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A07768	The mysterie of iniquitie: that is to say, The historie of the papacie Declaring by what degrees it is now mounted to this height, and what oppositions the better sort from time to time haue made against it. Where is also defended the right of emperours, kings, and Christian princes, against the assertions of the cardinals, Bellarmine and Baronius. By Philip Morney, knight, Lord du Plessis, &c. Englished by Samson Lennard.; Mystère d'iniquité. English	Mornay, Philippe de, seigneur du Plessis-Marly, 1549-1623.; Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1612 (1612)	STC 18147; ESTC S115092	954,645	704

not his manner to attend the consent of Princes touching elections celebrated in the Apostolike See as also for that hee had disannulled the election made by the Bishops of the Bishop of Norwich to whom he had giuen his consent protesting to maintaine the rights of his realme euen to death and to gard the sea that no more might goe to Rome except the Pope changing his sentence would make amends for that wrong he had done But Innocent interdicted his realme offered it as a prey to the first inuaders thereof absolued his subiects of all oathes both naturall and ciuile armed all his Clergie and the greatest part of the Nobilitie and Magistrats of the realme against him and in the end pronounced him deposed and commaunded another to be put into his place and for to execute his sentence he appointed Philip King of France his enemie promising him in reward of this seruice remission of all his sinnes giuing this realme to him and his successors proceeding so farre herein that he writ to many worthie and honourable persons into diuers nations Vt sese Cruce signent That they should signe themselues with the crosse come to assist the King of France in this expedition promising vnto them in their goods persons and soules the same prerogatiue and indulgence as those had that went to visit the holie Sepulchre And it is to be noted that it is a Monke that relateth vnto vs this historie In the meane time that Philip prepared to take hold thereof he priuily sent a Legat into England who being receiued by the Bishops caused his approaching ruine to be made knowne vnto him vnlesse he sought meanes to pacifie the Pope So that seeing himselfe beset with dangers on euerie side resigned his Crowne Matth. Paris in Johan p. 225. sequent with the realmes of England and Ireland into the hands of the Pope and his successors in the person of Pandolph his Legat confirmed vnder an authentike Charter with the generall consent of his Barons exprest in these words For the forgiuenesse of all our sinnes and the sinnes of all our kindred as well they which are liuing as those which are dead we freely grant to our Lord Pope Innocent and his Catholike successors the aforesaid kingdomes And thereupon Innocent gaue to him the said realmes to hold by faith and homage of him and his successors vpon condition to pay yearely besides the Peter pence a thousand markes sterling to the Church of Rome that is to say fiue hundred at the feast of Saint Michael and fiue hundred at Easter that is seuen hundred for England and three hundred for Ireland vnder protestation That if he or any of his should attempt any thing contrarie to this agreement should be discharged of the kingdom This Charter was signed by many of the Nobilitie and in performance thereof hee solemnely did the homage euen at Pandolphs feet In the meane time King Philip whom Innocent had stirred vp to war continued an vnreconcilable enemie to the King of England But marke the monstrous pride of the Legat in receiuing the tribute Pandolph saith he trampled vnder his feet the money which the King payed as an earnest penie in token of his subiection yet he tooke it and refused it not for God forbid he should say with S. Peter Thy money perish with thee Now as we haue often said as this Mysterie of Iniquitie did gather strength so the doctrine grew worse and worse for it was in the time of this Innocent that both the opinion and name of Transubstantiation did first come to light and at the last exprest in these words in the Lateran Synod Concilium Lateranens C. firmiter SS vna vero c. The bodie and bloud of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar are truely contained vnder the formes of bread and wine the bread being transubstantiated into the bodie and the wine into the bloud by diuine power And hereupon doe arise so many monstrous questions which wee read among the Schole-men of this age which we haue elsewhere noted more at