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A80756	The royal prerogative vindicated in the converted recusant convinced by Scripture, reasons, fathers, and councils, that the oath of abjuration (compared with those of allegiance, and supremacy) containeth nothing, but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian, and loyal subject; and that the known doctrine, and discipline of the Church of England, in opposition to Popery on the one hand, and all sects, and schisms on the other, is the safest way to peace and loyalty here, and salvation hereafter. To which is annexed The King's supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical, and civil, asserted in a sermon preached at the assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide, one of his Majestie's judges, March 30. 1661. / By John Cragge, M.A.	Cragge, John, M.A.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6790; Wing C6786; Thomason E2261_1; Thomason E2261_2; ESTC R210148	173,676	266

disclaim the lawfulness of it avouching that (h) In vita Sylvestri Johannes de Parisiis cap. 22. In donatione illa audita est vox Angelorum in aere dicentium Hodie venenum effusum est in Ecclesiam At the time of the confirming and passing of this Donation there was a voice of Angels heard in the Air This day poyson is poured upon the Church Gent. Enough of this tell me in order the other Romish Principles upon which Papal Transcendency leans Minist The second is That His triple-Crowned Sovereignty hath a direct power to depose and instate Princes and that Romish Catholicks are obliged to assist the Pope in the execution of his sentence of decrowning chief Magistrates and translating their Crowns Which is falsely fathered upon Pope Zacharie the First but indeed is no elder then Pope Gregory the Seventh a brand of Hell and it was ripened by many of his Successours and fomented by sundry Parasites and Assassines of Rome and by (i) Carerius De potestate Romani Pontificis lib. 2. cap. 3. Boskier Legat. Aposiol con 14. pag. 35. Baron Annal. Tom. 11. many Moderns as Marta Simancha Baronius Bosius Carerius Paulus Cararia defended of which Gratian gives an instance (k) Zacharias Regem Francorum non tam pro suis imquitatibus quàm pro co quòd tantae potestati erat mutilis à regno deposuit Gratian. caus 15. quaest 6. cap. Atius Pope Zachary deposed the King of France not so much for any Delinquency of his but that he was not competently qualified to manage such a power Gent. The novelty of this with other reasons you have formerly given speaks sufficiently the unlawfulness of it what is the next Minist The third is pendulous with shew of limitation and mitigation to wit The Pope hath an indirect power limited and circumscribed by many cautions provisions in deposing Princes This is maintained by (l) Bellarmin De Pontif. lib. 5. cap. 1. 6. 7. 8. Gretser Defens Bellarm De Pontif. Victoria De potest Eccles quaest 2. Cajetan Apol. cap. 13. Bellarmin and may seem for manner of speaking to be more moderate then the former but in weight and consequence is equally false and pernicious for it hath the same effects yielding authority to Popes to depose Princes when the same appeareth to themselves reasonable and for the benefit of the Roman cause Then saith (m) Si quid tale accidat Spiritualis potestas potest ac delet coërcere Temporalem omni ratione ac viâ quae ad id necessaria vidibitur Bellarm. De Romano Pontifice cap. 6. Bellarmine the Spiritual power may and ought to curb the Temporal by all means and ways which may seem conducible to that end It armeth also Subjects to rebellion and enemies to mischief and it provideth that regal or supreme Magistracy shall depend upon Papal discretion and devotion Thus the cunning Jesuite brings water in the one hand and fire in the other saying (n) Quantum ad personas non potest Papa ut Papa ordinariè temporales Principes deponere etiam justa de causa eo modo quo deponit Episcopos id est tanquam ordinarius Judex tamen potest mutare regna uni auferre atque alteri conferre tanquam summus Princeps Spiritualis si id necessarium sit ad animarum salutem Bellarm. De Rom. Pontif. lib. 5. capp 6 7. As to the persons the Pope as Pope cannot ordinarily depose temporal Princes though the cause be just after that manner as he deposeth Bishops that is as an ordinary Judge yet he can change Kingdoms and take from one and collate upon another as the Chief Spiritual Prince if it shall be requisite for the health of Souls But the most malignant venom is yet behind in the sting for saith he quod Christiani olim non deposuerunt Neronem Dioclesianum Julianum Apostatam Valentem Arrianum similes id fuerat quia deerant vires Temporales Christianis That Christians formerly deposed not Nero and Dioclesian and Julian the Apostate and Valens the Arrian and such the reason was because Christians wanted temporal forces To these three pestilential Principles all the Romish Doctrine that relates to deposing or annoying of Princes may be reduced Gent. Are these Doctrines