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A29408	A Brief account of the proceedings of the French clergy, in taking away the Pope's usurp'd supremacy, shewing by what steps or degrees the same was effected by way of introduction to the Pope's letter, written to the clergy of France, 11th of Apr. 1682, and their protestarion [i.e. protestation] thereupon, 6th of May following, the letter condemning, and the protestation justifying and ratifying the said proceedings : both which are here published in Latine ... and in English ...		1682 (1682)	Wing B4516; ESTC R14707	15,396	53

Dei jura ac libertatem hujus sedis sanctae Authoritatem Dignitatemque defendere nihil de nobis sed omnia de eo presumentes qui nos confortat operatur in nobis qui jussit Petrum super aquas ad se venire Praeterit enim figura hujus Mundi Dies Domini appropinquat Sic ergo agamus venerabiles Fratres ac dilecti Filii ut cum summus Pater familias Princeps Pastorum rationem ponere voluerit cum servis suis sanguinem pessundatae Laceratae Ecclesiae quam suo acquisivit de nostris manibus non requirat Vobis interim omnibus Apostolicam Benedictionem cui Caelestem accedere optamus intimo Paterni amoris affectu impartimur Datum Romae c. The Popes Letter to the Clergy of France To the Reverend Brethren the Arch-Bishops Bishops c. IT hath been an extream grief and disturbance to that Paternal affection which we have for our dear Son Lewis the Most Christian King your Churches your selves and the whole Kingdom to understand by your Letter to us dated Feb. 3. that the Bishops and Clergy of France which heretofore were the Crown and joy of the Apostolick See should now so demean themselves as to compel us with many tears to use the saying of the Prophet The Sons of my Mother have fought against me though indeed you rather fight against your selves while you oppose us in that Cause in which the Welfares and Liberties of your Churches are involved and in which being called upon by some pious and couragious men of your Order we immediately appeared for the defence of the Episcopal Rights and Dignity in that Kingdom and we have already begun to act not regarding our own private Interests but shall give due satisfaction to all the Churches and also to our own care of and Affection toward you That your said Letter contains nothing in it either pleasing to us or worthy of your selves the very beginning of it discovers for besides what it mentions of a Rule observed in calling and holding Assemblies we take notice that it proceeds from Fear which Gods Priests were never wont to choose for their Counsellor in matters of Difficulty and importance relating to Religion and Ecclesiastical Liberty either in attacking the valiant or compleating the constant which fear you falsly supposed you could have infused into our breast For the love of Christ which casts out and drives away fear ought always to dwell there and with what affection our fatherly bowels have yearned toward you and the Kingdom of France hath been manifested by many Signal instances which it will be needless here to insert But if our love merits well of you in any thing we think it doth particularly in the business of the Regalia on which if you seriously consider it the whole Dignity and Authority of your order depends So that you have seared where no fear was whereas you should only have feared the just censure both of God and Men for having been wanting to your Duty Honour and Pastoral Office you should often have called to mind the holy Prelates of old whose examples of Episcopal constancy and courage were followed by many in after ages In such cases the lives of your Predecessors are proposed for your Imitation not only those who flourished in your Fathers days but even within your own Memory And you who commend the sayings of Ivon Carnocensis should also have imitated his actions where occasion required it you know what he did and suffered in that turbulent and dangerous Contention between Pope Urban and King Philip thinking it his Duty to incur the Kings displeasure to be deprived of his goods and indure imprisonment and exile while others deserted that Righteous cause It is your Duty to joyn your Endeavours with the Authority of the Apostolick See and with a Pastoral heart and Priestly humility to plead the cause of your Churches before the King by informing his Conscience of the whole matter though it be with the danger of Provoking his indignation against you that so you may hereafter be able without blushing to sing daily the words of David I have declared thy Testimonies before Kings and was not ashamed How much rather then ought you to have done the like having had large experience of the Justice and Piety of the best of Kings who as your selves have written and we with great delight