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A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

Christian men then that which the holy Ghost this day spake in you Wee beseech O Emperour wee offer not to fight wee feare not to die wee intreat your clemency Oh it was seemely for Christian souldiers to desire the tranquility of peace and faith and to bee constant in truth even unto death Thus farre Ambrose Saint Augustine relateth the same of the Christian souldiers under Iulian the Apo●tate-Emperour Iulianus extitit Imperator infidelis Iulian was an unbeleeving Emperour was hee not an Apostata an Oppressour and an Idolater Christian souldiers served that unbeleeving Emperour When they came to the cause of Christ they would acknowledge no Lord but him that was in Heaven when they were commanded to adore Idoles and to offer sacrifice they preferred God before their Prince But when hee called upon them to warre and bad them invade any nation they presently obeyed They did distinguish their eternall Lord from the temporall King yet they submitted themselves to their temporall Lord August in Psal 124. for his sake that was their eternall King So farre hee Optatus Milevitanus is another pregnant witnesse Cum super Imperatorem nemo sit nisi solus Deus Seing there is no man above the Emperour beside God alone which made the Emperour De schism Donatist l. 3. Donatus by advancing himselfe above the Emperour doth exceed the bounds of humanity and makeeh himselfe a God rather then man in that hee feareth and reverenceth him not whom all men should honour next after God So farre Optatus Saint Cyril is of the same judgement Com. in Evang Ioh l. 12. c. 36. Cuilegis prevaricatores liberare licet nisi legis ipsius authori Who can acquit them that breake the law from transgression beside the Law-giver as wee see by experience in all humane states no man can without danger breake the law but Kings themselves in whom the crime of prevarication hath no place For it was wisely said of one that it is a wicked presumption to say to a King Thou doest amisse So farre hee And also Saint Chrysostome In 1. epist ad Timoth. c. 2 v. 1. What meaneth the Apostle saith hee to require prayers and supplications inter cessions and thansgiving to bee made for all men hee requireth this to bee done in the dayly service of the Church and the perpetuall rite of Divine religion For all the faithfull doe know in what manner prayers are powred out before the Lord morning and evening for all the world even for Kings and every man in authority Some man will peradventure say that for all must bee understood of all the faithfull Which cannot bee the Apostles meaning as may appeare by the words following viz. for Kings seeing that Kings neither did then nor in many ages after serve the living God but continued obstinately in infidelity which by course of succession they had received Thus farre Chrysostome Our Moderne Reformers teach us that which Paul and Chrysostome neither knew nor beleeved See the preface before Basilic Dor. that wicked Princes are not to bee prayed for but to be resisted c. When the faction of Eutiches had prevailed against the Catholikes Leo the first had no other remedy then prayers to God sighes teares and Petitions to the Emperour Epist 24. ad Theod. Imper. Omnes partium nostrarum Ecclesiae c. All the Churches of these parts all wee Priests even with sighs and teares beseech your Majesty to command a generall Synod to bee held in Italy that all offences being removed there may remaine neither errour in faith nor division in love Favour the Catholiques grant liberty to protect the faith against Heretiques defend the state of the Church from ruine that Christ his right hand may support your Empire Thus farre Leo. When Gregory the great was accused for the Murther of a Bishop in prison hee wrote to one Sabinianus to cleare him to the Emperour and Empresse Epist lib. 7. epist 1. Breviter suggeras serenissimis Dominis meis You may briefly enforme my soveraigne Lord and Lady that if I their servant would have busied my selfe with the death of the Lombards that nation would by this time have had neither Kings nor Dukes nor Earles and should have beene in great confusion and division but because I stood in aw of God I was ever afraid to meddle with the shedding of any mans bloud so farre Gregory These Lombards were Pagans Invaders of the Countrey Ransackers of the City Persecutours of the Saints Robbers of the Church Oppressours of the poore whom Gregory the first might and would not destroy Quia Deum timuit because hee feared God It is very like that his Successour Gregory the seventh feared either God nor man when hee erected the Papall Croisier against the regall scepter and read the sentence of deprivation against the Emperour Henry Ego authoritate Apostelica c. I by my power Apostolicall doe bereave Henry of the Germane Kingdome and doe deprive him of all subjection of Christian men absolving all men from the allegiance which they have sworne unto him And that Rodolph whom the Peeres of the Empire have elected may governe the Kingdome I grant all men that shall serve him against the Emperour Carol. Sigon de Regno Ital. lib. 9. in vita Hen. 3. forgivenesse of their sinnes in this life and in the life to come As I have for his pride dejected Henry from the Royall dignity so I doe exalt Rodolph for his humility to that place of authority Thus farre Gregory the seaventh It is no wonder Benno Card. in vit Gregor 7. that Gregory his chaire clave asunder as some Writers affirme at the giving of this sentence because the proud Pope and his wicked sentence were too heavy a burthen for Peters stoole of humility to beare The fourth Chapter proveth the Immunity of Kings by the Fathers of the third 300. yeares AFter the death of Gregory the great which was about the yeare of our Lord 604. Sabinianus did succeed him who lived but one yeare after whom came Boniface the third which obtained of Phocas to bee called Vniversall Bishop since that time Periit virtus Imperatorum pietas Pontificum the Emperours waxed weake and the Bishops wicked What the judgement of those Fathers then was concerning subjection to wicked Kings I will make evident by the testimony of Gregorius Turonensis Isidorus Damascenus Beda Fulgentius Leo 4. and the Fathers assembled in a Councell at Toledo in Spaine Gregory Turonensis acknowledgeth such an absolute power in Childerick a most wicked King of France as was free from all controll of man Histor l. 5. c. 1. Si quis de nobis Rex justitiae limites transcendere vol●erit c. If any one of us O King doe passe the bounds of justice you have power to correct him but if you exceed your limit who shall chastice you Wee may speake unto you if you list not to hearken who can condemne you

