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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45900	The Popes threatning letter to the French King, or, The present grand controversie between Pope Innocent the XIth and the most christian King Lewis the XIVth about the regalia, &c.; Charissimo in Christo filio nostro Ludovico Francorum Regi Christianissimo. English & Latin	Catholic Church. Pope (1676-1689 : Innocent XI).; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689.	1681 (1681)	Wing I204; ESTC R21181	7,738	14

to promote his Glory and always be ready with their lives and fortunes to assert and maintain the Rights and Liberties of his Holy Church That they would consider that the life of mortals was very frail and uncertain the life especially of Kings and Princes who when called to the severe judgment of God must come thither without any Guards or Attendants without the signs of any Majesty or helps of power to give an account naked and unarmed of all their foregoing life to that Judge who is the searcher of hearts from whom nothing is hid with whom there is no respect of persons who hath power to cast into hell where mighty men shall be mightily tormented Nor was there wanting in the age last past in France a Bishop who in a great assembly of other Plelates and Nobles pleading the cause of the French Clergy in a business of like nature before Henry III. told the King that it had been observed that the Royal Line had never failed in France but when the Kings had begun to assume unto themselves undue Nominations unto Benefices a thing which St. Lewis a Prince more exalted in the glory of his Christian Humility than the height of his Kingly Dignity did so much abhor that of his own accord he refused them when delegated to him by the Popes authority Such such an Apostle-like freedom of speech had the Episcopal Order heretofore in France Such did it hold and maintain even down to these our own times having no fears nor expectations but from God alone Nor did Kings only allow it in them but the admonitions of the Bishops were always in such manner received and accepted of that they themselves gained due applause and the cause its desired issue And for this cause did the Sanction of the Oecumenical Council at Lyons so long continue firm and inviolable insomuch that some Kings of France as you may find in your own Annals have in their publick decrees stiled them impious and sacrilegious whoever they were that should any ways endeavour to extend the Regalia unto such Churches as were not anciently accustomed to them But this weakness of the present age is therefore the more grievous to us because we know your Majesty among all the Ornaments of a Princely Mind reckons none more glorious than a Zeal for Justice and an earnest affection for the honour of God for which you have lately set forth such pious and good Edicts and do at present act so much to the praise of your own name and the joy of all good men by destroying the Synagogues and Sanctuaries of Hereticks that you seem to erect in heaven no lesser Trophies of your defence and propagation of Religion then we hope you will leave on earth of your Victories over barbarous Nations But however you must diligently take care lest what your right hand i. e. your own innate piety doth build your left hand i. e. the crafty and unjust counsels of those who call darkness light and light darkness do destroy forasmuch as we are told by the Apostolick Oracle that who-so offends in one point is guilty of all There have not been wanting upon this occasion in France some nor should more of our Brethren the Bishops men of courage and zealous for the divine Law of Ecclesiastick Liberty now fail to plead this weighty cause the common cause not only of the whole Kingdom of France but of the whole Church too with a like constancy and resolution before your Majesty But they hold their tongue being restrained as they think by such a fear as is just and pardonable but is as we judge vain and not only injurious to their Episcopal Function but also to your Magnanimity and Justice waiting and expecting till our Humility obtain that from your Filial respect unto this See which they dare not demand of your Royal Justice as a due unto their Churches Wherefore from these our Letters take notice of these our just grievances and petitions nay more of the will of God who speaks unto you by our mouth and seriously warns you to take care that the foresaid Decree and whatever upon occasion of it hath been done and transacted to the prejudice of the Liberty and Rights of the Church be throughly corrected and amended otherwise we very much fear that you must at length suffer what we have declared unto you in our other Letters and now again the third time unwillingly truly as to the sense of our love toward you but from the inward dictate of God do openly denounce the vengeance of his heavenly wrath As for our selves we shall no more press this Affair by Letters nor shall we be slack in applying those remedies which appertain unto the power that is given us from above and which in so grievous and perillous a disease we cannot omit without becoming guilty of that most heinous crime the neglect of our Apostolical Charge Nor will we fear any inconvenience or danger any calamity however cruel and dreadful that may from thence ensue For unto this we are called nor do we set a greater value upon our life than we do upon our selves as well knowing that we must endure tribulations for righteousness sake not only with a couragious but a joyful mind In which and in the Cross of our Lord we ought only to glory We act in Gods cause not seeking our own but the things of Jesus Christ With him therefore and not with us you will have to do hereafter with him against whom there is no Wisdom nor Counsel nor Power We when we shall have fulfilled the duty of our Ministry by planting and watering as we ought will wait till God give increase unto the work Of whom we shall not desist by special prayer to beg that he would infuse force and strength into these our words and exhortations by inclining your Majesties mind unto better counsels from whence you may merir to have your affairs daily go on in a more prosperous course the Nations subject to your Empire flourish in a good and perpetual peace and we rejoice in their doing so We give you most kindly our Apostolical Blessing Given at Rome Decemb. 29. 1679. For the better understanding of the above Letter from the Pope and of the whole Difference take the ensuing of a later Date from a Private Gentleman in France SHall I write you some News Or rather will it be News afore I have written it For in likelihood these things are more common with you than us The Pope and the King of France are at odds about the Kings Regalia as they call it which they tell me means Nomination to Bishopricks and other Benefices and I think receiving the Revenues in the Vacancy The King enjoys this Right uncontestedly in a great part of his Kingdom but some Years since made a Declaration to extend it to all the Kingdom and proceeded in consequence of that Declaration without opposition till he happened to have to do