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A56188	Philanax Protestant, or, Papists discovered to the King as guilty of those traiterous positions and practises which they first insinuated into the worst Protestants and now charge upon all to which is added, Philolaus, or, Popery discovered to all Christian people in a serious diswasive from it, for further justification of our gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1663 (1663)	Wing P4030; ESTC R7555	26,609	49

than he keeps under the Papists and as they would perswade the world all Christians too when there is evident knowledge of the fact Subjects may Lawfully exempt themselves from the power of their prince before any declaratory sentence of a Judge so they have but strength to do it hence it followes that the Papists of England and Saxony are to be excused saith he that do not free themselves from the power of their Superiors nor make War against them because commonly they are not strong enough It is indeed generally and charitably believed that the Pope raiseth his power over Kings and Princes onely for their and the Churches spiritual good Ah narrow souled We look about you and It hath saith one been one of the most detestable crimes and highest Impeachment in the world against the Pope of Rome that under a Saint like religious pretense of advancing the Church cause the Kingdom of Christ they have for some hundred of years Usurped to themselves as sole Monarchs of the world in the right of Christ whose vicars they pretend themselves to be both by Doctrinal position and treasonable practices an absolute Soveraign Tyranical power over all Christian Emperours Kings Princes of the World who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone upon their good Behaviours at their pleasure not only to excommunicate censure judge depose murder destroy their Sacred Persons but likewise to dispose of their Crowns Scepters Kingdomes and translate them to whom they please Thus O Kings are you served in ordine ad spiritualia by the Papists while We poor Protestants think That we cannot do any evil against you that the greatest good many come to us or the Church thereby If men came to us to discover any design against your Sacred Majesty whom God preserve and asked our advice about it we must neds have abhored it as treason and have charged them not to touch Gods annointed and have urged them with this can a man touch the Lords annointed and be guiltlesse If they come to Gar●…et in England about a powder plot or to Guignard in France about a murther Tirannus jure Interini potest say the one its good and commendable and Heroick saith the other and both dismisse them with their blessing prayer and absolution When those licentious men among us acted as we are verily perswaded by Jesuitical Insinuations and Popish principles assaulted and murthered hislate Majesty of blessed memory We were all amazed Our Nobility offered to dye for him our Clergy writ prayed and preached against it our whole Nation abhorred it some dyed at the very hearing others were distracted and the whole face of England Scotland and Ireland gathered blacknesse When Clement murthered Hen. the 3d. of France Voiez commends him the Preacher at Colen connes a whole Sermon to extol him and the Pope Sextas Quintus makes a solemn Panegyrick upon him on September 11. 1589. in the Consistory in order to his Canonizations Comparing him to Ehud and Eleazar And concluding with this memorable saying I pray God finish what he hath begun When Ravillac stabbed Hen. the 4th of France he hath no lesse then two Apologies made for him the one by Veruna the other by Guignard who writes as if he would have done as much himself yea he saith that Clements murther was most Heroical and most praise-worthy adding moreover these words if we in the year 1572. on St. Bartholmews day in the general Massacre of the French Protestants had cut off the Basilicon vein H. King of Navarre we had not fallen out of a Feavour into that plague we now find sed quioquid delirant reges plectuntur Achivi sanguini parcendo that K. Henry should be but over mildly dealt with if he were thrust from the Crown of France into a Monastery and there had his Crown shaven that if hecould not be deposed without a War a War must be raised against him but if a War could not be levyed against him the Cause being dead Let him be privily murdered as he was and taken out of the way and when this Guignard was justly executed by the Parliament of Richeome makes an Apology for him and the whole Society expostulates against the Arrest of Parliament We say to this day of the powder Traytors Cursed be their wrath for it was cruel and their anger for it was sierce our Souls come not yet into their secrets Bellarmine he hath written an Apology for Garnet Gretzer hath seconded him Eudaemon he goeth along with him the whole Church hath Canonized the Traytors Hallowed the Treason and consecrated the Villany We your Protestant Subjects stood firmly to your Predecessor Hen. 8. Obeyed heartily that Godly Prince Fd. the 6. suffered patiently under Q. Mary assisted our Gracious Q. Fliz. with