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A50353	The publisher or translator of Nicholas Machiavels whole works out of Italian, faithfully into English, concerning the following letter of Nicholas Machiavels, wherein he clears himself of the aspersions alledg'd by some on his writings also, his judgment as to government, whether monarchie or democracie be the best : and lastly, (tho' a papist) shews their wicked and base errours, both of popes, Jesuits, priests, &c. and that they shall be brought to ruine / written by the author, April 1st, 1537.	Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.; Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.	1688 (1688)	Wing M139; ESTC R23469	20,698	46

of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and ye ●hall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for this promise ●s to you and to your Children and to all that are afar ●ff even as many as the LORD our GOD shall call Next to judge infallibly of Divine Truth and to forgive sins as CHRIST did Then to be the Head of all Ecclesiastical Persons and Causes in the World to be so far above Kings and Princes as to Judge Depose and Deprive them and to have an absolute Jurisdiction over all the affairs in Christendom in Ordine ad Spiritualia yet all this the Canonists allow him and he makes no scruple to assume whilst it is plain that in the whole New Iestament there is no description made of such an Officer to be at any time in the Church except it be in the Prophecy of the A●ocalyps or in one of St. Paul's Episties where he sayes Who it is that shall sit in the Temple of GOD. shewing himself that he is GOD. CHRIST tells us his Kingdom is not of this World And if any will be the greatest amongst his Disciples that be must be serwant to the rest which shews that his Followers were to be great in Sanctity and Humility and not in worldly power The Apostle Paul writing to the Christians 〈◊〉 those times almost in every Epistle comman●● them to be obedient to the Higher Powers or Mag●●strates set over them and St. Peter himself from whom this extravagant Empire is pretended t●● be derived in his first Epistle bids us submit o●● selves to every ordinance of man for the LORDS sake whether it be to the King or c and this is en●● joyn'd although it is plain that they who go●● vern'd the World in those days were bot●● Heathens Tyrants and Usurpers and in th●● submission there is no exception or proviso for Ec●clesiastical immunity The practice as wel as precepts of those Holy Men shews plainly that the● had no intention to leave Successors who should deprive Hereditary Princes from their right o● Reigning for differing in Religion who without all doubt are by the appointment of the Apostl●● and by the principles of Christianity to be obeyed and submitted to in things wherein the fundamental Laws of the Government give them power though they were Jews or Gentiles If I should tell you by what Texts in Scripture the Popes claim the powers before mentioned it would stir you up to laughter and prove too light for so serious a matter yet because possibly you have never heard so much of this subject before I shall instance in a few They tell you therefore that the Jurisdiction they pretend over the Church and the power of pardoning sins comes from CHRIST to St. Peter and from ●im to them Thou art Peter and upon this Rock 〈◊〉 will build my Church I will give thee the Keyes of ●he Kingdom of Heaven whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou ●halt loose on Earth c. From these two Texts ridiculously applyed comes this great Tree which hath with its branches over spread the whole Earth and kill'd all the good and wholsome Plants growing upon it The first Text will never by any man of sense be understood to say more than that the Preaching Suffering and Ministry of Peter was like to be a great foundation and Pillar of the Doctrine of Christ the other Text as also another spoken by our Saviour to all his Apostles whose sins ye remit they are remitted and whose sins ye retain they are retained are all by the primitive Fathers interpreted in this manner wheresover you shall effectually preach the Gospel you shal carry with you Grace and Remission of sins to them which shall follow your instructions but the people who shal not have these joyful Tidings communicated by you to them shall remain in darkness and in their sins But if any will contest that by some of these last Texts that Evangelical Excommunication which was afterwards brought into the Church by the Apostles was here presignified by our great Master how unlike were those censures to those now thundered out as he calls it by the Pope these we● for edification and not destruction to affli●● the flesh for the salvation of the Soul that th● Apostolical Ordinance was pronounced for som● notorious scandal or Apostacy from the Faith and first decreed by the Church that is th● whole Congregation present and then denounced by the Pastor and reached only to deba● such persons from partaking of the Communi●on or fellowship of that Church till Repentance should readmit him but was followed by no other prosecution or chastisement as is now practised But suppose all these Texts had been as they would have them how does this make for the Successors of St. Peter or the rest Or how can this prove the Bishops of Rome to have right to such Succession But I make haste from this subject and shal urge but one Text more which is the spiritual man judgeth all men but is himself judged of none from whence is inferred by the Canonists that first the Pope is the Spiritual man and then that he is to be Judge of all the World and last that he is never to be lyable to any judgment himself whereas it is obvious to the meanest understanding St. Paul in t● is text means to distinguish between a person inspired with the Spirit of God and remaining one in the state of Nature which latter he sayes cannot judge of those Heavenly gifts and graces as he explains himself when he says The natural man ●●nnot discern the things of the Spirit because they are ●●olishness unto him To take my leave of this matter wholly out of the way of my Studies I shall beg of you Zen●bio and of Guilio and the rest of out Society to read over carefully the New Testament and then to see what ground there is for Purgatory by which all the wealth and greatness hath accrew'd to these men what colour for the Idolatrous worship of Saints and their Images and particularly for speaking in their hymes and prayers to a piece of wood the Cross I mean Salve Lignum c. and then fae nos dignos beneficiorum Christi as you may read in that Office what colour or rather what excuse for that horrid unchristian and barbarous Engine called the Inquisition brought in by the Command and Authority of the Pope the inventor of which Peter a Dominican Fryer having been slain amongst the Albigesi as he well deserved is now Cannoniz'd for a Saint and stil'd San Pietro Martine In the dreadful Prisons of this Inquisition many faithful and pious Christians to say nothing of honest Moral M●ors or Mahometans are tormented and samish'd or if they out live their sufferings burnt publickly to death and that only for differing in Religion from the Pope without having any crime or the least misdemeanor proved or alledged against them