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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08697	A letter of a Catholike man beyond the seas, written to his friend in England including another of Peter Coton priest, of the Society of Iesus, to the Queene Regent of France / translated out of French into English ; touching the imputation of the death of Henry the IIII, late K. of France, to priests, Iesuites, or Catholicke doctrine.	Owen, Thomas, 1557-1618.; Coton, Pierre, 1564-1626.	1610 (1610)	STC 19000; ESTC S1326	18,060	49

conformably to the Sorbones and to the Decree of the Councell of Constance These then being the opinions and the determinations of these doctors graue and principall men of our Society what preiudice can the particuler opinion of one Mariana bring to the reputation of a whole Order the which being according to the Institute most carefull to maintaine all holy ordinances of the Church and bearing respect to the power and authority of Kings who for the temporal depend on God only hath long time since disauowed the lightnesse of this rouing pen and namely in the Prouincial Congregation of France held in the Citty of Paris the yeare 1606. where more then this the Reuerend Father Claudius Aquauiua General of our Society was requested that those who had written in preiudice of the Crowne of France should be repressed and their bookes suppressed Which the sayd Reuerend Father did afterward very earnestly and exactly being most sory that by ouer-sight he being absent and knowing nothing nor hauing seene the workes one should vse therin his consent the words which he vseth in his answere are these VVe haue approued your Congregations iudgment and carefulnes and haue byn very sory that no body perceaued the fault vntill the bookes were printed the which notwithstanding we haue presently commanded to be corrected will vse great care herafter that such things happen no more And so it is that now you should scarce haue found so much as one copy of Mariana if it had not beene for the pernicious liberality of the heyres of VVechell who are knowne to be of the pretended reformed Religion and haue printed the same booke at their owne costes and charges moued not so much as it is to be presumed with desire to serue the publique as to hurt in particuler our Society Some haue thought that they haue added somewhat of their owne others haue iudged that the bookes of the first impression were yet worse but this controuersy serues to no purpose for although it were so and that no body had holpen the first so imprudent pen yet is there no cause why that one mans pen should more hurt the body of our Society then the writings of Iohn Petite and others his like should hurt the Vniuersities and Orders of which they were Schollers Bachelers Maisters and Doctors But Madame seeing that I haue heere aboue promised to expound clearly and distinctly what is our opinion touching the question we haue proposed now I come to it which shal be the second part or this discourse 1. All the Iesuites generally and particulerly will confirme euen with their own bloud that they haue not in this matter or any other any beliefe doctrine or opinion then that of the Catholike Church 2. That amongst all sorts of gouernement and publicke administration the Monarchie is the best 3. That such is the spirituall gouernmeÌ„t of the Church which is vnder the Vicar of Iesus Christ successor of S. Peter such is the temporall gouernment of the State and Realme of France which dependeth of the person of the King our Soueraigne Lord and Maister 4. That the Kinges are as Homer calleth them the children and fosters of God or rather his own liuely Images as sayd Menander 5. That they are annointed and therfore called the Christs of our Lord to the end as sayth Simeon the Archbishop of Thessalonica that euery one may vnderstand that they be inuiolable and should be respected as holy and sacred things 6. That it is a damnable heresy as holy Irenaeus noteth 1400. yeares agoe to thinke that Kings are giuen to men casually seeing that all power comes of God and therfore sayth S. Isidore of Damieta in the most ancient pictures we see a hand put out of heauen which setteth the Crowne vpoÌ„ the head of Kings 7. That he which resisteth kinges or rebelleth against them purchaseth to him selfe his owne damnation according to the doctrine of the Apostle 8. That obedience is due vnto them not for that they are vertuous wise poteÌ„t or indued with any other laudable qualitie but because they are Kings established by God himselfe 9. That our Kings of France are the eldest children of the Church enioying rare and singular priuiledges aboue the common of other Kinges of the world 10. That it is not lawfull to denie to theÌ„ obedience