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A67551	The principall duty of Parliament-men, or, A short and compendious treatise concerning the unity and unanimity, which should be in the members of that honourable assembly / Richard Wood ...	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1641 (1641)	Wing W805; ESTC R11713	54,613	68

nothing at Gods hand c But the Papists teach That our good works deserve the grace of God and everlasting life also that men may do works of supererogation i. e. over and above those which the Law of God commandeth whereunto the doers thereof are not bound and they are available to help others d And therefore we may truely say That it is a proud and supercilious Religion And Fourthly Popery is a pernicious Religion where it is 〈◊〉 permitted and embraced and that both to Princes and People First To Princes and that in many regards namely 1. The Pope and Popish Clergy chalenge freedome from their power The Scripture indeed teacheth That every soul ought to be subject to the higher powers which are the Magistrates e But the Papi●…ts teach That Ecclesiasticall persons are not subject to the secular power or politick Magistrate but all ought to be subject to the Pope who compareth himself to the sunne and the Emperour to the moon and therefore Emperours and Kings in token of subiection and obedience do kiss●… his feet f And 2. The Pope hath power over Princes and as he saith is of greater authority and power in a Kingdome then the lawfull King and Prince thereof as was observed by a Fryar who saith That it was not without cause that Malchus whose eare Peter cut off was the high Priests servant seeing that Malchus signifieth a King From whence he collects as the Papists indeed would have it and which Princes should observe and mark That as Malchus was servant to the high Priest so the Regall Majesty of Kings and Emperours is subject to the power of Priests g And Dorman said The Pope is the head and Kings and Emperours are the feet And Stanislaus Orichovius in Chimaera saith The Emper●…urs Maiesty is so far inferiour to the Pope in dignity as a creature is inferiour unto God Whence our famous Tindale deliberately and considerately said Popish Kings are but shadowes vain names and idle things having nothing to do in the world but when the Pope needeth their help And 3. The Pope challengeth power to excommunicate Princes and to cast them ou●… of the Church as Pope Clement excommunicated our Henry the eighth and Pope Pius 5. our Elizabeth And 4. The Pope hath power as he saith to depose Princes and to cast them out of their thrones and to dispose of their royalties and egall seats as him listeth Pope Benedict 9. desiring to pu●…l down H●…nry 3. Emperour and to raise up Peter King of Hu●…gary 〈◊〉 ●…im the Crown of the Empire with this verse Petra dedit Rom●…ns Petro tibi Papa coronam The Rock to Peter gave Rome the Town The Pope to thee Peter gives the 〈◊〉 Thus Pope Zichary by the consent or conspiracy of the Nobles of France de 〈◊〉 Chilpericus the true naturall and liege 〈◊〉 tha Realm and placed Pipin in his room And Pope Bonifice the eighth because he could not have the Treasury of France at his command endeavoured with all his both worldly a●…d ecclesiastica●…l puissance to remove Philip the French King from his 〈◊〉 and under his Bulls or Letters pate●…ts conveyed the same solemnly unto Albertus King of the Romans And therefore we do the Papists no wrong in saying Popery is a p●…rnicious doctrine to Princes And 5. Popery teacheth Regicide and King-killing 1. Bernardus de monte Polician●… a Dominick Fryar poysoned Henry Emperour of Lucemberg in the Sacrament John Chastell attempted the death of King Henry the fourth of France and Jaques Clement●…ffected it Thus private papists and priests have practised Regi●…ide 2. The Jesuites the prime pillars of popery do maintain it The popish Divines at Salamanca held That the Catholik●…s in Ireland who did fight against our Queen Elizabeth were by n●…●…onstruction Rebells And this was also thus resolved by John de Sequenza Emanuel de Royas Jasper de Mena and Peter de Osorio professors of Divinity in the Colledge of Jesuites there And John Chastell confessed that the argument of King-killing was ordinary among the Jesuites and the aphorismes of Emanuel Sa confirm as much and likewise a book composed by the principall of the Seminary at Rhemes wherein it was affirme●… and maintained That it was lawfull in certain cases for the Subject to kill the King 3. The Pope himself hath winked at such offendors for many of those who had a hand in the Gun-powder plot fled for that fact into Italy but not any of them was ever questioned reproved punished or called to an account for it by the Pope y●…e fourthly such Judasites and Traitours have be●…n praised by the Pope as we see pope Sixt us 5. who made an oration in praise and commendation of the Fryars faith who murdered Hen●…y 3. of France And fifthly the popes have practised it by their agents for Innocent the fourth after he had excommunicated the Emperour Frederick corrupted one in Apulia to give him poyson of the which the Emperour recovering he afterwards hired his bastard son●…e Manfred us to poyson him whereof he died And Alexander the third writ unto the Soldane that if he would live in quiet he should by some sleight murder the Emperour and to that end sent him the Emperours picture And thus by some gradations and steps it evidently appears That the popish doctrine alloweth of Regicide and King-killing 6. To fill up the mystery of iniquity popery teacheth That it is meritorious to murder those princes who will not take the popes part in the favouring and furthering of his idolatries and superstitions witnesse Cardinall Como his instructions to Parry and Sixt us his oration mentioned before in defense of the Jacobine that murdered Henry the third I will conclude this with a story of our own King James being admonished by Queen Elizabeth a little before the coming of the Spanish Armamado to take heed of the Scottish papists and the King of Spain answered pleasantly That he looked for no other favour of the Spaniards then that which Polyphemus promised to Ulyss●…s To devour him last after all his fellowes were devoured Certainly wofull and wretched experience hath proved this true That those princes who embrace and entertain Popery are not onely in a miserable slavery but also in as great d●… of their dearest lives as any private person if they will not 〈◊〉 all things comply with and be obedient and subiect unto the Pope that man of sinne And therefore our late Prelate now I hope with the Lord who was never corrupted with th●… 〈◊〉 of the times boldly concludes That Jesuited Papists ca●…not be good subjects ●…ndly Popery is a pe●…nicious d●…ctrine to People as well as to P●…inces and that in a threefold regard to wit 1. I●… respect of their estates for faith they say is not to be kept with Hereticks and the Pope can dispense with and absolve from all cove●…ants contracts bonds and bargains made with such And 2. I●… resp●…ct of

