they had been particularly named in it If then all the Violators of this Bull are ipso Facto Excommunicated and all or at least almost all the Popish Princes of Christendom together with the greatest part of their Subjects are open and manifest Violators of it it follows that we have very false Notions of Popery when we imagine it a large and diffusive Sect that vast and numerous Schisms are entertained and lay undiscerned in the Bosom of the Church of Rome that the Primacy of the Pope instead of being the Center of Unity is indeed the Fountain of Schism and that among many Papists there are few Catholicks For if as our Adversaries commonly define it the Catholick Church be the Collection of all Christians in Communion with the particular Church of Rome whosoever are Excommunicated by the Pope cease to be in Communion with the Church of Rome and consequently in their Opinion cease to be Catholicks They may indeed still remain Members of the truly Catholick Church but then a true Notion of Catholick Church must be allowed and the former must be discarded But then the Church of England may also put in her claim for Catholick and the grand Argument of our Adversaries against her Reformation will be totally dissolved However it manifestly appears that this Bull hath shut most Papists out of the Bosom of the Church and reduced the Church of Rome to very narrow Limits Whenever therefore our zealous Missionaries exaggerate to us the extent of their Church and urge the glorious Title of Amplitude in favour of it we may justly reject it it not certainly appearing who may be properly called Roman Catholicks since this and other Bulls of the like Nature which inflict ipso Facto Excommunications deprive vast numbers of Men whole Societies and perhaps Kingdoms of Communion with the Church of Rome or if we in any manner allow their Argument we must first require them to substract from their account all whom the Pope in this Bull doth Excommunicate and thereby puts in the same Condition with Turks Infidels and Hereticks We have one request more to them that to facilitate the Conversion of three Kingdoms they would obtain of the Pope an Abolition of this Bull or at least of that Clause of it which Excommunicates all Secular Persons who possess Church Lands For since out of the abundance of their Generosity they have been pleased to assure to us the quiet Possession of Abby-Lands it remains to compleat their kindness that they set us right in the Court of Rome as well as that of Westminster Otherwise it will be an eternal Obstacle to the Conversion of the Possessors of these Lands if the Curses of our Holy Father the Pope be plentifully showred down upon them every Maunday-Thursday and they must entrust their Souls to the Pope for no other end than that he may deliver them up to the Devil Ex Bullario Laertii Cherubini Romae 1638. TOM III. p. 183. Constitutio Pauli V. 63. EXcommunicatio Anathematizatio quorumcunque Haereticorum eorumque fautorum ac Schismaticorum vel Ecclesiasticam Libertatem laedentium aut quoquo modo dispositis in hac Bulla de more in die Caena Domini publicare solita contravenientium Quoad omnia quasi Capitula hujus Bullae ultra Extravagan 3. Pauli II. Extravagan 5. Sixti IV. in tit de Paenitentia Remissionibus habes supra Constitut 1. Vrbani V. fol. 215. Constitut 25. Julii II. f. 482. Constitut 10. Pauli III. f. 522. necnon Constitut 81. Gregorii XIII f. 348. l. 2. Aliorum autem Bullas ejusmodi Caenae Domini nuncupatas volens praetermisi his duntaxat contentus ex quibus pro temporum conditione Romanos Pontifices aliquid immutasse cognoscatur Non tamen posthabui proxime indicandas uti apprime necessarias super hujus Bullae capitibus specialiter editas Extat ergo in hoc Opere specialis edita sanctio Nicolai III. circa § primum hujus Bullae in ejus Const 2. sup fol. 143. circa § 2. extat Const 5. Pii II. f. 290. l. 1. Circa § 4. extat Const 7. Pii V. f. 137. l. 2. Circa § 7. extat Const 3. Nicolai V. f. 283. l. 1. Circa § 10. extat Canon Callisti I. in c. 23. caus 24. q. 3. Circa § 11. respectu Cardinalium extat Const 16. Leonis X. f. 420. l. 1. alia 93. Pii V. f. 222. l. 2. Circa § 12 extat Const 11. Alexandri VI. f. 352. Circa § 14. extat Const 2. Martini V. f. 239 alia 17. Innocentii VIII f. 343. ac altera 30. Leonis X. f. 440. necnon alia 39. Clementis VII f. 505. l. 1. altera 19. Gregorii XIII f. 290. l. 2. Circa § 15. multi sunt Canones in Corpore Juris extat Const 10. Martini V. f. 247. Circa § 19. extat Const 3. Vrbani VI. f. 222. Et Circa § 20. extat Const 〈◊〉 Joannis XXII f. 174. alia 3. Clementis VI. f. 212. alia 13. Leonis X. f. 314. altera 11. Pauli IV. f. 595. Alia hujusmodi Excommunicatio in die Coenae Domini Promulgari solita est in S. D. N. Vrbani VIII Const 62. Pastoralis infr Tom. 4. Paulus Episcopus Servus Servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam PAstoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia sollicitudo cum in omni Reipublicae Christianae pace tranquillitate procuranda pro fui muneris officio assidue versatur tum potissimum in Catholicae fidei sine qua