much lesse to reuolt against them although they were vicious froward hard to suport as the same Apostle speaketh 11. That being such we ought to pray for them as the Prophet would haue to be done for the prosperity of Nabuchodonosor and his sonne Baltazar that the afflictions losse of goodes persecutions and other in commodities which are endured patiently not rebelling therefore against their Superiours are things very acceptable to God conforme to the praise which in like case S. Paul giueth to the Hebrews and to that ordinaÌ„ce w ch he hath published in the Church saying Euery soule be subiect to the Superiour powers 12. And therfore that not onely it is not lawfull to lay hands vpon their Persons but that it is an execrable parricide a prodigious trespasse and a detestable sacriledge 13. That the decree of the Councell of Constance in the 15. Session ought to be receaued of all and maintayned inuiolably 14. That the declaration of the Sorbon of the year 1413. that also of the 4. of Iune of this preseÌ„t yeare is good wholsome holy 15. That euery one should stand vpon his guard and take heed of diuers bookes that are spread abroad contrary to the Lawes the reading of the which is not onely in this matter very dangerous but so much the more to be feared by how much the Authors of them being to our great griefe separated from the Catholike Church make no accompt neyther of the Councell of Constance nor of the Catholike Censures and Doctors aboue mentioned yea rather which is to be lamented they are the more obstinate in their opinions by opposing themselues and thereby they thinke to get the greater praise and admiration from others I would cite bookes quote the places and alleadge the words were it not that it is farre better that such thinges remaine swallowed in the bottomlesse pit of forgetfulnes and that it is more to the purpose to make knowne that innocency is far stronger then recrimination And for the same cause also I would haue abstained altogeather from this aduertisment had it not beene to shew thereby that the body of our Society cannot be infected by the opinion of one only person the which hath beene so authentically disauowed by the same no more then those of the pretended reformed Religion doe not hould themselues any whit interessed by the erroneous Doctrine of some of theirs whome they reiect difauow and condemne being willing to liue with vs vnder the Lawes of our Realme and with the obedience and voluntary submission which we do render to the Scepter of our Kinges

to the lawes of his Realme So Daniel was cast into the Lions den because he had done against the lawes of the Medes and Persians forsooth he serued and adored God almighty whome they acknowledged not for God Likewise Antiochus held all for traytors and violators of his Law whosoeuer vnder his Dominions kept obserued the law of God Samuel therfore had good cause when he was sent of God to annoint for King Dauid the sonne of Iesse to be afraid that Saul would kill him as guilty of treason against his Crowne who already had the possession therof and who afterward being possessed with a Diuell sought continually to make away Dauid although a true seruant of God and him only vnder pretence of state And in the new Testament what other meanes had the Diuell to batter the Ghospell and oppugne our Sauiour him selfe then by the Iewes as his instrumeÌ„ts to accuse him before Pontius Pilate to call him in question of state as seditious and forbidding to pay tribute to Cesar and calling himselfe King the which bare accusation without any proofe is of such nature so potent and soe odious amongst worldly men that be the fact neuer so false wherof a man is so accused it sufficeth to discredit and opresse him be he neuer so innocent as may appeare by that example of Christ our Sauiour who was the most innocent of all men yea innocency it selfe For although Pilate seeing him guiltlesse endeauoured to deliuer him yet the malicious redoubling that accusation therwith threatning Pilate himselfe saying if thou let him go thou art not a friend to Cesar they so terrified him with the only name of Cesar that straight he let himselfe be carried away to the greatest act of iniustice that was committed since the world began Wherin the Diuell hauing had so good successe as to haue condemned Christ and put to death the Author of life but yet so that in fine all fell vpon his owne head our Sauiour therby being exalted in glory and all mankind deliuered from the Diuells tyranny hath still continued by the same way as most assured effectuall to persecute all Gods seruants and true followers of Christ And therfore the Apostles following straight after were forced also against such calumnies opeÌ„ly to teach and commaÌ„d Christians to obey