our prayers lives and fortunes opened the way cheerfully and unanimously to your famous Grandfather King James to his haereditary Dominions and Territories and the sounder part of us had the honour of being involved in the fate and ruine of your Father of blessed Memory that Royal Champion and most resolved Martyr for the Protestant cause The Papists in the mean time oppose resist abuse affront revile and excommunicated H. 8. rebelled with Ket and other Northern men against Ed. the 6. they incite Q. Mary to destroy and banish her Subjects in whom consisted her strength and honour They excommunicate Q. Elizabeth encourage Cullen and others to murther her assuring them it was not only lawful by the Laws but that they should merit Heaven and Gods favour by it Further adding with Jacques Francis That the Realm of England then was and would be so well setled that unless Mrs. Elizabeth so he called Q. Elizabeth were suddenly taken away all the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail to shake or overturn it there was a Bull that came along with the Spanish Fleet in 88. When in it was expired That the Pope by the power given from God by Lawful Succession from Catholick Church for the defection of H. the 8th who forcibly separated himself and his people from the Communion of Christians which was promoted by Edward the sixth and Elizabeth who being pertinacious and impertinent in the same Rebellion and Usurpation Therefore the Pope incited by the continual perswasions of many and by the suppliant prayers of the English men themselves N. B. Hath dealt with divers Princes and especially the most potent King of Spane to depose that woman and punish her pernicious Adhaerents in that Kingdom c. he adds moreover that Pope Sextus before him prescribed the Queen and took from her all her Dignities Titles and Rights to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland absolving her Subjects from the Oath of Fidelity and Obedience he chargeth all men upon pain of the wrath of God that they afford her no favour help or aid but use all their strength to bring her to punishment and that all the

PHILANAX PROTESTANT ' OR PAPISTS Discovered to the KING As guilty of those Traiterous Positions and Practises which they first Insinuated into the worst Protestants and now Charge upon all To which is added PHILOLAUS Or Popery discovered to all Christian PEOPLE in a serious diswasive from it For further justification of our Gracious King and his honourable Parliaments proceedings for the maintenance of the Act of Uniformity LONDON Printed in the Year 1663. and are to be sold at the Royal Exchange Westminster-Hall and most Book-sellers Shops PHILANAX OR The PAPISTS discovered unto the King SECT I. NOw the Popish Party being disappointed in their great design for Indulgence 1. B the care of our gracious Soveraign Who will neither be provoked by the affronts of some that call themselves Protestants nor enticed by the favours and civilities of those that call themselves Catholicks to do any thing in prejudice of the Faith Once delivered to the Saints 2. By the vigilancy of Orthodox and good Bishops and Ministers who stand fast in the faith and are set for The defence of the Gospel 3. By the honourable Interposition of those most Noble Lords who search the Scriptures the first Counsels and fathers Whether these things are so 4. By the resolution of the most Honourable the Commons of England in Parliament assembled to stand by the grand establishment of the Kingdome 5. By the Ingenuity of our two most excellent Queens who wil not unseasonably interpose to gratify a few mens opinions against the conscience of a whole Kingdome Now the Popish Party I say thus happily disappointed of their designe against the Church of England and the Protestant Religion grow desperate and shake off all modesty Ingenuity and fear Now they dare Publish to the world a Caveat to all Kings Princes and Prelates against the Protestants Under pretence of some mens miscarriages Involving all now they dare charge us with those Principles against Government which they themselves teach with those treasons which they act with those Rebelions which they promote which our Learned and sober writers disown our Confessions and Articles of Religion oppose and our Religion discountenanceth no Religion in the world stating government and obedience on better principles enforcing them upon higher motives Or securing them by better Lawes than ours We your most Loyal Subjects who look upon you as The light of our eyes as the breath of our nostrils as the crown of our head Who make prayers and supplications for you and all that are in authority under you who obey you for Conscience sake cannot resist you knowing that whosoever resisteth resistethto hisown damnation who must needsbesubject to you as supream and to those that are in Church State sent by you who fear God and honour you our King and meddle not with them that are given to change for we know their calamity shall arise suddenly and who knoweth the ruin of them both Who dare think no evil of you not in our hearts much less murmure and speak evil against