generally maintained by Catholicks or an aspersion fastened upon them for some few or who are they that foment them Minist That they are not maintained by all I have hinted to you already and shall haply more fully hereafter If the Disease be not hectical but of a few that asperse the rest you may more rationally abjure them which is the scope I aim at but you shall finde that the maintainers and fomenters of them are neither few nor inconsiderable I 'le instance in two or three By a drop you may discern the saltness of the Ocean Baronius saith (o) Non eos homicidas arbitramur qui adversus excommunicatos zelo Catholicae matris ardentes eorum quoslibet trucidasse contigerit Baron Annal. Tom. 11. Anno 1089. We judge not them murderers who enflamed with a zeal of their Catholick Mother against excommunicated persons shall chance to kill any of them Alvares Pelagius saith that (p) Apud illum reside● Regalis sive Imperialis dignitatis plenitudo cui de jure competit imperium transferre Sicut nullus fidelis dubitat quòd Christus fuerit Rex Sacerdos Rex coeli terrae c. sic nullus Catholicus dubitare debet quin summus Vicarius Generalis in terris pariter utramque habet potestatem imò uon longè abesset ab Haeresi contrarium affirmare Alvares Pelagius De planctu Ecclesia lib. 1. Art 37. With the Pope resides the fulness both of Regal and Imperial dignity who hath lawful power to translate Empires And as no Believer doubts that Christ was both King and Priest King of Heaven and Earth so no Catholick ought to doubt that the chief Vicar General upon earth hath both powers Spiritual and Temporal it would not much fall short of Heresie to affirm the contrary Bosius saith (q) Bosius De Ecclesiae signis lib. 7. cap. 4. In quo elucescit authoritas Papae qui potest justis de causis vel sine culpa ab aliis in alios jura maxima qualia sunt imperia summa decreto suo transferre Herein appeareth the authority of the Pope that he can for just causes or when there is no fault transfer by his greatest interests as chief Empires Augustine ab Ancona saith (r) August ab Ancona Sum. de Eccles Quaest 1. Art 1. Immediata potestas jurisdictionis omnium Spiritualium Temporalium est solum in Papa All power of Spiritual and Temporal jurisdiction is onely in the Pope It seems to me a prodigious Tenet to hold The Pope hath power to depose and translate Empires for no fault as well as for condigne causes But what are the principal causes they assign Minist Bosius

Intercession of Friends Sighs and Tears of Priests be the Authority of the Pope let him in God's name use it still And as in the Calling so in the Subscription of the Council you may further see his Authority Because saith Leo (g) Leo Epist. 56. to the Emperour I must by all means obey your Sacred and Religious Will I have set down my Consent in writing to those Constitutions Here you see it is plain Councils were called by Princes at the Pope's Petition and subscribed at their Command Therefore when Ruffinus (h) Doce quis eum jusserit Imperator convocari●è Hieron in Apologia contra Ruffinum alledged the Canon of a Council against Saint Hierom his Answer was Shew what Emperour commanded this Council to be called I will shut up this Point with Socrates his words who giving a reason why in his Church-Story he made so often mention of Emperours saith (i) Propterea quòd ex illo tempore quo Constantini esse ceperunt negotia Ecclesiae ex eorum nutu pondere visa sunt atque adeò maxima Concilia de eorum sententia convocata faerunt adhuc convocantu● Socrat. lib. 5. in Prooemio Since Emperours became like Constantine Fathers of the Church the Causes of the Church have depended upon their ill and therefore the greatest Councils have been and yet are called by their Authority The third work of Supremacy is Promulgatio Legum Promulgation of Church-Laws and Edicts expedient for Ecclesiastical Government And this was performed by Kings and Emperours not Pope's as Church-Stories are pregnant Proofs Constantine made many Laws concerning Confessours and Martyrs Christians and Heathens Eusebius (k) Euseb De vita Constantini lib. 2. cap. 20 21 24 44. mentioneth two Laws one that abolished Idolatry Images Sacrifices and Divinations another concerning building and enlarging of Churches at the Emperour's Charge Theodosius made a Law against the Arrians occasioned thus Amphilochius Bishop of Iconium having been a long Suitour in vain used this Stratagem saluting the Emperour slighted his Son Arcadius newly Created Caesar which the Father interpreting as a Contempt of his Son grew angry till Amphilochius discovering himself said (l) Theodoret. lib. 5. cap. 5. Art thou offended Emperour that I reverence not thy Son And thinkest thou that God is not offended with the Arrians that blaspheme his Son The Emperour overcome with these words Legem scribit made a Law against the Assemblies of the Arrians I will not enter particulars but refer you to the Titles (m) De summa Trinitate side Catholica De sacro sanctis Ecclesiis De Episcopis Clericis De