THE ARGVMENT of Mr. PETER de la MARTELIERE Aduocate in the Chart of Parliament of Paris made in Parliament the Chambers thereof being assembled FOR THE RECTOR AND VNIVERSITIE of Paris Defendants and Opponents against the Iesuits Demandants and requiring the approbation of the Letters Patents which they had obtained giuing them power to reade and to teach publikely in the aforesaid Vniuersitie Translated out of the French Copie set forth by publike Authoritie HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE ⧠Jmprinted at London and are to be sold neere S. Austins Gate 1612. TO THE HONOVRAble Sir THOMAS FLEMMING Knight Lord Chiefe Iustice of England MY Lord The same reason which first incited mee to vndertake this taske hath beene a principall motiue likewise emboldening me to offer it vnto your Lordships view and to presume to publish this discourse vnder the protection of your Lordships name The matter heerein handled is a notable famous controuersie arising between the ancient and renowned Vniuersity of Paris and the new and infamous yet cunning and powerfull sect of the Iesuits referred vnto the determination of Law Iustice and vpon the pleadings formally and iudicially argued and discussed the Actor a man of Law a learned and famous Aduocate as this his elaborate Argument doth sufficiently testifie and by a learned Doctor and Rector of the Vniuersity of Paris stiled os Themidis fori deliciae The persons and place before whom and where it was represented the Presidents and Counsellors in that great Court Parliament of Paris the sterne and guide of the Common-wealth and affaires of France the iustice and authority whereof amidst the cruell rage and tempests of ciuill wars as a firme anchor vpheld and preserued the same from most apparent shipwracke As then it cannot be accounted I trust superfluous and impertinent in me whose studie is conuersant in the Lawes of this Kingdom to intermeddle with that which is within the compasse of my profession and to ioine the view of the Lawes customes of other Nations and their manner of proceeding with those of our owne since that all humane Lawes haue but one soule which is reason one onlie function which is the peace and quiet of Estates and Common-wealths So I hope it will not be deemed presumption or rashnesse in that I present it vnto your Lordship who worthily presideth in a supreme Court of Iustice not inferiour vnto that of Paris in regard either of antiquity or Maiestie the Basis and pillar of this great Monarchie the firme supporter of the roiall Crowne and dignity To you my Lord who in regard of the place to which your worth learning piety eminent virtues haue iustly aduanced you do bear that honorable stile of Lord Chiefe Iustice a most significant title denoting the speciall charge and interest wich is committed vnto your Lorship in the execution of Iustice which you most sincerely wisely and religiously doe exercise with all integrity moderation to you who by reason here of are of the Law and professors thereof Deus tutelaris a Patron and Protector and therefore what our industry can effect is but a smal acknowledgement retribution of duty to be offered and dedicated vnto you Besides the subiect of this discourse is chiefely against that new excesse of impietie and King-daring doctrine of the Iesuites which like a contagious disease hath infected all the quarters of Europe bred strange combustions in Estates and bene the cause of most desperate attempts against the venimous poison whereof there is not a more forcible preseruatiue then the seuerity of your Iustice nor hath there bene euer any stronger bulwarke defence of the sacred authority persons of our Kings in all times and ages then the common Lawes of this Land Statutes of the Realme of the which your Lordship is the Chiefe-gardian and by due execution doe addelife soule vnto them These reasons my honorable Lord haue moued me though with the discouery of mine owne imperfections to hazard these first vntimely fruites of my idle houres on your Lordships fauourable acceptance wherein I shall haue receiued full content my desire intention beeing only to yeeld vnto your Lordship an humble acknowledgement of that reuerent regard and due respect I owe vnto you and to testifie that I am Your Lordships in all dutie deuoted GEORGE BROWNE AN ADVERTISMENT to the Reader READER To the end that thou fall not into this discourse abruptly I haue thought it not impertinent by way of Preamble to insert this short aduertisment touching the first institution of the Iesuites with their beginning and proceedings in France and the occasion of this present controuersie which may serue not only for an introduction into the discourse ensuing but also for an explanation of sundry passages alleged therein Whatsoeuer is here related I haue taken partly out of Steeuen Pas quier sometime Atturney generall of the King at Paris in his 4 booke of Epistles last epistle which I wold not conceale the rest I haue collected out of the histories of France As for the Vniuersity of Paris I shall neede to say little for it is sufficiently set foorth in the discourse but that it was first founded by Charles the Great in the yeere of our Lord 791. and that the Sorbonne so often mentioned is nought else but a famous Colledge of Diuines founded about the yeere 1253. by Lewis the 9. called Saint Lewis as my Author saith or as others write by Robert brother of the said King Now as concerning the Iesuits this Order first arose in Christendome about the yeere 1540. the Author and Founder therof was one Ignacius Loyola a gentleman of Nauarre who all his life time had followed the wars and being hurt in the Towne of Pampelona which is the chiefe City of Nauarre whilest his wounds were a healing he fell to reading the liues of the Fathers resoluing vpon the pattern of their liues to frame the tenor of his owne afterward ioining with some others who were some 10 in number they altogether swore a kind of Societie and Ignatius beeing cured they made voiages to Paris Rome and to Ierusalem and at last retired themselues into Venice where they made their aboad some few yeeres and seeing they had many followers remooued thence to Rome where they began to make publike profession of their Order promising two things especially the one that their principall end and scope was to preach the Gospell to the Pagans and Infidels for to conuert them to the Christian Faith the other freely and without reward to instruct Christians in good letters and for to fit and accommodate their name to their deuotion they termed themselues religious men of the Society of the name of Iesus They presented themselues vnto Pope Paul the 3. of the house of the Farneses about the yeere 1540. which was the time that Germany began to take armes by reason of the alteration of religion and because that one
of the principall points which the Germans controuerted was concerning the power of the Pope whom Martin Luther sought to quell and pull downe these making a contrary profession gaue the Pope to vnderstand that the first and principall Vowe which they made was to acknowledge him to bee aboue all earthly powers yea aboue the generall and vniuersall Councell of the Church The Pope who at first doubted whether hee should approoue of them or no and afterward had permitted them to vse the title of religious men but vpon condition that they should not bee aboue 60. in number at this promise began to hearken vnto them and to giue their deuotion free passage and after him Iulius the 3. vntill that Pope Paul the 4. called the Theatin who was one of the chiefe promoters of this Order authorized them absolutely and consequently almost all the succeeding Popes in respect of the seruices they receiued from them haue endowed them with most large and ample priuiledges Their Order is composed of two sorts whereof the one is called of the greater Obseruance the other of the lesse The first are bound vnto foure Vowes Chastitie Pouerty and Obedience which are the three ordinary Vowes of religious men and besides they adde a fourth Vow which is of particular obedience vnto the Pope as hath beene already said The second are tied only to two Vowes the one regardeth the fidelity which they promise to the Pope the other is of obedience vnto the Generall of their Order These are termed lay brethren who doe not vow Pouerty but may hold Benefices or Offices they may inherite their fathers mothers and kindred enioy lands and possessions and marry at a need as if they