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A04991 The argument of Mr. Peter de la Marteliere aduocate in the Court of Parliament of Paris made in Parliament, the chambers thereof being assembled. For the Rector and Vniuersitie of Paris, defendants and opponents, against the Iesuits demandants, and requiring the approbation of the letters patents which they had obtained, giuing them power to reade and to teach publikely in the aforesaid Vniuersitie. Translated out of the French copie set forth by publike authoritie.; Plaidoyé de Pierre de la Martelière ... pour le recteur et Université de Paris ... contre les Jesuites. English La Martelière, Pierre de, d. 1631.; Browne, George, lawyer.; Université de Paris. 1612 (1612) STC 15140; ESTC S108203 61,909 128

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Church of England being destitute of Bishops by their monopoly is depriued of the holy sacrament of confirmation Where it is easie to be knowne whether those of the Sorbonne of Paris who haue alwaies mainteined hierarchical order and the dignity of Bishops haue from the yeer 1554. rightly coniectured of their design which is to withdraw from the ordinaries the obedience and subiection due vnto thē if the Iesuits may be sēt forth as Bishops and Curates and by this fulnesse of power haue more authority then the lawfull pastors the Bishops should be but as Vicars destituable at their pleasur S. Paul saith that the power was giuē him not to destroy but to edifie and made scruple to preach the Gospell where Christ should haue bin already preached ne superalienū fundamentū aedificaret Ro. 15. Rupertus interpreting the words of S. Iohn 4. chap Vt cognouit Christus c. saith that the great Mr. of Humility hath taught all the doctors of the Church of the houshold of faith not to intermeddle with nor pester the charges cures one of another although that he were the sun the light it selfe yet he would not manifest himselfe nor shine there where Saint Iohn had first begun to shewe his borrowed light can it be imagined that it is possible to substitute one in the place of the father of the familie with the same power and authority as hee hath to whom nature hath appointed it or as Gerson saith that the ordinarie Pastors which are accountable and answerable before God for their flocke should not haue the guiding and gouernment thereof to conclude that a stranger should haue more priuacie with the wife then the lawfull spouse This is against the aduise of Saint Gregory Non ego honorem esse puto saith he in quo fratres honorem suum perdere cognosco meus namque honor est honor vniuersalis Ecclesiae meus honor fratrum meorum solidus vigor tune ego vere honoratus sum cum singulus quibusque honor debitus non negatur I doe not thinke any honor to bee done vnto mee in that whereby I know that my brethren loose their honour for my honor is the honor of the vniuersall Church my honour is the soliderigour and courage of my brethren then am I truly honored when euery one in particular hath not his due honor and respect denied him Bern. 3. Consid cap. 5. And S. Bernard saith honorū ac dignitatū gradus ordines quibusque suos seruare positi estis nō inuidere You are apointed to preserue maintain the degrees orders of eueryone in his particular place dignity not to enuy them Moreouer the Iesuits doe teach propose and maintaine that the Pope only is infallible the celebration of Councels is but for decencie onely vt facilius canones recipiantur That the Canons may bee more willingly receiued that the Synodall resolutions doe depend not only of the will of the Pope but that hee may dispence with them change and abrogate them when hee thinketh good that the sacred elections are neither from the law of God or nature and appertaine only to the Pope Cardinall Bellarmine in the first booke De clericis chap. 8. and that hee may dispose of benefices yea to the preiudice of the Patrons and of those vpon whom they are conferred etiam sine causa yea without any cause the proper tearmes of Emmanuel Sa in verbo Papa That the Buls constitutions censures and excommunications yea the Bull in coena Domini and the Councell of Trent in that which concerneth the ciuill Policie doe oblige the French men in conscience although the French Church neuer gaue consent thereunto nor did euer receiue them Azorius in the 5. booke the 3. chap. of his morall institutions If that the councels doe depend entirely of the authority and approbation of the Pope as they mainteine and the author of the Catholike institution perswadeth when as in reckoning vp those which are legitimate hee omitteth those of Constance and of Basil which can bee vpon no other ground but for want of being approued and allowed by the Popes as Mariana his Colleague hath written it followeth and see the