impossibile est placere Deo unitate atque integritate retinenda maxime elucet Nimirum ut fideles Christi non sint parvuli fluctuantes neque circumferantur omni vento doctrinae in nequitia hominum ad circumventionem erroris sed omnes occurrant in unitate fidei agnitionis Filii Dei in virum perfectum neque se in hujus vitae societate communione laedant aut inter se alter alteri offensionem praebeat sed potius in vinculo caritatis conjuncti tanquam unius corporis membra sub Christo capite ejusque in terris Vicario Romano Pontifice Beatissimi Petri Successore a quo totius Ecclesiae unitas dimanat augeantur in aedificatione atque ita divina gratia adjutrice sic praesentis vitae quiete gaudeant ut sutura quoque beatitudine perfruantur Ob quas sane causas Romani Pontifices praedecessores nostri hodierna die quae anniversaria DominicaeCoenae commemoratione solennis est spiritualem Ecclesiasticae disciplinae gladium salutaria justitiae arma per ministerium summi Apostolatus ad Dei gloriam animarum salutem solenniter exercere consueverunt Nos igitur quibus nihil optabilius est quam fidei inviolatam integritatem publicam Pacem Justitiam deo autore tueri vetustum solennem hunc morem sequentes § 1. Excommunicamus anathematizamus ex parte Dei Omnipotentis Patris Filii Spiritus Sancti auctoritate quoque
The Famous Bull IN CAENA DOMINI Published at ROME every Maunday Thursday against Hereticks and all Infringers of Ecclesiastical Liberties With a PREFACE containing some Reflections on the Bull and Animadversions on the late Account of the Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT of PARIS Printed in the Year 1688. PREFACE AFTER so many and so loud Out-cries against that just and necessary distinction of Old and New Popery which the late Artifices and shiftings of our Adversaries have enforced the Divines of our Church to observe and publish after so many vehement Protestations against the reality of any such distinction and confident assertions of the entire Conformity between the Doctrine of the present Church of Rome or rather some few Emissaries of it and that of the immediately precedent Ages so many new Systems Representations and Expositions of the pretended Catholick Doctrine it might have been justly expected that the Faith and Doctrine if not of the present and precedent Age yet at least of all National Churches at this day in Communion with the Church of Rome should be perfectly conformable and invariable For the Opinions of the precedent Age may be indeed falsly represented to us the truth of them may be obscured by cunning Artifices and Illusions or evaded by a bold and obstinate Denial but the Doctrines and Practice of the present Time cannot be dissembled nor without too manifest an affront to Truth be denied by these Gentlemen of the Mission who may perhaps confound our Reason but can never delude our Senses That this distinction is both just and real needs no other Argument than the known and confess'd distinction between French and Italian Popery For since the Patrons and Defenders of both these Parties appeal to the belief of the Church in the precedent Age since both propose Tradition as the Rule of their Faith and challenge to themselves the Consent and Suffrage of that Rule since both their Pleas cannot be allowed and one Party must necessarily have departed from the true ancient and genuine Popery it evidently follows that as one Party conserves the Old so the other hath framed a New sort of Popery I know it is commonly pretended that these differences are of small moment neither essential to Christianity nor to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome that either side may be safely believed and neither renders any Man either less Orthodox or more Heretical But certainly these Pretences are no other than Protestations against matters of Faith since not only the Subjects of these different Doctrines are Matters of the greatest moment and concern but attended with all the solemn Characters and evident Marks of the most momentous Articles of Faith I mean an infinite Zeal and Concern of each Party for the defence and propagation of their own Opinion and condemning the contrary Doctrine as a Crime worthy of Excommunication and Anathema which are never supposed to be inflicted on Opinions of an indifferent nature and free from all Contagion of Heresy or Schism If then the Pope and Italian Divines will not allow those of France to be truly Orthodox and Catholick if they think them unworthy and incapable of Ecclesiastical Dignities and Promotions and daily issue out Excommunications against such Practices as the Church of France is manifestly known to act allow and command if on the other side the French Clergy so far return the Accusation as to attaint the Pope of Heresy to declare his Censures rash unchristian and destructive of the Church and himself ipso facto excommunicate certainly we must renounce all Sense and Reason to imagined these to be no more than verbal Differences Scholastick Niceties and Opinions of private Divines which may be safely either rejected or received That