were bound by no religious Vow They haue besides many schollers whom they cal Nouices who are as it were Probationers from whence they take fresh supplies and thence it is that their Colledges are commonly called Seminaries they hauing two sorts of lodgings ioining together the one for their Priests the other for their schollers and nouices And this may shortly suffice for the description of their Order Now as concerning their proceedings in France it so fell out they beeing established as hath beene already set downe that the Bishop of Clermont tooke a liking of them and was very desirous to settle this Order in Paris whereupon he brought in 3. or 4. of them who vsed likewise the recommendation of Pope Paul the 4. At their first comming they were lodged meanly in a chamber of the Colledge of the Lombards afterward set vp their abode in the Bishop of Chemōt his Pallace by the permission of him who first entertained them Afterwards their affaires succeeding according to their minde they presented themselues diuers times to the Court of Parlaiment requesting it to authorize their Order But the king his Solliciter general that thē was called Mouncieur Brulart opposed himselfe against all their requests not for that he fauoured not the Roman religion as much as any one could doe but because hee misdoubted and feared aboue all things nouelties as the mothers of many errors especially in religion Wherfore he told them that if they had their minds wholyaltenated frō the world they might safely without bringing in any new Order confine themselues vnder some one of the auncient religions approued by many Councels or vnder some one of the foure Mendicants Thus they were reiected by the Court of parliament who not being satisfied with her owne opinion nor willing to relie only thereupon had recourse vnto the facultie of Theologie by the decree whereof they were scensured partly in that entitling themselues by the name of religious men they did neither we are the habit neither did confine themselues within their Cloisters as others did and partly in that some of their opinions derogated from the liberties of the French Church This is that decree of the yeare 1554. often mentioned in the ensuing discourse not long after the Bishop of Clermōt deceased who by his testament bequeathed great sums vnto them they hauing receiued this legacie the troubles about religion happened in the beginning whereof there was an assembly of the French Church at Poissy in the yeare 1563. they then began to breake off their long silence and presented a request vnto the Court of Parliament to be receiued and approued not as religious men yet at the least as a College of schollers only The Parliament conceiuing that this concerned principally the superiors of the Church referred them ouer vnto the assembly of Poissy where the Cardinal of Tournon was President as the most auncient Prelate who in the City of Tournon had before founded a company of them By his intercession they obtained to be receiued onely as a societie and Colledge vpon condition that they should be bound to take another title then that of Iesuites and to conforme themselues in all and throughal to the Canons of the Church without enterprising any thing vpon the Ordinaries that they should first and formost renounce expresly and in precise termes the priuileges which their buls did import otherwise if they failed herein or obtained any other that their approbation should be vtterly void This decree was ratified by the Court of Parliament according to the forme and tenor thereof Shortly vpon this they purchased them a house in the Citie of Paris and called it the Colledge of Clermont in memorie of their benefactor by reason that they had at that time diuers learned personages amongst them they were fauourably entertained and drew an infinite number of schollers after them And seeing they had the wind at will they presented a request to the Rector Vniuersitie of Paris to be incorporated therinto Whereupon there was a solemne Congregation assembled in the which it was concluded that before they proceeded any further they should declare whether they tooke vpon them the quality of regulars or seculars which did put them into a great perplexitie for if they should deny they were religious men they belied their Vow and to say they were so had beene to contradict that which was enioyned them at Poissy and for that they tooke no precise qua itie vpon them the Vniuersitie gaue them the repulse Yet would they not giue ouer but had recourse vnto the Court of Parliament to the end that they might gaine vpon the Vniuersity by constraint that which they could not obtaine of freewill whereupon a short day was giuen to both parties for to pleade and the matter was argued on both sides by Pasquier for the Vniuersitie and Versoris for the Iesuits with such veh mencie as so great a cause required in conclusion it was or deined that they should remaine in that estate they were without decreeing ought in fauor of either partie for neither were the Iesuits incorporated into the Vniuer sitie as they desired neither were they excluded frō reading lectures as they had done in former times as the Vniuersitie requested In this
estate they continued vntill the yeare 1594. when vpon occasion of the execrable attempt of Peter Barrierre who had purposed to murder the king Henry the fourth but was discouered by a Iacobin a Florentine to whom he had reuealed it by way of confession and thereupon was taken at Melum where the king was watching his oportunitie and found seased with a double edged knife for the purpose afterward was executed for it at Paris the Vniuersitie renewed her auncient processe against them demanding to haue them banished and rooted out in as much as Barrier had vndertaken it by the perswasion of their mischieuous doctrine and by the speciall instigation of Varad rector of their colledge the matter was handled in Parlement by Arnaud who argued against them and Versoris for them both graue and bearned aduocates but they were so strongly supported by some great men as namely the Cardinall of Bourbon and the Duke of Neuers that at that time nothing was done against them vntill that the prodigious and bold fact of Iohn Chastel a nouice of their societie who in the kings owne chāber at the Louure and in presence of his Nobles and gentlemen stabbed at the king and missing his belly as hee had purposed by reason that the king stooped to receiue two Noble men who kissed his knee strooke him in the mouth and brake out one of his vpper teeth extorted that famous decree of the 29. of december 1595. whereby besides the condemnation of Iohn Chastel the Iesuites whose doctrine had seduced him were banished out of France as enemies of the king and the estate corrupters of youth and perturbers of the publike peace and quiet and the house where the father of that monster dwelt which was situate before the gate of the Pallace being rased a Pyramide was erected containing for a perpetuall monument the effect of the said decree Thus they stood banished vntill that as well by the incessant importunitie of some great ones about the king as especially by the earnest intercession of Pope Clement the eight they were reuoked in the yeare 1604. in the moneth of Ianuarie and the Pyramide taken away notwithstanding the great instance and admonitions of the Court of Parlement to the contrary yet with diuers restraints and conditions amongst the which one was that they should erect no College nor make any residence but in the towns named in the letters of their reestablishment without expresse permission of the King and particularly within the resort and iurisdiction of the Parliament house of Paris vnlesse it were in the townes of Lyon and La Fleche Notwithstanding the late King by the meanes of father Cotton whom he had made his Confessor gaue them permission to returne to Paris and made them restitution of all their goods and of their Colledge of Clermont but did not permit them to keep publike schoole or to intermeddle with ought which concerned the Vniuersitie notwithstanding that they laboured by all meanes possible to be incorporated thereinto Instantly vpon the disastrous death of the King they thinking it to be best fishing in troubled water renewed their pursuite by the fauour of the Queene Regent obtained the letters here mentioned licensing thē to reade lecture to set opē their schooles in the Vniuersitie whereupon the Vniuersitie presented a Petition vnto the