mischiefe they runne headlong into that all the liberties of the French Church founded vpon the authoritie of the Councels are schismaticall since there is an higher ascendent then that of the Councels that the appellations which are interposed vpon this foundation are grosse abuses and are abhominable it followeth moreouer that the sacred elections haue not their beginning from the law of God that the Primitiue Church the Church of France haue beene in an error vntill the concordate King Frances betweene the first and Leo the fift that you my Lords doe vsurpe vpon the greatest part of the iurisdiction which you haue and the iustice which you sincerely exercise which the Councell of Trent attributeth to Ecclesiasticall persons As the doctrine of the Iesuits peruerteth the Hierarchicall order of the Church so doth it annihilate the authority of Princes and of politique lawes and drowneth it in the spirituall power and is herein as opposite and contrary to that which our Theologie doth beleeue as white is vnto blacke nor the sensuall appetite to reason and if that calamities past haue not wholy bereft vs of our memorie we may thinke it to be at this time the miraculous hand of God which when wee least thought vpon it seemed to lay open this occasion not only to make vs see but also feele and touch the cause of our sorrowes The Vniuersitie of Paris teacheth that the spirituall power is no lesse separated from the temporall then heauen is from earth The raigne of the sonne of God and of his Vicar our holy father is not of this world the Church ought not to vse beside the Ecclesiasticall censure and that for lawfull causes and in such forme and manner as is prescribed any other meanes but persuasion and not constraint her proceedings which ought to draw vs to eternall beatitude are simply aduise and direction and not force and rigor that it can in no sort appertaine vnto Ecclesiasticall men to meddle in secular affaires all their intermedling ought to be tied vnto the soule and conscience and their iurisdiction vnto those actions which follow and depend on the administration of the sacraments That by the law of God and nature Kings holding amongst men the highest place next and immediately vnder God haue all politique and ciuil power and that they alone haue power ouer all that which concerneth the temporalty and amongst all Princes of the earth our thrice christian Kings to whom it seemeth that God hath communicated the most liuely markes and representation of his image who doe not auow nor acknowledge that they hold of any one but God alone their scepter and their crowne which he hath had in his speciall protection well nigh from the time that the crowne of the Sauiour of the world
Chapter of Deuterno that God did expresly forbid that a vineyard should be plāted of diuers kinds of plants to mixe woollen and linnen together to sow a fielde with diuerse seedes The nouelty of the institution of the Iesuites societie their doctrine different from that of the Church and from the Theologie of our schoole the which neuer swarued nor went out of the eclipticke line of truth yea diameter-wise and directlie opposite and contrary to the authority of free Monarchies hath beene the cause that our ancestors haue earnestly withstood the receiuing of the Iesuites and that the schoole of Sorbone then furnished with the greatest and most famous doctors of Christendome the greatest part whereof were assistant at the Councell of Trent made that famous decree of the yeere 1554. which conteineth a prophesie of the miseries which were felt sithence and endured presages God for our chastisment hath ratified so that the ineuitable necessity in which the enterprises and imprudent passions of the Iesuites doe ingage vs the extreme perill which they haue brought our Countrey vnto cannot but vntie our tongue although we should haue been mute and tongue tyed all our liues for to performe the same duty againe at this present guided by the light of those to whom we would take it for a speciall grace to be resembled either for sufficiency or honesty not being able to faile vpon this occasion to discharge our consciences for the honor and preseruation of the publique weale and for the aduancement of truth vnlesse we will bee thought more zealous to our owne ruine then affectionate to our safety Wherein as our intention is to take the same decree of our schoole for the rule and measure of this demonstration which the Iesuites could neuer procure to be censured at Rome where our deuotion is knowne and where it is not yet out of memory what opposition was made there as well as here at the establishment of the Iesuites which had preuailed had it not beene in regarde of their fourth vow so we will begin with the same protestation which the diuines of Paris then