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A69679	Popery, or, The principles & positions approved by the Church of Rome (when really believ'd and practis'd) are very dangerous to all and to Protestant kings and supreme powers, more especially pernicious, and inconsistent with that loyalty, which (by the law of nature and scripture) is indispensably due to supreme powers, in a letter to a person of honor / by T. Ld Bishop of Lincoln.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing B840; ESTC R13608	86,020	134

such Principles as these be not dangerous inconsistent with Loyalty and to Protestant Princes pernicious let the World judge Sure I am our Kings and Parliaments knowing by sad experience the fatal and pernicious Consequences of such Popish Principles have publickly declared this their sense and detestation of them I shall give an Instance or two 1. Our Gratious King in a Proclamation having spoken of the Intestine Divisions amongst us it follows ....... Which are CHIEFLY OCCASIONED by the Undermining Contrivances of POPISH RECUSANTS whose Numbers and INSOLENCIES are of late GREATLY increased and whose RESTLESS PRACTICES threaten SUBVERSION to the CHURCH and STATE The restless Practices are the mischievous Consequents of their impious Principles 2. A full Parliament and a Popish one too takes notice of and condemns the Papal Usurpations in taking upon them to dispose of inheritances and Kingdoms in these words .......... The Pope CONTRARY to the inviolable Grants of Jurisdictions BY GOD IMMEDIATELY to Emperors and Kings hath PRESUMD to invest who should please him to inherit in other Mens Kingdoms and Dominions which we your Loyal Subjects SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL ABHORRE and DETEST Such were the Popes Usurpations then but as in Parliament they confess abhorred and detested by Clergy and Laity But now as evidently appears by the lately discovered damnable Conspiracy the Pope and his Party take upon them to Murder our Gratious King whom God preserve and dispose of His Kingdoms Which Practices and Principles which cause and encourage them I do and justly may call Dangerous and when they take effect which I hope they never will Destructive and Pernicious And here further because many of our Popish Party seeing the horridness of this Damnable and Hellish Conspiracy and in reality I hope or at least seem to condemn both it and the Authors of it laying the blame upon the Persons only of some few and with great confidence to give it no worse name denying the Roman Church to approve or receive any Principles which can encourage such Conspiracies or prove pernicious or dangerous to Princes their Persons or Government I shall briefly give you an account of some more of their received Doctrines and Principles besides those already named which have been and while they are believed ever will be prejudicial to Princes and the Peace and Quiet of their Subjects and Dominions For instance 1. The Church of Rome expresly declares it unlawful for Secular Princes to require any Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance of their Clergy and as expresly forbids all their Clergy to take any such Oath if it be required ...... Nimis d● Jure DIVINO quidam LAICI Usurpare cenantur cum Viros Ecclesiasticos nihil temporale continentes ad praestandum sibi FIDELITATIS JURAMENTUM compellunt ...... Sacri Authoritate Concilii PROHIBEMUS ne tales CLERICI personis SECULARIBUS praestare cogantur hujusmodi Juramentum c. This is the Constitution of their great and Oecumenical Council under Innocent the Third and is referr'd into the Body of their Canon Law by Pope Gregory the IX and remains in the best Editions of it commended and confirm'd by Pope Gregory the XIII So that by the Popish Canons and their approved and received Laws no Secular Prince may require any Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity of any of the Clergy or Ecclesiastiques nor are the Clergy to take any such Oaths And if a Clergy-man should take any such Oath it is by their Canon-Law for several reasons declared null and not obligatory For 1. They tell us That no Oath which is against the Ecclesiastical Utility and Benefit of the Church is valid and binding Nay the Law it self there says That all such Oaths against Ecclesiastical Utility are not Oaths properly but Perjurics And the case is put in their Law of a Prince who fearing some CONSPIRACY against him took an Oath of some that they should not for the future be in any Conspiracy against him They who had taken this Oath desired to know how far they were bound by this Oath And that Law and Innocent the Third gives this Answer That they were