Queene Regent for to preuent them therof The Iesuites on the contrary pressed their letters and presented them vnto the Court of Parliament requiring the allowance of them the Court would not proceed without signifying it vnto the Vniuersitie who formally opposed them and thereupon it was ordered that both parties should be heard iudicially and the cause was remitted to the opening of the Court the morrow vpon Saint Martins day and from thēce it was put off vntil the seuenteenth of December all which time it was openly and solemnely argued on the seuenteenth and ninteenth of the said moneth when Montholon the aduocate of the Iesuites hauing demanded the allowance of the foresaid letters and argued for them De la Marteliere for the Vniuersitie made this argument ensuing whereupon followed that sentence interlocutorie annexed vnto the end hereof Since which time I doe not vnderstand of any further proceeding it is likely that the Iesuites perceiuing the inclination of the Court and of all in general contrarie vnto them and fearing to be drawne further into question haue retired themselues expecting some fitter oportunitie for the effecting of their designes which it is probable that they now failing in will hardly be able euer to bring to passe This is shortly the whole processe of this businesse and controuersie Now I am not ignorant that diuers discourses haue beene of late set forth in this kinde but I dare confidently affirme that none is of equall weight with this in that it is no particular calumnie but a publique account iustified in open Court and published by authoritie the Positions herein alleaged are these of the famous Vniuersitie of Paris the schoole of the Sorbonne whose mouth this Aduocate was spake as hee was instructed and not any priuate censure or opinion If ought be said herein which is not altogether consonant to the doctrine of our Church as I am certaine there is very little let it be remembred whose words they are and where they were spoken Thus hoping that this may helpe to dissipate and purge that noisome and pestilent aire of the Iesuits wherewith they seeke to intoxicate and infect the weake and tender consciences of men to the dishonour of God and of religion to the danger and preiudice of soueraigne Princes their persons and estates to the ruine ouerthrow of their owne fortūes the shipwracke of all good conscience and scandall of Christians it being impossible that a good Christian should bee other then a true and loyall subiect to his Prince I wil no longer withhold thee from the discourse it selfe praying thee fauorably to interpret my indeuors and good intention herein Errata sic corrige pag. 10. lin 6. there for these p. 14 l. 11. Giuinier for Cuimier p. 18. l. 28. except for without p. 22. l. 1. remouing for remaining ibid. l. 22. adde which p. 29. l. 6 Grasius for Grassins p. 30. l. 2. Colledge for Colledges p. 39 l. 19 hauing for haue p. 41. l. 2. which that dele which p. 44. l. 13. where it is for whence it is ibid. l. 15. maintained hierarchical for maintained the hierarchical ibid. l. 23. where Christ should haue for where Christ had p. 45. l. 16. singulus for singulis ibid. l. 21. rigour for vigour p 47. l. 9. concordate king Frances betweene for Concordat betweene c. 50. penult direct for diuert p. 54 l. 21. which for with After that MONTHOLON the Aduocate of the demandants had required the allowance of the Letters which they had obtained notwithstanding the opposition made against it by the Vniuersitie De la MARTELIERE for the Vniuersitie of Paris said
had obtained in the moneth of August in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred and tenne they require to haue the instruction of the youth to haue power to set open their houses and to reade Lecture in all sorts of Sciences in stead that the yeare before they had required permission to reade onely in Diuinitie against which demand the Vniuersity then opposing it selfe they with-drewe their Letters fearing that in such a season the great inconueniences of their proceedings and of their institution might bee discouered Their last Letters were presented vnto the Court the three and twentieth of the moneth of August and as there is no artifice whatsoeuer of which they haue not the practise in hand more then three weekes before they had canuassed the faculties of the Vniuersitie yea they vaunted of the consent of some particular men which had alwaies thought well of them they did publish their victory without any resistance they did presse with might and maine the approbation of their letters The court notwithstanding ordered that they should be communicated to the rector and the vniuersity which hauing bin done and the body thereof assembled neuer any man saw more resolution shewed in the defence of their liberty yea with all earnestnesse And there were but three wherof the facultie of the Canon law is composed which failed her at this neede as if the bloud which they haue in their veines did proceed from some other different nourishment and that they had habituated themselues to some strange affection notwithstanding being constrained to yeeld vnto the rest which were in greater number yea a hundred for one the oppositition was framed and receiued in this parliament vnder the name of the rector of the vniuersity in generall The Court hauing done me this honor to name me the aduocate of the vniuersity I haue blessed that day a hundred times which I will hold alwaies as deere as that of my life in which my small labour and merit haue found so great a recompence by your iudgement as that I may render to my country to whom I owe the good fortune of my birth to the vniuersity to whom I am bound for my education this witnesse of my duety and respect and that I may be reckoned by posterity in the number of those to whom this defence in his time hath happened Me quoque principibus permistum agnoscat Achiuis Our time of pleading of the Parliament past ended the morrow vpon S. Martins day our aduersaries vanished as fire in a clowd leauing vnto the Vniuersitie the extreame sorrow of being frustrated of so honourable and so lawfull a combat to which shee had been excited by the Iustice of her cause and by the force of necessity Plorauêre suis non respondere fauorem Speratum meritis In the time that the Vniuersitie imagined shee was at some rest and that the Iesuites did promise openly they would not vndertake any further and that they would containe themselues wee feele and perceiue that they oppresse vs and that the cuill hatched long before hand could not so suddenly be eschewed To coÌ„clude contemning the authority of the King who would haue the iudgement of their Letters to depend on your approbation and that of the Court which had ordained that the Vniue sitie should first be heard vpon her opposition wee see that they are established and vpon their owne authoritie doe instruct Schollers in the Colledge of Clermont vse all scholastical functions and by their witty sleights they will make vs pay interest for our small time of quiet as said the prouident Bat of Athens during the which we haue seene the weeds to grow vp which we suffered to be sowne As the Vniuersitie hath witnessed againe this time to all the world by her obedience that shee would haue slept referring the best of her interest to the benefit of Tyme so shee could not beleeue that now any one in the world can thinke it strange that shee would desire not to die and since that her peace within doth depend in making warre night and day without and that no other plaister can be applied vnto her griefe shee was forced to renue the instant pursuit of this audience to ad a request for the restoring of this enterprise anew whereunto finding the Court well disposed shee hath reason to promise vnto her selfe vpon the whole matter as ready a dispatch as happie and fauourable And because my Lords that in my owne particular I acknowledge my forces disproportionable to so heauie a burthen yea I ingenuously confesse my selfe to bee the least of those of my profession which could worthily acquit themselues thereof fauour him I beseech you with your benigne audience which speaketh by your coÌ„mandement nay rather countenance the cause the most important which hath been pleaded in our memory in that of our ancestours yea of all France the issue and euent whereof will conserue our lawes with the sweetnesse of our liberty or make vs see our ruine without any more hope or remedie the which I will handle as succinctlie as I