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A69677	Brutum fulmen, or, The bull of Pope Pius V concerning the damnation, excommunication, and deposition of Q. Elizabeth as also the absolution of her subjects from their oath of allegiance, with a peremptory injunction, upon pain of an anathema, never to obey any of her laws or commands : with some observations and animadversions upon it / by Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln ; whereunto is annexed the bull of Pope Paul the Third, containing the damnation, excommunication, &c. of King Henry the Eighth.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.; Catholic Church. Pope (1566-1572 : Pius V). Regnans in excelsis. English & Latin.; Catholic Church. Pope (1534-1549 : Paul III). Ejus qui immobilis permanens. English & Latin.	1681 (1681)	Wing B826; ESTC R12681	274,115	334

and Seditious Book to Exhort all the English and Irish Papists to joyn with the Spanish Forces against their Queen and Country under the Prince of Parma and Pope Sixtus V. sends Allen with that Book and his own Bull into the Low-Countries and there a great number of those Books and Bulls were printed at Antverpe to be sent into England Were it necessary many things now might be said pertinent to this purpose but I suppose the Instances already given will be sufficient to convince Intelligent and Imp●●tial Persons That Pope Pius V. was neither the first nor last who usurped this Extravagant Power to Depose Princes seeing several of his Predecessors and Successors for above 600. years have owned approved and as they had opportunity put that Power in practise This in General premis'd I come now to consider the Bull of Pius V. wherein he damns and deposeth Queen Elizabeth wherein two things occur very considerable 1. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Title prefix'd to the Bull. 2. The Particulars contain'd in it For the first the Title prefix'd to the Bull is thus The Damnation of Elizabeth c. where though Damnation may seem a very hard word as indeed it is in the sense they use it as shall by and by appear yet it is not unusual but occurs in other Bulls of the like nature So we find it in the Bull of Pope Innocent IV. wherein he Excommunicates the Emperor Friderick II. For the Lemma or Title of that Bull is thus The Damnation Deposition of Friderick II. So in the Bull of Pope Paul III. Excommunicating Henry VIII the Title prefix'd to it is The Damnation of Henry VIII and his Favourers c. So that Pius V. Damning Queen Elizabeth was not singular though Impious he had some of his Predecessors Forms to follow I say his Predecessors for I do not find that any Bishops in the World save those of Rome ever used such Unchristian and indeed Anti-christian Forms of Excommunicating and Damning Kings and Emperors And it is observable and well known to those who diligently read and consider the Papal Bulls now extant of which there is a vast number that the Popes of later Ages when they go about to justifie some extravagant Act of their unsurped Power they usually cite the Bulls and Constitutions of their Predecessors who had done the like not for matter of fact barely but to prove a Right that because their Predecessors had done so formerly therefore they who succeeded in the same Power might do it too Now although to Argue thus à Facto ad Jus be evidently inconsequent and irrational no better than this Peter de facto deny'd and forswore his Master Ergo His Successors de jure may do so to Yet if their Principles were true as I suppose they may think them such Arguing would be more concluding For Pope Leo. X. expresly affirms and publickly declares in one of their General Councils that it is more clear than light it self That None of his Predecessors Popes of Rome Did ever Err in any of their Canons or Constitutions Now if this were true as it is evidently false and his Asserting it an Argument not only of his Fallibility but of his great Error and Folly That none of his Predecessors ever Err'd then they might with more Security follow them for certainly it can be no great fault or danger to follow an unerring Guide Especially if it be true which they tell us For 1. In their Laws and Canons approved by their Supream Authority and retained in publick use in their Church we are told That all their Papal Sanctions are so to be received as if the Divine Voice of Peter himself had Confirmed them This as Gratian there tells us was Pope Agatho ' s Sentence is Received into the Body of their Canon Law Revised Corrected and Purged from all things Contrary to Catholick Verity So Gregory XIII says and confirms it Whence it evidently follows that in Pope Gregory's Judgment This Sentence of Agatho is not repugnant to Catholick Verity And in the same place it is farther declared for Law Pope Stephen I. is cited as Author of that Sentence That Whatever the Church of Rome does Ordain or Constitute it is without all Contradiction perpetually to be Observed 2. Though this be beyond all truth and reason highly erroneous yet the Jesuits of late have gone much higher and in