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A67551	The principall duty of Parliament-men, or, A short and compendious treatise concerning the unity and unanimity, which should be in the members of that honourable assembly / Richard Wood ...	Ward, Richard, 1601 or 2-1684.	1641 (1641)	Wing W805; ESTC R11713	54,613	68

nothing at Gods hand c But the Papists teach That our good works deserve the grace of God and everlasting life also that men may do works of supererogation i. e. over and above those which the Law of God commandeth whereunto the doers thereof are not bound and they are available to help others d And therefore we may truely say That it is a proud and supercilious Religion And Fourthly Popery is a pernicious Religion where it is 〈◊〉 permitted and embraced and that both to Princes and People First To Princes and that in many regards namely 1. The Pope and Popish Clergy chalenge freedome from their power The Scripture indeed teacheth That every soul ought to be subject to the higher powers which are the Magistrates e But the Papi●…ts teach That Ecclesiasticall persons are not subject to the secular power or politick Magistrate but all ought to be subject to the Pope who compareth himself to the sunne and the Emperour to the moon and therefore Emperours and Kings in token of subiection and obedience do kiss●… his feet f And 2. The Pope hath power over Princes and as he saith is of greater authority and power in a Kingdome then the lawfull King and Prince thereof as was observed by a Fryar who saith That it was not without cause that Malchus whose eare Peter cut off was the high Priests servant seeing that Malchus signifieth a King From whence he collects as the Papists indeed would have it and which Princes should observe and mark That as Malchus was servant to the high Priest so the Regall Majesty of Kings and Emperours is subject to the power of Priests g And Dorman said The Pope is the head and Kings and Emperours are the feet And Stanislaus Orichovius in Chimaera saith The Emper●…urs Maiesty is so far inferiour to the Pope in dignity as a creature is inferiour unto God Whence our famous Tindale deliberately and considerately said Popish Kings are but shadowes vain names and idle things having nothing to do in the world but when the Pope needeth their help And 3. The Pope challengeth power to excommunicate Princes and to cast them ou●… of the Church as Pope Clement excommunicated our Henry the eighth and Pope Pius 5. our Elizabeth And 4. The Pope hath power as he saith to depose Princes and to cast them out of their thrones and to dispose of their royalties and egall seats as him listeth Pope Benedict 9. desiring to pu●…l down H●…nry 3. Emperour and to raise up Peter King of Hu●…gary 〈◊〉 ●…im the Crown of the Empire with this verse Petra dedit Rom●…ns Petro tibi Papa coronam The Rock to Peter gave Rome the Town The Pope to thee Peter gives the 〈◊〉 Thus Pope Zichary by the consent or conspiracy of the Nobles of France de 〈◊〉 Chilpericus the true naturall and liege 〈◊〉 tha Realm and placed Pipin in his room And Pope Bonifice the eighth because he could not have the Treasury of France at his command endeavoured with all his both worldly a●…d ecclesiastica●…l puissance to remove Philip the French King from his 〈◊〉 and under his Bulls or Letters pate●…ts conveyed the same solemnly unto Albertus King of the Romans And therefore we do the Papists no wrong in saying Popery is a p●…rnicious doctrine to Princes And 5. Popery teacheth Regicide and King-killing 1. Bernardus de monte Polician●… a Dominick Fryar poysoned Henry Emperour of Lucemberg in the Sacrament John Chastell attempted the death of King Henry the fourth of France and Jaques Clement●…ffected it Thus private papists and priests have practised Regi●…ide 2. The Jesuites the prime pillars of popery do maintain it The popish Divines at Salamanca held That the Catholik●…s in Ireland who did fight against our Queen Elizabeth were by n●…●…onstruction Rebells And this was also thus resolved by John de Sequenza Emanuel de Royas Jasper de Mena and Peter de Osorio professors of Divinity in the Colledge of Jesuites there And John Chastell confessed that the argument of King-killing was ordinary among the Jesuites and the aphorismes of Emanuel Sa confirm as much and likewise a book composed by the principall of the Seminary at Rhemes wherein it was affirme●… and maintained That it was lawfull in certain cases for the Subject to kill the King 3. The Pope himself hath winked at such offendors for many