may and with so much truth and mildnes that I hope to leaue no subiect to accuse ought but the euill wils and subtill practises of the Iesuits against whom the Vniuersity contenteth her selfe to oppose a wisdome truly Christian The Vniuersity of Paris hath bin from all antiquity recoÌ„mended for her singular deuotion erudition by meanes whereof many heresies and those of people farre remote haue beene conuinced the Doctors thereof haue so insisted in the waies of the holy spirit in the Catholike Church that by reason of the reputation of this sincerty there haue beene heretikes which haue agreed to take them for Iudges and according to their aduise haue passed condemnation vpon their errors according to the example of the Donatists of Affrica who although they were proud and peruerse yet in the cause which concerned one Caecilianus in the request which they presented to the Emperour Constantine they demanded that the Iudges which should be giuen them might bee Gaules and it hath beene written to her honor by Vernâ—rus in fasciculo temporuÌ„ that learning leauing Greece was come to Rome and thence to make her aboad at Paris vnder the protection of Charles the Great who founded the same seuen hundred yeeres agoe and that the light of learning being for certain ages extinguished was again lightened in the Vniuersity of Paris the Popes Celestine and Innocent the third in their decretall Episties haue left for a perpetuall blessing vnto this Vniuersity that she had peopled the most part of the Bishopricks of Christendome And before them Eugenius the third taking notice of the error of Gilbert Porretan Bishop of Poictiers would not decree any thing therein without the aduise of the Vniuersity of Paris by reason of the multitude of learned men wherewith it was replenished saith Otho Frisingensis an Historian of merit and indeed the Bishop was ouercome by the disputations of M. Adam
de petit Pont a famous doctor of our Vniuersity Let vs adde consequently vnto this recommendation that of the Popes Honorius the third Innocent the fift Vrban the sixth who haue said that Paris was as the neuer dried source whence the riuer of science did flow which watered continually the Church of God and the instruction of all Christendome And it is fiue hundred yeeres agoe that the Vniuersitie of Paris might boast of this high stile of honor which aduanceth her aboue all the Schooles in the world Studium Parisiense fundamentum ecclesiae What more honorable testimony can there bee then that which is read in the Registers of the Vniuersity that in the yeere three hundred seuenty eight the Church being afflicted with a great Schisme the sacred Colledge of Cardinals Apostolica sede vacante did solemnlie inuite the Vniuersitie of Paris to contribute to the good of the Church for to defend her from intrusion In the yeere foure hundred and ten another Schisme hauing giuen occasion of assembling the Councell of Constance the Doctors of the Vniuersity of Paris and amongst others Mr Iohn Gerson which was Chancellor thereof named the thrice Christian doctor in honour of the thrice Christian King which had sent him by their learning made knowne that the Vniuersitie of Paris was the mother and Nurse of all good and holy institution that shee had conserued the puritie of Theologie mainteined the Episcopall dignitie had alwaies opposed her selfe against strange doctrines nouelties and superstitions Which hath made men to conceiue so reuerent an opinion of the Vniuersitie of Paris that from all the quarters of Europe yea from the Court of Rome it selfe her aduise and resolutions haue been sought for and preferred to that of other Schooles To conclude be it spoken to the praise of the Catholique Church the Vniuersity of Paris hath made the Church of France to florish aboue all particular Churches of the world in token whereof the Popes Clement the sixth and Pius the second would solemnly giue notice of their elections vnto the Vniuersity of Paris and the last of these two witnessed that at the pursuite and authority of the Vniuersitie of Paris he was moued to defend the Councell of Basil So may we say that the tree of this doctrine planted so long since hath produced so good fruit that there is not any one which hath frequented strange nations who will not say but that the deuotion of France and principallie of the City of Paris surpasseth that of all other people which it may bee is more in outward shew but as different from that of ours as the shadow from the substance As the Vniuersity of Paris hath been religiously deuoute so hath shee neuer wanted the respect and obedience towards our Kings her protectors and withall her power hath conserued the royall rights against all vsurpations Our histories doe iustifie that the Vniuersity hath alwaies couragiously opposed her selfe against all attempts vpon the power of Kings against the abuses which are committed contrary to the holy decrees and constitutions of Counsels hath held great authority in the assemblies of the Gallicane Church for to maintaine the liberties of the same witnesse the appeale brought by the Vniuersity of Paris and maintained in this Court against Pope Benedict the cleuenth who would haue leuyed tenths vpon the Clergy of France whence occasion was taken in a diffamatory libell which was then published against the King and the Clergy of his Realme to quarrell particularly with the Vniuersity which appeale the Vniuersity did reiterate in the time of Lewes the eleuenth from the buls decreed coÌ„cerning benefices electiue Vpon this subiect we see so many oppositions framed by the Vniuersity of Paris against the power and faculties of the Legats sent into France as against that of the Cardinall of S. Peter ad vincula and of Cardinall Ballue wherein the Vniuersity did summon Mr Sollicitor generall named then de saint Romain to assist her which made an ancient French author to write that the Vniuersity of Paris was the key of Christendome the most carefull promotresse of the rights of the Gallicane Church Also our Kings haue especially cherished her for it is read that shee accompanied the King returning in triumph from the battaile of Bouines and it is a thing remarkeable that King Philip the Long hauing assembled the estates of his Realme and the Vniuersity all others did sweare fidelity vnto the King as soueraigne onely the Vniuersity did not sweare at all as Mr Giuinner hath obserued in the preface to the Pragmaticke sanction because that by her instruction we learne to breath with the aire of France fidelity towards our Prince and loue to our Countrey and who knoweth not the praise which the Vniuersity of Paris bare away from the mouth of Pope Pius the second hauing vnderstood by the Cardinall Bessarion that shee had hindered her schollers from being inrolled in the troopes of those This was in the time of Char'es the 7. who made the publique weale a pretext of their rebellion Vpon this consideration Dumesnil the King his Atâ—urney generall whose memorie can neuer die said that the Vniuersity of Paris was receiued to pleade in this Court not only in her particular causes concerning her priuiledges but also in causes which concerne the publique estate of this Realme The Vniuersity of Paris is composed of foure facuities the first is of Diumity which beareth away the prize and hath the aduantage aboue all the rest this is that science which treateth of eternall things which lifteth a man vp in spirit vnto the heauens which teacheth the saluation of mankind the reunion of the creature to his Creator To the study of the faculty of Theologie of Paris is attributed the perfect and diuine inuention of the schoole diuinity held in the Romane Church to be the infallible rule whereby to iudge of the mysteries of faith and of religion the subiect for which the learning of this schoole is so much admired The second faculty is of those who handle the knowledge of the Lawes who are to teach that which Aristotle saith is the most diuine thing amongst men that is to giue good counsell in affaires and directions in pollicies The third is of Phisitians which haue care of the health of the body the last of the Arts which laieth open the treasures of humane learning of the tongues and of Philosophy If that our diuinity hath had the honor for puritie the knowledge of the law of not being equalled our Phisicke to surpasse all others the last which is as the seed and nursery of the former hath the testimonie of the most eloquent Italians of our age who confesse that they haue learned of the Masters of the Vniuersity of Paris the purity of the Latine and of the other tongues which yet at this day are not to be found any other where so perfect Now as the estate of the Church Vniuersall is secular so the Vniuersity of