large The ceremonies also from time to time were brought in by the Popes that followed especially by Honorius the third the successor of Innocent that ceremonie of bowing the knee at the eleuation that is when the bread is shewed in the Masse and the like But because to support such Idolatries otherwise weake and shaken they had need as it were of a pillar behold here these that arise so oportunely at this time Francis and Dominick the one an Italian the other a Spaniard the one principall and head of the Friers Minors and the other of the Preachers the one confirmed by Innocent the other by Honorius his successor both of them striuing by their clients and followers to be equall with Christ nay aboue Christ But what could be done or approued that sauoured more of Antichrist Lib. 3. de Euchar c. 17. And of these things we haue spoken more at large elsewhere but it belongeth to the course of the historie that we here briefely repeat something againe Of Francis therefore they say Liber conformitatum p. 24. p. 39 that he was greater than Iohn Baptist Iohn was the forerunner of Christ S. Francis the Preacher and Ensigne-bearer of Christ Iohn receiued the word of repentance of Christ Francis both of Christ and the Pope which is more Iohn the friend of the spouse that is to say Christ Francis like to the spouse himselfe Fol. 66. 247. Prosa de Francisco ibid. initio libri fol. 194. Fol. 144. Fol. 17. Fol. 24. Fol. 149. Fol. 13. Fol. 5. Iohn eleuated into the order of the Seraphins Francis seated in the place from whence Lucifer fell Francis was better than all the Apostles placed in heauen proceeding out of the wounded side of Christ made a tipe of Iesus by his passion who receiued in a vision the same wounds of Christ suffered the same griefes the passion of Christ renewed in him for the saluation of mankind of whom Dauid hath said Thou hast crowned him with glorie and honour and hast set him aboue all the workes of thy hands he is set as a light to the Gentiles which the Prophet spake of Christ Abraham saw that day and was glad thereof And to conclude whatsoeuer was foretold by the Prophets of Christ onely the same was pronounced of him Fol. 14. Of whom may rightly be said that which is spoken in the Gospell All things are giuen me of my father Matth. 11. Of whom it is likewise said I will be to him a father and he shall be to me a sonne And againe that which was neuer said nor interpreted by any but by Christ In whom all the vertues of the Saints as well of the old as the new Testament are put vnitiuè conjunctiuè vnitiuely and coniunctiuely Wherefore also through his merits he was made the sonne of God and sanctified by the holie Ghost Fol. 4. Fol. 3.

to passe so long as he stood vpright yet Zonaras An. 718. though a Monke and a great maintainer of Images saith no such matter no more doth Cedrenus But the Popes must haue some colour for so hau● an enterprise Gregorie hereupon called in the Lombards against the Exarch who poasted to Rome in all hast but was repulsed by the Lombards and faine to returne vnto Rauenna and there brake off the peace betweene the Exarches and the Lombards which had continued euer since Rhotharis his time to the finall ruine of both Estates and first of that of the Exarches whose chiefe seat and citie Rauenna Luitprand king of the Lombards tooke and sacked But Gregorie liked not this sudden encrease of the Lombards power and therefore altered his course and carrying the matter verie closely got aid of the Venetians and thereby suddenly reestablished Paul in the Exarchat of Rauenna In the meane time the Emperor Leo ceased not to exhort Gregorie to forbeare the maintenance and support of Images in the Church Gregorie replied That it belonged not to the Emperour to innouat any thing in matters of faith for so he tearmed the vse of Images Neither staied he here but farther as the Histories report he solicited the Venetians and the inhabitants of Rauenna to rise in armes against the Emperour and his Exarch caused cities and townes to thrust out their lawfull magistrats Blond Dec. 1. li. 10. Sigon de Reg. Ital. li. 3. and to put others of their owne choyce in their roomes persuaded the citizens of Rome to abandon him as an Heretike if he persisted in those his opinions and in the end absolued the people of Italie from their oath and allegeance to him freed their conscience forbad them to pay their tribute or to yeeld him obedience in any kind The people feeling the reines to lye loosse vpon their neckes presently murdered Paul Exarch of Rauenna pulled out Peters eyes who was Duke of Rome killed Exhilarate Duke of Campania and his sonne Zonar p. 8. 