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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44120	Check, or, Inquiry into the late act of the Roman Inquisition busily and pressingly disperst over all England by the Jesuits.	Holden, Henry, 1596-1662.	1662 (1662)	Wing H2376; ESTC R28673	12,141	22

purposes Certainly if in any cases Order be to be observed it should in those which are to be obligatory lest excuse of ignorance be left to cloak the Subjects disobedience and consequently we ought not to think any private Travailer or common Carrier much less a Jesuite who is not onely a particular Enemie to the party condemned but has not the least Authority in the Church nor can have as such no not so much as of a Pastor of a Parish we ought not I say to think such a one a competent Officer to enjoyn the duty of acceptance no more then the bare being of it in print a sufficient promulgation And what speculation assures necessary the practice of the Court of Rome confirms which has it's Nuncio's in several places to signifie their Pleasure and Commands in their respective Districts where they think it prudent that is where they hope they shall obtain to be obey'd Let then the spreader or presser of those Decrees and much more of an Act of the Roman Inquisition be ask't by what Authority he promulgates them demand his Patent or Order and if he know none he is convinc't to be a busie fellow and his Action being opposite to our Catholick English Laws a deeply punishable Offender to boot THIRD DEMAND WHether any of the three Decrees last mention'd even though legally sent be held obligatory in any Catholick Province till accepted by the Civil and Ecclesiastical State Experience teaches us the contrary in the most Authoritative of these three Canons of Councils since 't is known those of the Council of Ternt oblige not in some Catholick Counties and the reason constantly render'd is because they were never received We see also that Roman Decrees are frequently disaccepted by Catholick Counties and even Nuncio's if they too zealously presse them forc'd to flie and hide their heads for acting against the just Right of the Civil Magistrate as of late years the busie-Jesuited Internunce of Brussels was by the Senate of Brabant I presume then I may give a Negative Answer to this Demand I am sure no French Subject durst nor truly Loyal English one ought to say the contrary FOVRTH DEMAND VVHether the Ecclesiastical Governors either dare in prudence or will in Loyaltie receive an Act of this Nature without leave of the civil Magstrate And whether it be ever likely such reception will be yielded to This I know when the intollerably scandalous Apologie of the Casuists put out by the Jesuites was about to be condemned by the Sorbon and that the blow was judg'd unavoidable the Jesuites endeavoured to get this Clause inserted against the Provincial Letters Quas non probat facultas utpote quas audivit Romae damnatas Which the faculty approves not because it heard they were condemned at Rome And though this were but an occasional glance and imported only a non-improvement yet because they mention'd the Roman Inquisition Act as the reason of their non-Approbation see how tender the State of France were of it The Advocate General Mens Talon sent for some prime Sorbon Doctors ratled them soundly and told them that that Clause was contrary to the Custome of the Kingdom that it could not be used without acknowledging the Inquisition and that it would not be suffered And can we think we owe less obedience to His Sacred Majestie and our English Laws than they in France to theirs Or do we conceive it less illegal to bring the Roman Inquisition into England than 't is in France to bring it in thither In France none without the Princes leave may receive any Act of the Roman Inquisition upon this Motive because it is theirs or express their non-approvement because that Tribunal has done so In England quite contrary these disloyal men tell their Adherents none dare refuse such Acts or hold them unobliging and upon this sole Motive because they proceed from that Inquisition The Laws of our Catholick Ancestors strictly forbid the extolling the power of the Bishop of Rome that is debar his extraordinary Authority these men and their followers go farther and presume not only to extol beyond measure the Popes power as Head of the Church but even that far lesser one of the Roman Inquisition and make it domineer over the English Subjects without the Magistrates licence Thus incroachment would come in by inches and invading the just rights of the Civil Power advance towards that proud and scandalous Doctrine of deposing Kings which the Roman Court of late times by its Decrees has too much and too often abetted and hence is this busle of the Jesuites to preserve this principle alive though they see it not seasonable now to press it home to the Conclusion But they meet with honester and better principled spirits among all but their own party as the loyal-hearted Catholick Clergie the ancient Religious Order of S. Bennet and other Regulars whose perfect submission to the Laws of their Country in what touches not Faith is incapable of the least blemish other then what is imputed to them by occasion of the Society of such false brethren against whom they do not publikely enough declare and so are sometimes mistaken by strangers to hold their Opinions Taking then the Negative of this Demand for granted I advance to my FIFTH DEMAND VVHether it appear not to be most unseasonably illegal and even ayming at the ruine of all the hopes of mitigation now endeavoured to attempt and press at this time as the Jesuited party does the slavery of English Catholicks to the Roman Inquisition I conceive the Fact and the terms evince it so plainly that it needs no proof SIXTH DEMAND VVHether it be not the height of Passion and Unchristianism to urge such Decrees as matters of Faith T is known some Divines among whom is S. Austin place the Rule of Faith in the diffused body of Christians and make their acceptation the last and best Test of even a General Councils Infallibility in Faith-Definitions Many deny a Council without a Pope to be infallible more a Pope without a Council or the Pope with an inferiour Council Almost all an inferiour Council without the Pope but none till our unhappy dayes had ever the audaciousness to say that an Inquisitions Decree toucht faith either as to its constitution or dissolution or had the knack of personal infallibility annext to it nor God be praised dare they now say it but in corners among their abused Bigots from whose mouths you hear the Eccho of their deluding Instructers 'T is known that Inquisition goes to work like prudential men he understands very little of that Court who imagines the Pope or Cardinals trouble themselves with reading all those Books that are propos'd to their Censures Their way is to commit the Perusal of them to some Divines who as the world has gone for these few late Years are either Jesuites or Jesuited that is inveterate enemies to the party we treat of upon what score I told you