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A31428	A sermon preached before the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor, Alderman and citizens of London, at S. Mary-le-Bow on the fifth of November, 1680 by William Cave ...	Cave, William, 1637-1713.	1680 (1680)	Wing C1606; ESTC R1491	19,106	42

§. 8. alibi Vasquez d Examen praef monit R. Jac. p. 49 55 103 142 143. Coquaeus e Aphorism Confess in verb. Clericus princeps Tyrannus Emanuel Sa f De Haeres c. 30. p. 293 296. Santarellus g De Reg. Reg. instit l. 1. c. 6. p. 58 c. c. 7. p. 63 c. Mariana h Defens Bell. T. 2. col 1153 c. adv Reg. Brit. c. 6 7. def Apol. Gall. p. 591. Gretser i Tom. 3. disp 5. q. 8. punct 3. Valentia by Cardinal k Letter about Devent p. 27 28 30. in Resp pro Cathol adv persecut Angl. passim vid. c. 2 4 5. ext in concert Eccl. Cath. in Anglia Allen l Controv 3. q. 5. artic 2. p. 710 711. Stapleton m De Visib Monarch l. 2. c. 4. de clave David l. 1. c. 6. p. 26. c. 9. p. 57. l. 2. c. 10. p. 99. Saunders n Quiet sob reck p. 80. Letter of the Oath of Alleg. p. 18 19 80 85. Philopat sive ejus sit sive Creswelli p. 106 107. it §. 158 160 162 221. Parsons and hundreds more I shall a little more particularly instance in Bellarmin because he is the most profest Champion of the Papal cause and being a man of great wit and Learning express'd himself as cautiously as he well could in this matter yea so cautiously that Pope Sixtus V. was once resolv'd to have condemn'd and supprest his writings because attributing too little to the Papal authority as the Cardinals themselves told mine Author o Gu. Barcl de potest Papae edit 1609. c. 13. p. 101. c. 40. p. 329. and yet even he p De Rom. Pontif. l. 5. c. 6. col 889. c. 7. ib. c. sayes roundly that the political Power not only as 't is Christian but as 't is Civil is subject to the Ecclesiastical so that the Pope may in order to the good of souls govern and dispose of temporal Princes alter Kingdoms take them away from one and give them to another that if a King be an Infidel or an Heretic and we know what they mean by that nay he particularly reckons the Kings of England among his instances and seek to draw his Dominions to his sect it is not only lawful but a duty in his subjects to deprive him of his Kingdom And whereas sayes he the primitive Christians attempted not the like on Nero Dioclesian Julian or the rest it was not it seems that they boggled out of a sense of duty but only quia deerant vires temporales because they wanted means and power to effect it A bold piece of falshood Fuligat vit Bell. l. 1. c. 2. p. 17. and a sufficient confutation of what the Writer of his Life affirms that he could not remember that he had ever told a lye in his life or disguised the truth by fraud or sophistry If it be here said as sometimes they do when pincht with these objections that these are but the opinions of their private Doctors and not the public and standing declarations of that Church to this I shall briefly return these three things by way of answer 1. That this is a most gross and senseless evading of the argument for whether their Church publicly declare this or not 't is these private Doctors that steer mens Consciences conduct their practice and that diffuse the venom into all parts of the Christian world and if the mischief be done by vertue of these hellish Principles Princes murdered Kingdoms invaded and the foundations of Government overturned 't is little matter whether it be done by connivence or command as if the family be destroyed by the servants scattering of poyson in every corner 't is but a trifling excuse that the Master of the house did not command but only stand by and see them do it 2. These pernicious doctrines are publicly taught in their Schools and Universities and Books of them printed in all Countries approv'd licenc't and recommended and suffered to pass without controul the very worst of them never censur'd condemn'd or burnt by the supream authority of that Church which in all reason justice and equity they were oblig'd to do did they not allow and own them 3. And which will fully answer this matter Most of these detestable principles are extant in the body of their Canon Law See the Bishop of Lincoln's Book called Principles and positions approved by the Church of Rome which is their public rule and standard at this day are determined in the Breves and Bulls of their several Popes who have solemnly denounc't those things ex Cathedra and what 