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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

see in speculum Jesuit p. 187. 188. who have dogmatically asserted that the Pope hath absolute power over Princes to change Government as God to pull down some Kings and set up others as Bensarchius profanely speaks not onely to excommunicate but judicialy to suspend to mult with tempor all penalties depose dethrone put to death and destroy any Christian Emperours Kings Princes Potentates by open sentence war force conspiracies private assassinations and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whosoever will invade them by treason or rebellion at the Popes command who may translate Kingdomes to whom he pleaseth all Kings deriving their Crowns from him alone upon their good behaviour at his pleasure We are of opinion that the Government of the Church is enough if not too much for the Pope and innocently perswade our selves he need not be so busie in other mens matters but we know nothing we are taught by the Papists that non solum potest Papa c. sed debet c. That the Pope not onely can but ought to shew himself above Princes why say we why say the Jesuits of Paris against Arnoldus to keep them that is Kings within their duty that in case of heresie schisme disobedience to Rebellion against the Pope and see of Rome Male administration refusal to defend the Pope Insufficiency to govern negligence vitiousness of life Incorrigibleness Tyranny or as Sanctarellus taught our late disturbers learned the necessity of Publick good or the safety of the Church and State or the cause of God guess now who set up the high Court of justice Now that your bloud may not rise against this here is nothing unequal or unfit For saith the said Sanctarellus multum aequum reip expediens ut sit aliquis supremus M●…narcha qui Regum ejus modi excessus noscit corrigere de ipsis justitiam ministrare i. e. in English demand justice justice against delinquency set up a high Court of Justice 3. We and the more harmless part of the world thought that no man could lay his hand upon you the Lords Anointed and be guiltless and would teach men that you are secured by the laws of God men against all the assaults of the sons of violence But we are a soft headed and short sighted people Emanual Sa that dangerous Papist assures us that lat a sentententia quisque potest fieri executor any man may rid us of a Tyrant but sure none of those that have sworn obedience to him may lay violent hands on the King etiam qui juraverit c. yea he who hath sworn obedience if the Prince will not be ruled sure every man can not do it potest autem e populo any man may do it anyman that is careless of his own life may be master of his Soveraigns yes but say some smooth tongued apologist this was rashly spoken do not deceive your selves 40. Annos In cubui saith the solemn D. I studied it 40. years a well studied point I assure you but his friends do not own him no ile warran●… you why this book of his is the ordinary manual of the fraternity It s the Bible that belongs to the society of Jesus I hope you will say no man talkes at this rate but this melancholly father Ans. If there be but one traytor among the Jesuites they are much wronged alas he was but a dull melancholy man indeed to Mariana who tells us that we need not stay for the Popes order if a company of learned and a few discontented men do but agree upon it Jure interimi potest he may lawfully be killed but the Learned are many of them honest most of them ingenuous and all depending upon the the Prince nay then we need no more ado saith Ozorius but any man may consider the Law and the matter of fact and if the case be evident he may proceed to execution presently here is as Hugh Peters said a short way to work and that all mortals may not loose themselves in insignificant general Mariana tells you how it may be done particularly by poisoning a chair as the Conclave at London resolved to dispatch K. Charles the first It was Jesuites that saught that excellent Princes bloud 2. by poysoning saddles as Lopez should have served Q. Elizabeth and this he saith is an excellent way for it is the Moors way in Spain 3. By poysoning Boots so as gouty Henry of Fra●… was cured of all diseases And this is a good way too quel est Artifice Roi moris 4. By poysoning gloves and by this slight of hand they complemented Joan Albretta Q. of Navarre to death onely for favouring and protecting the Protestants in France against their violence 5. By stabbing as they let out Hen. 3. and H. 4. of France great souls into an other world and by Pistoling as they served William Prince of Orange Anno 1584. which great man they sent within three dayes into another world 7. By a stone poyson wherewith men may be seven years a dying going to another world by piece-meals and dying dayly as Stephen Botskay of Transylvania By Powder the Fryers invention as they designed to blow up this whole Kingdom assembled in Parliament Villany was innocent afore and the world simple now it was compleat and raised to the utmost that Hell could attain to What say the good honest Priests do they disown M●…iana and disclaime his doctrine It were well for the Christian world if you did Indeed the whole Vniversity of Paris Anno 1625. and 26. censured Zuares Bellarmine and Mariana for these passages as not only most pernicious detestable damnable erronious and perturbing the publick peace but likewise as subversive of Kingdoms States Republicks seducing subjects from their obedience and subjection and stirring them up to wars factions seditions and the Murders of Kings But what say the whole society in their apology 1610. They are all enemies to the name of Jesus that condemn Mariana c for any of these Doctrines O how Gretzer is taken with Marianas book how pious how useful how elegant It s the least recompence he can have for this work to give Mariana a name in the Amphithatre of honour De Onan the Provincial of Toledo would have lived and died reading that book Iterum tertio Facturus c. again and again would he have read Marianaes excellent book if he had been at leasure Yow will say are such things as these licensed Licensed yes by any means Hoyveda the visitor general of the Jesuites sayes he could do no less then licence that pretty thing ut approbatum a viris doctis gravibus ex eodem ordine as approved by learned and grave men of the same order you may guess what they are by this Arnold indeed arrests them at Paris for these tenents but they cry Veritas defensa contra actionem