made in which we desire to liue die and for the good of the Catholike Church and of the holy Sea would confirme it with our blood that wee haue no desire to enterprise any thing either in thought word or deed against the authority of our holy fathers the Popes But contrariwise all of vs in generall and each of vs in particular like obedient children doe acknowledge the holie father to be the Vicar of our Lord Iesus Christ the vniuersall Pastour of the Church to whom God hath giuen fulnes of power therein his decrees and constitutions are to be obeyed and reuerenced kept and obserued and as the Vniuersity and schoole of Paris had neuer other beliefe so now doth shee openlie pronounce it with her heart and with all true affection Our Vniuersity together with all Christian people hath reason to take offence and scandall at the vsurpation which the Iesuites haue made vpon the holy name of Iesus in attributing particularly vnto themselues this speciall and incommunicable name which cannot bee giuen for a marke and distinction amongst Christians but is a name of effect and of office which apportaineth vnto none but to the Sauiour of the world neuerthelesse as if the Iesuites in a kinde of analogie or proportion could doe something in the Church like vnto that they would make men belieue that their society is essentially necessary for the Catholique religion that without them it cannot subsist they say that they were chosen by the diuine prouidence for a rule and reformation in these latter times Ad silentium tumidis magisterijs imponendum defectus aliorum corrigendos supplendos To suppresse and put to silence the haughty doctors and to supplie and correct the defects of other men As Ozorius hath written in his second sermon vpon the death of father Ignatius applying vnto their society the dreames and vaine fancies of the Abbot Ioachim condemned by the Church Whereuppon it followes that they submit all that which concerneth the honor of God or the good of the Catholike religion to the particular interest of their society and repute all those for heretikes which doe not follow their diuelish opinions and concurre with them in their subtilties and cunning practises This is the reason that Ribadenera writeth that Ignatius Loiola framed his religion by reason that all the rest were defectiue whence it proceedeth that by the Bulles of Pope Pius the fifth and sixth they haue gotten by way of preuention all the graces indulgences faculties and priuiledges which can be found euer to haue beene granted to any Antehac concessa concedenda A testimony that their ambition is not yet at the point where they will stay In their institution they haue wholy derogated from the discipline of the Church and from all the ancient Canonicall constitutions it may be truly saide as the decree of the Sorbonne hath already pronounced that they haue built and raised themselues vpon the ruine and decay of monasticall discipline All the religious men which since the time of our Sauiour Christ haue chosen a kinde of life speciall and different from that which is ordinary and common to all Christians haue made immutable vowes taken markes whereby to be discerned stedfast immoueable and perpetuall rules The law of God doth command that that which is dedicated and consecrated vnto God by the sanctification of a solemne vow should remaine for euer assured and setled in that estate which is the highest degree of perfection that can bee imagined whence it commeth to passe that in things inanimate and without life wee cannot make that which is sanctified perseuering in his integrity to be vnhallowed and loose the force of his consecration Farre greater reason then is it that a man vowed dedicated consecrated vnto God should not loose this essentiall quality and inseparable from the subiect Saint Thomas setting downe the difference betweene a simple Vow and a solemne vow as that of entring into religion is teacheth vs that the solemnity of a vow consisteth in the consecration of him which is vowed Quando per certaeregulae professionem relicto saeculo abdicata propria voluntate perfectionis statum assumit When by taking vpon him the profession of a certaine rule or Order forsaking the world and renouncing his owne will and affections he doeth assume the estate of perfection which all the Diuines hold cannot be abandoned nor forsaken without Apostasie The Iesuites at the entring into their order do make a solemn vow between the hands of their superior and a solemne profession to liue according to the rules of their society the which are of Obedience Pouerty Chastity notwithstanding by permitting as they doe those of their order to change their forme and manner of life to possesse goods and riches to succeed their ancestors as heires and at a need to marry as many of