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A68462	The right, and prerogatiue of kings against Cardinall Bellarmine and other Iesuites. Written in French by Iohn Bede, aduocate in the court of Parliament of Paris, and published by authority. Translated by Robert Sherwood.; Droit des roys, contre le cardinal Bellarmin et autres jésuites. English.	Bédé de la Gormandière, Jean.; Sherwood, Robert.	1612 (1612)	STC 1782; ESTC S113797	80,394	213

Canonum 25. q. 1. in deed or word are said by the Pope to be damned and to blaspheme against the Holy Ghost Although hee take leaue to himselfe to transgresse the Law and the Gospell of God and to shew it these blasphemous words are in the Canon Can. sors nō est causa 26. q. 2. Before that the Gospell was explaned many things were permitted which in time of a more perfect discipline haue bene altogether banished for the marriage of Priests or of cousin germans is not forbidden neither by the Law nor by the authority of the Gospell nor of the Apostles Notwithstanding by the discipline of the Church it is wholy forbidden O what perfection to transgresse the Law and the Gospell is not this to fulfill that which is foretold should come 1. Tim. 4. In the last times some shall depart from the faith giuing heed to spirits of errour and doctrines of diuels teaching lies through hypocrisie and hauing their consciences seared with an hot yron forbidding to marry and commanding to abstaine from meates which God hath created to be vsed with thankes-giuing of them which beleeue and know the truth for euery creature of God is good and nothing to bee refused being taken with thankes-giuing For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer If thou be put in minde of these things thou shalt bee a faithfull seruant of IESVS CHRIST c. And that which S. Ignatius wrote to the Philadelphians (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If any man confesse not these things but saith that the generation of children and lawfull marriage is pollution or that certaine meates are execrable that same man hath for familiar the Apostata Dragon Of the same opinion is Saint Augustine blaming them (b) Ad Ian. Epist 119. c. 19.20 that do so depriue themselues of the vse of meates that they esteeme such impure as vse them The like opinion hath he concerning mariage and alleageth for ground of his saying that place of S. Paul Now the reason may be taken from this that (c) Gen. 2. God hath instituted marriage That Aaron the chiefe Priest was not the lesse apt for the sacrifices that his sonnes succeeded him in the Priest-hood That God saith It is not good for man to bee alone That our Lord honored mariage with his presence in Cana of Galilee That he wold be borne vnder the veile of marriage although the holy Virgin remained without the company of man In a word in the state of Holinesse Adam and Eue were conioined by mariage Gen. 2.24 7 The Sacraments are also of God called his body and bloud the vse of which in matter and forme as hee hath prescribed ought to bee practised in the Church Such men neuerthelesse teach that the Church that is to say the Pope hath power to change in them whatsoeuer it thinketh meete Conc. Trident sess 21. c. 1. c. 22. act 23. although our Lord haue instituted it vnder two kindes And by this authority they haue added cut off from the forme Con. Const sess 13. matter and number of Sacraments And forasmuch as the Hoste among the Romish Catholickes is said to bee of God Monluc li. de relig ad Regin matrem De Monluc Bishop of Valentia complaineth by writing to the Queene mother that the Pope going forth of the Citty made the same bee carried vpon a little curtall among his carriage and the Courtesans and then come backe to meete the Pope accompanied with the pompe of the Court of Rome This same Hoste was much more despised by Hildebrand Gregory the seuenth whom Bellarmine calleth Saint The Abbot of Vespurg in the life of the Emperour Henry 3. Benno Cardinall in the life of Hildebrād for hee caused Pope Victor the second to bee impoisoned in the wine of the Eucharist The same Pope cast into the fire the consecrated Hoste in presence of many Cardinals because it gaue him no answere touching the euent of the warre that hee made against the Emperour Henry the fourth As for Gregory the ninth Baleus li. 5. of the liues of Popes hee refused the Gospell and in stead thereof substituted a Legend compiled by a Monke named Cyrill It is notorious the base account that Boniface the eighth had of the same Hoste Platina being prisoner of the Gibelins in the Citty of Agnania Another caused the Emperour Henry the seuenth surnamed of Luxemburke to bee poisoned and that in the consecrated bread giuen him by a Monke at Florence Pope Iulius the second after hee had lost the battel neere to Rauenna against the Earle of Foix cast the consecrated Hoste away and made it be troden vnder feete as the history of his time reporteth 8 The Church is of God for it is the body of CHRIST is the onely spouse of her onely head God hauing giuen to this head the solide Lordship 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of all the inheritance Act. 3.16 as it is written for IESVS is both of the triumphant and militant Church yea of euery particular Church Epes 1.22 Rom. 8.9 of the least indiuiduall Christian both the head and saluation incommunicably to any other according as it written for the whole 2. Cor. 11.2 It is he whom the Father hath appointed head of his Church both of the militant visible and particular I haue prepared you for one husband to present you as a pure virgin to CHRIST speaking to the Church of Corinth to euery Christan he saith CHRIST is the head of euery man 1. Cor. 11.3 Cap. quoiā lib. 3. decretal de Eccl. in 6. cap. vnico extrauag Nes de vacante Neuerthelesse these men with audacious boldnesse speake thus Not being willing to neglect our iustice and the iustice of the Church our Spouse And Bellarmine passeth farther saying that the Pope is the head of the Church CHRIST excluded etiam Christo secluso Bellar. li. 1. de Pon. c. 9. which is against the Gospel I am with you alway vntill the end of the world and contrary to the glosse of the Canon where it is said that CHRIST is alwaies the gouernour and head of his body which is the Church Gl. v. non consonam Clem. Ne Romani l. 1. de Elect. tit 3. and although the Vicar faile yet hee doth neuer faile it And how should hee faile in the guidance of his Spouse since hee tooke vpon him our nature seeing he guided her foure thousand yeares before as being her onely Bridegrome for euer as saith Origen Orig. Cant. hom 2. Think not that the Church hath bene called Spouse onely from the comming of Christ in the flesh shee was so from the creation of Mankind and from the beginning of the world Why then doth Bellarmine put IESVS apart and in default shall hee bee lesse the Spouse of his body since his Incarnation then hee was before the same Moreouer these same blasphemers attribute to the