them haue done they doe peruert the effect of this infinite obligation and of a most solemne vow they make a simple one and giue leaue vnto him which hath promised to obserue their rule and by consequence that which depends thereupon to violate the same which is so strange that Nauarrus in his commentaries De Regularibus tom 1. saith hoe est nouissimum admirabile concessum praefatae societati This is an admirable noueltie granted vnto the aforenamed societie If it had beene any where else but at Rome he would not haue stucke to haue said that this was repugnant to the Diuine and Canon law And although that there be nothing more natural in all obligations and bonds yea the chiefest and most precise of all then to be reciprocall and mutuall that as the people are bound to yeeld fidelity and obedience vnto their Prince so is he bound likewise to giue protection vnto his subiects God himselfe would not be exempted when he saith assemble me the people of the earth that they may iudge beweene my people and me what thing I ought to haue done for them and haue not done it And more apparantin the gospell which is full of sweetnes and mildnes whence it proceedeth that there is no religion in the world receiuing the Vow and submission of a religious man which doth not bind it selfe to keepe and maintaine him in his greatest extremities and infirmities they on the contrary as if they were bound to nothing at all do expell and may turne out at their pleasure yea though they haue beene thirty yeeres of their society those which are weake and sickly Whom they either cannot or will not make vse of any longer Another thing quite contrary to Ecclesiasticall discipline is this By the Buls of Paul the third of the yeere 1543. and of Iulius the third in the yere 1550. they are permitted to change all their rules and constitutions as often as it shall please their Generall and he shall thinke it to be expedient for the good of his company these are the very words Et tam hactenus fact as quam in posterum faciendas constitutiones ipsas iuxta locorum ac reruÌ„ qualitatem mutare alter are seu in totuÌ„ cassare alias de nouo condere possâ—nt valeant And that they haue full power and authoritie according as the condition of the places and the estate of the affaires doe require to change alter or vtterlie to abolish all constitutions either heretofore made or hereafter to bee made and to make new in their stead So that as they say themselues they are neither regular nor secular nor are bound to any rule hauing no other excuse for this dissolution but the designe of the absolute power which they continuallie point at that the temporal power may giue place to the spirituall for the greater glory of God as it is saide in the ninth part of their constitutions the third chapter and ninth article poterit in omnibus ad maiorem Dei gloriam vt senserit procedere Hee may proceed in all things as hee shall see cause so it be to the greater glorie of God The end of their fourth vow is the most exact obedience to the Pope concerning their missions which they will make vs beleeue is only in regard of Infidels but on the contrary they themselues haue written that this obedience ought to be measured and referred vnto the motion and will of him to whom it is promised So that at the instant that the Pope shall purpose that the Bull in coena Domini should bind the French men and that he would leauie that which they call and terme sufferance the Iesuites are obliged by their vow to execute it according to his meaning without any other temper or moderation but the will of their Generall on whom the estate and the life of all our Kings by this meanes shall depend an effect of their blind obedience for the perfection whereof they adde Imperfecta est ea obedientia in qua praeter executionem non est haec eiusdem voluntatis sententiae inter eum qui iubet eum qui obedit consensio That obedience is vnperfect wherein besides the execution there is not the selfe same consent both of will and opinion in him that commandeth and the other who obeieth hauing no other guide but the meaning and will of their Generall which they ought to execute from point to point and say that they are bound to effect it without any knowledge or discretion after the manner perchance as we reade in Victor in the third booke of the persecution of the Vandales that Hunneric King of the Vandales being set on by the perswasion of the Arians would that all Catholiques should sweare to that which was conteined in a paper which was sealed vp euen as the Prouincials of the Iesuites often times in their assemblies doe cause the important commands of their Generall to be executed And that which is wondrous strange to the end that they may make the power of their company absolute and the power of their Generall more ample then that of the Pope in that which concerneth their vowes and missions is this that by the permission of their Generall they may cause that to be performed by others which is enioined them by the Pope and it may be reuoked by their Generall yea without the knowledge and consent of the Pope in the ninth part of their Constitutions chap. 3. art 3. And that which tendeth rather to lay the foundation of a particular greatnes then to the good of the Vniuiuersall Church they haue obteined Bulles wherein all men are forbidden without excepting any no not my Lords the Cardinals to take vpon them any knowledge in the secrets of their rule or to sound them although it were to no other purpose but to know the truth thereof as if that from henceforth the discourse and iudgement of men were bound to become slaues to their vnderstanding and direction alone by the Bull of Gregory the 13. decreed in the yeere 1584. Ne quis cuiuscunque status gradus praeeminentiae existat dictae societatis institutum constitutiones vel etiam praesentes aut quemuis earum aut supradictorum omnium articulorum vel aliud quid supradict a concernnes quouisdisputandi veletiam veritatis indagandae quaesito colore directè vel indirectè impugnare veleis contradicere audeat That no man of what estate degree or preheminence whatsoeuer be so bold as vpon any fained colour either of disputation or of searching out the truth directly or indirectlie to impugne or contradict the ordinances and constitutions of the said societie or these presents or anie article of them or of all the aforesaid premisses or anie other thing which may concerne the said premisses And that which surpasseth all beleefe it attributeth vnto their Generall only power to explaine and interpret it as hee shall thinke good which was inuented in fauour
of them then when father Claude Matthew shewed at Rome the memories and remembrances for the hastning and aduancing of our miseries and troubles and they hauing proceeded so cunningly that of 37. Bulles which they haue obteined they neuer shewed any but those which least seemed to fauour them because they would not discouer the great recompences which they receiue for endeuouring to bring the Papal dignity to this height that there should be nothing either in the spiritualty or temporalty which should not become subordinate vnto it excepting only their Generall for the better effecting whereof their Bulles containe in them absolution from all excommunications which they might incurre a iure vel ab homine to the end that no respect of duty or of any obligation whatsoeuer might retaine and withhold them in setting forward this businesse And as the Iesuites in excuse of themselues alleadge that they were not the first authors of this absolute power Otho Frisingensis hauing obserued that it began vnder Gregorie the 7. vpon occasion of the inuestitures and was continued vnder Gregorie the 9. so are we to admire the sage prouidence of the Almighty who preserued in the schoole of Sorbonne founded about the same time the treasure of the truth contrary vnto that which the Iesuites propose vnto vs as the first and chiefe article of our faith The schoole of Paris hath alwaies taught that the primacie of Saint Peter and his successours Popes of Rome is by the law diuine in honor and reuerence whereof the Church antiquity the Christian Princes haue granted and attributed vnto the holy Sea many great priuiledges prerogatiues