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A03336	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse the third of March, 1610. By Theophilus Higgons. In testimony of his heartie reunion with the Church of England, and humble submission thereunto. Published by command	Higgons, Theophilus, 1578?-1659.	1611 (1611)	STC 13456; ESTC S104096	44,137	62

fact but in faith also not as a priuate Doctor but as publike Pastor of the Church Finally that this his error is execrable and damnable according to the tenor and purport of the oath Now if any man be desirous to know how farre the Pope was interessed in the prohibition of this oath let him consult the * To the Catholikes of England second Breue of Paulus 5. dated 10. Calends of September 1607. Wherein he saith precisely We haue straightly commanded you that by no meanes you should take it againe our Apostolike letters concerning the prohibition of the Oath were written not only vpon our proper motion and of our certaine knowledge but also after long and weighty deliberation vsed concerning all those things which are contained in them the said Letters and that for this cause you are bound fully to obserue them reiecting all interpretation perswading to the contrary And this is our meere pure and perfect will c. SECONDLY he denieth the Popes power either directly or indirectly temporally or spiritually ouer our dread Soueraigne Lord the KING to be such that he may sententially depose him from his Crowne absolue his subiects from their alleageance though due vnto him by the bonds of Nature and pledged vnto him farther by the obligation of an Oath and inable them to beare armes against him or by any meanes to depriue him of his Regality and Life These then are the two offences which I haue committed against the dignitie of the triple Crowne But why is that so capitall with our English Catholikes which the French do so freely and liberally maintaine Not long before my departure out of France I addressed myself vnto a paire of learned i Messicurs le Mastre le Marchand Dominicans in Roan doctors of the Sorborn in Paris of whom as I desired some exact instructions concerning this Oath so I deliuered his Maiesties k Apol●gia pr● iuramento Fidelitatis c. booke into their hands for their better information in this behalfe They read it with expedition applauding the great wisedome and excellent knowledge of his Highnesse protesting also that as the Oath for the matter and substance of it was agreeable vnto the Catholike faith so for the occasion and inducement of the same it was most expedient and necessary for the preseruation of his royall State They added farther that this extension of the Papall power ouer Christian Princes was dogma Transalpinum an Italian conceit for they obserue a difference betwixt the Romane COVRT and the Romane CHVRCH which a true French Catholike heart doth religiously abhor And therefore they aduised mee to take the said oath as themselues also and all French men would doe in the like case were it required at their hands But our English Catholikes are for the greater part of an hotter constitution more affected vnto the climats of Italy and Spaine Which I speake with commiseration of my own Country not to the disreputation of those great and mighty Nations the eies whereof God will open in his appointed time to shake off this Babylonian yoke For which I haue better euidence then l Comment in Gen. 15.16 in fine Pererius a Iesuit hath for the calamity vastation of England pushing at vs like an m 1. King 21.11 horned Zidkiiah but with the like successe I hope as his false brethren did not long before who prophecied thus vnto the King of Spaine n Ibid. 12. Go and prosper for the Lord shall deliuer England into thy hands You haue heard now the cause and beginning of my alienation from my English-Romane friends Was it not iust and good For what a desperate connexion is there betwixt these doctrines FIRST The Pope hath an infallible iudgement as Pope to determine what is heresie obliging all men to rest securely in his sentence Yea o Analys fidei lib 8. cap 3. ad obiect 6. Gregorius de Valentia himselfe is so deeply infatuated with this vanity that he feareth not to affirme The Pope whether he vse diligence or not in defining shall define infallibly if he will define a controuersie and so in truth hee shall vse the authority committed vnto him by Christ The SECOND is that in case of heresie he may depose the King absolue his subiects from obedience and giue away his Crowne as Pius Quintus gaue away the Crowne of England vnto the late King of Spaine and this is one instance which p Institut Moral pars 2. lib. 11. c. 5 q. 8. §. Pius quoque Azorius the Iesuite doth alleage to prooue the transcendencie of the Papall power Now if the Pope haue infallibility of iudgement in himselfe to determine what is heresie and then a soueraigntie of power also to dethrone and murther any King for heresie iudge you how dangerous is the condition of our King who valiantly resisteth his tyrannicall proceedings how miserable is their thraldome who are inslaued to the yoke of his power and will Meane while q 2. Thess 2 ● He sitteth in the temple of God shewing himselfe that he is God but yet therein shewing himselfe to be as he is ANTICHRIST whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth The consideration of al which particulars summoned vp together did treat with me as they may and ought to doe with any man in my case to shew greater equanimity in the reuiew of other points now controuersed in Religion and namely in those FOVRE which I haue mentioned * Pag 44. before Wherein though I cannot acquaint you wholly how I did proceed yet I will giue you some ouerture thereof briefly as I passe The FIRST was concerning Purgatory which I vtterly reiect and renounce as inglorious to the bloud of Christ and troublesome to the sweete comfortable repose of our soules in him The SECOND was concerning some errors in the writings of our chiefe Diuines of which point I haue already giuen vp a verdit against my selfe I adde now farther that such errors in them if truly noted by me should not reasonably remoue a man from the integrity of his faith which dependeth vpon a more certaine principle and ground Why should the error of any MAN preiudice the eternall truth of GOD But beyond all this is there more sincerity in the Romanists that in respect hereof I should subscribe more readily vnto them Truly such was mine opinion but the immediate testimony of mine eies and the deliberate iudgement of my reason haue taught me to beleeue otherwise herein For a copious testimony in this kind I remit you vnto the late r Lib. 1. cap. 1. per totum Encounter of Master Doctor Morton against Master Parsons and the rather because I haue compared each particular from point to point with the Authors themselues whence he doth produce the same so that J am an ocular witnes of his fidelity therein as also throughout the whole course of that booke There you shall finde