85. to 3. Cedren p. 373. 1 filled euerie corner of Italie with sedition and bloud And in conclusion finding themselues so farre ingaged in these disorders that they saw no hope of reconciliation left them with the Emperour they shooke off and first of all the citizens of Rome the yoke of the Emperour taking a solemne oath to become liege seruants obedient in all points and to all purpose Baron 9. an 726 art 34. to the Pope And here saith Baronius was an end of those Dukes and Gouernours which the Emperours were wont to send to commaund in Rome and places neere adioyning This reuolt would he faine justifie Onuphr in Annot ad Plat. in Constant vnder colour of conspiracies made against the Pope which no Author reporteth but Anastasius a domestike of the Popes And therefore Sigonius saith also That Rome and the dukedome of Rome were translated from the Grecians to the Pope of Rome by reason of their wicked Heresie and impietie What impietie saue onely that pretended sinne against the vse of Images But he goeth on and setteth downe a beadroll of places which came to the Pope by this new conquest Rome with her castles and borough townes in Tuscanie Zonar to 3. in Leo. 3. p. 85. Port Centocella Cere Bleda Matuta Sutri Nepet Castelgalesi Orta Polimarte Ameria Tuderta Perusia Narni Oricoli and in Campania di Roma Signia Cedren pa. 373. Anagnia Ferentino Alatrio Patrico Frusigno Tiuoli and in Terra di Lauoro Sora Arces Aquino Teano and Capua whereunto we may adde That Luitprand king of Lombards who at his entrie vnto his kingdome redemanded the Cottian Alpes as a part of his demaines restored them againe and confirmed the grant of Aripert hauing as good right the one as the other to grant away that which belonged to neither of them And thus by the Bishops of Rome were the Emperours thrust out of Italie whither they neuer after looked but with a sigh Onuphrius speaking of Gregorie and this his fact saith in plaine tearmes That he was more hardie than his predecessor Constantine and that he lawfully rest out of Leo the third his hands all the Empire of Italie which was not possessed by the Lombards in the yeare 729. Thus haue we seene the ruine of the Exarches It remaineth now that we shew how they suppressed the kingdome of the Lombards of whom Gregorie stood in bodily feare because Luitprand their king comming with his armie before Rome gates Sigon de Reg. Ital. li. 3. had alreadie forced him to intreat for peace moreouer Gregorie saw that he was linked with Charles Martell at that time Maior of the kings house in France Blond Dec. 1. li. 10. who had sent vnto him his son Pepin with request that he would adopt him as his owne and in token thereof after the manner of the Lombards to cut off his lockes Aimon li. 4. ca. 57. which Luitprand accordingly had done though Aimonius saith He did it as his godfather and after the manner of the Christians Wherefore to preuent a mischiefe he sent vnto Charles a solemne embassage the Keyes of the holie Sepulchre and Saint Peters Chaines with other rich presents which as Aimonius saith had neuer beene heard of nor seene before vpon condition That he should free the Church of Rome from the present tyrannie of the Lombards and preferring heauenlie rewards before earthlie and transitorie respects should breake off all alliance and confederacie which he had with them Charles hereupon dispatched another embassage to Rome to ratifie an accord with the Pope whereof ensued the deliuerance of the Pope out of that imminent danger wherein he was Appendix Greg. Turmens 1. c. 110. and the vtter ruine of the Lombard State in Italie Gregorie in his Epistle vnto Charles bringeth in the Lombards speaking in this wise Let Charles now come with his French men and helpe thee if he can c. And againe Saint Peter could doe well ynough of himselfe but his purpose is to trie the courage of his children c. Howbeit Baronius would attribute this Epistle to Gregorie the third his successor Gregorie the second died in the yeare 731 and after him succeeded Gregorie the third An. 731. both in place and also in purpose Concerning Images hee decreed in a Synod of 93 Bishops That whosoeuer would not doe them religious honour should be cut off from the bodie and bloud of Christ and from the vnitie of the whole Church thereby putting Leo and his sonne out of all hope euer to reenter againe vpon Italie As for the Lombards it happened that Thrasamond Duke of Spoleto intended to rebell against Luitprand and for that purpose made alliance with Gregorie and to oblige him the more because his power was great in Italie hee surrendred vnto Gregorie certaine places which had beene formerly litigious betweene them and thereupon rise in open rebellion Luitprand presently came downe vpon him