than he keeps under the Papists and as they would perswade the world all Christians too when there is evident knowledge of the fact Subjects may Lawfully exempt themselves from the power of their prince before any declaratory sentence of a Judge so they have but strength to do it hence it followes that the Papists of England and Saxony are to be excused saith he that do not free themselves from the power of their Superiors nor make War against them because commonly they are not strong enough It is indeed generally and charitably believed that the Pope raiseth his power over Kings and Princes onely for their and the Churches spiritual good Ah narrow souled We look about you and It hath saith one been one of the most detestable crimes and highest Impeachment in the world against the Pope of Rome that under a Saint like religious pretense of advancing the Church cause the Kingdom of Christ they have for some hundred of years Usurped to themselves as sole Monarchs of the world in the right of Christ whose vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal position and treasonable practices an absolute Soveraign Tyranical power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good Behaviours at their pleasure not only to excommunicate censure judge depose murder destroy their Sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdomes and translate them to whom they please Thus O Kings are you served in ordine ad spiritualia by the Papists while We poor Protestants think That we cannot do any evil against you that the greatest good many come to us or the Church thereby If men came to us to discover any design against your Sacred Majesty whom God preserve and asked our advice about it we must neds have abhored it as treason and have charged them not to touch Gods annointed and have urged them with this can a man touch the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse If they come to Gar●…et in England about a powder plot or to Guignard in France about a murther Tirannus jure Interini potest say the one its good and commendable and Heroick saith the other and both dismisse them with their blessing prayer and absolution When those licentious men among us acted as we are verily perswaded by Jesuitical Insinuations and Popish principles assaulted and murthered hislate Majesty of blessed memory We were all amazed Our Nobility offered to dye for him our Clergy writ prayed and preached against it our whole Nation abhorred it some dyed at the very hearing others were distracted and the whole face of England Scotland and Ireland gathered blacknesse When Clement murthered Hen. the 3d. of France Voiez commends him the Preacher at Colen connes a whole Sermon to extol him and the Pope Sextas Quintus makes a solemn Panegyrick upon him on September 11. 1589. in the Consistory in order to his Canonizations Comparing him to Ehud and Eleazar And concluding with this memorable saying I pray God finish what he hath begun When Ravillac stabbed Hen. the 4th of France he hath no lesse then two Apologies made for him the one by Veruna the other by Guignard who writes as if he would have done as much himself yea he saith that Clements murther was most Heroical and most praise-worthy adding moreover these words if we in the year 1572. on St. Bartholmews day in the general Massacre of the French Protestants had cut off the Basilicon vein H. King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that plague we now find sed quioquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi sanguini parcendo that K. Henry should be but over mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his Crown shaven that if hecould not be deposed without a War a War must be raised against him but if a War could not be levyed against him the Cause being dead Let him be privily murdered as he was and taken out of the way and when this Guignard was justly executed by the Parliament of Richeome makes an Apology for him and the whole Society expostulates against the Arrest of Parliament We say to this day of the powder Traytors Cursed be their wrath for it was cruel and their anger for it was sierce our Souls come not yet into their secrets Bellarmine he hath written an Apology for Garnet Gretzer hath seconded him Eudaemon he goeth along with him the whole Church hath Canonized the Traytors Hallowed the Treason and consecrated the Villany We your Protestant Subjects stood firmly to your Predecessor Hen. 8. Obeyed heartily that Godly Prince Fd. the 6. suffered patiently under Q. Mary assisted our Gracious Q. Fliz. with our prayers lives and fortunes opened the way cheerfully and unanimously to your famous Grandfather King James to his haereditary Dominions and Territories and the sounder part of us had the honour of being involved in the fate and ruine of your Father of blessed Memory that Royal Champion and most resolved Martyr for the Protestant cause The Papists in the mean time oppose resist abuse affront revile and excommunicated H. 8. rebelled with Ket and other Northern men against Ed. the 6. they incite Q. Mary to destroy and banish her Subjects in whom consisted her strength and honour They excommunicate Q. Elizabeth encourage Cullen and others to murther her assuring them it was not only lawful by the Laws but that they should merit Heaven and Gods favour by it Further adding with Jacques Francis That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mrs. Elizabeth so he called Q. Elizabeth were suddenly taken away all the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake or overturn it there was a Bull that came along with the Spanish Fleet in 88. When in it was expired That the Pope by the power given from God by Lawful Succession from Catholick Church for the defection of H. the 8th who forcibly separated himself and his people from the Communion of Christians which was promoted by Edward the sixth and Elizabeth who being pertinacious and impertinent in the same Rebellion and Usurpation Therefore the Pope incited by the continual perswasions of many and by the suppliant prayers of the English men themselves N. B. Hath dealt with divers Princes and especially the most potent King of Spane to depose that woman and punish her pernicious Adhaerents in that Kingdom c. he adds moreover that Pope Sextus before him prescribed the Queen and took from her all her Dignities Titles and Rights to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland absolving her Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience he chargeth all men upon pain of the wrath of God that they afford her no favour help or aid but use all their strength to bring her to punishment and that all the