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A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

but that Great God who hath pronounced himselfe to bee righteousnesse Hactenus ille Isidorus saith no lesse for the immunity of the Kings of Spaine Let all earthly Princes know that they shall give account of the Church which Christ hath committed to their protection Yea whether the peace and discipline Ecclesiasticall bee advanced by faithfull Kings or dissolved by the unfaithfull hee will require a reckoning at their hands which hath left his Church in their power So farre Isidorus John Damascene pleadeth not onely for the exemption of wicked Kings themselves but also of their Deputies The Governours saith hee which Kings create Parallel l. 1. c. 21. though they bee wicked though they bee theeves though they bee unjust or otherwise tainted with any crime must bee regarded Wee may not contemne them for their impiety but must reverence them because of their authority by whom they were appointed our Governours So farre hee Fulgentius saith that no kind of sedition can stand with religion Cum pro nostra fide libere respondemus c. When wee answer freely for our profession wee ought not to bee taxed with the least suspition of disobedience or contumely seeing wee are not unmindfull of the Regall dignity and doe know that wee must feare God and honour the King according to the Doctrine of the Apostle Fulgent ad Thrasim reg Give to each one his due feare to whom feare honour to whom honour appertaineth Of the which feare and honour 1 Pet. 2.17 Saint Peter hath delivered unto us the manifest knowledge saying As the servants of God honour all men love brotherly fellowship feare God honour the King Thus farre Fulgentius Our Countreyman Beda for his great learning called Venerable Lib 4. exposit in Samuel is of the same mind David saith hee for two causes spared Saul who had persecuted him most malitiously First 1 Sam. 21.6 for that hee was his Lord annointed with holy oile And secondly to instruct us by morall precepts that wee ought not to strike our Governours though they unjustly oppresse us with the sword of our lips nor presume slanderously to teare the hemme of their superfluous actions So farre hee Leo the fourth about the yeare 846. agnised all subjection to Lotharius the Emperour I doe professe and promise saith Leo to observe and keepe unviolably Cap. de capit dist 15. as much as lieth in me for the time present and to come your Imperiall ordinances and commandments together with the decrees of your Bishops my Predecessours If any man informe your Majesty otherwise know certainely that hee is a lier So farre Leo. The Bishops of Spaine assembled in a nationall Councell at Toledo Concil Tol. 5. Can. 2. circa annum Dom. 636. made this decree against perjury and treason Quicunque amodo ex nobis Whosoever among us shall from this time forward violate the oath which hee hath taken for the safegard of this Country the state of the Gothish nation and the preservation of the Kings Majesty whosoever shall attempt the Kings death or deposition whosoever shall by tyrannicall presumption aspire to the regall throne let him bee accursed before the holy Spirit before the blessed Saints let him bee cast out of the Catholique Church which hee hath polluted by perjury let him have no communion with Christian men nor portion with the just but let him be condemned with the Devill and his Angels eternally together with his complices that they may bee tied in the bond of damnation which were joyned in the society of sedition Thus farre the Fathers in that Synod I conclude therefore with these learned Fathers that it is not for the people otherwise then with humility and obedience to controll the actions of their Governours but their duty is onely to call upon the God of Heaven and so submit themselves to his mercy by whose ordinance the Scepter is fallen into his hand and power that enjoyeth the Crowne whether hee bee good or bad A right of deposing must bee either in him that hath an higher power which is onely God or in him that hath better right to the Crowne which the Pope cannot have because hee is a stranger nor the Peeres or people because they are subjects Bee the King for his Religion impious for his Government unjust for his life licentious the subject must endure him the Bishop must reprove him the Councellour must advise him all must pray for him and no mortall man hath authority to disturbe or displace him as may evidently bee seene by the Chapter following The fifth Chapter confirmeth this Doctrine by the Fathers of the fourth 300. yeares IN this age of the Church the Popes exalted themselves above all that is called God and upon private displeasures and quarrels did curse and banne Princes incensing their Neighbour-nations and perswading their owne subjects to make warre against them as if Christ had ordained his Sacraments not to bee seales of grace and helps of our faith but hookes to catch Kingdomes and rods to scourge such Potentates as would not or