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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43922	The History of the divorce of Henry VIII and Katharine of Arragon with the defence of Sanders : the resutation of the two first books of the history of the reformation of Dr. Burnett, by Joachim le Grand : with Dr. Burnett's answer and vindication of himself.		1688 (1688)	Wing H2157; ESTC R12003	14,763	16

Reputation of C. Campeggio that I call'd Rodulphus Bastard since I quote the very Discourse wherein he is so called which was Compos'd by Sr. William Thomas Secretary to the Privy Council under the Title of The English Pilgrim I had the misfortune not to have seen the Life that was written by Sigonius so that it is only a fault of Omission which the Author would aggravate into a malicious Invention And I make this acknowledgment of my Error so much the more frankly because it is the only mistake among all the rest of which the Author accuses me that is well grounded II. M. Le Grand labours to destroy the Authority of the Decision of the Sorbonn in favour of Henry But in regard this Decision was printed the Year following and acknowledged for true and real since no person in those times taxes it of being counterfeited we have no reason now to suspect it for neither does Cardinal Poole who was then at Paris when it was made nor any other writer of the Roman Communion tax the King of Imposture upon that occasion Add to this that the Bishop of Tarbes being continued to sollicit in Henry's behalf at the Court of Rome after he was made Cardinal and that the King had publickly acknowledged before the Legates how privy that Prelate had been to his Scruples conceived upon his Marriage has given an undeniable Confirmation of this matter whatever our Author says to the contrary The same thing is to be said of the Sorbonn for that never having been charged with falshood in the particular of this Decision there is no question but that they made it So that all M. Le Grana's Arguments can never prove any thing more than only that it has occasioned great Disputes and that Beda was a real promoter of Sedition By the way we may observe that the Ecclesiasticks of France were very ill satisfied with the Conduct of Francis the First who had sold their Liberties by the Concordate of which the University of Paris was so sensible and for that reason full of Male contents And therefore it might be perhaps that so many of the French Clergy were so ill affected to Henry's Cause because they knew that Francis the first so passionately supported his Interests After all the Author confesses That he found in the scrutiny Fifty three voices for the Divorce and Forty two against it and Five that were of Opinion that the matter should be referr'd to the Pope And this is sufficient to justisie the printed Decision which only says That the greatest number of Doctors were for the Divorce and declared the Marriage illegal which may serve for an Explanation of the words of the Letter of the first President That that same Declaration would do the King more hurt than it would advance his Affairs In regard all the other Universities had judged in his Favour whereas the Opinion of the Sorbonn favour'd him only by the plurality of voices III. The Author who pretends to publish an Extract of the Reasons which the Favourers of Henry alledged against his Marriage has forgot the Principal and that which supported all the decisions of the Romish Church that is to say That the Scripture explained by Tradition is the Rule according to which all Controversies are to be determined They alledged a perpetual succession of Provincial and general Councils of Popes and the Chief of the Greek and Latin Fathers particularly the Four most famous Fathers of the Western Church whereas the Imperialists had neither Father nor Doctor on their side Nevertheless the Author says no more but that the English quoted the Canons of some Provincial Councils concerning Incontinency with certain passages out of Tertullian St. Basil and St. Jerom about Virginity and against second Nuptials I am sure the Reader must here take notice That there is something wanting in this Relation which is more essential to an honest Man than a great stock of Capacity For the Canons of Councils and the Passages out of the Fathers which they quoted speak expresly of the Degrees of Marriage forbidden in Leviticus He names Three Popes whose Letters they produced but he passes over in silence the Chief in reference to England who was Gregory the Great For the Saxons being converted at what time he held the See this Pope gave express Order to Austin the Monk to disannul all Marriages that had been contracted with Brothers Wives Now England having submitted to this Law upon its first embracing Christianity they who defended the Kings scruples looked upon this as the Principal Foundation of his Cause So that if M. Le Grand would have acquired the Reputation of a sincere Historian he ought to have mentioned this Particular Moreover he should not have passed over in silence as he does all that was alledged against the Power which the Popes assume to themselves of dispensing with all Ecclesiastical and every the Divine Laws themselves Nor ought he to have forgot that other great Reason urged by the King that according to the Canons of the Council of Nice the determination of that matter belonged of right to the English Church and not to the Pope If the Author be a True Member of the Gallican Church he ought to grant these Maximes and if he would be thought a Faithful Historian he ought not to pass them over in silence But though he do not set down all the Kings Reasons he adds several New Reasons to the Queens pleading which her Advocates never dream'd of and we do not meet with in any Story or Relation of that time They all tend to prove that the Rules touching the degrees of Consanguinity have not been always observed in Marriages with the same Exactness But the Church is governed by Rules and not by Examples As for the Law of Deuteronomy which permitts a Man to Marry his Sister-in-Law if her Husband died without Children it has been always considered in the Christian Church as an Exception to the General Rule so that in regard it was only made in favour of the Jews and with reference to their Right of Succession it was abolish'd together with their Republick whereas the Laws of Leviticus concerning this Matter are to be look'd upon as Laws that are Moral and Universally received In a word if you will take the pains to compare the Books that have been written upon this Subject with the Extracts which M. Le Grand and my self have given of them you will presently find that he writes with no Sincerity at all who descends to a Nicety For my part I shall not Envy him the High Opinion he has of his so long as Men will but acknowledge me to have writ sincerely and without the Byass of Interest IV. Our Author says that the Parliament abolish'd the Oath which the Bishops swore to the Pope at the time of their Consecration and form'd another which they were to swear to the King But this is not that which he calls understanding