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A52328	The pernicious consequences of the new heresie of the Jesuites against the King and the state by an advocate of Parliament.; Pernicieuses conséquences de la nouvelle hérésie des Jesuites contre le roy et contre l'estat. English	Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.; Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694.	1666 (1666)	Wing N1138; ESTC R16118	63,076	176

Subjects and Primitive Example had been so positively describ'd and secur'd by that admirable Institution of Christianity that all who profess themselves of that Belief Disciples of that Religion and who pretend so much to extraordinary Illumination from the fatal examples of the Event of all Rebellions since the very first defection of Lucifer to this period of ours should be sufficiently convinc'd of their duty to Kings as God's Vice-gerents on Earth and of that irrefragable Truth That those who resist shall receive to themselves Damnation But since a sort of Monsters there are who neither believe Moses nor the Prophets no nor God himself who rose from the dead to assert and plant the Doctrine of Obedience to the Civil Magistrate by the Preaching of his holy Apostles and their Successors till of late what moral Confidence can a Prince repose in the Pretences of any who are thus sworn and addicted to their Tenents I speak here as to the Jesuites in particular and to those who of late lay at his Majestie 's feet out of that Religiou● pretence the Tenderness of Conscience without ever shewing either Religion or Conscience in any their Actions or Writings hitherto relating purely to his Majestie 's Interest the Church of England or her Friends whiles the years of her most barbarous Persecution continu'd but which if they had done I would here turn Apologist in their Cause and plead it with affection But say those of the Church of Rome what is the Disloyalty you lay to our charge Name us the Persons and produce the Instances The Answer is short That whiles the Doctrine of Deposing Kings whatever is pretended remembring that of Charles the Vth Vocem esse Jacobi manus autem Esau abetted by so many late Decrees of Popes remains uncondemn'd there is reason sufficient for Princes to be jealous of favouring a Party who suck in those Principles with their Milk as many of them at least as are Alumni of the Jesuites and who by the Papists own acknowledgment are not worthy to be consider'd no not as to Exemption from the most rigorous of our Laws against them 'T is the same Author who frankly confesseth that F. Parsons did most deservedly draw it upon that whole Order by his continual and intolerable Practices against the Crown'd heads of this Nation from whence he inferrs that neither can his Majestie be safe for reasons unanswerable to any that shall take the pains but to survey their Tenents and the voluntary Obligation into which they have precipitated themselves Slaves to the Pope as they are and to that Theological Bawd the Doctrine of Probability But would they now cut off this Objection at once and give just satisfaction to the Charge as most assured I am divers of his Majestie 's loyal Subjects of their persuasion in many other things earnestly contend for though with the sacrifice of that whole pragmatical Order which thus has set the World in Combustion let them and the intire Party subscribe to all Doctrines which deny the Pope's authority of Deposing Kings and releasing Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and let the Pope himself approve it and cause an Index expurgatorius to be made of all those Authors we have enumerated and the Books that more lately maintain and favour it since even all this were little enough to secure his Majestie from too just apprehension whiles that sacrilegious Thesis asserting the Pope's Dominion over Temporals and Infallibility even extra Generale Concilium is yet publickly cherish'd which enables him to rescind all this in a moment and Absolve to morrow what he Obliges to day and make that to pass for the undoubted Word of God which is in truth the very Doctrine of Devils For if as a most pious and learned Prelate of our Church has explain'd it truly and ex animo they are otherwise affected they should doe well to unsay what hath been said and declare themselves by publick Authority against such Doctrines and say whether or no their Determinations shall be de Fide If they be then all those famous Catholick Doctors Tho. Aquinas Bellarmine Creswel Mariana Emanuel Sà c. are Hereticks and their Canons teach Heresie and many of their Popes to be condemned as Heretical for practising and teaching Deposition of Princes by an Authority usurped against and in prejudice of the Christian Faith But if their Answers be not de Fide then they had as good say nothing for the danger is not at all decreased because if there be Doctors on both sides by their own assertion they may without sin follow either but yet more safely if they follow the most receiv'd and the most authoriz'd And whither this Rule will lead them I will be judged by any man that hath consider'd the Premisses Briefly either this thing must