have read in your letter of his singular goodness hearkens to the Bishops favours the Churches and preserves the Episcopal Power inviolate so that had you pleaded with the King in the defence of so just a Cause we doubt not either that you would have wanted words to express your desires or he inclinations to grant them But having as it were forgot your own duty and the Kings equity you have been silent in a business of so great moment and we cannot imagine upon what probable ground you say you were induced to it that you were overuled in the controversy and that you fell in the cause for how can he fall who never stood Did any of you ever plead in so just so weighty and so sacred a Cause before the King And yet your Predecessors when they were in the like danger have many times with great freedom defended this Cause in the presence of former Kings of France yea before this very King too and have returned victorious bringing with them the reward of a Pastoral Office from that just Prince Who among you enters the Lists to fight for the House of Israel who dares expose himself to envy who hath spoken so much as one word in memory of the Antient Liberty They have indeed as you write spoken loud enough but it was in a bad Cause and when the Kings Ministers cried aloud for the Kings Right you in the best of Causes viz. for the Honour of Christ were silent Nor is it of any more validity that when you give us an account of or more truly make your excuse for what you had done in such Assemblies you aggravate the jealousie that the Ecclesiastical and Secular Powers were like to clash and that great mischeifs might follow thereupon both to Church and State and therefore you thought it your Duty to consider how a stop might be put to the growing differences and that none seem'd more Proper to you than that which was prescribed by the Fathers of the Church viz. a wholesome Condescention for moderating the Canons according to the necessity of the time when neither the verity of the Faith or honesty of manners will be endangered thereby Then you declare that your Order the Gallican Church yea the Universal Church owes very much to your renowned King who you say has already merrited highly of the Catholick Religion and strives dayly to merit more by which Act you have relinquished your right and have given it to the King We forbear here to mention what you tell us of the Secular Magistrate you appealed

Cleri Gallicani ECclesia Gallicana suis se regit Legibus propriasque consuetudines inviolate custodit quibus Gallicani Pontifices majores nostri nulla definitione nullaque autoritate derogatum esse voluerunt quas ipsi summi Pontifices agnoscere laudare dignati sunt Prope tamen est ut perfringantur leges justae quas prisca Galliarum Religio reverendaque vetustas inconcassas fecerunt Ecce etenim quod sine acerbissimo animi Sensu dici non potest hisce annis superioribus per provincias Galliarum civitates Literae Apostolicae seminatae sunt quibus antiqua Gallicanae Ecclesiae jura patriae Instituta aperte violantur ex iis scilicet intelligimus de Regni Ecclesiarumque nostrarum negotiis contra mores nostros usurpatam esse cognitionem inauditis partibus pronuntiata Judicia jurisdictionem Episco porum concultatam denique contra Canones Ecclesiasticos contra consuetudines illustrissimae Gallicanae Ecclesiae Metropolitanae gladium excommunicationis intentatum Esse Dolet Clerus Gallicanus queriturque ex his aliis quae exinde facta sunt oppressas Libertates Ecclesiarum pertarbatam Ecclesiae pacem illatum dedecus Pontificali Ordini Terminosque perruptos quos patres sui constituerunt ne officium causam suam deserere aut praevaricari suae Dignitati Ecclesiarumque suarum cummodis videantur Publica contestatione obliqui contra inertis silentii a se movere culpam decrevit ut exemplo patrum suorum in posterum provisum sit ne quid nocere possit juribus Libertatibus Ecclesiae Gallicanae eoque magis inclinat in eam sententiam quod summus Pontifex Innocentius xi morum antiquorum Cannonicae Disciplinae severus actor non patietur fieri injuriam Decretis suorum Praedecessorum Canonibus promulgatis qui rescindebant quidquid subreptum contra privata Provinciarum jura nolebant si quidem Ecclesiarum privilegia quae semper conservanda sunt confundi Propterea Clerus idem Gallicanus professus antea omnem reverentiam obedientiamque quam semper exhibuit perpetuoque exhibiturus est Cathedrae Petri in qua potentiorem agnoscit principatum coram C. D. Joanne Baptista Lauro protonotario Apostolico nuntiaturae Apostolicae Galliarum Auditore protestari constituit sicut de facto protestatur per praesentes ne literis Pontificiis datis ad Episcopum Aepamiensem die Secunda Octobris 1680. ad Ecclesiae Aepamiensis Capitulim eadem 2d a die Octobris ad Archiepiscopum Tolosanum die