Differences of this nature have arose between the Church of France and See of Rome and those continued with great Heat and Animosity through several Ages is manifest both from Ecclesiastical and Civil History This indeed our Adversaries deny but surely by the assistance of that wonderful Secret which can enable them confidently to propose the greatest Contradictions and Falsities and then effectually secure them from blushing at them The Violence and Cruelties practised upon many thousand Protestants of France have been acted within a few Months in the view of the World and the face of Mankind yet there are not wanting who decry all Relations of these Cruelties and Barbarities as the Calumnies and Fictions of Hereticks and have added this to the other glorious Titles of Lovis le Grand that he hath reduced his Subjects to the Profession of one Religion by methods of Mercy and Gentleness The present differences between the Courts of Rome and France how conspicuous soever might have suffered the same fate and with equal Reason have been denied if Monsieur Barillon the French Ambassador had not by endeavouring to vindicate his Master's Honour and the Justice of his Cause obliged us with an Account of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Paris upon the Pope's Bull an Account which as it is undeniable and unexceptionable to our Adversaries so it abundantly evinceth what I have hitherto advanced The whole Church of France and after them the Sorbon have within a few Years defined and asserted the Fallibility of the Pope and herein acted consonantly to the Principles and Doctrines of their Ancestors who had constantly taught the same Doctrine but never solemnly defined it However this Article is beyond the Alpes rejected with a no less contrary Zeal and Infallibility of the Pope ranked among the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion For proof of this we need go no farther than the forementioned Account of the Proceedings of the Parliament at Paris which assures us that not only the Italian Doctors and Emissaries of the Court of Rome are employed carefully to propagate the Opinion of the Papal Infallibility as if the belief of that Point were wanting to render France truly Catholick but also that one third of the Episcopal Sees of France being now vacant and the King having nominated to them some of those who assisted at the late National Assembly wherein the Papal Infallibility was rejected Persons as well recommendable for their Piety and Vertue as for their Knowledg and Learning the Pope refuseth to grant Bulls of Confirmation to them on pretence that they do not make Profession of a sound or Orthodox Doctrine because they do Pag. 5 23. not believe him to be Infallible nor like the Italian Doctors attribute to him the Title of Universal Monarch Which evidently demonstrates that the Papal Infallibility is esteemed a necessary Doctrine in Italy and the denial of it incompatible with a sound and Orthodox Belief of the Catholick Faith since Scholastick Niceties were never known to incapacitate Men for Ecclesiastical Preferments or cast them out of the number of Orthodox Christians The Primacy of the Pope is a matter of no less moment How far it extends is indeed controverted among Roman Catholicks but
and all their Abetters Receivers and Defenders § 4. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all and singular who when the Ships of any Christians are either driven out of the way by Tempest or any ways suffer shipwrack convey away any Goods of what kind soever either in the Ships themselves or cast out of the Ships into the Sea or found on the Shore as well in our Tyrrhenian and Adriatick Seas as in any other Divisions of Shores of all Seas whatsoever so that they shall not be excused by any Priviledge Custom or possession of time immemorial or any other pretext whatsoever § 5. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all who impose or augment any new Tolls or Gabells in their Dominions except in cases permitted to them by Law or by especial leave of the Apostolick See or who exact such Taxes forbidden to be imposed or augmented § 6. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all Forgers of Apostolick Letters even in form of a Brief and of Supplications respecting Indulgence or Justice signed by the Pope of Rome or by the Vice-chancellours of the Holy see of Rome or by their Deputies or by the command of the said Pope as also those who falsly publish the Apostolick Letters even in form of a Brief and those who falsly sign such Supplications in the name of the Pope of Rome or the Vice-chancellour or their Deputies § 7. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all those who carry or transmit to the Saracens Turks and other Enemies and Foes of the Christian Religion or to those who are expresly and by name declared Hereticks by the Sentence of us or of this Holy See Horses Arms Iron dust of Iron Tin Steel and all kind of Metals and Warlike Instruments Timber Hemp Ropes made as well of Hemp as of any other matter and that matter whatsoever it be and other things of this nature which they make use of to the prejudice of Christians and Catholicks as also those who by themselves or others give intelligence of matters relating to the State of Christendom to the Turks and Enemies of the Christian Religion to the hurt and prejudice of Christians or to Hereticks to the prejudice of the Catholick Religion or who any ways afford to them counsel assistance or favour notwithstanding any Privileges hitherto granted by Vs and the aforesaid See to any Persons Princes or Common-wealths wherein express mention is not made of this prohibition § 8. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all hindering or invading those who bring Provisions or any other things necessary for the use of the Court of Rome as also those who forbid hinder or obstruct the bringing or conducting of them to the Court of Rome or who abet the doers of these things either by themselves or by others of whatsoever order preeminence condition or quality they be even although they be Bishops or Kings or invested with any other Ecclesiastical or Secular Dignity § 9. Farther We excommunicate and anathematize all those who kill maim spoil apprehend or detain by themselves or by others those who come to the Apostolick See or return from it as also all those who having no ordinary jurisdiction nor any Delegated by Vs or our Judges rashly challenging it to themselves presume to commit any like actions against those who reside at the Court of Rome § 10. Farther We excommunicate and anathematize all who kill maim wound detain apprehend or rob Travellers to Rome or Pilgrims for the sake of Devotion or Pilgrimage going to that City staying in it or returning from it and those who give aid counsel or favour in these cases § 11. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all who slay wound maim strike apprehend imprison detain or in hostile manner pursue the Cardinals of the Holy Church of Rome and Patriarchs Archbishops Bishops Legats or Nuncios of the Apostolick See or those wo drive them out of their Territories Diocesses Lands or Dominions or those who command or allow these things to be done or give aid counsel and favour to them § 12. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all those who by themselves or by others slay or any ways strike or despoil any Ecclesiastical or Secular Persons having recourse to the Court of Rome for their Causes and Affairs and prosecuting and managing them in the said Court or even the Auditors or Judges deputed for the hearing and managing of the said Causes and Affairs upon occasion of these Causes and Affairs as also those who by themselves or by others directly or indirectly presume to act or procure the said Crimes or to give aid counsel or favour to them of whatsoever preheminence or dignity they be § 13. Further We excommunicate and anathematize all those as well Ecclesiasticks as Seculars of whatsoever dignity they be who under pretence of a certain frivolous appeal from the injustice or future execution of the Apostolick Letters even in form of a Brieve respecting as well indulgence as justice as also from the injustice and future execution of Citations Inhibitions Sequestrations Monitories Processes Executorials and other Decrees issuing out or which shall at any time issue out from Vs and the aforesaid See or our Legates Nuncios or Presidents from the Auditors of our Palace and Apostolick Chamber from our Commissaries and other Apostolick Judges and Delegates as also those who any other ways have recourse to Secular Courts and the Lay Power and who cause such Appeals to be admitted by the Secular Courts even although the Procurator and Advocate of the Exchequer should require it or who cause the aforesaid Letters Citations Inhibitions Sequestrations Monitories c. to be seized or retained or those who hinder or forbid the said Letters to be put in execution either simply or without their good-will consent or examination or who hinder or forbid Scriveners or Notaries from making or delivering when made to the Parties concerned any Instruments or Acts concerning the execution of these Letters and Processes or who apprehend strike wound imprison detain drive out of Cities Places and Kingdoms despoil of their Goods terrify vex and threaten either by themselves or by others publickly or privately the Parties or their Agents Kindred on both sides their Friends Notaries the Executors or Sub-executors of the said Letters Citations Monitories c. or who any other way presume directly or indirectly to forbid ordain and command any Persons in general 〈◊〉 in particular to betake themselves or haue recourse to the See of Rome to prosecute their Affairs of any kind or to obtain Indulgences or Letters or who forbid them to obtain the said Indulgences or to make use of them when obtained of the said See or who presume to retain the said Indulgences in their own hands or in the hands of a Notary or a Scrivener or any other way § 14. Further we Excommunicate and Anathematize all and singular who by themselves or by others by their own Authority and de facto