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A80378	The interest of England how it consists in vnity of the Protestant religion. With expedients moderate and effectuall to establish it by the extirpation of the papacy. By a member of the House of Commons.	Constantine, William, Sir, 1611 or 12-1670.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5948; Thomason E121_47; ESTC R22632	28,124	40

upon their patients in extremis 7 Clause Some Priests that shall have testimoniall not to abjure the Realm and why THat it shall not be lawfull to and for any Iesuite Seminary Priest or other such Priest Deacon Religious or Ecclesiasticall person whatsoever being borne within this Realme or any other His Majesties Dominions made ordained or professed by any authority or jurisdiction derived challenged or pretended from the Sea of Rome by or of what name title or degree soever the same shall be called or knowne to come into be or remaine in any part of this Realme or any * 27. Eli. 1. other His Majesties Dominions without the testimoniall licence or approvement of the Iudges or any three of them whereof the Lord cheife Iustice shall be one before had and obtayned And if any Priest c. having such licence as aforesaid shall be seene abroad without such knowne habit of his Order whereby he may be distinguisht and avoyded Or if any Iesuite Priest c. unlicenc'd shall come be and remaine within the said Dominions shall be adjudged a Traytor and shall suffer lose and forfeit as in case of High-treason And every person which shall wittingly and willinglie receive releive comfort aide or maintaine any such Iesuite Priest c. that is not licenc'd as aforesaid * Vid. stat de 5. El. 1. being at liberty and out of hold shall for such Offence be adjudg'd a felon without benefit of Clergy and suffer death lose and forfeit as in case of one attainted of Felony This exception implying admission of some Priests though it be with qualifications by such as are more curious then deliberate may be scandal'd For vindication I shall apprehend this opportunity to represent my sence of the Romish Church and so drive on those reasons that induce the intimation A Digression Historically reasoning the degreeing usurpations of the Romish Prelacies I Decry that Church as a grand Impostor buttre'st by sophistry in Doctrine and policy in Discipline erronious in the one and machivillian in the other The source whereof were those ministeriall * Cor. 12.28 4 Eph. 11. Officers mentioned by the Apostle to be Pastors and Teachers who by degreeing insolence have appropr●ated the titles a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ex 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 frango sorte datus sorte electus ut unus sit in orbe terrarum clerus i. e. Ecclesia quod Deus sibi illum populum veluti portionem quandam a reliquis ●●paratam selegisset 1. Pet. 5.4 Appellatio Cleri aut ex errore aut prava affectione nata c. Calv. Insti lib. 4. cap. 4. Sect. 9. Clergy as if all Gods people were not his lot and the b 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 evocativus coetus qui veram Christi Religionem profitentur a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 voco 1 Cor. 1.2 Church as if men not in orders were not of it or that were not a Church which was in c Rom. 16.1 5. 2 Cor. 11.28 Priscillas house Recommending ignorance to the uncleane so they stile it laity as the mother of devotion thereby ingrossing knowledge as a d Monopolium dicitur 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cum unus solus universum emit precium ad suū libitum statuens 11. Rep. 68. monopoly to their owne profession By which powerfull advantage as they impos'd what sufferance they pleas'd upon the dull Laity who like the e ●●n 49.14 Asse of Issachar coucht to every burthen so they usurpt dignities and revenewes under the maske of piety to support their owne pride pompe and avarice For demonstration That charge which was by Christ committed with a f Ma. 18.17 Cal. Inst lib. 4. cap. 4. Tr. Conf. Art 30 Dic Ecclesiae to the whole Church whereof persons not in Orders are a part and so executed upon the incestuous person if wee referre the yee in the fifth Chapter in the fi●st to the Corinth ver 4. to the All in the first Chapter vers 2 became by the lesse diverted diligence of the Ministry executed and so in time appropriated to themselves Church-assemblies were usually in g Acts 15. ●6 Act. 20.7 Cities as most populous and civill and to this service choyse men were elected from the vulgar to