Prima Januarii 1681. ad Moniales seu Canonicas Regulares Congregationis B. M. V. Monastterii de Charonna die 7. Augusti 15. Octobris vel aliis exinda illiarum virtute actis secutis quibuscunque damnum aliquod seu praejudicium juribus Ecclesiae Gallicanae fieri possit neve ejus in aliis locis Temporibus hoc in exemplum Authoritatem trahat ut antiquos Ecclesiae Canones avitas Regni consuetudines receptosque mores Ecclesiae Gallicanae oppugnare audeat aut propterea quidquam sibi licere existimet Immo vero nemo nesciat hoc nihil obstare quo minus Canones consuetudines Jura Libertates ejusdem Ecclesiae pristimam vim Authoritatem retineant custodiant Hoc clerus Gallicanus sibi suisque privilegiis cautum consultumque volens omnibus notum esse ne quis ignorantiae causam praetexat Datum Comitiis Generalibus Cleri Gallicani Lutetiae habitis Anno Domini 1682. Die vero Sexta mensis Maii. The Protestation of the Gallican Clergy THE Gallican Church is Govern'd by her own Laws and keeps inviolate her own Customs which the Gallican Prelates our Ancestors would not in the least suffer to be infring'd by any Decree or Authority whatsoever and which the Popes themselves have vouchsafed to acknowledge and commend Yet now those just Laws which the Old Gallican Religion and venerable Antiquity had made unalterable are like to be destroyed for which cannot be mention'd without great trouble of mind these last preceding years Apostolick Letters have been dispers'd through the several Provinces and Cities of France by which the Ancient Rights of the Gallican Church and statutes of our Country are openly violated for by them we find that contrary to our usages cognisance of the affairs both of our Kingdom and Churches has been usurped sentence pronounced without hearing the parties concerned the Jurisdiction of the Bishops trampled on and in fine the Sword of Excomunication drawn contrary to the Ecclesiastical Canons and Customs of the famous Galican Metropolitan Church Now the Gallican Clergy are troubled and complain that by reason of these and other things done since the Liberties of their Churches are oppress'd the peace of the Church disturb'd the pontifical Order disgrac'd and the bounds fix'd by their Ancestors Transgres'd And that they may not be thought to abandon their Cause and Duty or betray their Dignity and the profits of their Churches they have determined openly to declare against these things by a publick Protestation and thereby to remove from themselves the scandal of a base and cowardly silence that so according to the example of their Fathers they may provide that hereafter nothing may be able to injure the Rights and Liberties of the Gallican Church and they do the rather incline to this opinion because Pope Innocent xi being a strict executor of antient Customs and Canonical Discipline will not suffer any injury to be done to the Decrees of his Predecessors and those publick Canons which made void whatsoever had crept in contrary to the private Rights of the Provinces for they would not permit the priviledges of the Churches to be confounded which ought always to be preserved Wherefore the said Gallican Clergy having first professed all due Reverence and Obedience which they ever have paid and ever will pay to St. Peters See where they acknowledge a greater Power resides have determined to Declare and protest and by these Presents do Declare and Protest in the presence of the most Noble Lord Joannes Baptista Laurus Apostolick Protonotary and Auditor of the Apostolick Legation in France that neither the Popes Letters to the Bishop of Pamiez Dated October the 2d 1680. to the Chapter of the Church of Pamiez the same day to the Arch Bishop of Tholouse January the 1. 1681 to the Nuns or Female Canonical Regulars of the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Monastery of Charonne August the 7th and 15. October or by any others since or by any things acted or done by Vertue of the same the least Damage or prejudice whatsoever can accrew to the Rights of the Gallican Church nor can he at other places and times draw this into Precedent and Authority that he should thereby presume to oppose the Ancient Canons of the Church Customs of the Kingdom and the receiv'd usages of the Gallican Church or that therefore he should think that he may do what he lists On the contrary let all Men know that this doth not at all hinder the Canons Customs Rights and Liberties of the said Church from retaining and keeping their Antient force and Authority the Gallican Clergy having thus provided for and secured themselves and their Priveledges do Will and Require that these Presents be made publick that so no Man may pretend Ignorance Dated in the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy at Paris May the 6th 1682. FINIS