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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61683	A letter sent to a friend containing some reflections upon a late book intituled, The Roman church vindicated, and M.S. convicted of a false witnesse against her Wherein is declar'd, that the Pope may excommunicate and depose Kings according to the judgement of their greatest doctors, decrees and practices of several Popes, and Canons of their most approved councils; and the author convicted of most notorious falsities, &c. By J.S. B.D.	Stopford, Joshua, 1636-1675.	1675 (1675)	Wing S5743; ESTC R222081	29,048	37

Provincial or not confirmed by the Pope and therefore no Doctrines of the Church But here according to this Gentleman a few Bishops in France and Doctors of Sorbonne have power to make most fundamental Decrees and Doctrines without the Popes Approbation nay against his express Will 2. We find the French Bishops and Sorbonne Doctors asserting the contrary Doctrine In the year 1589 the Leaguers propounded two Questions to the Doctors of Sorbon 1. Whether the People of France may not be discharged from the Oath of Allegiance made to Henry 3 2 Whether the People may with a safe Conscience take up Arms against him And after earnest Prayers that the Spirit of God would direct them a solemn Mass and most diligent discussion of the ‡ de Serres p. 870. * And that the greatest part of the Clergy of France were of the same judgment will not be deny'd by any that hath look't into their Historians Points they answer 1. That Henry both by the Civil and Po●t●fical Law is fallen from his dignity 2. That the People of France may lawfully fight against him 3. That these Decrees be sent to the Pope for his Confirmation Boucher de justa Henrici 3. abdicatione And accordingly a Letter was drawn up and sent to Rome in which they most humbly beseech his Holyness for three things 1. That they may be declar'd absolved from their Oath to Henry 3. 2. That he would decree the War just which they had undertaken against that Oppressor of Publick Religion and Liberty 3. That in this necessary Work he would assist them with his Prayers to God Almighty and with a Jubile of Indulgence that others thereby might be provoked to joyn with them Idem p. 393. To which the good old Gentleman return'd a very gracious Answer and for their greater encouragement issued out his Bull against King Henry and all his Adherents Idem p. 403. And this Author tells us p. 377 the Faculty of Sorbon had done no more than what is incumbent on Lawyers Confessors Parish Priests and Doctors who ought to assert and vindicate the power and dignity of the Roman See Upon the publishing of this Bull the people were greatly encouraged in their Rebellion against their Soveraign whom they no more call King but only Henry de Valois Heretick Tyrant and what not Nay they ●ut him out of the Canon and declared it unlawful to pray for him in Publick Boucher p. 380. And this Author p. 418 informs us That so wonderfully powerfull was this Bull against Henry and his Adherents that by a Miracle one at Venice but offering to speak in behalf of the King sunk presently down and no sooner was carried home but he died And a little after the same Doctors return'd these Answers to certain de Serres p. 894. Quaeries in reference to Henry 4. their lawful King 1. That all Catholicks by Divine Law are forbid to admit any into the Throne that is an Heretick or a favourer of Heresy 2. That those who favour the said Henry are deserters of Religion and continually in a mortal sin so those who for love to their Religion do oppose him do very much merit both of God and Men. And as on the one hand those who assist the King will be Eternally damned so on the other hand 't is most meet to conclude that they who are slain in this Cause against the said Henry shall obtain an eve●lasting Reward and be crowned with the Trophies of Martyrdom See them at large in Mr. Foulis History of Romish Treasons c. p. 566. But about 4 years after when the King had vanquish'd the Leaguers and entred Paris those Sorbon Doctors change their Note make void all former Decrees and profess great Zeal and Loyalty to King Henry 4. Idem p. 591. And what was the Opinion of their Bishops in Lewis 13. time is clear from this following Story Lewis 13. being come to his Majority summoned the three Estates to meet Two of them viz. the Clergy and Nobles presently concluded That the Council of Trent should be published and received in France But the third Estate made this Decree That his Majesty shal be humbly desired that it may be established by the three Estates for a fundamental Law That the King being acknowledged Head in his Dominions holding his Crown and Authority only from God there 's no Power on Earth whatsoever Spiritual or Temporal that hath any Right over his Kingdom either to depose our Kings or dispence with or absolve their Subjects from the Fidelity and Obedience which they owe to their Soveraign for any cause or pretence whatsoever This startles the Clergy who with the Nobles set themselves against the third Estate with a Resolution to quash their Loyal Deecre And to effect this they desired Cardinal Perron a man of great Eloquence and Learning to discuss the Point in an Oration to the third Estate This Cardinal being attended with some Lords and Bishops as Representatives of their respective Estates and to signify that he spake not only his own but their Opinions too went to them where he made a very long * And the Pope gave him thanks for his Speech if K. James may be credited p. 383. Speech to shew the unreasonableness and absurdity of the foresaid Proposition endeavouring to prove by Reason that sometimes Kings should and by Example that sometimes they had been deposed He affirmed that this was the current doctrine in France till the time of Calvin And for the contrary doctrine viz. That Kings are not deposable by the Pope He calls a D●ctrine that bre●ds Shis●ns a Gate that leads into all Heresy and to be held in so high a degree of detestation that rather then yield to it he and his fellow Bishops would chuse to burn at a Stake Sir By this you see how Romish Doctors can alter their Judgements and preach contrary Doctrines according to the present Exigency of Affairs This Cardinal Perron saith our King James p. 386 was a Follower of Henry 4. even when deposed by the Pope and in a certain Assembly holden at the Jacobins in Paris he withstood the Popes Nuntio to his face when the said Nuntio labour'd to make this Doctrine touching the Popes temporal Soveraignty pass for an Article of Faith But in this Speech to the third Estate he confidently affirms that whosoever maintains this Doctrine to be wicked that Popes have power to depose Kings they teach men to believe that there hath not been any Church for many Ages past and that the Church is the very Synagogue of Antichrist Herein hath he very wel acommoda●ed himself to the Times ibid. And that ingenuous Co●fession of the Jesuits in Paris is observable The Court of Parliament having censur'd Anto●ius Sanct●rellus his Book which was printed at Rome by Pe●mission of the Super●ours and Approbation of Vitel●scus General of the Jesuits sent for these Gentlemen and demanded Whether they believ'd as their General did