of those who had a hand in the Gun-powder plot fled for that fact into Italy but not any of them was ever questioned reproved punished or called to an account for it by the Pope y●…e fourthly such Judasites and Traitours have be●…n praised by the Pope as we see pope Sixt us 5. who made an oration in praise and commendation of the Fryars faith who murdered Hen●…y 3. of France And fifthly the popes have practised it by their agents for Innocent the fourth after he had excommunicated the Emperour Frederick corrupted one in Apulia to give him poyson of the which the Emperour recovering he afterwards hired his bastard son●…e Manfred us to poyson him whereof he died And Alexander the third writ unto the Soldane that if he would live in quiet he should by some sleight murder the Emperour and to that end sent him the Emperours picture And thus by some gradations and steps it evidently appears That the popish doctrine alloweth of Regicide and King-killing 6. To fill up the mystery of iniquity popery teacheth That it is meritorious to murder those princes who will not take the popes part in the favouring and furthering of his idolatries and superstitions witnesse Cardinall Como his instructions to Parry and Sixt us his oration mentioned before in defense of the Jacobine that murdered Henry the third I will conclude this with a story of our own King James being admonished by Queen Elizabeth a little before the coming of the Spanish Armamado to take heed of the Scottish papists and the King of Spain answered pleasantly That he looked for no other favour of the Spaniards then that which Polyphemus promised to Ulyss●…s To devour him last after all his fellowes were devoured Certainly wofull and wretched experience hath proved this true That those princes who embrace and entertain Popery are not onely in a miserable slavery but also in as great d●… of their dearest lives as any private person if they will not 〈◊〉 all things comply with and be obedient and subiect unto the Pope that man of sinne And therefore our late Prelate now I hope with the Lord who was never corrupted with th●… 〈◊〉 of the times boldly concludes That Jesuited Papists ca●…not be good subjects ●…ndly Popery is a pe●…nicious d●…ctrine to People as well as to P●…inces and that in a threefold regard to wit 1. I●… respect of their estates for faith they say is not to be kept with Hereticks and the Pope can dispense with and absolve from all cove●…ants contracts bonds and bargains made with such And 2. I●… resp●…ct of

endeavour any thing against the common good of Church and State And 7. This Protestation must respect the three Kingdoms now united by their one thrice noble Head For every one should seriously in all just and honourable wayes endeavour to preserve the union and peace between the three Kingdoms England Scotland and Ireland And thus much for the Matter of this Protestation Secondly The next thing observeable in this Protestation is the Manner thereof how it must be made viz. 1. Solemnly reverend●…y and in the fear of God because made in the presence of God for we are commanded to fear the Lord and to swear by his Name 2. Sincerely cordially and in truth because made and promised unto God who must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth John 4. 24. 3. Faithfully for the thing protested must be performed Promises made unto men must be performed much more unto God Psal. 89. 38. And hence people are commanded Not to forget their Covenant with God Jere. 50. 5. And therefore the promises we make unto God and our Protestations and Vows made in the presence of God must be performed and neither for hope fear nor other respects must be relinquished Nehe. 5. 12 13. 4. Cheerfully and with joy Nehe. 8. 9 12. 5. In manner of an Oath Ezra 10. 3. 5. 6. With a penalty for refusall Ezra 10. 7 8. 7. With praise unto God Note here That we in this Land have at this time great cause to praise and magnifie the Name of our God as namely 1. Because he hath chosen us out of the world Nehe. 8. 7. 2. Because he hath looked upon our afflictions Nehe. 9. 9. 3. Because he hath seen our fasting and heard our prayers Nehe 9. 9. 27. 4. Because he hath destroyed our enemies Nehe. 9. 10 11. 5. Because he hath guided and assisted our Patriots and Parliamentaries in their counsels and consultations Nehe. 9 12. 6. Because he hath been mercifull unto us in this Land above our merits Nehe. 9. 16 17 18 19. And therefore 1. Let us all trust in him Psal. 115. 9 10 11. And 2. Let us all praise him Psal. 118. 