you Who though your Spirit should be stirred against us yet will not stir out of our place who dare not call you to any account of your matters nor say unto you what do you who with the antient Christians worship God above all and obey honour and reverence you as next unto God on earth We to vindicate our selves to inform the world aright to shew the true grounds of our late misery and the present opposition to Government and to confirm your Majesty in your very good affection for the Protestant religion and in your just care against the growth of Popery a care that aequally tends to your honour and security and our comfort We humbly desire the world may know that it is not any private respect or opinion it s not any kindnesse you have for heresy or schism It s not any cruelty or persecution that you provide just laws against Popery a new or execute those that are already provided but it s a royal care you owe your own Government and safety both which are indangered by those unworthy principles first asserted by the Pontificians and than taken up from them by the loose giddy turbulent and discontented sort of Protestants that have nothing indeed of Protestants but the name for you know 1. They teach that the Magistrate hath nothing to do in matter of Religion hath no power to restrain or punish any man in any matter that hath but the colour and prete●…ce of Religion Contzen polit c 16. Bellarm 5. de pont A 2 de Primati●… In vain do you Govern if these men and these positions be endured one mans Religion is to revile authority the others Religion is to rebel anothers Religion is to raise scandal upon all publick establishments anothers religion is to refuse all manner of oaths whether of Allegiance or Supremacy c. anothers Religion is to deny all ordinances ministry Church duties c. anothers Religion is to disturb all congregations and meetings but you must sit still and let these men play all these prancks under the notion of Religion you must endure all these extravagances Least you should persecute or oppresse tender consciences your Subjects may be perverted your people may be debauched and your Kingdomes seduced from their Allegiance and Loyalty by men of desperate principles and you all the while not stir for the Magistrate hath nothing to do in matter of Religion we your poor Protestant Subjects thought that you as Nebuchadnezzar and Darius among the Persians as the Governours among the Grecians whose first care was Religion as the Roman Kings Senates and Emperours whose great prudence it was not to admit of a strange Religion as the Primitive Governours who as appears by their Laws Orders Institutes and nemo Canons Laid out their highest endeavours for the settlement of the true Religion and as your Ancestors of blessed memory who are famous for nothing more then for being defenders of the Faith had power to defend true Religion so that under you by the influence of that Religion we might lead peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and honesty but alas temporal Princes saith Suarez must meddle with temporal matters they must let men be of what principles they please though never so dangerous they must look on their Subjects divided with different religions which lead to different conversation and to confusion and every evil work for why should they saith Costerus the Jesuit meddle with the affaires of the Church of God 2. We your Loyal Protestant Subjects were really perswaded that there was none above you to whom you should give account of your selves but God and that there were no Christians that durst say that any men or estates of men were above you in your Dominion ha poor we alas it seemes there are some 50. learned writters of that one society of Jesuits who in several printed books which you may

Antonii Arnoldj the truth a sad truth really the truth defended against the Arrest of Arnold Nay but we wrong them this business of King-killing is but a disputable question which some may hold one way and others another Not so neither saith Bellarmine Non opinio sed tertitudo it s not onely an opinion but a great certainty res certa explorata you must look upon them in this point as in others Insallible But you will say I pray deal faithfully with me do you think the Church of Rome holds such dangerous positions Ans. 1. Ecclesia erreret si impune c. If the Church should offer to let Kings go unpunished it should erre though it be built upon Cephas though it be otherwise infallible though its faith should never fail yet in this it would erre Bellarmine saith in one place if the Pope perswaded a man to go to hell it were a sin not to believe him if he teach a damnable error he is yet infallible always provided he doth not teach that dangerous error That Kings ought not be brought to justice If he doth he erres 2. That you may be sure the Church is right in this point Bellarmine tells you ex authoritate frequenti Ecclesia facit c. The Church doth these things Frequently It s a very usual thing it seems nay saith Johannes Eudaemon mistake not your self this Doctrine non est Jesuitarum propria sed totius Ecclesiae to give the Jesuite