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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

may appeare out of the letters of Vitalian by which hee retracteth the sentence giuen in that Synod against him absolueth and as much as in him lay restoreth him to his See and for execution of this his sentence vsed his credit in the Emperours Court. So likewise at the gates of Rome it selfe the Archbishop of Rauenna would not acknowledge him where after the decease of Bonus Maurus being canonically elected and consecrated by his Suffragan Bishops refused both the Pall and the consecration at the Popes hands and himselfe also consecrated his owne Suffragans without him and when the Pope excommunicated him he excommunicated the Pope againe And in this state continued the Church of Rauenna vntill the time of Pope Domnus which was in the yeare 680 all the time of Pope Martin the first Eugenius the first Vitalian and Adeodate Whereupon they called her Hereticall and tearmed this her Heresie by the name of Autocephalia meaning thereby That she should be her owne Head And we be sure that had they knowne worse by her worse they would haue spoken of her And Anastasius saith plainely That it was for the Primacie Causa primatus As for the Pope himselfe he stood all this while obliged to aske and to receiue confirmation of the Emperour paying therefore a certaine summe of money Lib. Pontif. in Vitalian Domno in regard of such demaines as he held without which he could not be reputed as Bishop But the sixt generall Councell held about this time at Constantinople can best informe vs of the opinion which the Church then held concerning that constitution of Phocas made in fauour of the Pope and with what limitations they receiued it 25. PROGRESSION Pope Agatho his assertions concerning the Decrees of the See of Rome and of the infallibilitie of S. Peters chaire AGatho a Sicilian borne being made Pope pronounced openly D. 19. c. sic omnes 2. That all Decrees made by the See Apostolike ought to be receiued as if they had proceeded from S. Peters owne mouth And bearing himselfe as Head of all the Churches directed his letters To all Bishops Which Canon was taken by Iuo into his Decrete Iuo c. 4. pa. 122. and afterward canonized by Gratian and farther lately authorised by Gregorie in his last Edition notwithstanding that pretended reformation And not without cause Concil 6. vniuers Sess 4. Concil 6. vniuers Act. 18. in Exempla Iussio diuinae Dom. Constant c. if wee will be so mad as to beleeue that which he doubteth not to say in his Epistle to Constantine Barbatus That vnto that day the Church of Rome had neuer beene stained with any errour neither yet would be by reason of that promise heretofore made by our Sauiour vnto Saint Peter But easily may he fall into the foulest errour who is most confident that he cannot erre And the Emperour out of his honestie seemeth to applaud him saying in answer to his letters That hee admired all which he had said as the verie voyce of S. Peter But notwithstanding all this wee must now see what the sixt generall Councell which was holden vnder Constantine Barbatus said did and ordained of this matter OPPOSITION First then we must vnderstand that this sixt generall Councell assembled for the rooting out of the Heresie of the Monothelites Zonar to 3. in Const 4. C. Habeo librum Can. sexta Synod Dist 16. Lib. Pontif. in Agatho Concil vniuers 6. Action 18. Epist Leo. 2. ad Constant was assigned by the Emperour so speaketh Zonaras The Emperour saith he for the vnitie of the Churches assigned a Councell at Constantinople And Gratian in his booke of Decrees The Emperour saith he assembled it and it was held by his care and prouidence and hee assisted there in person And the Pontificall booke saith That Pope Agatho receiued the sacred commandement of the Princes Constantine Heraclius and Tiberius Emperors who requested and exhorted him to send his deputies to Constantinople And Pope Leo the second in his confirmation of the Acts of this Synod This Councell saith he lately assembled by the Emperours commaund in the royall citie c. And Agatho himselfe in his answer to the Emperours letter I offer saith he my readie obedience to what is commaunded to me by your sacred Patent which was to seeke out persons fit to be sent vnto the Synod which the Emperour had called Act. 2.4 among all the Bishops of his jurisdiction and others all which he there calleth by the name of his Fellow seruants Confamulos suos and that as he saith for the discharge of his duetie and seruice causing them to make all the hast they could to the Emperours feet as well from Rome which he tearmeth the seruile citie of the Emperour as of the places thereabout Speaking all along in that Epistle of the most religious commaunds of their clemencies and of the duetie which he owed vnto them And to conclude hee requesteth them to accept of such as he had sent vnto the Synod though small scholers and little skilled in the Scriptures not dissembling that if he had occasion to vse a man which was well seene in knowledge of Diuinitie so terrible was the desolation which the barbarous people had made among them he must bee faine to send as farre as England for one Flexo mentis poplite And a little after he falleth to such submission as to say That he intreated him vpon the knee of his heart Such was the stile of this Agatho in those dayes and such also was that of the Synod it selfe of Rome in their answer to the Emperours letter Moreouer the Synodall Epistle it selfe written to Pope Agatho alledged by Baronius declareth That their assemblie was caused by the religious ordinance of the Emperour endorsing it To Agatho Pope of the old Rome and within calling him onely The Bishop of the first See of the Vniuersall Church not Vniuersall Bishop or Bishop of the Vniuersall Church And now tell me how all this standeth with that pretended superioritie or rather Monarchie of the Church of Rome Secondly the Emperour sent vnto all the Patriarches and amongst the rest to him of Rome willing them and euerie of them to assemble the Bishops of his Apostolike See and jurisdiction in a Synod and to make choise of some of the fittest among them to deliuer in the Councell at Constantinople what was done and agreed vpon in euerie one of their Synods which also the Pope obserued to a haire sending thither some to represent his owne person and others in the name of the Synod of the Apostolike Roman See In which Synod we find none subscribed but onely the Bishops of Italie By all which it appereth that the Emperour called all the Patriarches indifferently as so many fellow Tutors of the Church against the Heresie then on foot though one of them tooke place before another This we may obserue out of the whole course of this Synod