a place in Councels to Mathilda Doubtlesse the Monke Godfrey saith plainely That being circumuented by the Pope she gaue vnto S. Peter without the knowledge of the Magistrats and rulers the Marquisat of Ancona But as touching his publike life and gouernement Gerochus his follower Gerochus in vita Hildebrand who writ the historie of his life describes him to be verie obstinat and proud in his own conceit The Romans saith he vsurpe a diuine honour they will giue no reason of their actions neither can they endure it should be said vnto them Why doest thou this and they haue alwayes in their mouthes these Satyricall words Sic volo sic iubeo sit pro ratione voluntas So I will so I command For reason my will shall stand And that indeed was his humor according to the description of all writers Sigebert who writ of those times saith That by his example and by reason of his new decrees many things were done in the Church against all lawes diuine and humane and there arose in the Church by this occasiō Pseudomagistri false Doctors who by their prophane nouelties had diuerted the people from the discipline of the Church and that he excommunicated the Emperour for this very cause that the Peeres of the Realme should withstand their King being for iust cause excommunicated Againe that the Pope meeting the Emperour in Lumbardie vnder a false shew of peace absolued him For all they who had first abiured Hildebrand adding periurie to periurie abiure the Emperour and appoint Rodolph Duke of Burgundie their King the crowne being sent vnto him by the Pope Hereby we may easily gather what opinion he had of him Another saith He receiued for accusation of the King the writings of his enemies and thereupon excommunicated him Histor Saxonica in literis Henrici ad Hildebrand Benno Cardin. in vita Hildebrand And with what furie he was caried appeareth by that his Apothegme I will either die or take from thee thy life and kingdome But Cardinall Benno noteth the manifest iudgement of God As saith he he rose from his chaire to excommunicate the Emperour then newly made of strong timber by the sudden hand of God it was strangely torn into diuers peeces to giue all men to vnderstand how many horrible schismes by that dangerous excommunication and presumption he that sate in that chaire should sowe both against the Church of Christ and the Sea of S. Peter how cruelly he should dissipate the chaire of Christ trampling the lawes of the Church vnder his feet and bearing rule with power and austeritie And another saith From hence there arose a more than ciuile warre without respect of God or man the Diuine and humane lawes were corrupted without which neither the Church of God nor common-wealth could stand and the publike and Catholike faith is violated And if you aske them where the fault was they tell you speaking of the extraordinarie submission of Henrie to Gregorie Apologia Henrici that hee omitted nothing that might mollifie the heart of Gregorie and regaine his grace and fauour insomuch that at the last for a testimonie of his reconciliation he receiued the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ Iesus at the hands of the Pope sits at table with him and so is sent backe in peace But the author addeth That peace which Iudas dissembled not which Christ left Insomuch that Leo Bishop of Ostia Leo Ostiens li. 3. Chron. Cassinen c. 48. who then flourished saith The businesse being brought to an end the Pope by the counsel of Mathilda sent one of his ouer the mountains with the crowne of the Empire to Rodolph persuading him to rebell against the Emperour And the letters whereby he incited him are yet to be read in the Historie of Saxonie Historia Saxonica Apologia Henrici yea some repeat his owne words Trouble not your selues saith he I restore him vnto you more faultie than before for the person of the King shal be more contemptible in his kingdome if satisfying he lay aside the ensignes of his kingdome and if without permission he resume his regal ornaments I shall haue the iuster cause to excommunicate him But of both the kings this is his iudgement Henry born brought vp in the kingdome by the ordinance of God succeeded his progenitors in the kingdome c. But Rodolph saith he was obedient to the Pope who had discharged him of his faith and allegiance and assured him that bearing armes against Henrie he could be no way condemned of periurie and disloialtie because being excommunicated he could be no longer King it being the dutie of all the faithfull in the Church to persecute and kill all those who fauouring Henrie the King excommunicated refuse to forsake him This was a new Doctrine saith the Authour neuer heard of before there being no other sword permitted in the Church Helmold in Historia Sclauorū c. 28. 