could not procure the Popes favour How farre these Popish practises did displease the godly and learned I will shew by Saint Bernard Walthramus Bishop of Nanumberg the Epistle Apolegeticall of the Church of Leige against Paschalis the Pope and the Authour of Henry the fourth his life Saint Bernard in one of his Sermons upon the words of CHRIST I am the vine commendeth the answer of a certaine King Bene quidam Rex cum percussus humana sagitta c. It was well said of a King when hee was shot into the body with an arrow and they that were about him desired him to bee bound untill the arrowes head were cut out for that the least motion of his body would endanger his life no quoth hee it doth not beseeme a King to bee bound let the Kings power bee ever safe and at liberty And the same Father in an Epistle to Ludovicus Crassus the King of France teacheth subjects how to rebell and fight against their Princes Quicquid vobis de Regno vestro de Anima Corona vestra facere placuerit Whatsoever you please to doe with your Kingdome Bernard Epist 221. your Soule or your Crowne wee that are the Children of the Church cannot endure or dissemble the injuries contempt and conculcation of our Mother Questionlesse wee will stand and fight even unto death in our Mothers behalfe and use such weapons as wee may lawfully I meane not swords and speares but prayers and teares to God When Gregory the seaventh had deposed Henry the fourth hee gave away the Empire to one Rodolphus Duke of Saxony that was a sworne subject to that distressed Emperour which Rodolp in a battaile against his Soveraigne Lord lost his right-hand and gained a deadly wound After his death the Pope made one Hermanus King of Germany who enjoyed his Kingdome but a little time for hee was slaine with a stone which

Lord Edward by the grace of God the Noble King of England caused your Letters to bee read openly before us touching certaine occurrents of state betweene him and the King of Scotland wee did not a little marvaile at the contents thereof so strange and wonderfull as the like hath never beene heard of Wee know most Holy Father and it is well knowne in this Realme and also to other Nations that the King of England ought not to make answer for his right before any Iudge Ecclesiasticall or secular Parliament at Lincolr c quoted by M. ekenshaw by reason of the free estate of his Royall dignity and custome without breach at all times unviolably observed Wherefore after treaty had and diligent deliberation this was our resolution that our said King ought not to answer in judgement nor send Procuratours or Messengers to your Court seeing that tendeth manifestly to the disinheriting of the right of the Crowne the overthrow of the state of the Kingdome and the breach of the liberties customes and lawes of our Fathers for the keeping whereof wee are bound by the duty of an oath and will by Gods helpe maintaine and defend with all our power and strength c. Dated at Lincolne Ann. Dom. 1301. Anno Edwardi primi 29. This was then the resolution of the State of this Land if our late Sectaries Popish or Puritan bring in any other Doctrine wee may not leave the cawsey of truth and obedience whereon our Fore-fathers walked to their commendation to follow these new guides in their bypaths of pride disobedience and contempt of authority to our destruction Vincentius in his Speculo Historiali hath a notable place to disswade from sedition and perjury Lib. 15. c. 84. Vt pace omnium bonorum dixerim haec sola novitas ne dicam Haeresis nec dum è Mundo emerserat That I may speake with the favour of all good men this meere novelty if not Heresie was not sprung up in the World that Priests should teach subjects that they owe no subjection to wicked Kings and albeit they have given an oath of fidelity unto them they are not bound to keepe it Nay they that obey an evill Prince are to bee held as excommunicated and all such as rebell against him are free from the guilt of the crime of perjury So farre hee I will end this Chapter with Aeneas Silvius Pius 2. de ortu author Imperii c. 23. who died in the yeare 1464. Sit tandem finis litium Let there bee an end of contention and one principall head to determine all temporall matters let the occasion of perpetuall debate bee taken away let men acknowledge themselves subject to their Prince and give reverence to him whom God hath made his vicegerent on Earth As that which God commandeth must bee obeyed without contradiction so the temporall Commandements of Caesar may not bee resisted But let the Kings themselves beware that they oppresse no man unjustly nor give their people cause to crie to God against them for the Earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof hee will not forget the crie of the poore and for the sinne of the Prince hee translateth the Government from one Nation to another There is nothing more offensive to the greatest God the King and Creatour of Heaven and Earth then the neglect of justice and the oppression of the poore as the Psalmist saith The poore shall