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A decree of excommunication against such as adhere to the late peace, and doe beare armes for the hereticks of Ireland, or doe aid or assist them by Iohn Baptist Rinuccini, Archbishop and Prince of Firmo, and by the ecclesiasticall congregation of both clergies of the kingdome of Ireland.
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Rinuccini, John Baptist.
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1646
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Wing R1522; ESTC R6599
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BY IOHN BAPTIST RINVCCINI ARCHBISHOP AND PRINCE OF FIRMO And by the Ecclesiasticall Congregation of both Clergies of the Kingdâme of IRELAND A Decree of Excommunication against such as adhere to the late Peace and doe beare armes for the Hereticks of Ireland or doe aid or assist them NOt without cause saith the Oracle of truth doth the Minister of God carry the sword Rom. 13. 3.4 for he is to punish him that doth evill and remunerate him that doth good Hence it is that âve have by our former decrees declared to the world our sense and just indignation against the late Peace concluded and published at Dublin not onely in its owne nature bringing prejudice and destruction on Religion and kingdome but being also contrary to the Oath of Association and withall against the Contrivers of and adherents to the said Peace In pursuance of which decrees being forced to unsheath the spirituall sword we to whom God Matth. 16.19 ibid. 18.18 hath given power to binde and loose on Earth assembled together in the Holy Ghost tracing herein the steps and imitating the Examples of many venerable and holy Prelates who have gone before us and taking for our authoritie Io. 20.23 the sacred Canons of holy Church grounded on holy Writ ut tollanturâ medio nostrûm qui hoe opus faciunt doe 1. Cor. 5.2 cum virtute domini nostri Iesu deliver over such persons to Sathan that is to say 1. Cor. 5.5 we excommunirate execrate and anathematice all such as after publication of this our decree and notice either privately or publiquely given them hereof shall defend adhere or approve the justice of the said peace and chiefely those who shall heare armes or make or joyne in warre with fot or in the behalfe of the Puritans or other hereticks of Dublin Corke Yoghell or of other places within this kingdome or shall either by themselves or their appointment bring send or give any aid succour or reliefe of victualls ammunition or other provision unto them or by advise or otherwise advance the said Peace or the warre made against us Those and every of them by this present decree wee doe declare and pronounce excommunicated IPSO FACTO ut non circumveniamur a Satanâa non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius 2. Cor. 2.11 Dated at Kilkenny in the Pallace of our Residence the 5. day of October 1646. Ioannes Baptista Archiepiscopus Firmanus Nuncius Apostolicus De mandato Illustrissimi Domini Nuncij Congregationis Ecclesiasticae utriusque Cleri regni Hiberniae Nicolaus Fernensis Episcopus Congregationis Cancellarius