which are by the law humane that Iesus Christ immediatly after him and proportionably sending forth his Disciples and Apostles gaue vnto them all equally and indiuidually the power of the keies and that this mission is a reall conferring of power and iurisdiction euen as all the members of a naturall body although they are inequall in dignity doe proceed immediatlie from nature by reason whereof the estate of the Church is Monarchicall tempered with an Aristocraticall gouernement of Bishops and Priests as it were a Senate the most free and perfect estate which that can be imagined Whence it ariseth that the certaine and infallible authority for the resolution of points of religion doth reside in the whole Church and not in the head alone that by reason hereof Councels are necessarie for the gouernment thereof the conclusion of whose decrees and Canons by reason of the plurality of voices the Pope himselfe is bound to obserue without being able to dispence therewithall but in case where the Church being assembled in councell would haue giuen dispensation namely where it concerneth the good of the vniuersall Church and not of particulars which is the solide foundation whereon the liberties of our Church of France are grounded Hence it ariseth likewise that the decrees Buls censures and excommunications of the Popes yea the Bull in coena Domint and the counsell of Trent as farre as they concerne the ciuill gouernment do no way binde nor may be executed before they haue beene first approued receiued and published by the Councell and Aristocraticall order of the Ordinaries of the places which ought to put them in execution and cause them to be obserued that the sacred elections which succeeded the mission and vocation immediatlie made by our Sauiour Christ do appertaine vnto the Church both by the law of God and nature as it appeareth in the 1. and 6. Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles by the counsels of Nise and Basil and by the ordinances of our King S. Lewes and Charles the seuenth That the Pope is the dispensator and Steward and not Lord of benefices that he cannot trouble the ordinaries in their functions nor depriue them of their benefices without lawfull cause and without the Counsell of the Church according vnto that which Saint Gregorie hath written and is inserted in the bodie of the Canon law can ecce dist 99. and S. Bernard lib. 3. de consideratione cap. 4. and Gersson in his booke of the Ecclesiastical power consid 12. and in the treatise which hee hath made concerning the Estates of the Church Contrartwise the Iesuites teach that it suffiseth not to beleeue that the primacie of Saint Peter is by the law of God but that for a more accomplished gouernment of the Church we must acknowledge a Monarchicall vniuersal absolute and infallible power ouer all Christians yea in that which concerneth the temporalty for to giue them lawes and directions yea in Ciuil matters no otherwise then doth the reasonable soule rule the body and affections of man this is the doctrine of Cardinall Bellarmin in his booke de Rom Pontifice of Salmeron in his fourth Tome and the third part the fourth treatise explaining that place of Saint Matthew Dabo tibi claues regni caelorum I will giue thee the keies of the Kingdome of heauen of his commentaries vpon the 13 chapter of the Romains and in the fourth disputation of Ludouicus Molina the 2. treatise de iustitia iure the 29. disputation of Azorius in the second part of his morall institutions the 4. book and 19. chapter and of his 21. booke the 3. and 5. chapter of Gregorius de Valentia in his commentaries of Magallianus in the beginning of his commentaries of the Ecclesiasticall Hierarchie to which absolute power their principall and most secret vow the first foundation and motion of their institution and Order being tied we haue small reason to doubt but that this is the common and certaine receiued doctrine of all their society They adde moreouer that Iesus Christ hath giuen the keies with all Ecclesiasticall power to S. Peter alone and to his successors for to distribute the same amongst the Apostles Bishops and Priests according as they shal thinke it fit whence it followeth of necessity that the institution of Bishops and Curats is not by the law diuine and that the Church is a pure soueraignty which ought to depend on the will of the Pope alone whereupon the Iesuits found their great power to the preiudice of Bishops Curats and Prelates taking vpon them more authority ouer the flockes of other men then the Pastors themselues And indeed by the Bulles of Gregory the 13. of the yeere 76. and 84. besides that they are exempted from the iurisdiction of all Ordinaries as well secular as regular all command is attributed vnto them and they are constituted to be as it were superintendents in the Church whence it ariseth that they vsurpe vpon the charges of all Ecclesiasticall persons bee it either in administring the sacraments or in any other function whatsoeuer at this day the Penitentiary of my Lord the Bishop of Paris although it be furnished with three most sufficient doctors in diuinity renowned for their integrity yet is it in a manner forsaken abandoned in respect of the Oratory of the Iesuits and the Catholike
neuer entred into the thought of a French man if this doctrine had not beene that it was lawfull to make any attempt vpon the sacred persons of Kings and permitted to kill them for as they haue taught that Kings may be excommunicated and deposed if they failed to submit themselues vnto the will of this absolute power so they haue also said that it was meritorious to kill them and by the one haue proued the other this is the course they take to proue it Princes by being excommunicate condemned and deposed of publique persons become priuate and particular men without hauing either authority or subiects and so from being Kings they become tyrants vsurpers and perturbers of the common peace and repose Occupantem tyrannicè potestatem quisque de populo potest occidere si aliud non sit remedium est enim publicus hostis Emanuel Sa in verbo Tyrannus Any one of the common people whatsoeuer may kill him who tyrannically vsurpeth the authority if there be no other remedy for he is a publike enemie The obiect of all the enterprises made by Parricides vpon which ground both Cardinall Bellarmin in his Apologie against the King of England pag. 299. and Ioannes Mariana in his first booke de rege regis institutione and the Iesuits likewise author of the booke intituled Amphitheatrum honoris haue all after one manner praised the abhominable parricide of our poore Prince and the Iesuits of Bourdeaux haue both saide and written that this was the cause of their safety which this very doctrine the rashnes of Barriere was armed in the yeere 1593. streng thened by the Counsell of Varrade Rector of the Iesuits against our inuincible King Henry the fourth At which time father Commolet did egge him forward by his outcries Iudg. 3.15 desiring an Ehud of what quality soeuer he were beleeuing that Barriere could not faile of his enterprise or if he did that he would stirre vp the minde of some other to attempt the like A great misfortune that France hath lost this aduantage which in ancient time was attributed vnto her that shee nourished no monsters But God stirred vp his Hercules to the end that he might subdue them of whose hand next after his bountie he would wee should receiue this diuine worke and the miracle of the rising againe of this Estate In this time the Iesuits knew that there rested nothing which could any more be opposed against the victorious armes of our great King that hee was as certainely assured of the honour of conquering his Kingdome as that it iustly appertained vnto him they made shew as if they would take a sweeter and more pleasing tune and for to vphold and preserue their society published the resolution which they said their Generall had made at Rome in the end of the yeere 1593. by the which they were expreslie forbidden to intermeddle with any affaires they protested to obey the same and to renounce all factions to honor and serue the King as Subiects whose clemencie should more appeare in pardoning thâ—m all then in the remnant and surplus of those who had swarued and straied from their duty this is that which then they touched in their pleading and by their defense put in print and it may bee was the onely reason and consideration that they were not at that time depriued of the Kings grace and