2 3 4. Thirdly The next thing observable in this Protestation is if I may so term it the Intension thereof for we must as ●…arre as lawfully we may with our lives power and estates perform the things promised and vowed Fourthly and Lastly In this Protestation we must observe the Extension or continuance thereof for it must be perpetuall and continue unto our lives end Truth and Religion the summe and substance of this Protestation being alwayes one as was shewed before in the fifth Means And thus much for the first main generall Viz. What we pray of you namely That your Honours may be at Unity amongst your selves I proceed now unto the second to wit That you may make unity amongst us or make us one Jovinian the Emperour being solicited to answer the Macedonians petition gave this answer y I hate all kinde of contention but unity I like and love his meaning was He would do nothing to further dissention and dis●…rd but all he could to make peace and unity And this is that which your ●…ble Petitioner now sues unto your Honours for That you would because Vis unita fortior joyn all your force together to make unity amongst us and to stint stay settle and suppresse the dissentions and diffe-rences which are in our Church to the ●…uine of Religion and establish the true Religion in Vnity amongst us In this second main generall we have these two particulars particularly to handle to wit 1. We desire That the dissentions and differences which are in our Church and which hinder the progresse of Religion may be taken away by you And 2. That true Religion may be established in unity amongst us by you Now of th●…se in their order First Our request here unto your Honours is That you would be pleased to compose those jarres and to appea●…e those differences of Religion which are so rife amongst us If you should demad how this may done the Philosopher answers * Take away the cause and the effect will c●ase If this answer b●get another Question viz. W●●t is the cause of these differences and dissentions in Religion amongst us Then I answer thereunto That c●…rt●…inly all iniquity is drawn on with certain cords of vanity a and dissentions would not be so dangerously emb●aced if there were not some inducing causes which make us mistake error for truth and so commend falshood to our easier belief These therefore indeed would b●…hunted after and Fer●et●ed out of their holes and holds that error being unmasked her dark teachers of untruth may be no more mistaken for Angels of Light b First one cause is the slippe●…y smooth and Snak●-like nature of Error which easily glides and insinuates it self both into our judgement and affection 1. Touching our judgement Gods truth is many times Supra Captum above our understanding not onely in the Reason why it should be so which made Paul cry out Oh the deepnesse of God wisedome and unsearchable wayes but sometimes in the Manner How can this be c as one saith of Christs mysticall Union Scio quod verbum caro it quomodo nescio miraris Omni●… caro ignorat d That the Word was made flesh I know but how it was done I do not know dost thou marveil at this All flesh is ignorant hereof For mans wisedome cannot know God e Whence one saith In eo peccatum est quod rem dictu ineffa●…ilem comprehensione impossibilem vani homines se animo complecti posse crediderunt f This was no small fault in them That those things which were ineffable and incomprehensible they beleeved they could conceive and take up But Errors have commonly their g●ounds from mistaken or misapplyed grounds of mans wisedome called Philosophy Mans wisedome hath e●…nticing words g and doth sophistically deceive us h and Philosophy l●…ads our belief prisoners i Whence Tertullian saith Haereses à Philosophia si bor●…antur k That Philosophy is the suborner of heresie and the same Father shewes That heresies were borrowed from Plato Epicurus Z●●o Heraclitus Aristotle Ibid. Whence it h●…th been said Summi Philosophi summi Haeresiarchae The greater Philosophers the greater hereticks which was found too true in Ehion Samosatenus C●…lius Porp●…yrius Iamblicus Psellus c. yea even Iulian himself drew his strongest Shaft out of that Quiver Now 2. Touching Affection the case is more plain for the naturall man sees no beauty in Christ nor form to desire him l and truth hath no relish with him that being such a hard saying that he cannot endure it m yea all truths Doctrines are bands and bridles that enthrall and check our carnall liberty as for example The condemning of evill words and of lust even in the heart n the