their Claromont Colledge at Paris publickly maintain'd these two Positions 1. That our Blessed Saviour left Peter and his Successors the same Infallibility he himself had so oft as they spoke è Cathedra 2. That even out of a General Council He is the Infallible Judge in Controversies of Faith both in Questions of Right and Fact This as to the main of it though Erroneous and Impious is maintain'd by others as well as Jesuits F. Gregory de Rives a Capuchin Priest tells us and his Book is approved by the General and several others of his Order and by Father D. Roquet a Dominican and Doctor of Divinity c. That as the Authority of Christ our blessed Saviour if he were now on Earth were greater than all Councils so by the Same Reason the Authority of the Pope who is Christ's Vicar is greater than all Councils too That the Priviledge of Infallibility was given to the Pope not to Councils and then Concludes That the Church of Rome he means the Pope is Judge of Controversies and all her Desinitions and Determinations are De Fide Thus De Rives And three or four years before him Lud. Bail a Parisian Doctor and Propenitentiary expresly affirms That the Word of God is threefold 1. His written Word in Scripture 2. His unwritten Word in the Traditions of the Church 3. The Word Declared or Explain'd when doubtful passages in Scripture or Tradition are explain'd and their meaning determin'd by the Pope whether in or out of Councils and this he says is the most approved way in which men acquiesce and think they need look no further And hence he Infers That seeing this is so we ought not to be affraid to follow the Pope's Guidance in Doctrines of Faith and Manners but acquiesce in his Judgment and submit all our writings to be Corrected by him I neither will nor need Cite any more Authorities to prove the aforesaid Particulars That Their Popes may Damn and Depose Kings and Emperors especially if they be Hereticks and think they have as Christ's Vicars a just Prerogative and Power to do it Sure I am that these Positions though Erroneous and Impious are generally maintain'd by the Jesuits Canonists Schoolmen and their Followers which are very many receiv'd into the Body of their Canon Law of their best and as they themselves say their most Correct Editions and approved and when they had opportunity practis'd by their Supream Powers their Popes and General Councils I

trust and diligently examin Things till we be assured of truth yet his pretended Vicar with an Antichristian Pride and Impiety Contradicts this and Commands the contrary He forbids all Examination Those under his Tyranny at least the unlearned and Common people must believe as the Church believes that is all that he proposeth though it be Transubstantiation or any thing evidently repugnant to their Reason and Senses too They must renounce their own Reason and if he say that is white which they see black they are to believe what he says and not their own Senses All means for the People to examin whether it be truth or error which the Pope and his Church proposes is prohibited and deny'd them nor is it only the Books of Protestants which write of Religion but the Bible and Sacred Scripture too even the whole Law of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ in any vulgar Language which the People can understand come amongst prohibited Books and damn'd at Rome and the reason they give of such prohibition is impious and blasphemous For they say horresco referens the reading of the Holy Scripture by the People in any vulgar Tongue is more pernicious then profitable and brings more loss then benefit to the Reader Although this Doctrine be as I said impious and against God and his Holy Word blasphemous yet it is publickly own'd amongst those Rules for prohibited Books contrived by a Deputation or Committee of the Trent Fathers according to the Decree of that Council and afterwards approved and confirmed by Pius the Fourth Sixtus the Fifth and Clemens the Eighth as the Title of the Trent Index assures us After them that we may be sure they continue their Antichristian Tyranny to prohibit and damne the Bible and all Books which make against them Gregory the Fifteenth and Urban the Eighth do further approve and confirm the Impious Rules and Doctrine afore-mention'd and both of them expresly declare and in the same words 1. That it is known that the Reading prohibited Books the Bible is one of them brings great detriment to the Professors of the sincere Faith Roman Errors and Popery they mean which they miscall sincere Faith And what they say is most certain for there is no Book under Heaven so destructive of their Popish Superstition and Idolatry which they call sincere Faith as the Bible as it has been truly explain'd and preached by Protestants since Luther ' s time Which is evident in this that so many Kingdoms and Provinces by the help of Scriptures and Knowledge of the Gospel have clearly seen the Errors of Rome and justly abhorring her and them are come out of Babylon 2. All Licences to read any prohibited Books whosoever gave them to whomsoever they were