pardon The wisdome of the Iesuits consisteth in gaining time vpon such occasioÌ„s their designe neuer dying they attend the commodity that their seed may bring forth fruit in season foure or fiue moneths after at the instant that the King left his armie this Prince the Pourtrait of valour it selfe in the midst of two hundred gentlemen in his house of the Louure is wounded by Chastel a scholler of the Iesuits nourished in their doctrine and hurt in such sort that without the manifest prouidence of God who loued vs at that time this Monarchie had beene vtterlie subuerted and we miserable men had beene depriued of the blessings which hee afterwardes obtained for vs by his incomparable valor his iustice and piety no lesse admired at by all the world then his arme and his sword were redoubted This miserable monster in the presence of you my Lords said hee ought else but that the King although he were a Catholike was yet out of the Church that he yet stood excommunicate that he must be slaine is there any thing here to bee seene differing from their propositions Barriere had said as much before Guignard the Iesuite written it and after a thousand blasphemies vttered against his naturall Prince Henry the 3. added this moreouer against the last King If hee cannot be deposed without warre let armes be taken against him if that cannot be done let him bee killed True enemies of quiet and repose quite contrary vnto the disciples of our Sauiour Iesus Christ who vsed no other armes but their praiers and preached nothing but loue charity and concord Your enterprises against our Kings and their Crownes by your owne confession deserued a greater condemnation then that which was pronounced against you by the decrees what tongue can sufficiently praise the power and effects of the Iustice of this great Parliament which in the middest of the greatest tempests hath alwaies measured her actions by the compasse of the good and honour of this Estate notwithstanding all oppositions your glory shall remaine immortall Plato in his Politickes holdeth an opinion which hath beene followed by many others that there are ages in the which God in person sitteth at the Sterne of this Vniuers doth guid and turne it according to his good pleasure but that againe there are other times in which God neglecteth this gouerment and that then the world destitute of the conduct of his creator taketh a motion contrary vnto that which God gaue it so that the East commeth to be the West and the North taketh the place of the South and that when this vniuersall conuersion doth happen the generations fashions and manners of men are either extinct or changed As Christians we are brought vp in a better schoole and fully resolued that the prouidence of God neuer abandoneth the guiding and conduct of the worlde and doth not in any age permit the Intelligences or Angels which moue the celestiall spheres to depart from the motion and measure which hath beene once prescribed them notwithstanding when calamities raigne in the world it seemeth that God sleepeth and that he will meddle no more with ought the rebellion of the people accompanied with all kind of vices with forgetfulnesse towards God and all sorts of miseries and calamities during the ciuill warre had taken so deepe roote and so strange and maruellous a growth On the contrary with the acknowledgement of our King our Soueraigne and lawfull Prince with the concord of vs who are fellow-Citizens and his Subiects as God more properly made vs to see his presence and his gouernment so likewise he made vs
non irrumpit subito sed sensim irrepit in animaese familiaritatem insinuat penitusque tandem immergit sic spiritualis ac peritus artifex vniuscuiusque naturae conuenienter se debet gerere in principio multa dissimulare in multis conniuere deinceps parta beneuolentia ipsos quibuscum agit ipsorum armis expugnare Hee said that those arts which the Diuel would vse for mens destruction the same must we vse for their safety for as hee searching out the nature of euery man and throughly considering the inclination of the mind doth applie himselfe thereunto so that he proposeth vnto sensuall and voluptuous men pleasant things to the ambitious those things which seeme glorious to godly men such things as haue a shew of pietie and doth not suddainly breake in but stealeth on by little and little and doth insinuate himselfe into the familiarity of the soule and at last doth wholy diue into it so he that is a cunning spiritual craftsmaster ought to carry himselfe agreeablie to the nature of euerie one and at the beginning to dissemble many things to winke at thē afterwards he hath gotten their good will to conquer those whom he hath in hand with their owne weapons We haue already shewed how by the doctrine of the spirituall Monarchie absolute and infallible which teacheth Kings to obey and to which the Iesuits attribute the correction of Princes that they are obliged to follow the Councell of the Pope in the gouernment of temporall matters and that in case of resistance they may be deposed and after publike iudgement that it is lawfull for any man to attempt vpon their liues and to kill them By this word of publique iudgement they meane the Pope as soueraigne ouer all Common-wealths and of all Christian powers Behold their proofe by the saying of Azorius whom they confesse to be one of the most modest amongst them in the second party the 11 booke 5. chapter of his morall institution after that he hath confirmed the power that the Pope hath to depose Kings and sought to answere the obiection of those who say that it cannot be done contrary vnto the will of the people hee addeth further in these tearmes Tertiò obiicitur populo invito non potest Rex auferri aut dari respondeo à Romano Pontifice Regem auferri vel dari iustis de causis tunc populus Romano Pontifici tanquam superiori parere debet Thirdly it is obiected that a King cannot be giuē nor taken away against the wil of the people to this I answere that hee may vpon iust cause and then the people ought to obey the Pope of Rome as their superiour Whence it ensueth that if a Prince doth enterprize any thing in this Estate against the will of the Pope if hee contradict this publike iudgement if he come to square with any of the articles of the Bull In caena Domini without desisting from it that he is presently a Tyrant an vsurper and schismaticke and as such a one may be meritoriously slaine By the articles of this Bull it is conteined amongst other things that all persons who who haue secret or publique alliance with heretickes haue commerce with them or doe support and protect them are ipso facto excommunicated although they are not particularly designed named nor specified in the Bul which is published at Rome euery Thursday before Easter and then the Iesuits teach and their doctrine is vniforme that no other proceeding nor no other iudgement is to be expected According whereunto Suares the most renowned of their societie in the fourth Tome of his workes and his treatise of censures which he made expresly against our King disput 5. sect 6. saith that subiects vppon a morall certitude which they shall haue that their Prince will doe anie thing contrary vnto the Catholike religion may without attending any iudgement or other censure of the Pope rebell and take armes against him these are his very words Si subditi timeant ex eorum principatu maximum periculum fidei religionis imminere tunc enimiure defensionis possunt eos repellere obedientiam ac fidelitatem negare quod facere possint etsi non essent excommunicati nec per Ecclesiam essent illis aliae poenaeimpositae solum ob praedictum periculum If the subiects feare that by their rule and gouernment faith and religion is like to incurre any danger then they may in defence thereof repell them and denie them obedience and fidelity which they may doe although they were not excommunicated nor had any other punishment inflicted vpon them by the Church only for feare of the aforesaid danger Molina in his treatise de iustitia iure Lessius in the 2. booke De iustitia iure 9. chapter dubit 4. say the like and that it is lawfull to attempt vpon the life of those Princes whom they call Tyrants vpon the tacite will and intention or presumption of the common-wealth Mens oppressae Reipub. est vt á quouis etiam qui non est pars Reip. defendatur fi aliter liberari non possit It is the mind and opinion of the common-wealth which is oppressed that it may be defended of any man though he be no