29. 30. than that of the spirit which is the word of God But the iudgement of God acknowledged by Rodolph himselfe giues better satisfaction who being neere his end vsed this speech to some of his familiar friends You see heere my right hand wounded with this right hand I sware to my Lord Henrie that I would neuer hurt him or hinder his glorie but the commaund of the Pope and request of the Bishops haue brought me to this that laying aside all respect of mine oath I should vsurpe an honour that was none of mine But what comes of it you now see In that hand which hath violated mine oath I am wounded to death Let those therefore consider hereof that haue prouoked vs hereunto how they haue led vs least perhaps we fall into the bottomlesse pit of eternall damnation And so with these wounds and great anguish of heart he departed this life The same author addeth that the Saxons gathering heart againe chose one Herman surnamed Cluffloch king who had conquered Henrie in the field Who by the iust iudgement of God entring victoriously into a Citie the Gate fell off the hinges and killed him and diuers others Whereupon the Saxons seeing their purposes frustrated they gaue ouer the creating of a new King or to beare armes any more against Henrie manifestly perceiuing that the kingdome was reserued vnto him by the approbation and permission of God himselfe What now remaineth but that we adde the confession of Gregorie himselfe alledged before by Sigebert and confirmed by Mathew Paris That by the instigation of the Diuell he had stirred vp wrath and reuenge against mankind I willingly here omit the contradictorie writing of this age with the replications and duplications of those that tooke part with Gregorie to maintaine his excommunication who say that a Pope excommunicated Chilperick King of Fraunce for his idlenesse and vnprofitable gouernement onely and established Pepin in his place That Kings are not lesse subiect to the key of Rome then the rest of his subiects for

Potentia Papae Clauium de vtilitate vitae Monasticae de Mendicitate de sex alis Seraphim de septem gradibus contemplationis with other such like by meanes of which the mysts and darkenesse of ignorance and superstition taking further condensation euen in these our dayes the Papal tyrannie is risen to her verie top and height And here we must by no meanes omit that Michael Paleologus Emperour of Greece vpon hope to be succoured by Gregorie the tenth promised in the Councell of Lyon to make the Patriarch of Constantinople consent to the Primacie of the Bishop of Rome that whosoeuer wold he might thither appeale by a necessarie counsell saith Trithemius at his returne into Greece putting Iohn Becke and some of his neerest friends into a deepe dungeon and there detaining him a good while he wrought him to such a passe as that he by letters gaue his consent and agreement thereunto Chron. Hirsaug Nicephorus Gregoras in Histor l. 5. 6. But Michael was no sooner dead when the Bishops of Greece deposed Iohn by common consent created another in his stead and renounced all that which had formerly passed in the Councell to the preiudice of their liberties and prerogatiues so as also the Clergie of the countrey being wonderfully prouoked by this matter they denied Michael buriall in the holie Temple notwithstanding any instance and suit that his sonne Andronicus made The Waldenses still continued during all these times in diuers countries Thomas Cantipratens l. 1. c. 56 Blondus Decad. 2. l. 9. against whom the Dominicans taking vpon them the office of Inquisition they omitted no kind of rigour but burned them aliue by dozens and yet they augmented in such sort that their verie ashes by the power of God being conuerted into the seed of the Gospell the verie Bishops and Iudges which appeareth out of the Decrees and sentences that were then denounced especially in Auignion were euen amazed at their constancie and so by the inutilitie of rigorous punishments they were deterred from their crueltie These things occurred in the yeare 1283 Martine the fourth hauing the Papall dignitie An. 1283. 