not alway bee forgotten and the patient abiding of the needy shall not perish for ever So farre Silvius The seaventh Chapter sheweth the concord of Papist and Puritan for the deposition of Kings and their discord about the meanes and persons to bee imployed in the execution of their designements CHilderick was deposed and Pipine crowned King of France about the yeare 750. The truth of which History is this Childerick void of all princely gravity gave himselfe over to pleasure and wantonnesse leaving the burthen of the state to Pipinus that was his Lord Marshall Who conspired with the Nobles to advance himselfe by the deposition of the King his Master To set a better colour on the matter Pipine sent his Chaplaine to Pope Zachary to have his answer to this Question Whether should bee King hee that bare the name and did nothing or hee that governed the Kingdome The Pope gave sentence with the Marshall against the King whereupon Childerick was made a shorne Monke and Pipine a crowned King It is a wonder to see how these opposite Sectaries doe insist upon this fact of the French-men to justifie their dangerous doctrine and seditious conspiracies against Princes As Cardinall Bellarmine de Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 17. Thomas Harding against the Apologie of the Church of England fol. 181. Franc. Fevardentius in his Commentaries on Hester pag. 85. Boucher alias Raynolds de justa abdicatione Henrici 3. lib. 3. cap. 14. Ficklerus de jure Magistratuumfol 30. Alexander Carerius patavinus de potestate Papae lib. 2. cap. 3. D. Marta de temporali spirituali Pontificis potestate lib. 1. c. 23. and Doleman in his conference touching succession part 1. cap. 3. pag. 48. And also these Puritans Christopher Goodman in his treatise of obedience pag. 53. George Buchanan de jure Regni apud Scotos pag. 47. Danaens de politia Christiana lib. 3. cap. 6. pag. 221. Brutus Celta dejure Magistratuum pag. 286. Phyladelphus dialogo 2. pag. 65. Franc. Hottomanus in his Francogallia cap. 12. and Speculum tyrannidis Philipi Regis pag. 27. The Papists which ascribe this deposing power to the Pope endeavour by tooth and naile to disprove that interest which the Puritans grant the Peeres or the people First this example served Gregory the seventh to excuse his presumptous practises against Henry the fourth Quidam Romanus Pontifex A certaine Bishop of Rome deposed a King of France not so much for his ill life as for that hee was not fit for government Lib. de unit Eccles apud Scard pag. 3. and placed Pipine which was Father to Charles the great in his place absolving all the French-men from the oath of allegeance which they had sworne to their King Thus farre Gregory in an Epistle to one Herimanus that was Bishop of Metz in France Thomas Harding concludeth from this fact a Divine power in the Pope Consut of the Apolog. fol. 181. Can you not see saith Harding what strength and power is in the Pope which is able with a word to place and displace the mightiest King in Europe with a word I say for I am sure you can shew us of no army that hee sent to execute his will Is it in the power of man thinke you to appoint Kingdomes can the Devill himselfe at his pleasure set up and depose Kings no surely Much lesse can any member of his doe the same Remember you what CHRIST said when the Iewes objected that hee did cast out Devils in the name of the Prince of Devils

Christian men then that which the holy Ghost this day spake in you Wee beseech O Emperour wee offer not to fight wee feare not to die wee intreat your clemency Oh it was seemely for Christian souldiers to desire the tranquility of peace and faith and to bee constant in truth even unto death Thus farre Ambrose Saint Augustine relateth the same of the Christian souldiers under Iulian the Apo●tate-Emperour Iulianus extitit Imperator infidelis Iulian was an unbeleeving Emperour was hee not an Apostata an Oppressour and an Idolater Christian souldiers served that unbeleeving Emperour When they came to the cause of Christ they would acknowledge no Lord but him that was in Heaven when they were commanded to adore Idoles and to offer sacrifice they preferred God before their Prince But when hee called upon them to warre and bad them invade any nation they presently obeyed They did distinguish their eternall Lord from the temporall King yet they submitted themselves to their temporall Lord August in Psal 124. for his sake that was their eternall King So farre hee Optatus Milevitanus is another pregnant witnesse Cum super Imperatorem nemo sit nisi solus Deus Seing there is no man above the Emperour beside God alone which made the Emperour De schism Donatist l. 3. Donatus by advancing himselfe above the Emperour doth exceed the bounds of humanity and makeeh himselfe a God rather then man in that hee feareth and reverenceth him not whom all men should honour next after God So farre Optatus Saint Cyril is of the same judgement Com. in Evang Ioh l. 12. c. 36. Cuilegis prevaricatores liberare licet nisi legis ipsius authori Who