remain in the same state it is and our Princes be still expos'd to so extreme hazards or else let his Holiness seat himself in his Chair condemn these Doctrines vow against their future Practice limit his Ordo ad spiritualia contain himself within the limits of Causes directly and merely Ecclesiastical disclaim all power so much as indirect over Princes Temporals and all this with an intent to oblige all Christendom Which when I see done I shall be most ready to believe that nothing in Popery doth either directly or by necessary consequence destroy Loyalty to our lawfull Prince but not till then having so much evidence to the contrary Thus far this reverend Prelate And that this is likewise the sense and as I affirmed earnest desire of all the honest men of the Romish Church is most convincingly as well as boldly and loyally asserted by that learned Remonstrant R. Carron whose Vindication of what I here produce against the Jesuites and other Popish Errors that zizania as he truly styles it of Infallibility c. the subject of the ensuing Treatise I find publish'd since this Preface was finish'd and I heartily wish it may produce an Effect sutable to the attempt of that candid and ingenuous Person that so though we have many other failings to charge them withall they may yet lessen by degrees and as God shall please to enlighten them till we come to a perfect and consummate Reconciliation In the mean time with what forehead my Lord can this Faction cry out against us as cruel or at our Sanctions as unjust whilst his Sacred Majestie has a faculty commensurate to his Piety and a Prerogative which can gratifie his merciful nature without reversing what his Predecessors have enacted who reign'd in such prosperity not so much because they executed the Penalties as for that they had the power to doe it and did use it prudently and I confess I was infinitely pleas'd to find it avow'd by a Romanist that they were themselves the occasion of those Sanguinary laws as they would brand them and to justifie them too as the forecited Author

and solid grandeur of the holy See it self In this sense it is we shall speak of the Court of Rome in the present Treatise as so many great persons and Saints have already done by opposing themselves to their unjust pretensions without at all thinking they did thereby in the least violate the respect which they ow'd the Pope as Head of the Church to which they on the contrary believ'd these Opinions must needs be most disadvantageous And we have so much the more liberty to doe it now since the moderation of the present Incumbent speaks him very far from these ambitious thoughts Now amongst all these illegitimate Usurpations of the Court of Rome thus considered there has none of them proved more funest to Christian Princes the Church and even to Popes themselves then that by which some of them have been transported to domineer over Kings to make themselves their Superiours and Judges in the administration of their Kingdoms and by pretending of a right when they fansied it for the cause of Religion to depose them of their Empires and give their Estates to others or to abandon them to the first Usurper who had power to make himself Master It 's impossible to describe those horrid Confusions which this pretence of theirs hath brought forth in Italy and in Germany for so many Ages together the Warrs it has kindled the Bloud it has made to be spilt the Provinces it has rendred desolate the Cities it has ruin'd the Scandals and Disorders which it has filled the Church with But one of its worst effects is that it has render'd the holy See which should as well be the centre of the love of Catholicks as of the Unity of the Church odious both to Kings and People by making them to look upon the Vicar of Iesus Christ not as a common Father full of tenderness for all his Children but as a Temporal Prince that would trample all other Princes under his feet and render himself absolute Master of all the Kingdomes of the Earth This is one of the main causes which has made so many people revolt against the Church of Rome and the most usual pretence which they have taken to hinder many Christians from paying that observance to Popes which they are oblig'd to render them by confounding it with these odious excuses For having once anticipated the People with this erroneous opinion That one could not acknowledge in the Pope that real Authority which Iesus Christ has given him without owning that also which these Sycophants attribute to him over Temporals and States they have by an hateful Schism kept them from acknowledging the Pope as Head of the Church for fear lest they should be bound likewise to own him for their King and Master It concerns the Church therefore to take away this color from Schism which is the greatest of all mischiefs by separating the Spiritual power of the Sovereign Bishop as it has been instituted by Iesus Christ and acknowledg'd by all Catholicks from this false and exorbitant power which Ambition and Flattery would adde to it repugnant to the spirit of Iesus Christ and the Doctrine of the Apostles And therefore we must needs confess that the Zeal of the