54. PROGRESSION An accord of peace made betwixt Charles of Aniou and Iames of Arragon by the Popes meanes is broken and reentred into againe Pope Nicholas dyes IOhn de Ascoli of the order of the Minorites succeeded Honorius being elected on Mount Auentine who was called Nicholas the fourth He presently remoued the Court to Rietto either through the intemperature of the aire which had bin verie infectious the yeare before or that he was vexed with popular seditions but being wearie of the place the yeare following he retourned to Rome The Kingdomes of Apulia and Sicilia were then the verie roots of all discord wherfore it was accorded betweene Charles the second of Anjou and Iames of Aragon that Iames should haue Sicilia wherein he should be inuested by the Pope and this Charles tooke vpon him and the Pope promised The occasion of this accord grew from a nauall ouerthrow that Charles receiued wherein he was taken and imprisoned and being set at libertie he promised to returne againe except within three yeares he made a full satisfaction and in the meane while he left Charles and Lewis his sonnes for hostages The affairs of Siria were now reduced to so miserable a passe as nothing but finall ruine and destruction was daily expected for the Souldan hauing taken in Tripoli Tyre Barut and many other important places there remained onely Ptolomaida to the Christians in all Palestine and this likewise cried out incessantly for succor These occasions excited Nicholas to conuert all the Christian forces that way and so consequently by his authority to ratifie a peace betweene Charles of Anjou and Iames of Aragon And himselfe sent fifteene hundred horse at his owne charge to Palestina but so vnseasonable and with such ill direction as imploying their first force against the Christians they filled all places with rapines adulteries whoredomes and deuastations then secondly they broke the truce with the Souldan when it was most necessary to haue beene obserued for the attending of fresh supplies and this first errour of Nicholas is specified vnto vs in the Historie of his time Another is annexed which defaced the only happinesse of his Papacie Blondus l. 8. Decad. 2. For desiring to gratifie Charles the second he broke the peace constituted betwixt him and Aragon And meaning to conferre vpon Charles the kingdome due vnto him by paternall succession he created him king of both the Siciles of that beyond and of the other of this side the Sea with this permission That for sixe yeares it should be lawfull for him to demaund the tenths The which Iames being no wayes able to digest he pressed Charles so hotly as that the Pope himselfe consenting thereunto he was enforced to his former accord which he promised within two yeres to performe but then during these protractions Ptolomais was miserably lost and whatsoeuer had beene recouered in Asia by so much toyle and Christian bloud spilt Cyprus onely excepted and the coast of Cilicia An. 1290. This happened in the yeare 1290 wherein both Pope Nicholas and Rodolphus the Emperour died Rodolphus who while he liued neuer made account of his consecration at Rome though he was often persuaded thereunto both by the Popes and by his owne Nobilitie Chronic. Hirsaug Italie said he hath ouerthrowne many Alman kings I will not goe to Rome I am a king and an Emperour and I hope I shall discharge my selfe no worse for the benefit and good of the Common-wealth than if I had beene crowned at Rome And Nicholas at his death endeauoured to propagate the Papacie Krantzius l. 8. cap. 35. in the order of the Minorites It is reported saith Krantzius that when he saw he should die he called all the Cardinals together and recounting vnto them his whole life past out of his plenarie and absolute power he discharged them of the place and dignitie they held for the remainder of their liues to liue priuatly whereat the Cardinals at the first much wondred afterwards as a man that drew nere to his end supposing him to be extaticall or frantique they left him but then be called so many Friers of his owne order on whom he imposed the Titles of Cardinals obliging them by oath That after his death they should create none Pope but of that Order nor suffer any to be admitted into their Colledge but those of that Fraternitie and so hauing made this Testament he dyed A most wonderfull thing if a true report And hereupon it is said that till Sixtus the fourths time there vsed to be a priuie Pope amongst the Minorites which failed in his person when he came to be elected Pope publikely This so singular a note of blind and precipitant ambition both in and after his death deserues thus briefly an end of this Progresse OPPOSITION Vnder Nicholas the Clergies