may lye open before vs. Well then saith Baronius by this it appeareth that he acknowledged his Presidencie Which poynt deserueth to be handled somewhat more at large And first we must see who called it Baronius runneth to his old shifts and saith That the Emperour decreed it to be called by the Pope Vigilius his aduise Ib. art 20 21 22 23 24. Euagr. li. 2. c. 37 being loath to speake plainely and to confesse that he called it and thereupon he citeth Euagrius where he saith That Vigilius consented by his letters to the Councell which he sent from Chalcedon whither he had withdrawne himselfe at that present but himselfe would not be at it And why then will he not as well beleeue him when he saith That Iustinian called the fift Councell or if Vigilius had called it while hee was present at the place why did he afterward refuse to be present at it The best is that the Histories make this matter cleere ynough Nicephorus saith Nicephor li. 17. ca. 27. That the Emperour Iustinian called the fifth generall Councell and summoned the Bishops out of all quarters And the Emperour himselfe vnto the Fathers of the Councell Wee haue saith he assembled you in this regall citie And the Fathers themselues We say they here assembled according to the commaundement of the deuout Iustinian And Baronius in that writing which he alledgeth vnto vs out of the Vatican teacheth vs That Vigilius did what lay in him to haue this Councell held in Sicilie as a more in different place for the Bishops of the East and West to meet in and yet he could not obtaine it As for the Presidencie it is euident that at the first Mennas Bishop of Constantinople presided in it and there gaue sentence against Anthymus and other Heretikes which sentence is yet to be seene in the bodie of the Councels And after Mennas his death Bellarmine cannot denie Synod Constant quin. vniuersa actio 4. Bellar. li. ● de Concil ca. 19. but that Eutychius who succeeded him in the See succeeded likewise in the Presidencie and the whole course of the Acts shew as much But saith he Vigilius might haue presided if it had pleased him It should seeme by his leaue that Nicephorus was of another opinion when he saith When Eutychius was by the Emperour put in the roome of Mennas late deceased Vigilius though agreeing with him in poynts of doctrine yet refused to sit by him which was no doubt because he affected a higher seat and thereupon though he was at that time in the citie yet would he not stay at the Councell pretending that there was but a small number of the Westerne Bishops there whereas the true cause was because hee saw his predominant omnipotencie neglected Bellarmine replieth out of Zonaras Zonar to 3. pa. 55. 74. That Vigilius was chiefe of this Synod How chiefe if he were not there at all But that place of Zonaras answereth for it selfe There were saith hee 165 Fathers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quorum princeps fuit saith the Latine translation that is of whom was chiefe Vigilius Pope of Rome and Eutychius and Apollinaris of Alexandria where we see that this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is referred to all three as Heads of these three Patriarchall Churches So likewise he speaketh in another place of the sixt generall Councell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. of which were chiefe or Captaines and Leaders the Vicars of Agatho Pope of Rome George of Constantinople and Theophanes of Antioch where the translator rendreth the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Principes fuere and so are they vsually tearmed as well the one as the other Explanatio Sanctor venerabil Conciliorum c. an 1553. There is a booke intitled The Explanation of the Holie Councels taken out of the kings Librarie this booke speaking of the Councell of Nice In that Councell saith he were Heads and Presidents Syluester Bishop of Rome Alexander of Alexandria and Macarius of Ierusalem And againe speaking of the second generall Councell The Presidents there were Damasus Bishop of Rome Nectarius Bishop of Constantinople Timothie of Alexandria Cyril of Ierusalem Miletius of Antioch all which were Patriarches But he addeth afterwards Great Gregorie the Diuine Gregorie of Nissa and Amphilochius of Iconium by reason of their great learning Zonar to 3. pa. 30. where Zonaras vseth a higher straine and saith That among all these Gregorie the Great and Gregorie of Nissa and the sacred Amphilochius in all encounters 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. were chiefe and principall which word vsed in the singular number by the Author is by the Interpreter referred to all three as was also that other word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 referred to Vigilius Eutychius and Apollinaris And this same booke speaking of the Councell of Ephesus saith in like manner In this Councell presided Calestin Bishop of Rome Cyril of Alexandria Iuvenal of Ierusalem Memnon of Ephesus And so likewise of other generall Councels of Chalcedon Constantinople the second Nicene and the rest where the Greek words are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Latine Interpreter rendreth it Huic Concillo praefuerunt i. They were chiefe in this Councell naming alwayes the Pope for companie among the rest and that most commonly when himselfe was not there in person and sometimes no man for him as namely in the Councell which we now speake of Bellarmine yet vrgeth out of that Epistle which Baronius alledgeth That Eutychius Bishop of Constantinople writing to Vigilius saith vnto him We desire to treat and to confer of these poynts together Praesidente nobis vestra beatitudinè that is Vnder your blessed Presidencie But this is to grate too farre vpon the plaine speaking of these letters contrarie to all course of historie And it is not improbable which a learned man hath obserued that this place is corrupted Iuni. Controuers 4. pa. 186. and Praesidente written in stead of Residente that is While you are here abiding with vs as we find this word vsed vpon like occasion in many other Councels Concil Matisco 2. passim Residentibus Prisco Euantio Praetextato c. that is Assisting in the Councell For at the first sitting of this Synod Vigilius was in the citie 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and if we should read Praesidente yet there is a large difference betweene Preseancie which importeth onely a prioritie of place and Presidencie which implieth a superioritie But more than this a great part of that action is spent only in requesting him to be present at the Synod and in the end they protest against him Concil Canstant 5. art 5. and openly reproach him That he is an offence and scandall both to the Emperour and also to the Churches as one which nought regarded the curse pronounced by our Sauiour against those who offend euen little ones Yet he stirred not onely he sent them word