represent them and for this use were Elders ordained by h Titus 1.5 Titus in every City for though all the ministry were i 1 Pet. 5.1 Elders yet all that were k 1 Tim. 5.17 Elders were not of the ministry but helpes in government 1 Cor. 12.28 In such assemblies were persons most eminently grave elected to precede to state questions collect the sence declare the sentence c. So l Acts 1.15 Peter when 't was lotted for Matthias m Acts 15.13 Iames at Hierusalem and n Gal. 2.7 Paul the chiefe Apostle of the Gentiles Where such person had the primacy of Order not dignity or power o Mat. 23.8 Be not ye called Rabbi for one is your master even Christ and all ye are brethren Ful. Annot. Tit. 1. Sect. 2. In proces of time this president or primus ordine being reverenc'd for his gravity and especially apply'd to for his constant presence and dispatch upon the negligence of his assistance assumes a Soveraignty in jurisdiction and usurps it with the stile Episcopus superintendent by us sometimes Englisht a 1 Tim. 3.2 1 Tit 7. Bishop sometimes b Acts 20.28 3. Rep. D. cha Norwich overseer This Bishop for his more repute associates a consistory by the name of Chapter or Prebends quia praeberent auxilium Episcopo who resenting it as matter more of toyle then honour or profit which soly accrued to the Bishop are soone out-diligenc'd and to this day they retain only and that pro * 25 H. 8. 20 Magdeb. Cent 11. c. 7. Quum vero luc Evágelii in una civitate accensa c forma his election and confirmation of his grants From these Cities where was the Cathedra of the Bishop the Pagi or lesser Townes adjacent were illightned and the devotion of pious Christians there erecting and endowing Churches those Churches were supply'd as Colonyes from the City and acknowledg'd such City whence they had their light the mother Church and consulted with the officers therof in controversies and causes Ecclesiasticall This assistance the Bishop with his consistory or counsell condiscends to at first Ex charitate aedificandi studio from a holy desire to edifye but continuance of such address●s swells the Bishop with ambition and Imperii gratia he substitutes all those villages which so resorted to him to be His Dioces and this about * A D. 325. three hundred years after the Passion towed into a canon at the * Aen. Sil. Epi. 301. Nicen councell The Bishop thus being sot'd above his Presbitery an emulation springs among the Bishops * Confirm in concil Co●stanti Can. 2. As the same councell the

whole Church is divided into foure precincts over which were appointed foure patriarkes R●me Al●xandria Antioch and Hierusalem But for that Rome was the * Concil Calce Can. 28. Emperiall and chiefe City and endowed with amplest priviledges it had allotted to it the primacy of order Rome acquiest with this dignity till the yeare 606 A. D. 606. Buchol when Phocas having slaine Mauritius the Emperor his Master by the assistance of * Bonif. 3d. Onuph Beda Boniface the Roman Bishop gets the diademe gratifyes his confederate with the stile of Vniversall which was re-confirmed by King Pipin to Pope Zachary who upon complaint that Childerie King of France solo regis titulo contentus etiosam vitam degeret raign'd laciviously deposed him and contributed to enthrone the Conspirator that he might Plat. Fr. Ann. Officiis precium rependere countenance by power his selfe-Incroachments These Church-ambitions St. a Bas Epist 10 Bi. Vsher de Eccl. suc statu cap. 1. Pag. 23. Basil stil'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 occidentale supercilium the western pride with an odifastum illius Ecclesiae and they occasioned the b Gerson part 4. serm de pac Vnit Grae. c. 6. Greeke Patriarks to desert C●mmunion with the Roman inveying thus c Carlton Iuris cap 5. Magnitudinem tuam scimus c. Thy hautinesse we know thy avarice we cannot satisfy thy usurpations we will no longer abide Tecum vivito And when Zozimus in the yeare 417 urg'd a Canon in the Nicen Councell for his supremacy The whole d Conc. Afri● Ca● 105. African Councell explode him for ambition and that forgery with an objurgation Ne fumesum typhum saeculi in Ecclesiam Christi induceret c. e Greg. reg 166. 