can acquit them that breake the law from transgression beside the Law-giver as wee see by experience in all humane states no man can without danger breake the law but Kings themselves in whom the crime of prevarication hath no place For it was wisely said of one that it is a wicked presumption to say to a King Thou doest amisse So farre hee And also Saint Chrysostome In 1. epist ad Timoth. c. 2 v. 1. What meaneth the Apostle saith hee to require prayers and supplications inter cessions and thansgiving to bee made for all men hee requireth this to bee done in the dayly service of the Church and the perpetuall rite of Divine religion For all the faithfull doe know in what manner prayers are powred out before the Lord morning and evening for all the world even for Kings and every man in authority Some man will peradventure say that for all must bee understood of all the faithfull Which cannot bee the Apostles meaning as may appeare by the words following viz. for Kings seeing that Kings neither did then nor in many ages after serve the living God but continued obstinately in infidelity which by course of succession they had received Thus farre Chrysostome Our Moderne Reformers teach us that which Paul and Chrysostome neither knew nor beleeved See the preface before Basilic Dor. that wicked Princes are not to bee prayed for but to be resisted c. When the faction of Eutiches had prevailed against the Catholikes Leo the first had no other remedy then prayers to God sighes teares and Petitions to the Emperour Epist 24. ad Theod. Imper. Omnes partium nostrarum Ecclesiae c. All the Churches of these parts all wee Priests even with sighs and teares beseech your Majesty to command a generall Synod to bee held in Italy that all offences being removed there may remaine neither errour in faith nor division in love Favour the Catholiques grant liberty to protect the faith against Heretiques defend the state of the Church from ruine that Christ his right hand may support your Empire Thus farre Leo. When Gregory the great was accused for the Murther of a Bishop in prison hee wrote to one Sabinianus to cleare him to the Emperour and Empresse Epist lib. 7. epist 1. Breviter suggeras serenissimis Dominis meis You may briefly enforme my soveraigne Lord and Lady that if I their servant would have busied my selfe with the death of the Lombards that nation would by this time have had neither Kings nor Dukes nor Earles and should have beene in great confusion and division but because I stood in aw of God I was ever afraid to meddle with the shedding of any mans bloud so farre Gregory These Lombards were Pagans Invaders of the Countrey Ransackers of the City Persecutours of the Saints Robbers of the Church Oppressours of the poore whom Gregory the first might and would not destroy Quia Deum timuit because hee feared God It is very like that his Successour Gregory the seventh feared either God nor man when hee erected the Papall Croisier against the regall scepter and read the sentence of deprivation against the Emperour Henry Ego authoritate Apostelica c. I by my power Apostolicall doe bereave Henry of the Germane Kingdome and doe deprive him of all subjection of Christian men absolving all men from the allegiance which they have sworne unto him And that Rodolph whom the Peeres of the Empire have elected may governe the Kingdome I grant all men that shall serve him against the Emperour Carol. Sigon de Regno Ital. lib. 9. in vita Hen. 3. forgivenesse of their sinnes in this life and in the life to come As I have for his pride dejected Henry from the Royall dignity so I doe exalt Rodolph for his humility to that place of authority Thus farre Gregory the seaventh It is no wonder Benno Card. in vit Gregor 7. that Gregory his chaire clave asunder as some Writers affirme at the giving of this sentence because the proud Pope and his wicked sentence were too heavy a burthen for Peters stoole of humility to beare The fourth Chapter proveth the Immunity of Kings by the Fathers of the third 300. yeares AFter the death of Gregory the great which was about the yeare of our Lord 604. Sabinianus did succeed him who lived but one yeare after whom came Boniface the third which obtained of Phocas to bee called Vniversall Bishop since that time Periit virtus Imperatorum pietas Pontificum the Emperours waxed weake and the Bishops wicked What the judgement of those Fathers then was concerning subjection to wicked Kings I will make evident by the testimony of Gregorius Turonensis Isidorus Damascenus Beda Fulgentius Leo 4. and the Fathers assembled in a Councell at Toledo in Spaine Gregory Turonensis acknowledgeth such an absolute power in Childerick a most wicked King of France as was free from all controll of man Histor l. 5. c. 1. Si quis de nobis Rex justitiae limites transcendere vol●erit c. If any one of us O King doe passe the bounds of justice you have power to correct him but if you exceed your limit who shall chastice you Wee may speake unto you if you list not to hearken who can condemne you