not so bound by that Oath but that they might stand against the Prince to whom they had so Sworn in the lawful defence of the rights and honors of the Church and their own Now 't is certain that the Pope with them is the sole Supreme Judge in all Ecclesiastical Causes and such this is concerning the Rights and Honors of the Church and therefore if he Judge as we are sure he will that our Oathes of Allegiance and Supremacy be against the Rights and Honor of that Church of which he pretends to be the Head neither those nor any such Oathes will be obligatory to any of his party at least they will think them not to be so and so they will think that notwithstanding any such Oath they may for the benefit of the Church and the Catholique Cause oppose and conspire against their Prince 2. It is a Rule in their Law and in reason too That in all Oathes it must be understood that the right of the Superior is excepted and must be preserved So if a Tenent Swear Fealty to his Landlord how great soever so he be a subject it must be salvo jure dominii principalis the Royal Rights of his Prince must not cannot be prejudiced by that Oath This is true in Thesi. Now we know that the Pope and his party who acknowledge him thinks that he is far superior to all Kings and therefore if he think and declare as we know he has done that our Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy are prejudicial to his rights then neither he nor his party will think them binding 3. If they were confess'd to be obligatory yet they of the Popish Church believe he can dispence with them and null the obligation This is the constant Tenet of the Canonists who tell us That the Pope does usually and easily dispence with Involuntary but not with voluntary Oaths yet if he do dispence with voluntary Oaths it is valid Nor is it any wonder if the Pope dispence with Oathes voluntary or involuntary if it be true which John Semeca the Glossator there tells us ....... That the Pope can dispence against the LAW OF NATURE and against the APOSTLE And that we might take notice of it those words in the old Editions of the Canon-Law are put in the Margent ..... Papa contra Apostolum dispensat the Pope dispenses against the Apostle And in the latter Editions of that Law with the Gloss even those confirm'd by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth as most Correct and purged from Errors they are so far from disowning that irrational and impious Gloss that in a Note there in the Margent they explain and justifie it ... It is not absurd sayes the Author of that Note for the Pope to dispence

the Clergy OUGHT NOT to relieve the NECESSITIES of Cities or any other places no not even then when the Laicks are in want unless the Pope be first consulted 2. That all Decrees and Constitutions of Laymen laying such Taxes upon the Clergy are null and never can be made obligatory 3. All persons Excommunicated for such grievances laid upon the Clergy and their SUCCESSORS stand Excommunicated unless they make satisfaction within a Month. 4. And they tell us that all this is said for a fuller declaration of the Law in this Case that Novices may better understand it This is their own Exposition of the Canon in the most correct Body of their Canon-Law and they there tell us that it is the Canon of a General Council and then according to their Principles infallibly true and obligatory to all the Christian World So that by this Popish Law if any Lay-men the King and Parliament of England lay any Tax or by a Statute require any Subsidy of Clergy-men though in the Necessities of the Kingdom without the Popes leave such Statute is declared Void and Null and they and their Successors unless satisfaction be made Excommunicate Nor is it only some Inferior Magistrates or Officers who are thus Excommunicated but all Persons CUJUSCUNQUE conditionis Status aut DIGNITATIS And that we may know that such Excommunications are not a rash and inconsiderate Act of Urban the Fifth or some angry Pope they have been for some Ages past and still are solemnly publish'd at Rome every Year in that famous and impious Bulla Coenae Domini on Maundy-Thursday Even on that day in which our Blessed Saviour Instituted that Coen● Domini as a Sacrament of our Union with him by a lively Faith and of the Communion of all Christians amongst themselves by an unfeigned love and charity I say on this day the greatest part of the Christian World are Anathematiz'd and Curs'd at Rome by their Popes successively for no other reason but because they are for the Truth of the Gospel and against his without any reason or sense Usurp'd Greatness and Worldly Interest In that Bull the Anathema or Papal Curse Stilo