given they recall cassate and declare null 3. Then they Command under severest punishments that all those who have any prohibited Books the Bible is one if it be in any Vulgar Tongue they are to bring them to the Bishop or Inquisitor and they are presently to Burn them 4. And then they declare That no man shall have any Licence for the future to read or have any prohibited Book no Bible or Protestant Book concerning Religion in any Vulgar Tongue save only from the Congregation of the Sacred Office the supream Office of the Inquisitors which sits every week before the Pope at Rome By the Premisses I think 't is certain that these Papers of mine are in Antecessum and already prohibited and damn'd at Rome and if their Papal Constitutions be obligatory and obeyed not to be read or had by any Papist save only such as have a faculty and licence from the Congregation of the Sacred Office as they call it the Roman Inquisitors and we may be sure that those watchful Fathers who guard the Capitol and industriously study to preserve and promote the Papal Greatness and Interest on which their own depends will give licence to none to read such Protestant Writings save to those who for fidelity to their Catholick Cause and Learning they judge able and willing to Answer and Confute them That is None shall have Licence to read such to them dangerous and damned Books save such as have solemnly Promised Vow'd and Sworn firmly to believe and constantly to hold and profess to their last breath and to the utmost of their Power indeavour that others under them do so too their new Trent-Creed and so the whole Mass of their Popish Errors and Idolatries contained and commanded in it The Case being evidently this that if their Papal Constitutions be obligatory and obey'd none are to read or have these Papers save such as have promised vow'd and sworn never to believe them as I have little reason to desire or hope for their favour so be it known unto them I do as little fear their Confutation or what I am like enough to have their Calumnies 4. Although I well know to say nothing of others that all our English Papists both in their Words and Writings do constantly call themselves Catholicks and Roman Catholicks yet they must pardon me if in these Papers I neither do nor justly can call them so Papists I do call them and I hope they will not be offended or take it ill that I do so For Baronius their great Cardinal and Annalist having said That the Hereticks we know whom he means call'd them Papists he adds That we could not honour them with a more glorious Title then that of Papists and therefore he desires that they may have the honour of that Title while they live and that after death it may be writ upon their Tombs and Sepulchral Monuments For my part so long as they believe and profess their new Trent-Creed and the Popes Monarchical Supremacy I shall according to the Cardinal's desire call them Papists and if it be so honourable a Title as he saies it is let them have it I shall not envy them that honour but pity their error who glory in that which is indeed their sin and shame For the other Title of Catholick which our Adversaries without and against reason appropriate to themselves we grant and know that anciently it was and when rightly used is a word of a good sound signification when it was applied to persons as a Catholick Bishop or Catholick Doctor c. it signified such persons as were 1. In respect of their Faith Orthodox who intirely believed and profess'd the true Christian Faith rejecting all pernicious and dangerous errors and so were no Hereticks 2. In respect of their Charity such as were in Communion with the Church of Christ without any uncharitable Separation from it and so no Schismaticks Now that our Adversaries of Rome are as they pretend such Catholicks is absolutely deny'd not only by Protestants but except themselves by all Christians in the World and that upon evident and great reason Considering

in any Vulgar Tongue nay the printing reading or having their own Roman Missal in French into which it was faithfully Translated not by any Hereticks but by good Roman Catholicks This evidently appears by the Authentick Bull of Pope Alexander the Seventh and some of his words cited in the Margent And he there tells us That the Translators and Publishers of that Missal were Studiers of Novelties to the ruin of Souls Contemners of the Sanctions and Practise of the Church and that they were Sons of Perdition But in this I think his Holiness was not well advised For if the Apostles Character of Antichrist be true he himself has a better claim to that Title and really is what he calls them The Son of Perdition What they say in Answer to St. Paul and the clear Texts against all praying to or praising God in an unknown Tongue is most Irrational and Indeed Impertinent It is not my Business or Intention in this place and time particularly to Examine it but refer the Reader to their Learned Writers for their Latin Prayers where he may see what they say and if he be Intelligent and an Impartial Seeker and Lover of Truth he will