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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36729	Reflections on the Council of Trent in three discourses / by H.C. de Luzancy.	De Luzancy, H. C. (Hippolyte du Chastelet), d. 1713.	1679 (1679)	Wing D2419; ESTC R27310	76,793	222

as Popes as infallible as the Oracles of the Holy Ghost as masters both of Men and Angels as judges both of the quick and dead in a word as men of whom according to their own Books 't is not allow'd to enquire Domine cur ita facis IV. That Ambition and Covetousness have bin the two originary sins of the Popes and that to these two Heads may be reduc'd all the rest the very complaints of their own Historians and most famous Authors do evince By the first they made a shift to raise themselves above Spiritual and Temporal Powers to excommunicate and depose Kings to invade the jurisdiction of other Bishops to break thro all ancient and modern Canons and instead of being rul'd by the General Councils of the Catholic Church to exalt themselves above them By the second they made use of all sacred and profane means to enrich themselves reduc'd all Benefices into that state as not to be attain'd but by Simony and sacrific'd all things to the raising of their Families As for the honor of their Dignity the glory of the Gospel and the consideration of the scandal of the Church these could never over-power in them the more strong impressions of Flesh and Blood The invention of Croisados being worn out they had recourse to that of Indulgences set to sale the absolution of sins and whosoever fill'd the Apostolic Treasure tho he were more profligate than the bad Thief became more innocent then the good V. Nor was it enough barely to fall into so many disorders unless they undertook also to Canonize them and thereby bring themselves under that dreadful Curse which God pronounces against those that call evil good 'T was for this purpose that Rome hath bred up such Doctors as flatter the Popes even to Idolatry stiling them Gods upon Earth These gave birth to the monstrous Doctrine of Infallibility never before heard of in the Church for 1400 years These had the face to maintain that if all the World should oppose their Sentiment all the World must be slighted And to sum up in a word all that can be said on that matter they have so far enslav'd themselves to their passion as to decree in one of their Canons that if the Pope should be neglectful of his Brethrens salvation improfitable to the Church dumb in what concerns her good tho he should carry along with him to hell an innumerable number of souls yet no man living can presume to correct him VI. These things are neither exaggerations nor slanders but meer matters of Fact which the best Authors of the Roman Church as Monsieur D'Espences Gerson the Chancellor of Paris Marsilius of Pavia the Cardinal of Cambray the Cardinal Cusan Aeneas Sylvius afterwards Pope do equally complain of And without ever mentioning the impertinencies of Canonists some of whom teach The Pope hath power to excommunicate Angels or the Impieties of some Divines who maintain he can establish any thing against the Law of God and Nature both What can be more amazing then to hear the Popes speak themselves Nicholas the First in his Letter to Michael saies That the Pious Emperor Constantine had call'd the Pope God and that 't is evident God can be judged by no man This piece of madness his successors lik'd so well that they made an express Canon of it Boniface the Eighth defines in a Decretal of his That all humane Creatures are bound necessitate salutis to submit to him as to the King of kings and both Spiritual and Temporal Lord over all the World His successor pretends lawfully to dispense with that which was contrary to the Apostles commands Bene dispensat Dominus Papa contra Apostolum Let all the World know saies Gregory the Seventh out of an excess of modesty and humility That we give and take away all Kingdoms Empires Principalities and all Goods men are capable of possessing VII Nor did these Servants of the Servants of God live any otherwise then they taught There could no Crown in their times be assur'd upon the Head of any Prince whatsoever Right Birth or Election had there established it And indeed we would scarce believe the precedents of Philip Frederic Lewis c. had we not beheld in our own daies what Leo the Tenth Julius the Third and Sextus the Fifth had done The public Records of England Germany and France are fill'd up with their bold enterprises the raising Subjects in rebellion against their natural Princes the absolving them from their Allegiance the putting great Kingdoms into combustion at once undermining them by civil Dissentions and procuring them to be invaded by Foreign Enemies the swearing Friendship with Francis the First and at the same time helping Charles the Fifth to subvert him and again entertaining correspondence with Charles the Fifth whilst he solicited Francis the First to war again are part of the transactions of St. Peters Successors the heads of the Church and Vicars of Christ VIII But for their Convetousness who is able to express it Annats expectative Graces sacred Reservations Preventions Mandats things abominable in all their parts were call'd by them Pious artifices to maintain the Apostolic See That which in its own nature was properly a Crime an Abomination and a Simony was turn'd into an holy action by a Pasce oves meas IX All Friers who grew weary of being govern'd by their Bishops and kept in the hardships of Penance sent mony to Rome where there was not a door in the Conclave but was open to their Gold Great sums to the Datary prevail'd more then all their tears could have done No Canons no Councils no Fathers resisted their bribes They purchas'd Privileges substracted themselves from the Sacred Jurisdiction of their Bishops and tho the very Injunction of their new gain'd liberty was a real Simony a disobedience and an effect of the corruption of their hearts yet the disturbers of it were threatned in their Bulls with St. Peter and St. Pauls indignation X. But that his Holiness not satisfied with the oppression of the Clergy should not spare the Lay-men neither is above all imagination The Records of the Parliament of Paris speak every where of the Popes oppressions Sir Roger Twisden hath writ an excellent account of the insupportable Taxes England groan'd under the natural piety and generosity of the English inviting the Popes to abuse it into an occasion of leaving no limits to their Covetousness For Germany and other Provinces who in the World is unacquainted with their grievances And is there any Roman Catholic who if he consider things impartially confesses not that Leo the Tenth was the cause of greater evils to the Church then Luther XI The Pope himself verified that word of the Prophet The Priests shall eat the sins of the people There was no crime which had not an Asylum at the Penitentiaries The obscene Books of the Jesuits Sanchez and