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B09866 Reflections upon the bulls of the Popes Paul the Third and Pius the Fifth emitted against King Henry the 8 and Queen Elizabeth of England. Philotheus. 1686 (1686) Wing R724A; ESTC R232036 8,047 16

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Reflections upon the BULLS OF THE POPES PAUL THE THIRD AND PIUS THE FIFTH Emitted against KING HENRY The 8. And QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND Printed in the Year 1686. TO The Right Honourable and truly Noble JAMES EARL OF PERTH LORD DRUMMOND c. LORD HIGH CHANCELLOUR OF SCOTLAND MY LORD THere is nothing so much amuseth these out of the Communion of the Catholick Church as the supposed guilt of Disloyalty maliciously fixed upon the Roman Catholick Religion Nor is there any thing more confirms this unhappy prejudice in the Hearts of Honest and Loyal Subjects in these Kingdoms then the Bulls and damnatory Sentences issued out by the Popes PAUL the Third and PIUS the Fifth against King HENRY the Eigth and Queen ELIZABETH of England Now untill this great mistake be removed the Subjects divide amongst themselves and ill Blood is Nourished to the intollerable dammage of his MAJESTY whose Interest is the less secured while so dangerous an Hypothesis is unjustly charged on Catholick Subjects and no vindication made to wipe off so foul a Crime For if a Catholick Prince must not trust his Catholick Subjects he must give only credit to these who would have the municipal Statutes of this Kingdom made upon politick considerations unalterable and irreversible never to be repealed upon the fairest emergencies and justest reflections that after Ages may make for the discovery of conceived prejudices which were to bind up the hands of Princes in the prudent management of their Affairs and restrict their supreme Right of Legislation My LORD I have adventured to vindicate the Church Catholick from so destructive a Doctrine in as few Words as the subject matter could allow off And since none hath suffered the severe lashes of viperous Tongues more then Your Lordship for that the Catholick Religion is joined in your Person with that great trust reposed in you and yet far beyond the least tincture or suspicion of Disloyalty I thought none fitter to shelter and protect this small Essay then Your Lordship I give it then up My LORD to Your Patronage and Tuition in the protection whereof you will demean your self as a true SON of the Holy Cacholick Church and justifie the Honest and Religious service of MY LORD Your Lordships most oblidges and most Humble Servant Philotheus Some Reflections on the Bulls of PAUL THE THIRD AND PIUS THE FIFTH Emitted against KING HENRY The 8. And QUEEN ELIZABETH OF ENGLAND THE Christians of the Roman Catholick Communion believe nothing as matter of Faith but what the Universal Church practises or a General Council by its Decrees oblidges to believe as such And since neither the Church Catholick in diffusion or representation practises or by Her Cannons enjoyns as matters of Faith viz. That its Lawful for Popes upon the Heads of Heresie Schism or scandalous iniquity to Excommunicate Kings and absolute Princes and thereupon to absolve their natural Subjects from their necessary alledgeance it s the highest injustice to impose this on the Catholick Religion as an Article of Faith To clear this let us first confider what is the practice of the Church diffusive in this affair It s plain that this dangerous Doctrine so destructive to Humane Societies is disowned by all Catholick Princes and Monarchs guarding sufficiently against it by their Imperial and Royal Laws and Constitutions How do the Italian Princes debate their Temporal Intrests with Popes who sometimes quarrel with them and defend their secular Rights by the Sword And who more eagerly and vigourously vindicates his Royal prerogative in Temporal concerns against all the pretentions of Popes then the French King And it s as evident that the Emperour the Spanish and Polonian Princes by their municipal Laws assert their Imperal and Royal Rights against all mortals And as this is the practise of Catholick Princes so is it of the particular Churches within their Dominions and Teritories for they in their Ecclesiastical Conventions declare the independency of their absolute Princes in Temporals and that the Church cannot pretend by vertue of the power of the Keyes directly or indirectly to divest any absolute Prince or Monarch of his Royal Rights and Priviledges Look to the Cannons of the late Gallican National Assembly and to the Universities of Rehemes Caen Poictiers Valence Bordeaux Bourges c. And to the whole Colledge of Sorbon condemning Sanctarellus his propositions viz. That the Pope might for Schism or Heresie deposo Princes and exempt Subjects from their Alledgeance And tho' this Doctrine be charged maliciously upon the generality of the Jesuits yet a provincial Councel of that Order caused publickly to burn Mariana his Book for handling problematically that of killing Kings and this Society in all the Catholick Territories where they are scattred do generally renounce that Doctrine so fatal to Civil Authority else they should not have so easie an access to the Courts of Princes and find with them such kind receptions as they daily do Secondly There is no Authority from a general Council that allows of this dangerous Doctrine nor is there any thing like it to be found in the last general Counsel held at Trent in which are all these Articles that oblidge the Catholicks as matters of Faith nor in any other general Counsel prior to that save what is ignorantly concluded from a Decree of the Lateran Council held under Innocent 3. But to free this Counsel of any thing that looks like that unhappy Doctrine Let us notice first There were present at this Convention held at the Lateran the Emperours of the East and West the Kings of England France Hungary Jerusalem Cyprus Arragon c. By their Ambassdors sayes Mattheus Parisiensis who all might have agreed together to have purged their Territories and Dominions from the Heretical crew of the Waldenses and Albigenses so that by this compact amongst absolute Princes they might have consented upon their faileure if not concurring to exterminate the Hereticks that at the Churches Sentence the guilty should forfeit his Dominion and Property and the party performing receive it And this is as warrantable as the Convention made by the confederate Princes at Smalcad Secondly The Persons here threatned to lose their Territories and Properties are termed by the Decree Domini principales and certainly by these the Church never understood absolute Princes but only-petty and Feudatory Lords who being Superiors over other Vassals had a Dominion directum over them to which Lords the Vassals owed Fidelity and with that sometime Subjection as many do in Germany And of these allenerly are the Words of the Lateran Decree to be understood and not of the Imperial or Regal Dignities who ob eminentiam dignitatis are still excepted from the highest censures of the Church as you shall hear anon Thirdly It s more then propable that the Domini principales there exprest were chiefly if not only the Feudatory petty Superiors who supported the Albigenses continued the Heresie and Crocked the Wars Such as the