Franco Gallia hath a long Chapter to prove that this might bee done lawfully by the Peeres or the People but in no case by the Pope or the Clergy Men cannot say as it is in the proverbe Nimium altercando veritas amittitur seing that in this opposition the truth is not lost but divided among them For their premisses brought together will unadvoidably conclude that this deposing power is neither in the Pope the Peeres nor the People Though it were the reason of the seditious Papists and Puritans à facto ad jus is sophisticall in the Schooles where nothing can bee concluded Ex meris particularibus of meere particular instances Absurd in law Quia legibus non exemplis vivitur for men must doe as the law requireth not as other men practise Erroneous in Divinity Non ideo quia factum credimus faciendū credamus ne violemus praeceptū dum sectamur exemplum We may not do that August ad Consen de mendac cap. 9. which hath bin done by other men least we break the law of God in following the example of man And dangerous in policy as my Lord of Northampton the ornament of learning observeth The flie saith that noble Earle setting on the cart wheele might as well wonder at the dust raised in the way as Gregory or Zachary draw counsell to power and make that fact their owne which was hammered in the forge of ambition countenanced with the colour of necessity and executed by Pipin a Minister that being weary of subordination resolved by this trick when the meanes were fitted and prepared to the plot to make himself absolute The case of Kings were pitifull if Ex factis singularibus it were lawfull to draw leaden rules in their disgrace Thus farre the Earle The eight Chapter sheweth the danger of this Doctrine and the originall of the Puritan position concerning the power of Statesmen to punish and depose Princes in Monarchies THese desperate attempts suggested by the Devill executed by the people encouraged by the state and approved by the Pope must serve as admonitions to Princes to humble themselves before God Qui non dabit sanctos suos in captionent dentibus corum Who will not give his Saints for a prey to their teeth For it is not heard as our great King remembreth That any Prince forgeteth himselfe in his duty to God Law of Monarch p. 60 or in his vocation But God with the greatnesse of the plague revengeth the greatnesse of his ingratitude These practises therefore must bee no president for Peeres or People to follow because God hath forbidden Christian subjects to resist though Kings raigne as Tyrants and commanded them to endure with patience though they suffer as Innocents And also because that in stead of relecving the Common-wealth out of distresse which is ever the pretence of seditious practitioners they shall heape mischeefe on it and desolation on themselves as Aquinas if hee bee the Authour of the Booke De Regimine Principum sheweth manifestly Esset multitudini periculosum ejus rectoribus De reg Princ. lib. 1. cap. 6. It were dangerous to Subjects and Governours that any should attempt to take away the life of Princes though they were Tyrants for commonly not the well disposed but the ill affected men doe thrust themselves into that danger And the Government of good Kings is as odious to bad men as the rule of Tyrants to good people Wherefore the Kingdome by this presumption would bee rather in danger to forgoe a good Prince then a wicked Tyrant So farre Thomas They that are the Authours or abettors of sedition can neither avoid shame in earth nor escape eternall damnation Though God the great Iudge doe sometime permit rebels in his Iustice to prevaile against Kings for their contempt of the law of the highest and the neglect of their owne duty The reward of rebellion shall bee no better then the recompence of Sathan who is the instrument of the Lords wrath for the punishment of all disobedience Chrysostome It is most true that as sick men neere their death have many idle fancies so the World before the end thereof shall bee troubled with many errours In these declining dayes of the World many Countreyes Cities and Cantons renounced their old Government and submitted themselves to such a new regiment as they best liked for confirmation of which practises there wanted not politike Divines what wine is so sourc that some hedge grapes will not yeeld to invest the people and Nobles with the power over Kings to dispose of their Kingdomes The Heathen Politicians from whom this politike Divinity is derived knowing not the true God and having no rule to direct them but naturall reason thought him no murtherer but a Defender of his Countrey that killed Tyrants But this pagan principle being a plant that CHRIST hath not planted must bee plucked up by the rootes I can find no ground of this lend learning beyond 220. yeares in the Christian World The first Authours of it being Johannes de Parisiis Iacobus Almain Job de Paris de potest Regia Papali cap. 14. and Marsilius Patavinus Vbi peccat Rex in temporalibus saith Iohannes de Parisiis Papa non habet ipsum corrigere When the King offended in the temporall Government the Pope hath no authority to correct him but the Barons or Peeres of the Realme and if they either cannot or dare not meddle with him they may crave the Churches aid to suppresse him so farre Iohn of Paris Tota communitas saith Iacob Almain potestatem habet Principem deponere Iacob Almain de potest Eccl. cap. 1. All the communalty hath power to depose their Prince which power the communalty of France used when they deprived their King not so much for his impiety as for his disability to mannage so great a charge so farre Almain Regis depositio alterius institutio saith Marsilius Patavinus the deposition of a King Marsil Patave de transl Imperii cap 6. and the institution of another in his place belongeth not to the Bishop of Rome to any Priest or to the Colledge of Priests but to the universall multitude of the Subjects So farre hee From these the Puritans have learned their errour of the power of States-men over Kings then which no opinion can bee more dangerous where the Nobility are as ready to practise as the Puritan Preachers are to prescribe What presumption is it in men to passe the bounds which God hath set them to controll the wisedome of the Lord and his unspeakable goodnesse when hee maketh triall of the patience of his Saints by the outrage and tyranny of cruell Kings that they which are found patient in trouble constant in truth and loyall in subjection may bee crowned with glory Were wee perswaded that the hearts of Kings are in Gods hand that the haires of our head are numbred and that no affliction can befall us which God doth not