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A69677	Brutum fulmen, or, The bull of Pope Pius V concerning the damnation, excommunication, and deposition of Q. Elizabeth as also the absolution of her subjects from their oath of allegiance, with a peremptory injunction, upon pain of an anathema, never to obey any of her laws or commands : with some observations and animadversions upon it / by Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln ; whereunto is annexed the bull of Pope Paul the Third, containing the damnation, excommunication, &c. of King Henry the Eighth.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.; Catholic Church. Pope (1566-1572 : Pius V). Regnans in excelsis. English & Latin.; Catholic Church. Pope (1534-1549 : Paul III). Ejus qui immobilis permanens. English & Latin.	1681 (1681)	Wing B826; ESTC R12681	274,115	334

Faith and for our amendment suffered to be punished with so great Afflictions might be preserved uncorrupt But the number of the ungodly hath gotten such power there is now no place left in the whole World which they have not assayed to corrupt with their most wicked Doctrines Amongst others Elizabeth the pretended Queen of England a Slave of Wickedness lending thereunto her helping hand with whom as in a Sanctuary the most pernicious of all men have found a Refuge This very Woman having seized on the Kingdom and monstrously usurping the place of Supream Head of the Church in all England and the chief Authority and Jurisdiction thereof hath again brought back the said Kingdom into miserable destruction which was then newly reduced to the most Catholick Faith and good Fruits Sect. 2. For having by strong hand inhibited the exercise of the true Religion which Mary lawful Queen of famous memory had by the help of this See restored after it had been formerly overthrown by Henry the Eighth a Revolter therefrom and following and embracing the Errors of Hereticks she hath removed the Royal Council consisting of the English Nobility and filled it with obscure men being Hereticks oppressed the Embracers of the Catholick Faith placed impious Preachers Ministers of Iniquity abolished the Sacrifice of the Mass Prayers Fastings choice of Meats unmarried Life and the Catholick Rites and Ceremonies Commanded Books to be read in the whole Realm containing manifest Heresie and impious Mysteries and Institutions by her self entertained and observed according to the Prescript of Calvin to be likewise observed by her Subjects presumed to throw Bishops Parsons of Churches and other Catholick Priests out of their Churches and Benefices and to bestow them and other Church Livings upon Hereticks and to determine of Church Causes prohibited the Prelates Clergy People to acknowledge the Church of Rome or obey the Precepts and Canonical Sanctions thereof compelled most of them to condescend to her wicked Laws and to abjure the Authority and Obedience of the Bishop of Rome and to acknowledge her to besole Lady in Temporal and Spiritual matters and this by Oath imposed Penalties and Punishments upon those which obeyed not and exacted them of those which persevered in the Unity of the Faith and their Obedience aforesaid cast the Catholick Prelates and Rectors of Churches in Prison where many of them being spent with long languishing and sorrow miserably ended their lives All which things seeing they are manifest and notorious to all Nations and by the gravest Testimony of very many so substantially proved that there is no place at all left for Excuse Defence or Evasion Sect. 3. We seeing that impieties and wicked actions are multiplied one upon another moreover that the persecution of the faithful affliction for Religion groweth every day heavier heavier through the instigation and means of the said Elizabeth because we understand her Mind to be so hardned and indurate that she hath not only contemned the godly Requests and Admonitions of Catholick Princes concerning her healing and conversion but also hath not so much as permitted the Nuncios of this See to cross the Seas into England are strained of necessity to betake our selves to the Weapons of Justice against her not being able to mitigate our sorrow that we are drawn to take punishment upon one to whose Ancestors the whole State of Christendom hath been so much bounden Being therefore supported with his Authority whose pleasure it was to place Us though unable for so great a burthen in this Supream Throne of Justice we do out of the fulness of our Apostolick power declare the aforesaid Elizabeth being an Heretick and a favourer of Hereticks and her Adherents in the matters aforesaid to have incurred the sentence of Anathema and to be cut off from the Unity of the Body of Christ. Sect. 4. And moreover we do declare Her to be deprived of her pretended Title to the Kingdom aforesaid of all Dominion Dignity and Priviledge whatsoever Sect. 5. And also the Nobility Subjects and People of the said Kingdom and all others which have in any sort sworn unto her to be forever absolved from any such Oath and all manner of Duty of Dominion Allegiance and Obedience As we also do by Authority of these presents absolve them and do deprive the same Elizabeth of her pretended Title to the Kingdom