their Soueraigns and magistrates to pray for them to render them tribute to whom tribute appertaineth and honour to whome honour After the Apostles the ancient Doctors of the Church were also forced often to imploy their pennes and shew that true Christians were not enemies of Emperours but did offer sacrifices for their state and prosperitie and yet because those Emperours as worldly and wicked men preferred the least thought of their owne estate before the greatest reasons that might be alleaged for the defence of innocency alwayes such calumnies haue preuailed as first against the head himselfe so after against his members and followers Although at length by the almighty power of God truth hath alwayes had the victory the Diuell togeather with his instruments haue byn confounded As is notorious first in the old TestameÌ„t by Aman by the enemies of Daniel by Saul and Antiochus their deathes and in the new by Pilate who died in banishment and by the whole nation of the Iewes who were first so miserably destroyed by Titus and Vespasians armie haue alwayes since remayned as vagabonds vpon the face of the earth Afterward what miserable deathes haue befallen all those Emperours that by such vniust wayes haue persecuted the Church of God vnder colour of state it were too loÌ„g here to rehearse it will shortly come to your view fully set down in the secoÌ„d part of a learned Treatise coÌ„cerning Policy and Religion So that allwaies they haue byn inexcusable before God maÌ„ who haue concurred by power of Princes to the oppressing of good men vnder the calumnious pretext of dealing in State matters But most inexcusable in this our dayes is this calumniation obiected by Heretickes to the Catholicks and Catholicke doctrine it being on the contrary side proper to Hereticks to impugne their Princes and to Hereticall doctrine to maintaine it as lawfull yea the only meanes wherby heresies haue sprong vp Hereticks first entred into the world haue beene their rebellions against their Magistrates their lawfull Kings and Princes The reason wherof is manifest Heresie being of her owne nature a separation and diuision from the body of the Catholicke Religion and therfore must needes begin with rebelling against the Catholicke Church and consequently against their Catholicke Kings and Soueraigne Princes But the experience hereof is much more manifest for as Luthers Zuinglius Caluins and all other hereticks beginning of innouation came by teaching all their followers that Princes may be restrayned by force pursued iudged punished by the people excommunicated depriued deposed and cast into hell by the Ministers condemned and put to death by inferiour Magistrates whensoeuer in their opinion they become Tyrants and opposite to the Ghospell as writeth the Author of the booke of Dangerous positioÌ„s in his fourth and fifth chapter and the Author of the Suruey of pretended discipline Their practice of the foresaid doctrine hath byn too too well knowne through the whole world For first in Germany Luthers followers incited by such doctrine of his tooke armes and rebelled with such violent headines throughout all that Countrey against their owne Prince that as Slâ—ydan a Protestant Author affirmeth at that only time besides the euersion of infinite numbers of fortresses and Castles aboue an hundred and thirty thousand people were slaine And afterwards the followers of Luther deuiding themselues into different sects of Luther anisme Zuinglianisme Caluinianisme Anabaptisme new Arianisme and the like with ech of them followed euery where new rebellions against their Princes as you may see which way soeuer you looke either towardes the North where you shall find fresh memory of their rebellions in Saxony Denmarke Sueueland Polonia and Transiluania or towardes the South in Zwitzerland Grisons Sauoy and their Confines where Zuinglius himselfe in the Cantons of Switzerland his owne countrey was the chiefe stirrer of rebellion and was slayne himselfe in the field And at Geneua Caluin Beza and other Ministers incited the Subiects against the Duke of Sauoy and other their naturall Princes Towardes the East the Heretikes ioyned their forces with the Turke himselfe against the Emperour their Soueraigne and so Boscaine that famous Caluinian Rebell forced the said Emperour to leaue him for his life tyme the Princedome of Transiluania Towards the west to wit in France through the which I haue trauailed some time and there haue spent some yeares of my age I haue seene in all places where I haue beene such pittifull ruines of Townes and Fortresses and haue heard recounted such Barbarous yea rather Beast-like cruelties committed in their rebellions that the only memory therof sufficeth 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