find that St. Paul Condemns all Prayers to and Praises of God in an unknown Tongue Sure I am a very Learned Sorbon Doctor in his Notes on that place in St. Paul convinc'd with the Evidence of the Text and Truth does acknowledge it and explains St. Paul as I have done If they damn and burn their own Offices in any Vulgar Tongue which deserve to be burnt for many other better Reasons we may easily guess when they have power to do it which I pray and hope they never will what they will do with ours 3. But that which is the highest and most evident Instance that the Pope is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Adversary and Enemy to our blessed Saviour Christ and true Christianity is That whereas the Gospel was writ to be read and studied by all who had ability as the great means of their Salvation and accordingly was Translated into all Christian Languages and all permitted to have and read it that they might for their direction and comfort know the holy Precepts and gracious Promises contain'd in it and continued so to this Day in all Christian Churches except Rome and in that too for many hundred years after Christ while Latin was their Vulgar Tongue But when the Impiety and Tyranny of the Bishops of Rome unhappily prevail'd the Gospel it self and the whole Book of God was reckon'd amongst Damned Books and Authors and not permitted to be read in any Vulgar Tongue no not so much as any Summary or Historical Compendium of it And further amongst the Rules of the Index Expurgatorius publish'd by the Command of the Trent Council we are told with great Impiety and Blasphemy that by permitting the Scripture to be commonly read in Vulgar Tongues there comes more Mischief than Bene●it Pope Vrban the Eighth says the very same with as much Impiety as his Predecessors and further adds That all who have any prohibited Books of which number it is Evident the Bible in any Vulgar Language is one they must bring them to the Bishop or Inquisitor and they must Burn them presently by the hand of the Hangman or some such Officer for I suppose they are not to do it themselves And we have a late and further Instance of this Antichristi in Impiety in a Bull of Pope Clement the Ninth The New Testament as appears by the Bull was Translated into French and Printed at Lions The Pope Animus meminisse horret Damns and prohibits it under the very Name The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ and Excommunicates all of what dignity soever who shall print sell read or have it and Commands under pain of Excommunication that they who have it bring it to the Ordinary or Inquisitors and what they must do with it the Bull of Vrban the Eighth but now Cited will tell you they must burn it and as a damned Book abolish it So Clement the Ninth Commands the Roman Ritual in French to be burnt But that which makes their Error and Impiety more evident is That even then and there where they absolutely prohibit the Gospel in any Vulgar Tongue and Damn it to the Fire they permit the the Turkish Alcaron in a Vulgar Tongue with leave had from the Inquisitors who yet could give no leave to any as appears before by the Rules of their Expurgatory Index to have the Gospel or any part of it in any Vulgar Tongue Prodigious Impiety The Turkish Alcoran the contrivance of a Monstrous Impostor and Enemy to Christ and Christianity is permitted and the Gospel of our blessed Saviour is absolutely prohibited and damn'd And though in doing this they Act very Impiously yet in their Generation and Circumstances very wisely For neither the Alcoran nor any Book in the World is so fatal to their miscall'd Catholick Religion as when truly understood and believ'd the Bible That Book evidently discovers and condemns their Errors and therefore they are concern'd to keep it from the People least they should find as by that Divine Light they easily might and forsake their Errors The Premisses consider'd let the Reader judge Whether the Pope have not this Mark of the Beast and Character of Antichrist that he is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Adversary of Christ and that Religion Establish'd by him who prohibits the having and reading and so the Understanding of the Gospel Damns it to the Fire and burns it and yet at the same time permits the Alcaron 3. Another Characteristical Note or Mark of Antichrist given by St. Paul is That he Exalts himself above all that is called God or Worshipped So our English Translation so their Authentick Vulgar Latin and their own Learned Commentators justifie it The word in the Text properly signifying Id quod Colitur any thing or Person which is the Object of Honour and Veneration So that thus far we are agreed That Antichrist will Exalt himself above all that is called God as all Magistrates Subordinate and Supream Kings and Emperors in Scripture are or worshipped This then in Thesi being granted we must next in Hypothesi Inquire Whether this Characteristical Note and Mark of Antichrist may be truly affirm'd of the Pope and be really found in him In Answer to which Query I say I hope it may and does appear by the Premisses That the Pope does Exalt himself far above all Kings and Emperors more then any man in the World ever did or Antichrist excepted ever will and therefore I shall only add two or three things in Confirmation of the Premisses 1. Then his Favourers and Flatterers give him and he approves and assumes it The Title of Emperor of the Vniverse Upon this account That the Pope is Emperor of the