Curiae is thus We Excommunicate all of what Dignity soever REGAL IMPERIAL DUCAL c. who impose any Tax Toll or Prestation upon any Ecclesiastiques or receive any Taxes so impos'd though the Persons on whom they are imposed would WILLINGLY pay them without the special and EXPRESS LICENCE of the Pope Now although this aforesaid were evidence enough to intitle the Church of Rome to such desperate Doctrine and Excommunications yet we have further and greater evidence I mean their Great Lateran Council consisting of above 1200 Fathers such as they were Synodically ratifying the same Doctrine and all this expresly confirmed by the Trent Council which tells us That this Immunity and Exemption of the Clergy is DEI ORDINATIONE Canonicis Sanctionibus Constituta and therefore Decrees and COMMANDS That all the Sacred Canons all General Councils and all Papal Constitutions in favor of Ecclesiastical Persons and the Liberties of the Church be and ought to be exactly observed and that as THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD and admonisheth the EMPEROR KINGS and PRINCES c. and obliges them to such Observation Nor is the Trent Council content with this but requires her Ecclesiastiques and many more of which anon to PROMISE SWEAR and VOW firmly and without all doubting to believe all the Canons and Councils before-mentioned especially the Decrees of the Trent Fathers By the Premises I think it evident that by the approved Doctrine and Principles of the Roman Church no Kings Princes or Parliaments nor any LAY-MEN how many or great soever can lay any Tax upon Ecclesiastiques no not in the greatest Necessity and Poverty of the Lay-Subjects without express leave first had from the Pope Now whether this Popish Doctrine if approved and believed be not very dangerous and pernicious especially to Protestant Princes do you judge Nor is this all for 4. Their approved and received Popish Principles do not only free them from taking Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and their Estates I speak of their Clergy from Taxes unless the Pope consent but their Persons also be their Crimes never so great from all Punishment by Kings or any Lay-Court or Magistrate of what State or Dignity soever This is a manifest and known Truth and needed no proof were it not that some who have an ungrounded courage to believe such Seditions Principles have also when it makes for their Interest a confidence to deny them But seeing some of the Popish Party do deny it I shall endeavour to bring such Authentique and evident Proofs as will I hope satisfie you and might convince the Gainsayers if they can and will impartially judge of the Truth of the aforesaid Popish Position The Proofs I mean shall be drawn from the clear Testimonies of their own eminent and learned Writers their Canon-Laws approved and received in and by their Church their Popes Decretals and their own General Councils And here 1. An eminent Popish Casuist tells us That ALL MAGISTRATES whoever they be Kings and Princes not excepted who interpose in Judicature against Ecclesiastical Persons in ANY CRIMINAL CAUSE whether it be MURDER or HIGH TREASON are to be Excommunicated And this he proves out of their Canon Law and the Constitution of Pope Innocent the Second in a General Council own'd and approved by them 2. We have a Canon of a Council at Paris referr'd into the Body of their Law publish'd by the Authority of Pope Gregory the Ninth which determines the case thus No SECULAR JUDGE may distrain or condemn ANY CLERGY-MAN without the PERMISSION of the POPE and if he do he is to be excommunicate and to continue so till he acknowledge and mend his fault You see this Seditious Popish doctrine is established by the Council of Paris and the General Council in the Lateran and by 3 Popes Innocent the Second Gregory the Ninth and Gregory the Thirteenth and so must be the Doctrine of the Roman-Church For it is Law with them That NO MAN must be permitted to RETRACT or QUESTION any Papal Sentence And their Law says further That ALL the Popes Decrees are IRREFRAGABLY to be observed and that so far and undoubtedly as if St. Peter had confirm'd them with his own mouth and Gratian cites Pope Agatho for it 3. Nay further all Secular Magistrates are at Rome every year solemnly Anathematiz'd and curs'd who call any Ecclesiastical persons to their Tribunals Courts Chancellaries Councils Parliaments c. or any way molest them directly or indirectly for it is but six or seven years since Pope Clement the Tenth did solemnly curse all secular Magistrates and all Courts even Parliaments who should any way trouble the Clergy or punish or take any cognizance of their crimes So that by