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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69679	Popery, or, The principles & positions approved by the Church of Rome (when really believ'd and practis'd) are very dangerous to all and to Protestant kings and supreme powers, more especially pernicious, and inconsistent with that loyalty, which (by the law of nature and scripture) is indispensably due to supreme powers, in a letter to a person of honor / by T. Ld Bishop of Lincoln.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing B840; ESTC R13608	86,020	134

c. So that if the Title of a Decretal publish'd by Pope Gregory the Ninth or the Annotation upon it by Naldus an eminent Lawyer and the Approbation and Confirmation of both by Pope Gregory the Thirteenth be true it will evidently follow that the Lateran Council was a General or Oecumenical Council And afterwards in the same Canon-Law and Decretals we meet with this Title to another Chapter ...... Idem in Concilio Generali And it appears both by the former Chapters of that Title and the Annotation on this that Innocent the Third was the Pope and that in the Lateran was the Council which is there call'd General And afterwards several times to the very same purpose especially in the Fifth Book of Gregories Deeretals and the Seventh Title where this Impious Canon for Deposing Kings and Absolving their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance is intirely Registred for Law referr'd to Pope Innocent the Third in his Lateran Council and that Council declared Oecumenical 6. Lastly To put the matter out of doubt that the Lateran Council was Oecumenical and made Canons the Council of Constans does testifie it several times and expresly names it amongst those General Councils to the observation whereof the Popes were to swear at their coming to the Papal Dignity And although these Authorities be abundantly sufficient to satisfie our more sober Adversaries yet I shall add one more which may I hope silence the more Confident It is the Authority of the Trent-Council which does expresly call it a General Council and confirms one of its Canons The sum of this Discourse is That if the Concurrent Testimonies 1. Of their own most learned and for Dignity most eminent Writers de Conciliis 2. Or their Publishers of their Councils General and Provincial 3. Or many Decrees of their Popes generally approved and received into their Canon-Law of the last and as they tell us of the most correct Editions 4. Or of their General Councils for such they esteem them of Constance and Trent I say if all these be of any validity and with them some of those Testimonies are infallible then it will evidently follow 1. That this Lateran Council under Pope Innocent the Third is and with them must be an Oecumenical or General Council 2. And so those Impious and Damnable Positions in the Third Canon of that Council 1. That Kings and Emperors may be Excommunicated by their own Bishops for not obeying the Pope 2. And Deposed by the Pope 3. And their Subjects Absolved by him from their Oaths of Allegiance 4. And their Kingdoms given away to those who Obey and please the Pope I say all those Positions must be acknowledged to be the Doctrines of the Roman Church being Decrees and Constitutions of her received General Councils which she professeth to be infallible and therefore obliging her to a firm belief of them 3. This being evidently so that the Pope and his Party obliged thereunto by their approved and received Canon-Law and their General Councils do believe and publickly profess such Impious Traiterous and Damnable Doctrines it will be easie for all who have good Eyes and will use them to see how Dangerous and Pernicious such Principles are to all especially Protestant Kings Princes and their People and Subjects And that 1. In point of Conscience and in respect of their Souls and Salvation if they believe and receive such Impious Positions and Principles 2. In point of Civil Prudence in respect of their Persons Honors and Estates if they receive them not 1. In point of Conscience if they submit to the Pope and believe and receive such Heretical Positions and Damnable Doctrines it must of necessity be Dangerous and Pernicious to their Souls For this Argument will be both consequent and evident To believe Heretical and Damnable Opinions and Doctrines is Dangerous and Pernicious to the Soul this all Sides confess But to believe that the Pope can Excommunicate and Depose Kings absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance so as they may lawfully murder and kill their Kings so Excommunicated and Deposed is Heretical and Damnable Doctrine as is declared in a great and full Parliament on occasion of that horrid and bloody Gun-powder-Treason in the Fifth year of King James In the Oath of Allegiance which Oath not onely you and I but all the Clergy the Nobility Magistrates all Graduates in the University c. have or should have taken and so by a Solemn and Sacred Oath h●ve Sworn such doctrine to be Impious Damnable and Heretical Other Arguments I need not use to you or any who love truth and the Church of England to prove the error and impiety of such Opinions and the danger those poor deluded Souls are in who believe and practice them The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Original Error from which the rest follow is that vast Supremacy which the Pope as Peters Successor challengeth and when he has ability Usurps over Kings A power St. Peter never had nor pretended to who knew no power in himself or any other meer Man superior to Kings Submit your selves sayes he to every humane Ordinance whether to the KING AS SUPREME c. He who sayes the KING IS SUPREME does with the same breath and undeniable consequence say he has no Superior It being a manifest contradiction to say any thing is SUPERIOR to that which is Supreme St. Peter commands all to SUBMIT themselves to their Kings and there were none then but Pagan and Idolatrous Princes and obey them as SUPREME Governors the Pope command● Subjects to disobey their Kings if he miscall them Hereticks to refuse any assistance or subjection to them to take Armes against them and tells them that if in zeal to the Catholick Cause they kill them or any Heretique it is no Murder and threatens them with Excommunication if they do not what he commands them Now let any sober person tell me whether they can in this case disobey the Apostle and obey these impious commands of the Pope without great and apparent danger to their Soules Our blessed Saviour whose Vicar the Pope pretends to be does himself pay Tribute to Caesar though a Pagan and Idolater leaving us an admirable and most pious example of that Obedience and Loyalty due even to impious and Pagan Princes nor is this all for he further gives express command That all should render unto CAESAR THE THINGS WHICH ARE CAESARS He acknowledgeth the Imperial Rights of Caesar of which his Impiety and Idolatry did not deprive him St. Paul both by his practice and precept confirms the same doctrine 1. He acknowledges the Emperors power superior to his though he was an Apostle not inferior to Peter or any Apostle which he twice affirms to the Corinthians I stand at Caesars Judgment-Seate saith he WHERE I OUGHT TO BE JUDGED if I have done any thing worthy of