Haereticis c. of the Civil Law which were promulgated by Justinian Theodosius Valentinian Honorius Arcadius and other Godly and Religious Emperours There is a Collection of Ecclesiastical Laws made by Charls the Emperour Lodovick and Lotharius gathered by (n) Ansegmus Anno 827. Ansegmus Of Charls his Laws there be an hundred sixtie eight of the Laws of Lewis and Lotharius an hundred fiftie seven In the Preface the Emperour Charls professeth (o) Quapropter nostros missos ad vos direximus qui ex nostri nominis authoritate una vobiscum corrigerent quae corrigenda essent that he hath directed his Commissioners here you see Princes Commissioners and Visitours are antient that shall joyn with others to redress those things which need Reformation according to his Canonical Constitutions in his name and by virtue of hi● authoritie Gregory the First (o) Gregor Epist Bishop of Rome wrote a submissive Letter to Mauritius the Emperour and another to Theodorus his Physician to intreat the revocation of a Law invented by Julian and that in a very humble Stile (p) Vtrolique ergo quod debui exolvi qui Imperatori obedientiā praebui● pro Deo quod sensi non tacui Gregor Epist 61. lib. 2. Ego quidem jussioni vestrae subjectus I your Servant and subject to your command have sent this Law to many parts of the World and now I write my opinion to your Majestie in both I have done my duty I have performed mine obedience to the Emperour and I have not concealed what I thought fit for God's cause And Saint Augustine saith (q) Hoc jubent Imperatores quod Christus jubet quia cùm bonum jubent nemo jubet nisi per eos Christus August Epist 166. of this power of Laws When Emperours command that which is good it is Christ and no man else that commandeth by them The fourth work of Supremacie is receiving of Appeals giving Decisions Restitutions and Deprivations and other punishments of Bishops for Causes Ecclesiastical which in Primitive Times fell to the judicature of Princes not Popes for when Donatus (r) Vide Optatum libr. 1. August Epist 162 166. had procured Cecilianus to be condemned by seventy African Bishops and had set up another Bishop in his See of Carthage he appealed to Constantine the Emperour and desired him to assigne him Judges Constantine by Commission extant in Eusebius (s) Eusebius lib. 1. cap. 5. delegated and authorised Meltiades Bishop of Rome to hear the cause who gave Sentence for Cecilianus upon a second Appeal (t) Euseb lib. 10. cap. 5. Constantine made a second Delegacy to Chrestus Bishop of Syracuse who likewise gave Sentence with Cecilianus upon the third Appeal Constantine appointed Elianus a Civil Magistrate to examine Felix who acquitted Felix also Then the Emperour called both Parties before him and gave final Sentence for Cecilianus and made a severe Law against the Donatists In which Passage I pray you observe First that Meltiades not as supreme Judg of all Controversies but as delegated by Constantine did judg of Cecilianus his Cause and Saint Augustine (u) August Epist. 162. defended him from usurpation upon the seventie African Bishops because the Emperour not Saint Peter appointed it Next the Bishop of Syracuse did judg the same Cause after Meltiades without any wrong to the See of Rome no man in that Age found fault with it And Thirdly It is apparent that Constantine was superiour to Meltiades and both made him his Delegate and Judge of his Sentence and Judgement which Saint Augustine (x) Vltimum Judicium ultra quod Causa pertransire non potest Augustin contra Parmenian lib. 1. cap. 6. calleth the last Judgement beyond which the Cause could not pass (y) Socrates lib. 5. cap. 10. Theodosius calling a Council of all Opinions where Nactarius and Agilius made the Confession 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Consubstantiality Demophilus delivered up the Arrian Faith Eunomius the Eunomian Faith Eleusius the Macedonian Faith Then the Emperour alone separated from all Company saith (z) Tum solus separatus precatur Deum Socrates suprá Socrates made his Prayers to God to direct him in the Truth and then he read the several Faiths and condemned and rent all the rest that rent and divided

Soul which as Saint Augustine (a) Creando infunditu● infundendo creatur Lombard 2. Sent. Distinct 17. saith is created by Infusion and infused by Creation but are not the causes of Creation or Infusion of it for that is God's peculiar Prerogative qui format animas in medio eorum Even so that of constituting Rulers and Governours as Tertullian saith (b) Indè ille potestas unde spiritus Tertul. in Apologe● cap. 30. Thence is their power from whence is their Spirit or Soul and Irenaeus (c) Cujus jussu nascuntur homines ejus jussu constituuntur Principes Irenaeus lib. 5. Contra Haeres By whose command men are born by the same power are Princes or Governours made which is onely Gods This the Romish Extravagants approve determining that (d) Imperator non habet gladium a populo sed imperium est a solo Deo Extravag De Majoritate Oledientia Dist 