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The history of Romish treasons & usurpations together with a particular account of many gross corruptions and impostures in the Church of Rome, highly dishonourable and injurious to Christian religion : to which is prefixt a large preface to the Romanists / carefully collected out of a great number of their own approved authors by Henry Foulis.
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Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.
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1671
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Wing F1640A; ESTC R43173
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John h De schismate lib. 3. cap. 9 10 11. Theodorick à Niem who lived two hundred years ago and was Secretary to several Popes is very zealous in vindication of the Imperial Authority and indeavours at large to prove that Emperours have Authority to depose Popes John being dead the Romans chose Benedict the Fifth without the consent of Otho contrary to their Oaths which so troubled the Emperour that he marcht against the City besiegeth it and takes it deposeth Benedict degradeth him of his Priestly Orders and resettles Leo. And here I finde the Romanists in a grand bussle to preserve their Succession not being able to agree about the lawful Pope i An. 963. § 38. Baronius k De visib Monarch l. 7. § 687. Sanderus and some others will have Benedict to be a true Pope But Onuphrius rejects him as a l Annot. in Plat. vit Benedict V. Schismatick and in plain terms calls him an m Epit. Pontif Anti-pope and will acknowledge none but Leo the Eighth to be authentick yet him Baronius will not place amongst the legal Popes and n Cron. pag. 827. Genebrard confesseth that their Historians in this cannot agree o Tom. 1. pag. 486. Coquaeus for the honour of his Church would gladly reconcile all yet I know not when they will all pitch upon the Infallible Pontif. Nor is it in this case alone that they are nonplust to make good their personal Succession and point you out the true Vicar for they are in this to seek in several other persons as their own p De visib Mon. l. 7. § 692. Sanderus is forced to confess But to return Leo the Eighth being dead the Romans sent to Otho to know his advice about the next election who sent to Rome the Bishops of Spire and Cremona in whose presence was elected John the Fourteenth or Thirteenth Son of a Bishop yet the tumultuous Romans imprisoned him also in the Castle St. Angelo upon which the Emperour returns to Rome and severely punish'd the Authors of these garboyls After his death their Authors are again at odds about the Order of the next Vicars with which I shall not trouble my self but follow Platina After John comes Benedict the Sixth who by the advice of Cardinal Bonifacius was also imprisoned in the Castle St. Angelo and there strangled or famish'd Then followeth a Onuphrius in his Pontifices Maximâ— set out by Jo. Gualter in his Cron. Cronicorum doth not name any such Pope Donus or Doâ—â—nus the Second after him Boniface the Seventh who occasioned the murther of Benedict the Sixth some will not reckon this Boniface amongst the truâ— Popes But Benedict the Seventh thrusts this Boniface out of the Church who rich with the robbing of Churches fled to Constantinople Benedict dying John the Fifteenth or Fourteenth succeeds which being known to Boniface the Eighth he returns imprisons John who is starved and Boniface once again is Pope after whose death John the Sixteenth or Fifteenth is Pope he was the Son of Leo a Priest and they say begot in b Coquaeus pag. 488. lawful Matrimony After him there is another John who was forced to leave Rome for fear of Crescentius a powerful Citizen there But the people being informed that John had desired the assistance of the Emperour Otho the Third desired him to return to Rome and all should be quiet John consents and is honourably received there Crescentius and the chief Authors of these troubles confessing their faults Platina and kissing his Feet Yet Crescentius grew haughty Otho marcheth into Italy Pope John dying the Emperour at Ravenna appointed to be Pope his Cousin Bruno a German whâ— call'd himself Gregory the Fifth And this c L' Empereur au contentement de tout le monde establit en sa place son Nepueu Bruno qui depuis fut nomme Gregorie Cinquiesme Coef pag. 601. Coeffeteau confesseth was done to the satisfaction and content of all men and this may be one Argument of the Imperial Power But yet we have not peace for Otho the Third being no sooner return'd but Crescentius who was made Consul by the Romans oppose the German interest so that Gregory was forced to flee into Germany for assistance In the mean time the Romans chose for Pope the Bishop of Placentia who calls himself John the Eighteenth Upon news of this Otho returns into Italy takes Rome and besiegeth Crescentius in the Castle St. Angelo at last Crescentius yeilds upon hope of pardon and is slain and as for this Pope John he had his hands nose and ears cut off his eyes pluckt out then set upon an Asses back with his face towards the Tail and so led about the City And thus was Gregory the Fifth restored Platina saith that this Pope Gregory the Fifth granted the Germans liberty of chusing their own Emperours by the Electors but Onuphrius affirmeth it to have been done first by Gregory the Tenth Another dispute ariseth about the Papal Authority in this case and d De Translat Imp. Bellarmine is zealous for his Patrons but for answer to him I shall refer you to e Hermannus Conringius who can tell you of f De Imper. Germanici Republica