4. lib. 8. Ep 38. Gregory the Great after Pope bra●ds the stile of Vniversall as scelestum nomen nomen singularitatis and that hee that ownes it is the fore-runner of Antichrist Nay hee prophesies that the King of pride is at hand and which is most grievous an host of Priests are prepared for him Now though this mistery of iniquity f 2 Thess 4.7 that sits as God in gods Temple began to worke in the age of the Apostles yet he that then did let did withhold till he was taken out of the way probably the power of the Romane Empire which so awed the insolence of the Cl rgy that it dared not so notoriously reveale it selfe But about the yeare 1●00 when g Rev. 20.7.8 Satan as 't was prophesyed should be loos'd h Plat. Bery Onup Hadrian the third first presumes upon some notable advantage to exclude the imperiall authority its prerogative in the Creation and investiture of the Romish Bishop and then broaches the donation of Constantine that had beene tund up about six hundred yeares without vent which occ●sioned a deluge of scisme in that chaire of pestilence by mutuall murders poysonings excommunications c. Nullum seculum indoctius aut infaelicius so i Bellar. de Rom. Pont. lib. 4. c. 11. Bellarmine scelestum sui asperitate boni sterilitate ferreum c. So k Tom. 10. A. 900. Baronius In the space of 150 yeares were fifty Popes most of which came violently to their graves At length by deepe sleights in the fulnesse of time l A. D. 1076. Hildebrand by the name Gregory the seventh mounts the Popedome when it seemes that Antichrist was full growne and that was then the Vniversall sence of men he saith m Avent Ann. li. 7. Aventine was the first that under the glosse of Religion Antichristi imperii fundamentum jecit layd the ground-worke of the Popes Empire By him saith n Onup in vit Greg. 7. Col. 27. Onuphrius their favorite was that chaire endowed with Wealth Pomp profanaditione worldly jurisdiction Res ante ea saecula inaudita Hoc nefandum primus auspicatus est quod p●r success●res bùc usque c●●i●uatur c A●e●t An. Be●● 1● 7. Now the instruments extraordinary that this Pope manag'd beyond his predecessors were the establishing certaine Head-assertions of which no dispute was to be tolerated probant non probantur These to be the touch-stone to assay whether a man be for or against them and hee that without hesitation consents to these may have connivence in any other disgustment he that doubts is anathematis'd as an Heretick some of those Decretals I shall release out of a Onup in vit Greg. 7. Col. 248. Onuphrius That the Bishop of Rome onely is de jure Universall That hee alone may for the necessity establish new Lawes That he alone may depose Princes That hee alone may absolve Subjects from their allegiance That his sentence may not be retracted by any man all mens by his That the Church of Rome never did erre nor can That no Councill without him can be generall That an appeale lyes from all powers to the Apostolick Sea That he alone can admit by indulgence or exclude by excommunication whom he please from Heaven c. Then hee forbids Marriage and commands abstinence from meats for so it was b 1 Tim. 4.1 ● prophesyed he should By these principles that Sea is intitled to a Monarchy jure Divino over the whole World nor is it improvident to build upon and fortify what it hath thus founded For these principles are become the very rules whereby they square out the Canons of Faith c Tertul. Caedem Scripturarum faciunt ad materiam suam Both Discipline and Doctrine they so fashion as it may best comply to this Interest For having reduc'd men to a sufficiency of ignorance commended as the Mother of Devotion they obtrude upon the silly people what they please to be believed by an implicite Faith 1. To this effect must Divine Service be officiated in a tongue unknowne that the vulgar may the more admire at what hee understands not and apply with reverence to the Prelate for his information which tiel quiel he must swallow as Divine 2 All that are in orders must live single and adhere thereby and depend solely upon the Pope Had they house wife or child their affections might more reflect upon their Patrons which indulgence as it would distract them from a totall service so might it induce them to consent to some prejudices of the Romish Church which in the present state they are they endevour mightily to advance since under the Popes protection they secure themselves vast exemptions and prerogatives above the temporalty and by going Friers r●ther are discharg'd of the toyles then debarr'd the solaces of this life injoying the opportunities as of ease so of all sorts of Luxury at the charge of others nor is it impossible but that their ripe fortune or noto●i●u● diligence may commend them gradatim to the highest dignity 3. Certaine meats must be prohibited at set times to enure people to obedience or occasion to purchase dispensations But the reformation