96. The Emperour hath not his Sword of the people but the Empire is onely from God Gent. I see it perspicuously evident by Scriptures Fathers and Imperial Constitutions that Chief Magistrates receive their Authority onely of God and that None is above them within their Dominions but God What say the antient Laws of our Nation to this Minist Bracton who executed the office of Lord Chief Justiciarie for twenty years together under Henry the Third treating of the antient rites and customs of England saith that (e) Sunt sub Rege liberi homines servi ejus potestati subjecti omnes quidem sub eo ipse sub nullo nisi tantum sub Deo I●émque r●●sus Si ab eo peccatur cùm Bre●e non currat contra ips●m locus erit supplicationi quod factum suum corrigat emende● quod quidem si non fe●●rit satis erit ei ad poenam quod Dominum expectet ultorem nemo enim de factis suis praesumat disquirere ●ou●●o minus contra factum suum venire Bracton De lege consuetudine Ang●●●● lib. ● cap. 8. num 5. Under the King are Freemen and Servants subject to his power and all are under him and he under none therefore not the Pope of Rome but onely under God and i● he offend seeing no Brief can issue out against him much less a Romish f This is to be understood either in relation to the Pope onely or of them which are alsolutely supreme in legislative and executive power whether Monarchs Optimates or Senate which is to be referred to the Laws of every Nation as His Majesty is supreme with us both in legislative and executive power Bull there is onely place for Supplication that he would correct and reform his Errour which if he will not do it is sufficient punishment for him that he must expect God will revenge for none may presume therefore not the Pope judicially to enquire into his actions much less to make insurrection against him Gent. I understand that not onely the modern but antient Laws of this Nation are against Papal Jurisdiction if not expresly yet consequently but at this present you need not fear his annoying the Chief Magistrate State or people of this Nation Minist There was never more cause of fear then now and unless you dissemble you must confess the (g) Regno privare atque etiam interficiendos atque populos subjectos relaxato juris jurandi vincul● potestate eorum eximere atque ab obedientia sidei debito liberare ipsum regnum alteri Principi donare armis invadendum sibique subjugandum permittere Regem a Papa sive Haeret cum sine aliàs viti●s●m au● inu●●lem judica●um ac propterea per sententiam ejus velut superioris regni jure privatum jam jus authoritatem imperandi amisisse nec ultra Regem esse sed Tyrannum a quovis de populo occidi posse Clericos etiam nequaquam ulli Regum esse subditos ac propterea nullam ab eis laesae Majestatis crimen commi●●● etiamsi rebellionem in Reges molia●●ur monitis atque exemplo populos rebellare obedientiam fidelitatē tribulū omnia obsequia Principibus negare do●e●t Apostolos Regibus de facto tantum non etiam de jure subjectos f●i●se Sanctarel apud Alphonsum de Vargas pag. 117 118. Brood of Ignatius Loyola were never more active then now at this present That Romish Argus in the Apocalyptical Beast full of eyes he rides upon is intensly vigilant to widen the breaches he hath made taking advantage of our distractions haud tanto cessabit cardine rerum I will give a glance of his attempts in this kind since Queen Elizabeth's Inauguration In the fourth year of Her Reign Arthur Pole of the Race of George Duke of Clarence and Fortescue his Brother-in-Law conspired by an army in Wales to proclaim the Queen of Scots Pope Pius the Fifth in the year 1569. sent out an Excommunication against her absolving all her Subjects from the Oath of Allegiance By him and the King of Spain the Duke of Norfolk was excited to stir up what Forces he could and to join with the Earls of Northumberland and Westmerland who were seduced by Nicholas Morton a Priest sent from his Holyness The same year Johannes Mendoza was sent out of Spain to inflame the Rebellion begun in Ireland by Edmund and Peter Botelers Brethren to the Earl of Ormond In the year 1570. Don John of Austria disappointed of the Kingdom of Tunis practised secretly with the Pope the overthrow of England Gregory the Thirteenth promised a Cruciata as was used in the Holy Wars if the Spaniard and Stukeley an Englishman whom he had furnished with men and ammunition would turn their Forces against England Sanders and Allen two Popish Priests with Power Legantine a consecrated Banner and Letters of Commendation came to Spain from thence to Ireland with three Ships and a few Soldiers to stir up Commotions In the year 1580. these Emissaries House Main Nelson Sherwood Campian Parsons all Romish Priests taught that Queen Elizabeth was an Heretick and therefore worthily deposed The Jesuits by their seditious Libels encouraged Summervile and Arden to attempt the Queen's death Anno 158● And Bernardinus Mendoza the Spanish Embassadour was thrust out of England for secret Conspiracies against the State At Venice Parry a Doctour of Civil Law had communication with Benedictus Palmius a Jesuit who recommended him to Campegius the Pope's Nuncio and Campegius to the Pope so that Letters of Credence were sent to him by the Cardinal of Come and he excited to attempt the Queen's death by a Stab which they called special service for the Catholick cause which he consented unto having got a plenary indulgence by Ragazonius the Pope's Nuncio Ballard a Rhemish Priest perswaded Babington with Chernock and other of his Complices to assault Her Majesty commending the Scots who had lately intercepted their King at Sterling and Gerard the Burgonian who killed the