and all other things abovesaid And we do Command and Interdict all and every the Noblemen Subjects people and others aforesaid that they presume not to obey her or her Monitions Mandates and Laws And those which shall do the contrary We do innodate with the like Sentence of Anathema Sect. 6. And because it were a matter of too much difficulty to convey these presents to all places wheresoever it shall be needful our will is that the Copies thereof under a publick Notaries hand and sealed with the Seal of an Ecclesiastical Prelate or of his Court shall carry altogether the same credit with all people Judicial and Extrajudicial as these presents should do if they were exhibited or shewed Given at Rome at St. Peters in the Year of the Incarnation of our Lord 1570. the Fifth of the Calends of May and of our Popedom the Fifth year Damnatio Excommunicatio Elizabethae Reginae Angliae eique Adhaerentium cum aliarum poenarum Adjectione Pius Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei ad perpetuam Rei memoriam REgrans in Excelsis cui data est Omnis in Coelo in Terra Potestas unam Sanctam Catholicam Apostolicam Ecclesiam extra quam nulla est salus soli in terris videlicet Apostolorum Principi Petro Petrique Successori Romano Pontifici in Potestatis plenitudine tradidit Gubernandam Hunc unum super omnes Gentes omnia Regna Principem constituit qui evellat destruat dissipet disperdat plantet aedisicet ut fidelem populum mutuae Charitatis nexu constrictum in unitate Spiritus contineat salvumque incolumem suo exhibeat salvatori Sect. 1. Quo quidem in munere obeundo Nos ad praedictae Ecclesiae gubernacula Dei Benignitate vocati nullum laborem intermittimus omni operà contendentes ut ipsa Vnitas Catholica Religio quam illius Auctor ad probandam suorum fidem correctionem nostram tantis procellis conslictari permisit integra conservetur Sed Impiorum numerus tantum potentia invaluit ut nullus jam in Orbe locus sit relictus quem illi pessimis doctrinis corrumpere non tentârint adnitente inter caeteros flagitiorum servâ Elizabeth praetensâ Angliae Reginâ ad quam veluti ad asylum omnium infestissimi profugium invenerunt Haec eadem Regno occupato supremi Ecclesiae capitis locum in omni Angliâ ejusque praecipuam Auctoritatem atque Jurisdictionem monstruose sibi usurpans regnum ipsum jam tum ad Fidem Catholicam bonam frugem reductum rursus in exitium miserum revocavit Sect. 2.

and Judged that sufficient without going to Rome The Bishop of Rome in those days pretended to no more Supremacy or Infallibility in the Apostolical Church and Chair at Rome then the Bishop of Ephesus or Corinth in the Apostolical Chairs and Churches of those Cities If Sedes Apostolica and Cathedra Apostolica be a sufficient ground to infer and prove Supremacy then either all such Churches must be Supream which is impossible or none at all which is certainly true 3. But they say The Bishop of Rome is Peter ' s Successor and on this they principally and generally ground his Supremacy as derived to him Jure ●●●cessions and Jure Divino too by Divine Right and Succession Now if this be true if Succession to Peter carry Supremacy with it Then seeing they constantly say 1. That Peter was seven years Bishop of Antioch before he was of Rome 2. And that Euodius was his Successor there I desire to know why the Supremacy did not descend to Euodius his first and immediate Successor For admit that Peter had such Supremacy and that it was not Personal but to be transmitted to some Successor both which are manifestly untrue yet seeing such Transmission of his Supremacy must be done either 1. By some Act of our blessed Saviour Or 2. By some Act of Peter transmitting his Supremacy to his Successor at Rome and not to Euodius at Antioch it will concern our Adversaries to shew such Act of our blessed Saviour or Peter For if they can we will submit and give the Cause but if they cannot then seeing idem est non esse non apparere they must pardon our unbelief if we assent not to that which they cannot prove I say cannot prove there being not one syllable in Scripture or Antiquity for Six hundred years I might give more either expresly affirming or from which it may by good Consequence be deduced that either our blessed Saviour or Peter did transmit such a Monarchical Supremacy and Infallibility to the Bishop of Rome more then to the Bishop of Antioch If any man think otherwise let him give us good proof of the contrary and we will give him thanks and the Cause 2. But admit that the Pope succeeds Peter and really sits in Cathedrâ Petri as his Successor which is evidently untrue yet this will not prove his Monarchical Supremacy if it do appear that any other Apostle succeeded our blessed Saviour before Peter was Bishop any where and by his own Appointment sat in our blessed Saviour's Place and Episcopal Chair as his Successor I say if this appear then as our blessed Saviour is far greater then Peter so his Successor will be greater then the Pope and have a fairer pretence for the Supremacy as our blessed Saviour's immediate Successor then the Pope can possibly have as Peter's Now for this let our Adversaries consider what Epiphanius says Thus James the Brother of 〈◊〉 Lord was the first Bishop when our blessed Savio●r