published by Ludovicus Bavarus Emperor and his Counsel wherein Pope John the Two and twentieth is call'd Antichrist the Disturber of the Peace of Christendom and the Bishops and Clergy who adhered to him Messingers of Antichrist And not long after the same Emperor in a Diet or Counsel of the Bishops and Nobility of Germany and Italy too and with their joynt Consent publishes an Edict in the Year 1328. wherein we have a long Catalogue of the Prodigious Impieties and Tyranny of the Pope and then and there they call him A Personated Pastor one who would seem to be a Pastor of the Church but was indeed That Mystical Antichrist And in the same great Counsel they publish another Imperial Decree or Constitution wherein having set down that Character of Antichrist That he should Exalt himself above all that is called God or worshipped and assume a Power and Domination over the whole World They add That by many Experiments they saw these Predictions come to pass and unless they were as stupid as Asses they must be sensible of them And then Declare That all who adhere to and follow the Pope are Antichristians and He Antichrist I know that the Roman Inquisitors have call'd Aventine Author damatus an Author damn'd by them and have noted all these places I have Cited to be Expunged I have the Inquisitors own Book wherein all the Places in Aventine are to that purpose Vncis inclusi and to be left out in all following Editions of Aventine But the World knows that they have with great Impieties and Impudence corrupted thousands of Authors putting out whatever makes against their Errors and putting in what makes the Author say what he never meant But their damnation of what Aventine says out of the Imperial Constitutions is no refutation of it nor are those things untrue because they would have them Expunged as the Second Commandment is no less Divine and a part of the Decalogue because they leave it out But enough of this The Case is too plain to need more proof But some say That Antichrist is not yet come nor will come till towards the end of the World And Bellarmin says That this is the Opinion of Catholicks And some Learned Protestants as Grotius and Doctor Hammond say That Antichrist is both come and gone 1600. years ago For Caius Caligula Grotius his Antichrist died Anno Christi 43. And Simon Magus who by Dr. Hammond is supposed to be Antichrist died Anno Christi 68. So that both Caius and Simon Magus who are their supposed Antichrists are dead above a thousand six hundred years ago Whence it will follow That the Pope neither is nor ever was or can be Antichrist For if either Caius the Emperor or Simon Magus were then when they lived Antichrist then the Pope was not neither of them being Bishop of Rome and both of them being so many Ages since dead the Pope neither is nor ever can be Antichrist unless you will have two great Antichrists which no man yet ever did or with any Reason or Sense can say In Answer to this I shall say a few things And 1. For Bellarmine who says That the Catholick Opinion is That Antichrist is not yet come I confess he and all his Party are highly concern'd to say so For if Antichrist be Actually come then the Pope must be that Man of Sin He and none in the World but he having all the Characters and Marks of Antichrist mention'd in Scripture so plain that he who runs may read them 2. Though Bellarmine say 'T is the Catholick Opinion that Antichrist is not yet come yet it evidently appears by the many Authentick Testimonies before Cited and the Authors were Papists That Antichrist is come Six hundred years ago and that the Pope was he Plerique Omnes Boni c. says the Historian before Cited Most Good Men believed Rome to be Babylon and the Pope Antichrist 3. Bellarmine Cites one and he Bishop of Florence whose Opinion was That Antichrist was then come almost Six hundred years ago and was severely rebuked for it by Pope Paschal the Second in a Synod call'd by him at Florence But Bellarmine might have named Five hundred more which he wisely conceal'd because they were against him and he neither had nor could have any just Answer to so many and so evident Testimonies I shall only add besides those before mention'd one signal Testimony more to shew That even at Rome it self it was believ'd that Antichrist should come in the end of the Tenth Century I have seen and the Book if any desire it is still to be seen a very Ancient and Excellent MS. Missal belonging anciently to the Church and City of Rome for there are some particular Services in it to be said in some of the chief Churches in Rome In this MS. Missal in the beginning of it there is a Chronological Table in which amongst other things