Laws Minist It is true your modern Court Parasites have fawned upon the Pope with such Blandishments of fulness of power yet as Baldus saith this plenitudo potestatis est plenitudo tempestatis fulness of power is fulness of tempest or disorder And your own barbarous Gloss confesses (m) Imperator in Temporaelibus habet potestatem a solo Deo imperium fuit antequam Apostolus esset Extravag De Majoritate Obedientia The Emperour in temporal things hath his authority not from the Pope but from God onely and the Emperour was before the Apostles were The Emperour Ludovicus the Fourth asserted his own right thus (n) Mea potestas non pendet a Papa sed a Deo immediaté vanum quod dici solet Papam non habere superiorem Paralipomena Uspergensia in Ludovico iv My power hath no dependance of the Pope but immediately of God alone and it is a vain tale that they say The Pope hath no superiour Johannes Major your own Colleague saith (o) Bonifacius Octavus multùm apparenter definivit quòd Romanus Pontifex est supra Reges in Temporalibus quod tamen oculatissimi Theologi dicunt esse falsum Johannes Major 4. Sent. 20. q. 2. Pope Boniface the Eight hath defined many things with great shew of reason that even in temporal causes the Pope is above Princes but I may tell you saith he the wisest Divines say it is false And your Romish Ceremoniary you so confide in declares to the world Ante Carolum Magnum neminem Imperii Romani coronam ex manu Romani Pontificis Romae suscepisse That before the Emperour Charles the Great that is for the space of eight hundred years after Christ no man ever received the Crown of the Romane Empire at Rome by the hands of the Bishop of Rome Therefore Bernard though an Abbot living in the mists of Popery tells Pope Eugenius without mincing (p) Esto ut alia quacunque ratione tibi vendices non tamen Apostolico jure nec illud tibi dare quod non habuit Petrus potuit Bernardus De Consideratione ad Eugenium lib. 2. Be it he may claim this pretended right by some other means yet by Apostolical right he cannot claim it neither could Peter give him that right he never had Gent. But to your Testimonies which I approve be pleased to add some reasons why the Pope hath not any authority to discharge any of the people of these Nations from their obedience to the chief Magistrate Minist The reasons are two First (q) Colimus Imperatorem ut à Deo secundum quicquid est a Deo cousecutum solo Deo minorem Tertull. ad Scapulam The chief Magistrate receiveth his authority onely of God and may acknowledge none above him within his Territories but God Secondly The Ty or Obligation whereby people are obliged in Duty to the chief Magistrate is perpetual indissoluble and may not lawfully be broken The former will be pertinent to this Article the latter will fall in in the next And that not only primitive Fathers and Protestants but even moderate Papists maintain this Doctrine appears by those (r) Primò Rex statum suum non nisi à Deo gladio suo debet recognoscere Secundò Rex solum Deum mortalem verò neminem in regno suo superiorem agnoscit Tertiò Papa non potest nec Regem nec regnum ejus supponere Interdicto seu Sacris interdicere nec subditis relaxare Sacramentum fidelitatis ei debitae propter quamcunque causam occasionem Alphonsus de Vargas pag. 123. three Articles agreed upon by the French Parliament at Paris and subscribed unto by the Sorbonists and other Divines First That the King or chief Magistrate ought to hold his state of none but God and his Sword Secondly He acknowledges onely God but no mortal man superiour in his Kingdom Thirdly That the Pope cannot interdict or excommunicate the King or his Kingdom or absolve his Subjects from the Oath of Allegiance for any cause or pretext whatsoever Gent. Make good your former reason which you say pertains to this Article That the chief Magistrate receiveth his authority onely of God and may acknowledg none above him within his Territories but God Minist The latter Branch of this Proposition That the chief Magistrate may acknowledge none above him within his Tertories but God alone is partly proved already but that all scruple may be removed I will add two Texts of Scripture more with the Fathers descant upon them and then proceed The former 2 Sam. xii ii where the Prophet Nathan having convinced David of his murder and adultery and using this Preface Haec dicit Dominus Thus saith