's higher yet are in effect found in the Decrees of their own General Councils I instance in two Ann. 1215. the Council of Lateran whereat were present the Pope the Patriarchs of Constantinople and Jerusalem seventy Arch-bishops four hundred and twelve Bishops eight hundred Abbots and Priors besides Embassadors from most Princes in Christendom this Council decreed that Heretical Lords and Rulers should be Excommunicated their Vassals absolved from their obedience their Lands seiz'd and dispos'd of to Catholics In the general Council at Lyons Ann. 1245. the Pope by advice of the Cardinals and Council and by a definitive sentence pronounc't there depos'd and depriv'd the Emperour Frederic discharg'd his sworn Subjects from their Allegiance Excommunicating all such as should obey or favour him commanding the Princes forthwith to proceed to a new Election all which is inserted into the Acts of that Council To be short so evident is the case that some of their greatest Champions more candid and ingenuous than the rest have plainly confest that if the Pope have not such a power of Excommunicating and deposing Princes and absolving Subjects from their Fealty and Allegiance See Card. Perrons Harangue among his Works in French p. 635. Lessius seu Gu. Singletonus Discuss Decret Conc. Later p. 46 90 100 123. but especially the Jesuits Loyalty printed 1677. the first Treatise their Church having all along challeng'd and exercis'd it in her supremest Tribunals must be fallen into a damnable errour both in faith and practice and consequently must cease to be a true Church that therefore the belief of it is an article essential to it and to assert the contrary is an opinion erroneous in faith temerarious and impious But if their Church must needs stand or fall with this principle let them look to that 't is in the mean time evident enough that the principles they believe and teach are in the tendency of them immediately destructive of the safety and authority of Princes and the peace of humane society But alas that 's not all nor the worst of the case These pernicious doctrines are not meer Scholastic subtleties dry and barren speculations but impregnated with life and power and accordingly II. The practices of the men of that Church have been alwayes

agreeable to their principles And for the truth of this I might appeal to the Records of all Nations in Christendom those volumes and Martyrologies which the iniquity of these mens principles have filled with tragical and lamentable stories What miserable havoc have they made in Germany where to pass by other things the Emperour Henry the Fourth was so persecuted by Pope Hildebrand and his Successor with Curses Deprivations Armies and Rebellions that he was even wearied out of his life forc't at last to resign the Empire and tho in vain upon his knees to beg Absolution from the Popes Legat and peace from his own Son whom they had raised up against him The same and worse they did by Frederic Barbarossa by Otho the Fourth by Frederic the Second and by Henry the Seventh who marching with an Army into Italy to recover the Rights of the Empire is very credibly reported p Sabell Ennead ix l. 8. p. 794. Plat. in Clem. v. p. 252. Naucler Chron. Gen. xliv p. 372. Volater l. 23. p. 879. Genebr Chron. l. 4. Ann. 1305. p. 677. to have been poyson'd with the Sacrament Nor did the Emperours enjoy any tolerable quiet from Rome till Charles the Fifth heartily espous'd the Papal interest ever since whose time the Emperours have been almost intirely swayed by the Councils of the Jesuits An order of men born for the destruction of mankind whom therefore the wise State of Venice banisht out of all their Dominions Histor Interdict Venet l. 3. p. 71. Eng. Edit p. 138. professing they did it for this reason because they had been the authors and instruments of all uproars seditions confusions and ruines that had hapned in those times in all the Kingdoms and States of the Christian world To which let me add what their Martyr Campian who was hang'd at Tyburn expresly tells us Epist ad Concil Reg. Angl. x. ejus Rat. praefix in Concert Cath. alib that all the Jesuits in the world have long since entred into Covenant never to cease their attempts upon us which they despair not to take effect so long as any one Jesuite remains in the world In France the poyson of these principles has wrought no less vigorously and effectually Pope Zachary depos'd Childeric III. who was thereupon thrust into a