we are told That à Christo ad Antichristum sunt Anni 999. So that it was believ'd then at Rome that Antichrist should come in the last year of the tenth Century and if he did so and so it was believed then Sylvester the Second a Prodigious Villain was then Pope who was a famous or rather infamous Magician and obtain'd the Popedom by the help of the Devil as their own Platina and Johan Stella tell us I know their Writers and the Popes Parasites since Luther do but without any just reason question the truth of what Platina Stella and others more ancient have said of this Sylvester so Onuphrius Papirius Massonus and others who against Truth and the Faith of all former Historians indeavour Aethiopen lavare to quit Sylvester of all these Crimes and make him what he was not an Excellent Person 2. For Grotius who would have Caius Caligula to be Antichrist and Dr. Hammond who thinks that Simon Magus and his Gnosticks better deserv'd that Name I confess they were very Learned and Worthy men but men and had as the best have their Errors Optimus ille non qui nullis sed minimis urgetur Certainly it is as lawful for me and not more immodestly to contradict them as it was for them to contradict all Ancient and Modern who ever writ on those Passages in the Second to the Thessalonians conconcerning Antichrist I had and have great respect and reverence for their Persons and Memory but more for Truth and therefore the Apology of Aristotle concerning the Errors of his Master Plato may and shall be mine Amicus Plato 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He whoever he be who out of Reverence and Respect to any men how great soever either imbraces or when he knows them conceals their Errors wants Charity to himself and others who possibly if he had not conceal'd them might have avoided those Errors and gain'd the knowledge of Truth In short then I

Supream Princes are Subjects may totally and absolutely depose and deprive them of all their Dominions and right to Govern 4. When the Pope has pass'd such Sentence and deprived them of their Dominions if afterwards they meddle with the Government they become every way Tyrants both Titulo Administratione And then 5. After such Sentence pass'd by the Pope such Kings or Supream Princes may be dealt with as Altogether and Every Way Tyrants and Consequently may be kill'd by Any Private Person 4. And though these be Prodigious Errors Unchristian and indeed Antichristian Impieties such as neither ours nor any Language can fully express yet this is not all The Jesuite further declares That though Pagans anciently had and still have Power to Depose their Tyrannical Kings yet in Christian Commonwealths they have such dependence upon the Pope that without his Knowledge and Authority they should not depose their King For he may Command and Prohibit the People to do it And he gives Instances when People have consulted the Popes and by their Counsel and Consent Deposed their Kings So he says Chilperick was Deposed in France and Sancius Secundus in Portugal And to make up their Errors and Impieties full he further tells us That all Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths do so far depend upon the Pope that he may not only Counsel the People and Consent to their Deposition and Assassination of their Tyrannical Princes But he may Command and Compel them to do it when he shall think it sit for avoiding Schisms and Heresies That is indeed for the rooting out and ruine of the true Protestant Religion and establishing their Roman Superstition and Idolatry And to conclude he further declares That in such Cases the Popes Command to Murder a Deposed King is so far from being any Crime that it is Superlatively Just. I might here cite Cardinal Tolet Guliel Rossaeus and a hundred such others who approve and in their Publicks Writings Approved and Licenced according to the Decree of their Trent Council by the Auhority of their Church justifie this Impious and Antichristian Doctrine of Deposing and Assassinating Heretical Kings but this I conceive a needless work For 1. Suarez himself declares it to be the received Doctrine of their Church and cites many of their Eminent Writers to prove it which any may see who is not satisfied with those before cited 2. The Licencers of Suarez and his Book are for Dignity in their Church and for Learning so great and for Number so many and the Commendations they give Suarez and his Work so high that there neither is nor can be any just Reason to doubt but this Doctrine was approved at Rome and by the Ruling part of that Church the Pope and his Party believed and incouraged as a Doctrine asserting the Popes Extravagant and as they call it Supernatural Power and so their Common Interest Let the Reader consult the Censures prefix'd to Suarez his Book and he will find all these following to Approve and Licence it First Three great Bishops all of them Counsellors to his Catholick Majesty 2. Two Provincials of the Society one of the Jesuites in Portugal the other of those in Germany 3. Academia Complutensis the University of Alcala de Henares approves