the Lord onely as Leo (s) Haec dicit Dominus monuit Regem Davidem ut per poenitentiam peccata sua expiaret non tulit in eum sententiam quae tanquam Adulter Homicida juxta Legem morti addiceretur Leo Quartus 2. q. 7. cap. Non si competenter saith admonished him to expiate his sins by repentance but passed no sentence upon him that as a murderer or adulterer according to the Law he might be put to death Hence we may collect if Nathan a Prophet extraordinarily commissioned by God was not impowered to sentence David the chief Magistrate or stir up his Subjects against him much less may a Roman Prelate 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 put his sickle into another's harvest and out of his Diocess molest Princes Potentates and States Gent. Perhaps Nathan who was an extraordinary Prophet had an extraordinary dispensation to spare David who was an extraordinary Prince Minist No the other Text I shall produce relating to the same History overthrows that which is Psalm li. 4. Tibi soli peccavi Against thee thee onely saith David unto God have I sinned St. Ambrose gives the reason (t) Rex utique erat nullis ipse legibus tenebatur humanis neque enim Reges ullis ad poenam vocantur legibus tuti imporii potestate homini ergo non peccavit cui non tenebatur obnoxius Ambros in Apolog Davidis cap. 4. lib. 2. ep 7. He was saith he a King or supreme Regent and so subject to no Law of man for Princes beeing freed by Royal Prerogatives of Imperial power are not punishable by humane Laws he therefore sinned not to man to whom he was not subject With him agrees Euthymius in these words (u) Cùm sim Rex te solum commissorum à me scelerum judicem habeam tibi soli peccasse videor hoc est tibi soli judici subjicior caeterorum enim omnium ego Dominus sum ob potentiam meam licere mihi videtur quaecunque libuerit Euthym. in Psalm li. Seeing I am a King and have thee onely my Judg over my sins I seem to sin onely to thee that is I am subject onely to thee as to my Judg for I am Lord over all others and in regard of my power

and Majesty whatsoever pleaseth me seemeth to be lawful for me Lyranus his Note is concentrick with the former (x) Lyranus in Psal li. Tibi soli peccavi scilicet tanquam Judici punire potenti peccaverat enim contra Uriam alios occasione hujus interfectos tamen quia erat Rex non habebat Judicem superiorem qui posset eum punire nisi Deum To thee onely have I sinned that is to say To thee onely as to my Judg and to him that can punish me for he had now sinned against Vrias and others whom he caused to be murdered by that occasion yet because he was a King or supreme Magistrate he had no superiour Judg that could punish or controll him save God alone With these accord Saint Hierom Arnobius Cassiodorus Beda Didymus Cyril and Nicetas Gent. Perhaps all the Antients brought in their verdict that none of his Subjects were competent Judges to punish or controll him this makes nothing against the Pope's jurisdiction Minist It makes against all alike especially any pretended authority above Supreme Magistrates which even your Ordinary Gloss upon this Psalm confesses saying (y) Rex omnibus superior tantùm à Deo puniendus est Glossa Ordinaria in Psalm li. The King or Regent is above all and he can be punished by none but by God alone If that suffice not hear a Romane Cardinal to thee onely saith (z) Tibi soli quia non est super me alius quàm tu qui possit punire ego enim sum Rex non est aliquis praeter te super me Hugo Cardinalis in Psal li. Hugo because there is not any above me but thy self alone that hath power to punish me for I am a King and so besides thee is none above me And if my Sophister with Bellarmine shall say There was none above Kings under the Law but now his Holyness of Rome is above Emperours and Dynasts under the Gospel Gregory himself a Roman Pope shall decide the controversie for thus he writes to the Emperour (a) Ego quidem jussioni vestrae subjectus eandem legem per diversas terrarū partes transmitti feci quia lex ipsa omnipotenti Deo minime concordat Ecce per suggestionis nicae paginam serenissimis Dominis nuntiavi Vtro●●… ergo quod debui exsolvi qui Imperatori obedientiam praebui pro Deo quod sersi minimè tacui Gregor lib. 2. Epist 61. cap. 100. I being your subject and at your command have caused the same Law to be sent through divers parts of the Land and because the Law it self doth not accord to God's will behold I have signified so much unto Your Majesty by my Epistle and so I have discharged my duty in both respects as having rendred mine Obedience to the Emperour and have not concealed what I thought in God's cause Gent. Nothing is more clear then this yet Pope Adrian thus advanced himself above the Emperour Frederick By means of us saith (b) Imperator per nos imperat unde habet imperium nisi à nobis ecce in potestate nostra est ut demus illud cui volumus Aventinus lib. 9. pag 616. he the Emperour hath his Diadem for whence hath he his Empire but of us behold it is in our power to bestow the Empire upon whom we