he infected former ages yet he doth so mould them a new and cast them into other forms Ut non cognos●… as cosdem esse that we cannot at first fight perceive them to be the same For example The doctrine of the now libertines is for substance the same which the Simonians h●…ld in the first infancy of the Church But the grosse Tenents which his boldnesse broached in former times that it was lawfull yea as some said requisite or rather as others necessary to follow all uncleannesse and so to please and delight those evill spirits to whom by nature we are subject were too broad for these dayes of light and knowledge And therefore he brings in this Harlot muffled with many distinctions sometimes between the upper and neither parts of the body after between the body and the spirit Lastly between the compre●…ending part and other parts of the soul Again Satan desires now as much as ever to reduce the pomp and idolatry of Rome into our reformed Churches but as the Fowler hides his nets with cheffe and himself with bushes and pipes sweetly as if there were nothing there but meat and melody so the devill covers his dangerous purpose with chaffy doctrines and hides himself under other pretences entertaining the simple with delightfull vanities in the mean time assaulting faith as perseverance of the Saints the All-sufficiency of the written Word and heavenly nature of saith c. and labouring to draw us back into some antiquated and demolished vanities of old used by the papists and disused in reformed Churches as Altars Cross s Tapers Images Pictures in walls windows garments and the like because these being once admitted will serve as so many graduall Steps to re-advance that Babylonish Strumpet to that Seat of Supreme and Spirituall Monarchy from whence by our fore-fathers she was iustly dismounted These three mentioned are main causes which fill the world with dissentions For errors are a pleasing bait our wanton appetite greedily embracing them and the devil as a skilfull Angler baits his hook of dissention with them that we may say as Anthoninus once said Vah Domine quis evadere queat O Lord who can escape But Fourthly there is another over-swaying cause of more power than any yea all of these and that is The fearfull wrath of our God delivering up those people to blindenesse and errour whose sinnes he findes ripe unto harvest It is dangerous when Sathan like a roring Lion goes about to deceive us h but much more fearfull when the Lord gives leave and permits him to tempt us i but then beyond all most desperate when our sinnes shall provoke the Lord to seal a Commission or Warrant to this deceiver Go thy way and thou shalt prevail k If men turn the glory of God to the similitude of sinfull man l whether the Prophet and people do wickedly m or the people sacrifice to the golden Calf n or set up Idols in their hearts o God will give up the people to serve the Host of Heaven p and even infatuate the Prophets for their sakes q and make their wayes slippery in darknesse that they may fall therein r and so give them up both priest and people to their own hearts lust and even unto a reprobate sense s For it is a just thing with God if we will not receive the Word of truth to send us strong delusions that we should believe lyes t yea to a people thus given over it will little avail them to have religious Princes Peers and Laws For God will effectuate his own will mauger all impediments u he can make foolish the wise Counsellours and send among them the spirit of errours x he can take away the heart of Princes and make them wander out of the way y yea he hath threatned to make our hearts fat z and sm●…e us with the spirit of slumber that we shall not see for a recompence unto us a Thus your Honours have seen the causes of these differences dissentions and rents which are amongst us and it may now be expected that I should shew the remedies against those causes but I omit it Partly because I have amply shewed the duty both of Magistrates and people for the averting of spirituall as well as temporall plagues from Church and State in my Pious mans practice in Parliament time And Partly because I would not presume to teach a Dolphin to swim or direct your Honours our politick and Ecclesiastick Physitians what physick to administer or what receits to prescribe for the curing and recovering of our sick Church your own Christian care and consideration and pious prudence experience and knowledge being best of all able to direct you herein Thus much therefore shall suffice for the first prime particular of the second main generall viz. That we petition your Honours so to consider of our dissentions divisions and discord and the causes of them that you may use the utmost of your endevour and powe●… to suppresse redresse and take them away The other fellows Secondly the next thing which in the name of all true hearted English and sincere children of the Church of England I humbly beg of your Honours is That true Religion may be established in the unity of truth amongst us by you But it may be your Honours will here demand of me Which is that holy Unity of truth which You desire We should establish and be one in the firm rooting of I might answer unto your Honours That it is the true Religion of Christ But this doth but beget another question viz. Which is that true Religion of Christ Now though it were answer enough against the Papists to say That which the reformed Churches hold according to the written word yet this will not satisfie the doubt amongst our selves considering the manifold Tares of different opinions which Satan hath laboured to sow even in the midst of our Reformed Churches yea in the midst of our own Church of England I might here instance in Lutherans and Zwinglians in non-conformists and conformitans in Calvinists and Remonstrants and Socinians c. What shall we then say to this Shall we take upon us to determine which are true Tenents and which erroneous It were too great a pride to confine all differing learned men to my poor opinion lest they should say unto me When went the Spirit of the Lord from me to speak unto thee a neither will I undertake a work of such arrogancy It will be I hope a more acceptable and profitable course to observe unto your Honours some few Rules and Remonstrances which may serve as Land-marks to overn and direct our doubtfull steps at least probably to find out that heavenly palace of holy truth where we may safely and securely set down our staffe and stay our selves 1. Take heed of innovating in Religion Innovation hath bin ever