concredited and resign'd to him before all others his Throne or Episcopal Chair on Earth And he● let it be consider'd 1. That in Scripture 〈◊〉 blessed Saviour is call'd a Bishop Vnivers● Bishop of the whole Church with Monarchi●cal and Kingly Power 2. He was in a particula● and peculiar way Bishop of the Jews he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Peculiar Oversight and Cure 〈◊〉 them He was sent in Person only to them He Constituted a Church among● them Ordain'd Apostles and Seventy othe● Inferior Ministers whom he sent to Preac● and do Miracles in Confirmation of their Doctrine he constantly preached the Gospel amongst them and did all those Acts a Bishop should do in his Diocese 3. And Jerusalem being the Metropolis of the Jews Epiphanius tells us that it was on Earth his Throne Thronus suus his Episcopal Seat or Chair where he usually was preach'd and did Miracles 4. He says That our blessed Saviour chose James before all the Rest even before Peter and concredited and resigned to him Thronum suum his Episcopal Seat and that James was Bishop of Jerusalem is attested by all Antiquity And this probably was the Reason 1. Why Paul names James as Bishop of Jerusalem before Peter 2. Why in the Council of the Apostles James and not Peter gave the definitive Sentence So that these things seem to me certain 1. That our blessed Saviour though Bishop of the Universal Church yet he had a Particular Episcopal Cure and Charge of the Jews As his Father was King of all the World yet Particularly of the Jews 1. Sam. 12. 12. it was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. That James was his Successor in that Cure 3. And if Epiphanius say true our blessed Saviour himself appointed him his Successor Let our Adversaries by so good Authority shew that Peter was our blessed Saviour's Successor either at Rome as some of them before mention'd only pretend or any where else and for my part let them take the Cause Otherwise if they cannot then we may evidently conclude That if James never did nor could pretend justly to a Monarchical Supremacy over the whole Church though our blessed Saviour's Successor much less may the Pope for succeeding Peter Q. E. D. 4. But the Pope they say is Christ's Vicar and that he is or should be so we grant But we further say that many thousands besides him are Christ's Vicars as well and as much as he This has been manifestly proved before I shall only add that the Trent Fathers who far they were inspired by the Holy Ghost and so surely Infallible expresly say and Synodically define That our blessed Saviour before his Ascention left all Priests his own Vicars to whom as to Presidents and Judges all Mortal sins were to be Confess'd And Aquinas and their Schoolmen say That in the Church the Bishop is Christ's Vicar and they prove it well from the express and plain words of the Apostle and they might have added also 2. Cor. 5. 20. And Henry Holden a Learned Sorbon Doctor in his Annotations upon those Texts says the same thing And now if to be Christ's Vicar give any ground or pretence to Supremacy then all Bishops and Priests who are Confess'd to be Christ's Vicars may pretend to Supremacy as well as the Pope And they being Christ's Vicars as to the Power of Absolving and Retaining Sins every poor Priest has as much power to absolve the Pope as he him So that any Argument drawn from this Title that he is Christ's Vicar to prove the Popes Supremacy is not only Inconsequent but Impertinent and indeed Ridiculous And yet upon this ground and another as Insignificant Pope Innocent the Fourth in their General Council at Lions Excommunicates and Deposes the Emperor Friderick Seeing says the Pope there we are Christ's Vicar on Earth and it was in the Person of Peter said to us Whatsoever thou binds on Earth

to any Monastery or Religious House whatsoever be they of whatsoever Order of Regulars And not only these but All Doctors Masters Regents and Professors of any Art or Faculty whether they be of the Laity or Clergy or Regulars of any Order whatsoever in any Vniversity publick School or any where else in Cities Vniversities Towns Churches or Monasteries whether they profess Divinity Canon or Civil Law Physick Philosophy Grammar or any other Liberal Art publickly or privately and all who take any Degrees in any Vniversity All these that is almost all the Learned men in the Papacy by the Disposition and Appointment of the Pope and Council of Trent are to promise vow and swear to obey the Pope as Peter ' s Successor and Christ's Vicar and to receive and without All Doubting to Profess all Things deliver'd defin'd and declared in the Sacred Canons and General Councils Especially in the Council of Trent and all this they swear to do most constantly so long as they live and to take care to the utmost of their Ability that all under them or committed to their Charge shall do so too And the Pope there further tells us That God Almighty did by the Holy Ghost Inspire the Trent Fathers to require That this Oath should be taken Seeing then there are so many thousands in the Church of Rome who do and must take this cursed Oath to Obey the Pope and receive and without doubting believe all their Rebellious Canons before mention'd and to