list Minist Emperours Kings and all Chief Magistrates by what title soever they be called receive their authority onely of God not of any Roman Priest which is the former branch of the Proposition I engaged to prove It is I saith (c) Psalm lxxxii 6. God not any Creature that have said Ye are Gods It is he (d) Daniel iv 32. the most High that ruleth in the Kingdoms of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will (e) Job xxxvi 7. It is his omnipotent hand as the Vulgar Edition hath it qui Reges collocat in solio places Kings upon their Throne (f) Proverbs viii 15. by whom Kings reign and Princes decree Justice He that said by Nathan to David (g) 2 Sam. xii 7. I have anointed thee King over Israel He by whom Solomon confesseth he was (h) 1 Kings ii 24. established and set on the Throne of David his Father In whose name the Prophet Ahias said to Jeroboam (i) 1 Kings xi 31. I will give unto thee ten Tribes who challenges (k) Psalm xxi 3. Crowns (l) Psalm lxxxix 20. Anoynting Scepters and (m) 2 Paral. 9. 8. Thrones as his peculiar and stiles them (n) 2 Sam. xiv 17. Angels of God and (o) Psalm lxxxii 6. Sons of the most High whom he empowers Gent. But it is said (p) 1 Sam. xi 15. All the people went to Gilgal and there they made Saul King before the Lord And (q) 2 Sam. ii 4. The men of Judah and Elders of Israel anoynted David over Judah and Israel how then received they their authority from God Minist (r) 2 Sam. v. 3. The Elders of Judah and Israel anoynted David not as Masters of the substance but of the ceremony not making him but declaring him to be King whom by (s) 1 Sam. xvi special command God had designed before And Saul was first anoynted by the Lord (t) 1 Sam. x. 1. Captain over his inheritance chosen immediately of him by lots as Matthias (u) Acts i. 26. was so that he had all his jura regalia from God not the people who are also said to have (x) 1 Sam. xi 15. made Saul King because they approved the election made of God and admitted him into the (y) Constituere Regem est Verbum tertiae Conjugationis quod cùm esserat duplicem actionem propriè significat facere tenare regnate est regiam exercere potestatem quasi diceret Fecerunt ut regiam potestatem exerceret Jesuita Pineda De rebus Solomonis possession and administration of the Kingdom whom the Sons of Belial impiously by contempt had rejected For the Jews had a special command Deut. xvii 15. to set him King over them whom the LORD their God should choose And as in spiritual things (z) 1 Cor. iii. 7. Paul may plant Apollos water yet it is God that gives the whole encrease So it is his sole act to set on high whom he pleases though the votes and suffrages of the people may be subservient and obediential instruments Gent. But Government and Principality sometimes descends by Succession or are conferred upon victorious Commanders as Trophies of their Conquests lawfully atchieved how then are they immediately conferred of God Minist Order of Succession and victorious event of lawful war are onely qualifications preparative or concomitant to the Investiture of Government but are not the principal or conjunct cause of it as heat cold moysture dryness with the Crasis or Temperature that crises of the mixture of them are dispositions prerequisite in an organized humane body to the receiving of the

is this That Doctrine which is contrary to Scriptures Primitive Fathers ancient Councils and is disclaimed by all moderate Papists themselves ought to be abjured But such is that Jesuitical Doctrine that Princes Rulers or Governours which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may by virtue of such Excommunication or Deprivation be killed murdered or deposed from their rule or government or any outrage or violence may be done unto them by the people that are under them or by any other whatsoever upon such pretense Therefore it ought to be abjured Which you will more chearfully do if you consider the next Article The tenth Article And I do further swear That I do believe that the Pope or Bishop of Rome hath no authority power or jurisdiction whatsoever within England Scotland and Ireland or any or either of them or the Dominions or Territories belonging to them or any or either of them Minist YOu are here enjoyned to abjure no more then what all Ecclesiasticks or Clergie were enforced formerly to subscribe unto for it is expressed in the thirty seventh Article of our English Confession that The Supreme Magistrate in this Kingdom of England and the rest of his Dominions hath the chiefest power to whom the supreme Government of all States of this Kingdom whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all causes pertains and neither is nor ought to be subject to any foreign Jurisdiction (a) Romanus Pontifex nullam habet jurisdictionem in hoc regno Angliae Confessionis Anglicanae A●●●● 37. Anglia non est Feudatoria Papae Harpsfield The Pope or Bishop of Rome hath no jurisdiction in this Kingdom Gent. The Canonists or Pope's Pages of Honour say otherwise enfeoff●ng their