it too 4. Last●● the Supream Senate Court or Congregation of the Inquisitors do also approve and licence it and this they do by Commission from Peter de Castello Vice-Roy of Portugal and in Matters of Faith Supream inquisitor The Premisses impartially consider'd I think we may truly say That it is not only Suarez or some particular or private Persons but the Church of Rome and her Ruling part which approves this Impious and Trayterous Doctrine Which may further appear besides their Approbations and Licences from the great Commendations they give Suarez and his Book and Doctrine And here 1. For Suarez They say That he was a Contemner of Humane things and a most Valiant Desender only of Piety and Catholick Religion And for his Excellent Wisdom the Common Master and another Augustine of that Age. That for his great Zeal for the Catholick Faith he was a most Famous Author and a most Eminent Divine That he was a Most Grave and most Religious Writer whose Works the World the Popish World does Honour Admire and Love c. 2. And for his Book and the Doctrine contained in it They say That all things in his Book are Religiously Consonant to Sacred Scripture to Apostolical Traditions General Councils and Papal Decrees this last we admit and they profess it to be true And hence if they may be believed who expresly affirm it themselves it evidently follows That this Traiterous Doctrine is approved by the Pope and is Consonant to his Decrees And those Publick Censors of Suarez his Book severally add That they find Nothing and therefore not the Assassinations of Kings in it against the Orthodox Faith the Roman Faith they mean but many things which do defend the Faith The University of Alcala de Henares to omit the rest more fully testifies That they read Suarez his Book with all possible Diligence and found Nothing in it repugnant to the Catholick Faith nor was there Any Thing in it which ought not to be Approved and Commended And then add that we may be sure they spoke cordially and deliberately That there was Nothing in that whole Work which All of them did not approve so that they were All of the same Mind and Judgment Nay we are further told That he had Composed that Work by More then Human Helps and therefore they Judge it Most Worthy to be Published for the Publick and Common Benesit of the Whole Christian World and a Signal Victory of their Faith over Heresies Such are the Commendations of Suarez his Book and Doctrine so that we may be sure that it is Approved and Received at Rome And here let me further add that when King James had Published his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance and Sir Henry Savil Translated it into Latin the Latin Copy was by the Popish Party immediately sent to Rome and by the Pope Condemned there as Impious and Heretical From Rome it was sent to Suarez who by the Popes Command was to Confute and Answer it He undertook and finished the Answer sent it to Rome where it was highly approved and afterwards Printed and Published with all those Approbations and Commendations before mention'd But these Positions need no further proof that they are own'd and publickly approved by the Pope and his Party I shall only add When King James had charged Bellarmine and the Church of Rome with this Rebellious and Impious Doctrine of deposing Kings absolving Subjects from all Oaths of Allegiance and Fidelity c. Gretser in his Answer has these memorable words We do not deny says he

prove it 4. Pope Hildebrand or Gregory VII deposeth the Emperor Henry IV. by the Authority given by God as he says of binding and loosing both in Heaven and Earth And then he absolves his Subjects from their Oath of Fidelity and then prohibits them to obey him This Bull is dated at Rome Anno Domini 1075. and five years after he ●xcommunicates and Deposes him again 1080. And implores the Assistance of Peter and Paul in this his Excommunication and Deposition of the Emperor that the World may know that as they have power to bind and loose in Heaven so they have power on Earth to give and take away Empires Kingdoms Principalities Dukedoms Earldoms and according as they shall deserve and he is Judge of that the possessions of all men This power he says Peter had and so he and the Bishops of Rome have it too and that from God as Vicars of Christ and Peter ' s Successors And so by this most Erroneous and Impious Doctrine the Popes have a Power which neither Peter nor any nor all the Apostles ever had to dispose of all mens Temporal Estates in the World whether they be Supream or Subjects 5. After this Pope Gregory IX Excommunicates the Emperor Friderick II. Absolves his Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance lays an Interdict on all his Cities Castles and Villages Excommunicates all that favour him or any way assist or obey him commands the German Bishops upon pain of Excommunication solemnly to publish this Excommunication with all their Impious Solemnities ringing of Bells lighting and then extinguishing Candles c. 6. After this Pope Innocent IV. in the like form Excommunicates and Deposes the said