Parliaments of France for the maintenance of the Sovereignty of Kings against the enterprises of those who subverting the Order of God would have it to depend upon this Spiritual Jurisdiction is no less advantageous to the Church then to the State and that on the other part there is nothing more prejudicial to them both then that low and fleshly prudence of these Theologues who think to exalt the divine Grandeur of the prime Minister of the new Law which wholly consists in the love to eternal good things and in the despising of the things of this World by secular and temporal advantages which God did never annex to him or that seek to enlarge their fortunes by this pretended Zeal for the enlargement of the Authority of the Pope 'T is known to the whole World that the Iesuites have within these hundred years been the chief defenders of these ambitious pretences and that their Society has employ'd the most renown'd of its Writers to disseminate this Doctrine every-where It is this which has been taught by Iohn Mariana Gregorie de Valentia Alphonsus Salmeron Ludovicus Richome Louys Molina Robert Bellarmine Iohannes Osorius Carolus Scribanius Andrew Eudemon Iohannes Azor Robert Parsons Francis Suarez Gabriel Vasquez Leonardus Lessius Iacobus Gretserus Martinus Becanus Antonius Santarellus Vincentius Filiutius Stephen Bauny c. On the contrary it is well known what extraordinary care the Parliaments of Paris and the Universities of France have taken to repress the Authors of these pernicious Opinions the one by their Arrests and the other by their Censures It 's above an hundred years since that the Parliament of Paris gave a famous Arrest upon this Subject the 4 of December 1561. against a certain Bachelour in Divinity who had put it into his Thesis That it was in the Power of the Pope to excommunicate Kings to give away their Kingdoms and to absolve their Subjects of their Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity This Proposition was declar'd seditious the Bachelour being not to be found it was order'd that the Bedel of the Sorbon vested in a red Hood should disavow it before a President of the Court and the chief of the Faculty of Divinity and that during four years space there should no publick Disputation be permitted in the College where it was defended This whole affair is twice told us in the Bibliothec du Droit under the words Interdictions p. 4478. and Effigies p. 1110. And Bouchel who is the Author of this Bibliotheca in reciting of this History adds this Remark The plain truth is that within these fifty years past there is come a certain new Sect to be planted amongst us called by the name of Jesuites who maintain Propositions quite contrary to ours to the very ruine of the State The same Parliament testifies its zeal for the Interests of the King and Crown upon several other occasions as when it condemn'd to the fire the 8 of Iune 1610. the Book of the Iesuite Mariana intituled De Rege Regis institutione and that after the same manner Iū 26. 1614. it treated that of Suarez intitul'd Defensio Fidei Catholicae But there was never any thing more celebrious upon this subject then that which pass'd 1626. in the censure of Santarel This Iesuite had written a Book of Heresie Schism Apostasie c. printed at Rome 1625. permissu superiorum in which following the common sentiments of his Society he taught That the Pope might punish Kings and Princes with temporal pains depose and deprive them of their Kingdoms and States for the crime of Heresie and for other causes as when they were culpable of any fault if he find

who should doubt or not believe what has not been decided but by a Pope should neither be accus'd of Errour or Temerity provided he did not contradict the Pope publickly and with Scandal Behold here the very first breach which has been made at least in the Sorbon against its ancient Doctrine But in the mean time this has not hinder'd those very Persons who incourag'd this Doctor and that were ingag'd by Interest with the Court of Rome to reject this personal Infallibility of the Pope whenever they had any regard of their reputation amongst learned men This is evident by Cardinal Perron who in his Reply to the King of Great Britain l. 6. p. 1083. expresly acknowledges that the onely expedient to determine Disputes of Religion with a certainty of Faith is by a General Council Were the Service saies he taken away from the Original Tongue and transferr'd into another all means of celebrating universal Councils and having any certitude or assurance of matters of Faith would cease For there being no certitude of the genuine sense of Scripture by our particular Interpretation since no Interpretation of Scripture is of private inspiration and we having no way left us of resolution with certitude of Faith in debates which rise about Religion upon the meaning of Scripture besides the voice of the Church speaking in General Councils evident it is that whatever it be which takes away from the Church the means of holding General Councils takes away from it all means of deciding the Disputes of Christian Religion with certitude of Faith Cardinal de Richelieu in his Book of