Master with the (b) Extravagant De appellat Ut debitus in Glossa possession of all the World One saith thus (c) Extravagant De staetu Regularium periculos in Glossa Dominus Papa est Ordinarius omnium hominum Our Lord the Pope is the Ordinary or Bishop of all men Another saith (d) Extravagant De poena Felicis in Glossa Papa totius mundi obtinet principatum The Pope hath the Principality of all the World Another saith (e) Extravagant De concessione Praebendae Ecclesiae non vacantis Quia diversitatem ab Papa etiam cessante negligentia Praelatorum potest conferre Beneficia totius orbis quia ipse est Ordinarius totius mundi Though there be no default or negligence in any Bishop yet may the Pope bestow the Benefices of all the World for that he is the Bishop of all the World Therefore when the chief Deacon investeth and enrobeth the Pope at his Consecration he saith unto him Ego te investio Papatu ut praesis urbi orbi I invest thee with the Popedom that thou mayst rule both the City and the World if the World then England which presupposeth he hath jurisdiction in these Nations Minist It is true that Sycophants have given and modern Popes have taken such jurisdiction to themselves resembling Antiochus King of Syria who stiled himself a (f) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hieronymus in Daniel cap. iii. God and the Emperour Domitian who used to assign his Proclamations with this Elogie (g) Dominus Deus vester Domitianus Suetonius in Domitiano Your Lord God Domitian the Emperour Caligula who called himself the (h) Deum Optimum Maximum Jovem Latialem Pomponius Laetus best and most mighty God and the great God Jupiter of Italy Sapores the King of Persia who entitled himself the Brother of the Sun and Moon Manichaeus the Heretick who called himself the Holy Ghost as did that Arabian Impostour Mahomet Simon Magus who obtained that esteem with the antient Romanes that they erected him a Statue with this Inscription * Eusebius lib. 2. cap. 13. SIMONI SANCTO DEO In the honour of Simon the Holy God So (i) Potestas Papae est major omni alia potestate creata aliquo modo se extendens ad coelestia terrestria infernalia ut de ea verificari possit quod dictum est Omnia subjecisti sub pedibus ejus Antonin in Sum. part 3. tit 22. cap. 5. Antoninus Arch-Bishop of Florence gives the Pope greater power then any other power that ever God made which after a sort even stretcheth it self to things in heaven things in earth and things in Hell so that of him that saying of the Prophet David may be verified Thou hast made all things subject to his Feet But of this Luciferian Ambition and inordinate Vsurpation many Pontificians themselves have complained amongst whom Franciscus Zabarella Cardinal of Rome avers that (k) Ex hoc infiniti secuti sunt errores quia Papa occupavit omnia jura infertorum Ecclesiarum nisi Deus succurrat statui Ecclesiarum universa Ecclesia periclitabitur Franciscus Zabarella Thereupon have ensued infinite Errours for that the Pope hath invaded the Rights of all inferiour Churches and unless God help the state of the Churches the universal Church is injeopardy The learned Lady Anna Daughter to the Emperour Alexius and Irene in her Greek Story writeth thus (l) Anna in Historia Graeca The Pope is Lord of the whole world as the Latines think and speak of him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for this is a piece of their ambition Gent. What then was the Pope confined to a peculiar Diocess beyond which without Vsurpation he could not extend his Phylacteries Minist The antient learned Fathers evermore bounded and limited the Pope within his own particular Jurisdiction Ruffinus saith (m) Romanus Pontifex suburbicavarum Ecclesiarum solicitudinem great Ruffinus Historiae Ecclesiast lib. 1. cap. 9. The Fathers in the Council of Nice appointed the Pope to oversee the Churches of his own Suburbs these our Nations are not within his Suburbs Athanasius saith (n) Roma est Metropolis Romanae ditionis Athanasius Ad solitariam vitam agentes Rome is the Mother-Church not of England or the whole world but of her own particular Romish jurisdiction The Bishops in the Council of Rome writ thus to the Bishops of Illyricum (o) Sozomen lib. 6. cap 23. It is convenient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that all the Bishops which be within the jurisdiction of Rome accord together Flavianus Patriarch of Constantinople writeth thus to Leo Bishop of Rome (p) Dignetur Sanctitas vestra indicare impietatem Eutychetis omnibus Episcopis sub Beatitudine vestra degentibus Inter Epistolas Leonis Epist 9. Let Your Holyness vouchsafe to make known the wickedness of Eutyches to all Bishops that live under you not to all the Bishops through the world Saint Hierom speaking of the use and order of the Church of Rome objected against him saith (q) Quid mihi profers unius urbis consuetadinem Hieronymus ad Euagrium What alledgest thou against me the Custom of one City So much he abridgeth the Pope's Jurisdiction that he extendeth it not to the