member thereof if it cannot otherwise be freed That which they call mens Reipub. the motion of Parricides Mariana termeth proceeding as it seemeth with more aduisednesse the counsell of graue and learned men Viri eruditi graues in consilium adhibeantur Let the aduise and counsell of wise and grauemen be vsed It is not to be doubted whom he intendeth this is as euident to his vnderstanding as the Sun at midday vnto our eies for his booke beareth the priuiledge and allowance of their Prouinciall deputed by their Generall and behold the reason why they are necessarily designed and no others It is there in as much as the establishment of the absolute power aboue all Princes is their principall vow and desire they must haue the directing and executing of all enterprises which serue to this end so that in those places where the inquisition is not receiued the Iesuits exercise the office and haue the secret charge thereof and their Generall the direction whence it proceedeth that all their aduise counsell and directions doe make a part of this publike iudgement so that in stead of spirituall ministers moued with another spirit then that whereof they make shew these are Officers seruing against Princes for to ouerthrow their power to subrogate that of the Pope in the temporalty the matter standing thus he that desireth to be instructed in this learning cannot addresse himselfe to any but those who handle it and best vnderstand it as they cannot deny but that this is the sole and only intellect which animateth the whole Vniuers of their society And indeed they alone haue touched it in their sermons lightnings which went before and were vnto our eies presages of the
tempests wherewithall we all thought wee should haue beene vtterly confounded A cursed doctrine which whether it bee written or spoken in publike or secret there is not any one touch thereof which hath not beene as the point of a dagger at our heart The King by his warres labors and victories had reestablished with France all Christendome had obliged all Princes and people the two third parts of the world had the Lilies grauen in their hearts and thought themselues interessed in his prosperity France being in flourishing estate neuer saw her selfe in better case to succour her friends her Prince was of immortall valour of an admirably strong complexion whose felicity did dazell the eies of all his enemies when the Princes of Germany most strictly allied vnto this crowne did instantly desire her helpe and protection against the oppression of the house of Austria to which the Iesuits are most deuoted our King had not omitted any exhortation or perswasion whatsoeuer to remoue the warre and to cause that the matter in question should be handled and decided in any other maner knowing better then any other that necessity alone can iustifie the armes of Christians against Christians and being not beleeued he prepared for the liberty of Germany such succours as his conscience his honour and his duty could not haue denied But willing before his departure to giue vnto France and vnto all the world the contentment of the coronation of the Queene a Princesse crowned and adorned with all vertues in the very height of our best estate of our greatest content Extrema gaudij luctus occupat ioy and sorrow lead one another by the hand the King passing through the middest of his most affectionate City amongst his most faithfull seruants glorious in maiestie was stroke in the side with a knife of the same temper that those of Clement Barriere and Chastell were of his heart was presently in a swound stifled in his blood what are there to be found any minds so vnnaturall so diabolicall as to conspire as to attempt the death of a Prince so behouefull so amiable vnto his subiects so equitable vnto his neighbors so necessarie for all Christendome There was not time enough to bring him backe to the Louure before his eies were setled in his head his lips pulled vp within his flesh his blood clotted like ice in his beard can we thinke on it a quarter of an houre without pulling out our heart he which filled all with his power this soule of the world this masterpeece wonder of nature this valiant warlike hand falleth and is taken from vs without any other warre then that of this doctrine by the hand of the most hideous most cruell and most fearefull monster that euer was vpon the earth by a more then hellish and infernall furie Let any man reade the confessions of Barriere and of Chastel let them bee confronted with the answeres of this execrable parricide there is not any difference at all betweene them the markes of this doctrine doe visibly appeare therein That the King was a tyrant and fauoured heretickes against the will of the Pope who was God vpon earth that the Preachers had sufficiently explained the cause which had moued him to doe it Stupide and blockish fellow it is true and why should it be dissembled in all other points concerning this subiect he had subtilties and euasions and was very cunning therein you haue heretofore vnderstood as much Master Iohn Fillesac a worthy Curate of the Parish of Saint Iohn Master Philip de Gamache the Kings Professor in diuinity another Israelite Coeffeteau heretofore Prior of the Iacobines all diuines of great merite can witnesse it and hee of their owne companie who confessed him better then any other who put him in minde of his conscience and bad him take heed of accusing those who were innocent Alas you were a thousand times more secure you Emperors and Kings enemies of Christians who amongst the greatest persecutions which the Church endured in the middest of the great and frequent martyrs which suffered by your authority and commandement haue seene no other weapon nor defence then that of praier of orisons of praise and thanksgiuing but that of teares as Gregory Nazianzene witnesseth without that any of those who truly adored Iesus Christ yea in the hottest of all their torments and persecutions once thought either in word or deed I doe not say to make any attempt vpon your persons but to be the cause of the least trouble or least commotion of your Estate O Gospell of peace doctrine of sweetnesse and charitie to what vse are you emploied what aduantage is giuen to Infidels and miscreants to continue their hate against the Church in stead of louing it what coales of Gods diuine vengeance do you pull vpon your heads O France how farre different was the censure of your innocent schoole the yeeres immediatelie precedent when your King Henry the 2 vpon the selfe same subiect and to deliuer Germany from the vsurpation which Charles the fift would haue made vnder colour of religion did leade sixtie thousand French men all Catholiques euen vnto the Rhene and so farre that he made him giue ouer his booty can we learne out of the history of any one Diuine in those daies or one subiect which thought himselfe lesse obliged vnto his Prince or which bare him lesse affection for that cause And yet 6. yeeres before our very doctors of Sorbonne had framed articles for the condemnation of the heresie of the Lutherances inserted into the body of our ordinances and vpon the which the Councell of Trent laid the principall foundation of the resolutions concerning that doctrine but the schoole of the Iesuits had not yet taught nor published that Kings might be deposed vpon any secret intention or presumption He whom God had most visibly exalted who did obscure the memory of the most fortunate and happy Monarchs the most pretious and sacred person of all Christendome to whom the holy Sea was beholding for the tranquillity it enioyeth the holy father for his quiet and repose he who had renounced the safetie of his owne to endeare you vnto him who made the clemency of his iustice to triumph in fauour of you receaued so ill a recompence for his bounty and goodnesse by your doctrine a doctor of the Church said that it was in the power of God to pardon a Virgin defiled but not to restore her to her virginity euen so fareth it with your fidelity and allegeance towards Princes after you haue once made your vowes vnto your Generall The inspirations and visions with which these vndertakers say the are possessed are they not the inuentions and subtilties of this doctrine for to corrupt and peruert the mindes of men and to transforme the dispositions of their vnderstanding and will to the end that the fantasie and apprehension which they haue taken may the more easily be so imprinted in their imagination that they may neuer