Monastery and the Pope bestowed the Crown upon Pipin the Major-domo of his Palace Lewis VII was interdicted and forc't to submit Philip the Fourth so vext with the oppositions of Pope Boniface the Eighth that for three years together he scarce had one quiet hour After the Reformation the Zeal of Popery grew more fierce and bloody In the Parisian Massacre were slain there and in other parts of France to the number of above thirty thousand Protestants The news whereof arriving at Rome Thuan. lib. 53. ad Ann. 1572. Tom. 11. p. 837. the Pope presently convened the Cardinals and went in a solemn procession to S. Mark 's Church there to give public thanks to God for so great a blessing conferr'd upon the See of Rome and the Christian world and resolved for this reason chiefly that the year of Jubilee should be immediately proclaimed that all Christendom might rejoice for so great a slaughter of heretics and the whole solemnity was concluded with shooting off the Great Guns Bonefires and all other expressions of the greatest triumph and rejoycing What miserable ruins slaughters and devastations were made by the confederates of the Holy League for many years together And in the midst of all Henry the Third a Prince of their own Communion stab'd by Jaques Clement a Dominican Frier encouraged thereunto by the Sermons of the Jesuits and particularly by his Father Confessour who promised him a Crown of Martyrdom if he died in the attempt but if he survived that he should be made a Bishop or a Cardinal Boucherius de fusta Abdicatione Henrici III. edit Lugd. An. 1591. Franc. Veron Apol. pour Jehan Chastel aliique vid. Thuan ad An. 1589. T. 4. p. 460. An. 1594. T. 5. p. 519. Ann. 1604. p. 1124. And the fact magnified as noble and heroick justified in Printed Apologies and Books written on purpose to prove that 't is lawful so a private man to kill a Tyrant though there be neither sentence of the Church nor Kingdom pronounc't against him Orat. Sixti V. habita Sept. 11. 1589. printed first at Rome then at Paris An. 1589. by Authority of the Holy Union and approbation of three Sorbon Doctors and since oft Reprinted vid. Thuan ib. An. 1589. Nay 't was approv'd and applauded by Pope Sixtus V. in an Oration made on purpose in the Consistory wherein he compares it to and prefers it before that of Judith's killing Holofernes and more than once and again affirms that that great and miraculous work was to be ascrib'd only to the particular Providence of God without whose especial aid he sayes it could not have been brought to pass The like unhappy fate overtook his Successour the great King Henry the Fourth whom Ravaillac who had sometimes been a Monk stab'd in his Coach with a poysoned knife and at his Examination boldly confess'd he did it because the King did not take Arms against the Hugonots and that his making War against the Pope is the same as to make War against God Seeing the Pope was God and God was the Pope 'T were endless to pursue the stories of Forraign Nations and happy had it been for us had they kept there But tho nature seems to have secur'd us pretty well against external invasions yet these restless and daring men after all the villanies they have done in other Countreys have put their hellish designs aboard and are come hither also I pass over their infinite Treasons Disturbances and Rebellions precedent to the Reformation No sooner had Henry the Eighth thrown off the Romish Yoke but a Bull of Excommunication was thundred out against him and that followed by no less than three Rebellions at home contrived and carried on by the counsels and artifice of the Popish Clergy and little less there were in the short Reign of his Successor In the long and happy Reign of Queen Elizabeth Vid. Cambden Annal. Elizab. ad Ann. 1569 1570 79 80 83 84 85 86 87 88 94 98. Bishop Carleton's Thankful Remembrance of God's mercies per tot Foulis Popish Treasons c. l. 7. c. 3 4 c. few years pass'd over her head without some considerable attempt either against her life or Government Ann. 1569. came out Pius V. his Bull of deprivation against her whereupon succeeded two Rebellions in the North the chief whereof was headed by the Earls of Westmorland and Northumberland The next year Stuckley by the help of the Pope and Spaniard invaded Ireland where Saunders the Jesuit the firebrand of that Rebellion for want of success fell mad and died This was not well over when Campian and Parsons came hither the two first Jesuits would God they