Frederick The Lemma or Title prefix'd to the Bull is thus The Damnation and Excommunication of Frederick II. c. And least this might be thought a rash and inconsiderate Act of the Pope he himself tells us That he did diligently deliberate about it with his Brethren the Cardinals he means and the Sacred Council the General Council of Lions I know that Matthew Paris says that he publish'd that Excommunication in that Council not without the Horror and Amazement of all who heard it But Platina tells us That it was done by the general and concurrent consent of the Council And Innocent himself expresly says That it was done Friderick Excommunicate by the Council it self and therefore the Major part must concur and if it was not so that Pope was not only fallible but actually false And it is a considerable Observation which Matthew Paris has and therefore I shall not omit it when he tells us That some did positively affirm and he believed it that Innocent IV. did above all things earnestly desire to ruin the Emperor Friderick whom he called the great Dragon that he being trampled upon the King of France England and other Christian Kings whom he call'd diminutive Kings and little Serpents affrighted with the sad Fate of Friderick might more easily be kept under and they and their Prelates spoiled of their Goods and by him plundered So that although he and other Popes did pretend as appears by their Bulls that they deposed Kings for the Extirpation of Heresie the Preservation of the Catholick Faith and Christian Religion yet 't is evident to any intelligent and impartial Judge of their Actions that it was their prodigious ambition and covetousness their inordinate and erroneous desire of Dominion of Rule and Riches which made them usurp and exercise a power to depose Kings and Emperors which St. Peter from whom they pretend to have it never had nor pretended to 7. Pope Paul III. Excommunicates Curses Deposes and Damns Henry VIII of England and all who adhere to him favour or obey him absolves his Subjects from all Oaths of Allegiance commands them all under pain of Excommunication not to obey him or any Magistrate or Officer under him nor to acknowledge the King or any of his Judges or Officers to be their Superiors And further with a strange Impiety and Impudence he declares King Henry and his Complices and Favourers and their Children and Descendents to be Infamous incapable to be Witnesses make Wills or be Heirs to any Incapable to do any legal Act and that in any Cause of Debt or any other Cause Civil or Criminal none should be bound to answer them and yet they bound to answer every body And to omit the rest for I shall at the end of these Observations set down the whole Bull he commands the Ecclesiasticks Secular and Regular to quit the Kingdom and not to return till the Persons Excommunicate deprived cursed and damn'd the King and all his Loyal Subjects he means be absolved from their Censures This Bull though fram'd and ready to be publish'd yet the Execution of it was suspended for three years and then actually published in the Year 1538. which was the fifth year of Pope Paul III. as appears by the Date of it in the aforesaid Bullary And when it was published as it was in itself highly Impious so to Hen. VIII and his Loyal Subjects it was ridiculous and all the Effect it had was that it increased their hate and contempt of the Antichristian pride and folly of its Author It appeared what indeed it was Brutum fulmen and that King had too great a courage and understanding to be frighted with an Ignis fatuus Papal Squibs and Wild-fire which could neither warm or burn him 8. Lastly as the Popes preceeding Pius V. so those who followed approved and so far as they were able put in practise that execrable Doctrine of Deposing Kings Pope Gregory XIII did immediately succeed Pius V. and renues and confirms his Bull for deposing Queen Elizabeth and absolving her Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance as is testified not only by Cambden but by the Romish Priests themselves the Seculars who seem'd most moderate and in prosecution of that damnatory Sentence the said Pope Gregory did constitute Fitz-Gerald an Irish Rebel against the Queen General of all the Irish Rebels that so he and they by Fire and Sword might Execute the Sentence of those two Popes deposing that Queen This is expresly testify'd by Fitz-Gerald himself in an Edict publish'd by him after he was General declaring the Justice of that Irish War which he says was undertaken for the Catholick Faith and restoring it in Ireland To Gregory XIII Sixtus Quintus immediately succeeds and confirms the damnatory Sentences of his two Predecessors and as he who well knew tells us Excommunicates and deposes the Queen Absolves her Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity and published a Croisado as against Turks and Insidels indeed as afterwards evidently appear'd against England and Queen Elizabeth and gave what he Never had ●o give plenary Indulgence to all who should assist in that War Nor is this all Cardinal Allen writ a Traiterous