Controversies which has been approv'd by the late Mons. Lescot Bishop of Chartres and divers other Divines exceedingly devoted to the Court of Rome acknowledges the same thing Lib. 3. c. 5. p. 424. Since there is saies he no Oecumenical Council which injoyns the use of the Images of the Divine Persons it is evident that 't is no Article of Faith supposing that for the Principle That onely General Councils can frame Articles of Faith Thus we see that the Doctrine of Infallibility which had been promoted by Mons. Duval with some kind of fear and reserve was abandon'd by the most knowing persons of the Church and chiefly by those who defended it against the Hereticks because they would not engage the cause of the Catholick Religion in defence of an Opinion so insupportable and therefore the Favourites of the Roman Court were then contented that this Opinion should pass for problematick onely Whence it came to pass that Mons. Duval who had but just propos'd it in this manner was all his life in so great esteem at Rome that he was look'd upon there as the person in the world who had render'd the greatest services to the holy See and that all the Nuns had order not to doe any thing here without his advice But finding this tentative succeed so happily and that the Iesuites having gain'd the Catholick Universities had fill'd all mens thoughts with this infinite power of the Pope which was highly advantagious to them for the withdrawing of them from the Jurisdiction of the Bishops they no longer remain'd in this moderation They pretended that it was not enough for the French to permit them to say the Pope was infallible but so order'd the matter that no man was suffered to acknowledge him for less They were contented that Mons. Duval should say that it was no matter of Faith to believe the Pope infallible because this reserve was necessary at that point of time for the currenter passage of the Doctrine but having first begun to distribute it in this manner they did not long rest there the design is to make men believe that the Doctrine of the Faculty of Paris opposite to this Infallibility which in Mons. Duval's daies was neither an Errour nor any rash Opinion is since that time though the Church never thought of any change become a manifest Heresie This is what the Iesuites have exceedingly farther'd For 't is about 5 or 6 years past that Father Theophile Raynaud a Iesuite of Lions publish'd a Book with this Title 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ipse dixit to shew not onely that the Pope is infallible but that it is matter of Faith that he is so and by consequent those that doubt of it Hereticks and he treats Mons. Duval very ill in his Book whom in contempt he calls a certain Doctor for his caution in not so openly venting this false Doctrine as a new Article of Faith And because they saw this enterprise of theirs was not punished as it deserv'd growing daily more insolent they proceeded to that extravagant impiety of their Theses of the College de Clermont which is now the object of the indignation of all France daring publickly to maintain even in the midst of Paris it self and in face of the Parliament That the Catholick Truth which opposes the Heresie of the Greeks concerning the Pope's Primacy is That Jesus Christ has given to all Popes the very same Infallibility which himself had not onely in Questions de Jure but in those also de Facto By this 't is visible to what their boldness may aspire if not timely prevented and repress'd and what progress these monstrous Opinions are like to make to the total destruction of the Liberties of the Gallican Church so precious to our Ancestors unless we be more vigilant in stopping its carreer And in earnest it is very hard it should not be so if we but consider a little those three Expedients which the abettors of the Court of Rome make use of to establish their Maxims The First is the Company of Iesuites spread over the face of the Universe and got to be Masters of the greatest part of the Colleges so as all the World being imbu'd with these Principles from their infancie as 't were Opinions not advantageous to the Church but the Court Politick of Rome they are receiv'd with respect as if they constituted a part of our Religion so as it is quite against the hair of any other because the Iesuites accustom those who have once plac'd their belief in them to look upon men as persons suspected of their Faith who in this are not of their opinion There is the hands of many persons a Treatise of the late Father Eustachius Gault a very knowing and pious Father de l' Oratoire nominated by the late King for Bishop of Marseilles wherein he mentions how dangerous it is for this very reason lest all the Colleges should in time and by degrees fall into the hands of the Iesuites The Second means is the care they take concerning Books blasting all that they find containing any thing of the ancient Maxims of the School of Paris suppressing them all that they can or at least so ordering the matter as to retrench whatever is not in their favour as they have done by a large Discourse of Guicciardin treating of the politick Incroachment of the