his due it is not the Doctrine of the Jesuits only but of the whole Church yea that the world may know the Jesuits are well backed Universa Theologorum juris consultorum Scholasticorum Schola saith Creswell The whole School of Divines and Lawyers make it a Position certain and undoubtedly to be believed that if any Christian Prince whatsoever shall manifestly turn from the Roman Catholick Religion or desire or seek to reclaim others from the same or but favour or shew Countenance to an Heretick he presently falleth From and loseth all Princely power and dignity and that by vertue and power of the Law it self both Humane and Divine even before any Sentence pronounced against him by the Supream Pastor and Judge That thereby his Subjects are absolved from all Oaths and Bonds of Allegiance to him as to their Lawful Prince nay that they may and ought provided that they have competent power and force to cast out such a Prince from bearing rule amongst Christians as an Enemy to his own Estate and Commonwealth and that the Kingdom of such an Heretick or Prince is to be bestowed at the pleasure of the Pope with whom the people upon pain of damnation are to take part and fight against their Soveraign Lord you will say can any men after so many Oaths and Obligations upon the Pope or others Instigation rebel against their lawful Soveraign A. Aas do you not know that children are deluded with Rattles and men with Oaths Papa potest quanquam absolvere de juramento fidelitatis when you have taken all the care Imaginable to oblige men to peace and Obedience the Pope can absolve men from all their Oaths I pray hear how the Iesuite in Bishop Usher would make a fool of the wise King James and the Parliament that formed the Oath of Allegiance sed vide saith he in astutiâ quanta sit simplicitas c. But see what simplicity here is in so great craft when he had placed all his security in that Oath he thought I poor man how contemptible this Jesuit looks upon an excellent King and his August Parliament he had framed such a manner of Oath with so many circumstances which no man could any way dissolve But he poor man Could not see that if the Pope dissolve the Oath all its knots whether of being faithful to the King or of admitting no dispensation are accordingly dissolved Thus now he was teaching the world a strange doctrine saith he I will say a thing more admirable you know I believe that an unjust Oath if it be evidently known to be such or openly declared such obligeth no man that the Kings Oath is unjust is sufficiently declared by the Pastor of the Church himself you see now that the Obligation of it is vanished into smoak and that the band which so many wise men thought was made of Iron is lesse than straw a trick to over throw the world But sure no Christians will be so wicked as to attempt such things against their Soveraigns Ans. They must hear what Father Creswell saith Certe non tantum Licet sed summa etiam juris divini ●…ssitate ac praecepto Imo conscientiae vineulo extremo Animorum per ●…ulo hoc incumbit certainly this is not onely Lawful but necessary as that which is incumbent upon all Christians upon no lesse obligation than that of Divine law and command of the bond of their Conscience and the utmost danger of their soules But the Counsel of Constance hath denied that it is lawful for any private men to attempt any thing against Publique authority Alas What is that as they resolve in other things Non abstante sic Scriptura so in this Case Non obstantc Concilii const decreto licitum est privatis c. Notwithstanding any decree of that Counsel by the authority of the Pope who is above all Counsels Private men may Omni ratione vi●… by any means no matter what so it be successeful attempting the destroying of an heritical or a wicked Prince How may a Prince be safe in that Case An. Bellarmine told K. James of famous memory si secure regnare velit Rex c. If the King would reign with safety if he would secure his mens lives and his then let him suffer the Catholicks to enjoy their Religion Wellfair thy heart Bellarmine that was plain English It seemes that if the Roman Catholicks are not pleased there is no security for King or People but may not a Protestant King enjoy the Liberty of his own conscience as the Papists desire ●…berty for their consciences Ans. No it is not saith Bellarmine de Pont. Rom. lib. 2 cap 7. For Christians to tolerate an Heritical King and he that cannot come up to all the abominations of Rome is Heritical if he ende●…vour to draw his Subjects to his Heresie or unbeleif but to judge whether a King doth draw to Heresie or no belongeth to the Pope to whom the case of Religion is committed therefore it belongs to the Pope to judge a King to be deposed or not deposed We Protestants indeed did think that we should be obedient unto the death rather then resist as all the primitive Christians did who said they could dye but they could not disobey Alas We are deceived alas if the primitive Christians did not depose the Emperors it was because they wanted strength and not because they wanted will saith Bellarmine so that no Prince is safe any longer