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A67445 Some few questions concerning the Oath of allegiance propos'd by a Catholick gentleman in a letter to a person of learning and honour. Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688. 1661 (1661) Wing W641; ESTC R38929 23,740 40

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or Mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and Acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God THE LETTER SIR AS your Civility has taught me I may have any thing of you for asking so my own Experience teaches me nothing is more easy than to ask Unless it be to doubt or to be ignorant two qualities so common and so little implying any conceit of sufficiency in their Owner that I hope you will neither accuse me of Presumption while I only seek what I profess not to know nor of Imprudence while I seek where I know I am most like to find Your peircing Eye has both read what others say and penetrated what they maintain Your generous mind neither hopes nor fears can corrupt and if they could your happy Condition secures you from both To you therefore I confidently come and without any farther Compliments which you are too wise to expect and I too uncourtly to give I humbly desire your free and speedy judgment in these few Seasonable and Important Questions Some say the Pope by direct and immediate sentence can depose Princes Others he can only Excommunicate directly and depose by Consequence Some say he can depose only Princes Subject to the Church Others Infidels too Some say he has power to do this only in order to Spirituals Others absolutely without that Restriction Some say the Crime must be Heresy or Apostacy Others extend his Jurisdiction to more and even all Cases And there are who say He cannot depose at all neither any of these ways nor for any of these Persons nor for any of these Causes In favour of which last Position not to speak of particular Authors 't was my fortune lately to meet with a Censure of the Faculty of Paris and some publick and solemn Decrees made by that and divers other Universities of France Of which the better to entitle my self to beg your Judgment I here send you a shott Extract On purpose omitting the French King and Parliaments Prohibition and Arrests as Lay-arguments of little and perhaps too little weight with some that dispute this point A Decree of the University of Paris made by the Rector Deans Proctors and Batchelers of the said University in a General Assembly had on the 20th of April 1626. at the Matutin● IT having been represented by the Rector that the sacred Faculty of Theology moved as well by their ardent zeal and fidelity towards the Church his most Christian Majesty and his Kingdomes as also by the true and perfect love which they bear to Right and Justice and following therein the illustrious Examples left by their Predecessors in like Cases upon mature Examination of a certain Latine book intituled A Treatise of Heresy Schism Apostacy c. and of the Popes power in order to the punishment of those Crimes Printed at Rome 1625. had in the 30. and 31. Chapters of Heresy found these Propositions That the Pope may with temporal punishments chastize Kings and Princes despose and deprive them of their Estates and Kingdomes for the Crime of Heresy and exempt their Subjects from the obedience due to them and that this custome has been always practis'd in the Church c. and thereupon had by a publick just and legal Sentence on the 4th of April Censured these Propositions of that pernicious book and condemn'd the Doctrine therein contain'd as New False Erronious contrary to the Law of God rendring odious the Papal Dignity opening a gap to Schism derogative to the Soveraign Authority of Kings which depends on God alone retarding the Conversion of Infidels and heretical Princes disturbing the publick Peace tending to the ruine of Kingdomes and Republicks diverting Subjects from the obedience due to their Soveraigns and precipitating them into Faction Rebellion Sedition and even to commit Paricides on the sacred Persons of their Princes The Rector Deans Proctors Batchelers and whole University have made this Decree That the sacred Faculty of Theology ought highly to be commended for having given a judgment so Pious so Religious so Wholesome against so wicked and dangerous a Doctrine For having so opportunely held forth to the whole Church but especially to all France the clear light of Antient and Orthodox Doctrine For having so gloriously follow'd the Illustrious generosity of their Predecessors and performed a task not only becoming their particular Profession to defend the truth but deserving the Imitation even of the whole University it self And to obstruct altogether the very entrance of this new and pernicious Doctrine and cause all those who now are or hereafter shall be Members of this University or merit promotion to any Degree therein to remember for ever to form and regulate their Opinions according to the judgment pronounced by that sacred Faculty and keep at utmost distance from the Doctrine so justly proscrib'd and that every one in particular may fly detest abhor it and as well in publick as private Combate Confute and Convince its falsity They do decree that in the next solemn Procession as also annually in the Assembly for the Procession general immediately after opening the Schools in the month of October this Censure shall publickly be read by the Proctor of the University the first business nothing to intervene and recorded in the Registers of each Faculty and Nation and that two Copies hereof written and signed by the hand of the Clerk of the sacred Faculty of Theology shall be kept in the Common Records of the University and the like number be sent as soon as may be to all Superiours of Colleges and Houses to the end all possible care and diligence be us'd to secure all those who frequent or reside in the said Colleges from the corruption and poyson of this pernicious Doctrine and that they never give way that any Person whatsoever presume to say or do any thing contrary to what has so wisely been determined and ordain'd by that sacred Faculty If any Doctor Professor Master of Arts or Scholar resist and disobey or go about in any sort by word or writing on any cause or pretence whatsoever to offer at the least attempt or make the least opposition against this so laudable and legal a Censure let him for a note of Infamy and Ignominy be expel'd depriv'd of his Degree Faculty Rank by a sentence that may for ever cut off all hope of admittance Quintaine Scribe of the University The Censure of the Faculty of Sorbonne dated 4th April 1626. I omit because recited at large in this of the University The like Decrees on the same occasion and against the same Doctrine That the Pope can punish Kings with temporal punishments depose them and deprive them of their Kingdomes and Estates c. were made by these several Universities following All which have lately been printed at Paris in a Collection of divers Acts Censures and Decrees as well of the University as of