the utmost of their Power to perswade and induce all who are under their Cure and Charge that is all the Laity in the whole Roman Church for all of them are under the Charge and Cure of some of those who take that Oath to receive and believe them too Hence it manifestly follows 1. That the Church of Rome approves those impicus and rebellious Doctrines to which so many thousands swear by the Command of the Pope and Trent Council 2. That all their Ecclesiasticks Secular and Regular who have any Cure of Souls and Charge over others are bound not only by their Papal Constitutions and Decrees of their General Councils but by a Personal Promise Vow and Oath in facinus Jurasse putes to believe and profess and as there is opportunity to practise according to these Principles 3. And hence it appears That Queen Elizabeth was and all Protestant Kings and Princes are and in the like case will be in most eminent Danger of assassination by her Popish Subjects especially after Pope Pius the fifth had damn'd and deposed her absolved all her Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and Commanded them on pain of Excommunication never to obey her or any of her Laws or Commands it being also declared by their Supream Infallible Power That the killing the Queen by open War publickly or privately by Poyson or Pistol had neither been Rebellion Treason nor Murder but an Act morally good and meritorious by which they should merit not only Heaven but a higher Degree of Glory in it and be as Glorious Martyrs if they died in that Cause commended to Posterity Nay when their Ecclesiasticks both Secular and Regular who had any Cure of Souls or Authority and Charge over others had promised vow'd and solemnly sworn That they would obey the Pope as Christs Vicar c. I say those who had such great Promises to allure them and their Promise Oath and vow to oblige them to it would certainly indeavour as indeed they did as will appear anon the ruin and destruction of that good Queen Neither is this all For 6. Lastly the Pope and his Party have further Inducements more efficacious and powerful to perswade their Instruments to Assassinate Princes and Extirpate Hereticks especially Protestants the greatest Enemies of their Antichristian Tyranny and Papal Usurpations For although to pious men who really desire and use the just means to obtain it the promise of Eternal Joys in Heaven is the greatest Motive and Incouragement imaginable yet to such Impious and Prodigious Villains who will undertake to kill Kings and murder Innocents Heaven signifies no more then the Diamond did to Aesop's Cock in the Fable who preferr'd a Grain of Barly before it And therefore for such and none but such will serve them in the Execution of such Execrable Villanies they have present and more prevailing Incouragements I mean Money and great Sums of Gold or some vast Temporal Advantages to be injoy'd here which prevails more with such Persons then the Promise of Heaven hereafter I shall out of many give two or three Instances As 1. In the year 1594. Roderigo Lopez a Jew and Physician Stephen Ferriera Gama and Emanuel Loisie two Portugals by the Roman Arts and Impiety were hired and undertook to Poyson Queen Elizabeth Lopez had a rich Jewel sent him and was by Contract to have Fifty thousand Duckets which evidently appeared at their Trial by their own Confessions And though Letters intercepted and the Good Providence of God by whom King's Reign their Villany was detected and they as Traitors justly Executed yet their Popish Desires and Indeavours were not less mischievous and impious because the Good Providence of God graciously prevented the Execution of their Designs 2. This by the Mercy of God not taking Effect for there is no Power or Policy can prevail against Divine Providence a little after in the same year Edmund York and Richard Williams were by the same Roman Arts and Impiety hired to Kill the Queen York at his Trial confess'd That Holt the Jesuit Hugh Owen Jacomo de Francisco and others had offer'd him an Assignment of Forty thousand Duckets if he would Kill the Queen himself or assist Richard Williams in Killing Her This York confess'd at his Trial and that Holt the Jesuit in whose Hand the Assignment of Forty thousand Duckets was deposited kissing the Holy Host swore that the Money should be paid so soon as the Queen was kill'd and bound York and Williams by an Oath and the Sacrament of the Eucharist To Dispatch it In short many others besides these named conspired the assassination and death of the Queen For Instance to omit others 1. Dr. Story Ann. 1572. 2. Somervil Ann. 1583. 3. Dr. Parry Ann. 1585. by the Approbation and Incouragement of the Pope and Cardinal Como 4. John Savage Ann. 1586. 5. Ant. Babington and five or six more with him are incouraged and perswaded to Murder the Queen in the same year 1586. 6. Moody Ann. 1587. 7. Patrich Cullen Ann. 1594. 8. Edward Squire Ann. 1598. 9. Winter and Tesmond the Jesuit Ann. 1602. c. We see there were many too many desperate Villains who valued not their own so that they might take away the Queens life and yet too few Divine Providence preventing their Impious Designs to Effect and Compass that more then Pagan Popish Conspiracy which at so vast an