citty of Tours about an hundred yeares agoe in September last See Du Till in the end of his Chronicle and in the same were giuen Catholicke dicisions against the Pope which stands for Law against such as would at this day perswade Frenchmen that they must not succour their confederates nor make warre otherwise then it pleaseth Rome The King did more with the Emperor for he published a Councel at Pisa which the Pope that hee might auert the same assigned at Saint Iohns of Latran In those times was inuaded the Kingdome of Nauarre by Ferdinand of Arragon against King Iohn de Albret whom the Pope had excommunicated in hatred of the succours hee gaue to the King And at that time Ignatius Loyola a Spaniard being hurt and maimed within Pampelune which the King besieged deuised to erect a society of Iesuites that should vphold from thence-forth both the vsurpations of his Maister and the title vpon which they are grounded to wit the power of the Pope which they extoll aboue the goods life and honour of Kings and for this effect they haue a vow which no other religious men take It is a blind vow which maketh them moue subiects against their Princes Now the Popes continuing their proceedings in the raigne of Francis the Great the King had for enemies the Emperour the King of England the Duke of Milan and others notwithstanding hee letted not to say boldly That if hee were constrained to goe into Italy to get his absolution hee would go so well accompanied that they should send to meete him Since the Popes making vse of religion for to trouble the States of Christendome to hinder from any more speaking of reforming the Head as the Emperour Maximilian King Lewis the twelfth had determined to doe France being very much weakened Pope Sixtus the fifth made a league excommunicated the deceased king then King of Nauarre and my Lord the Prince of Conde who the sixt of Nouember 1585. fixed vp their oppositions with an appeale as in case of abuse and gaue the lie to Sixtus the fifth calling himselfe Pope in that hee termed the King and the Prince Heretickes Which proceedings Gregory the foureteenth continued against King Henry the third and all his seruants whom hee excommunicated by his Nuncio Landriano sent into the Capitall Citty of the Kingdome Here was the time that Frenchmen should haue feared if this scar-crow had bene to bee feared by the seruants of their King The capitall Citties were reuolted such as remained still vnder the name of the King were in many places retained in their duty by force there were few souldiers and no money But an excellent counsell a graue Senate of faithfull seruants to the King The sentences of Tours and of ChaaloÌ„s one expers terroris Achilles it is therefore said by sentence of Court that this Bull shall be burnt in the publicke place by the hands of the common executioner decreed against Landriano Nuncio Inhibitions are made that no man shall cary money to Rome or prouide any for the dispatch of Benefices Gregory the foureteenth entituling himselfe Pope declared enemy of the peace of the Catholike vnion of the King and of the State and adherent to the conspiracy of Spaine the fautor of rebels guilty of the most destable parricide committed in the person of King Henry the third Since that King Henry the Great hauing maintained with his authority the liberty of the Gallican Church the fautors of the Popes power contrary to the ordinance of God ceased not till they had murthered him as they had before done his predecessor And immediately after haue published their manifestation touching the pretended Temporall power of the Pope vnder the name of Cardinall Bellarmine Iesuite Which Treatise the Court of Parliament at Paris hauing seene gaue their solemne sentence the most Soueraigne Courts of the great or gilt chamber of the Tournelle and of the Chamber of the Edict or mixt Court being assembled which containeth these words The Court doth prohibite and forbid all persons of what quality or condition soeuer they bee Sentence of Parliament of Paris on the 26. of Nouember 1610. vpon paine of being held guilty of high Treason that they shall not receiue keep communicate Imprint cause to bee Imprinted or expose to sale the said booke containing a false and detestable Proposition tending to the euersion of Soueraigne powers ordained and established of God to the raising of the subiects against their Princes withdrawing of their obedience inducing to attempt against their persons and States and to trouble the rest and quiet of the Common wealth Enioyneth c. Behold how and by what meanes the State-royall hath bene maintained against the proceedings of Popes But if there bee at this day any that would bring into France new matters more pleasing to the aduersaries that is to say to the Iesuites those new counsellours are bound to produce like proofes for their opinions as wee haue done for ours taken out of Historie But it shall be to purpose in a matter of such importance that they present themselues in publicke the halter about their neckes after the manner as in old time the new Law-giuers did that they may presently be cut short in case they perswade not their auditors This course wil assure the Kingdome and deliuer your Maiesty from many importunities CHAP. VII What is the power of Ecclesiasticall persons And that the Pope is not grounded in the pretentions of Cardinall Bellarmine neither on Diuine nor humane law or right AS they that incroach vpon the rights of Kings imitate that Emperour who said if the Law bee to bee broken it must be done for a Kingdome so we haue obserued that another head of the same Common-wealth lead an army into Affrica for to with-draw the enemy out of Italy According to which stratageme wee will passe ouer the Alpes descend vpon the place and examine the power

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