p. 106 c. others We need not question the misery of the Romish Church which as we have here seen hath been govern'd for so many years onely with an high-hand The Popes themselves being given to all manner Baron an 912. § 5. of corruption and wickedness not he that was the best but he who was the strongest sitting in the Infallible Chair a thing that their own Authors do much complain of and declare their wicked stories with grief insomuch that a Hoc vero uno infaelix quod per annos fete 150. Ponfices circiter 50 a virtute majorum prorsus de fecerint Apotactici Apostaticive potius quam Apostoliâ—i Cron. p. 807. Genebrard himself doth declare that for almost an hundred and fifty years there ruled in Rome neer fifty Popes wicked people being rather Apostates than Apostolical But yet he would gladly quit the Romans from the blame all which he throweth upon German Emperours but how deservedly let any judge the Otto's being commended in story for their affection to the Roman See nor did they use to trouble Rome with their company but when they were call'd thither to quell the Tumults and Seditions But this by the way may be enough to see that Rome it self is as capable of Treason Rebellions Murders and Seditions as other places by them made incapable of Salvation But before I end this I must observe that sometimes as John the Eleventh or Tenth John the Thirteenth or Twelfth to serve their turns they will grant one to be a true Coquae pag. 482 483. Pope though illegally elected and at other times for their own ends will deny one to be a true Pope meerly for some fault in his Election nor can they always agree
Worth and Quality attempted through the Undertaking spirits of some more fiery and turbulent than zealous aâ—d dis-passionate Catholicks hath made the general state of our Catholique Cause so scandalous in the eye of such whose corrupted Judgments are not able to fan away and sever the fault of the Professor from the Profession it self as that who now is found to be of that Religion is perswaded at least in mind to allow though God knoweth as much abhorring as any Puritan whatsoever the said former most inhuman and barbarous Project And whereas some of his Majesties Council but especially your Lordship as being known to be as the Philosopher termeth it a Primus Motor in such uncharitable proceedings are determined as it is feared by taking advantage of so foul a scandal to root out all the Memory of Catholique Religion either by sudden Banishment Massacre Imprisonment or some such unsupportable Vexations and Pressures and perhaps by decreeing in this next Parliament some more cruel and horrible Laws against Catholiques than already are made In regard of these Premises there are some good men who through Good men and Roman Catholiques their earnest desire for the continuing the Catholique Religion and for saving many souls both of this present and of all future posterity are resolved to prevent so great a mischief though with a full assurance aforehand of the loss of their dearest lives You are therefore hereby to be admonished that at this present mayâ— murther Privy-Councellors there are Five which have severally undertaken your Death and have vowed the performance thereof by taking already the Blessed Sacrament if you continue your daily plotting of so Tragical Stratagems aginst Recusants It is so ordered that none of these Five knoweth who the other Four be for the better preventing the discovery of the rest if so any one by attempting and not performing should be apprehended It is also already agreed who shall first attempt it by shot and so who in order shall follow In accomplishing of it there is expected no other than assurance of death yet it will willingly be embraced for the preventing of those general Calamities which by this your transcendant Authority and grace with his Majesty are threatned unto us And indeed the Difficulties herein are more easily to be digested since two of the intended Attempters are in that weak state of body that they cannot live above three or four Months The other Three are so distressed in themselves and their Friends as that their present Griefs for being only Recusants do much dull all apprehension of Death None is to be blamed in the true censuring of Matters for the Nor are they to be blamed for it undertaking hereof For we protest before God We know no other means left us in the World since it is manifest that you serve but as a Match to give fire unto his Majesty to whom the worst that we wish is That he may be as great a Saint in Heaven as he is King on Earth for intending all Mischiefs against the poor distressed Catholicks Thus giving your Lordship this Charitable Admonition the which may perhaps be necessary hereafter for some others your Inferiors at least in Grace and Favour if so they run on in their former Inhuman and Unchristian Rage against us I cease putting you in mind That where once True and Spiritual Resolution is there notwithstanding For 't is a True and Spiritual Resolution all dangers whatsoever the Weak may take sufficient Revenge of the Great Your Lordship 's well-admonishing Friends c. A. B. Câ— c. It may be your Lordship will take this but as some forged Letter of some Puritans thereby to incense you more against Recusants But we protest upon our Salvation It is not so Neither can any thing in human likelihood prevent the effecting thereof but the change of your course towards Recusants This Letter at the beginning offers fair seeming to detest the Gunpowder-Plot but little of truth and sincerity may be expected from it when we consider that the design of it is to Apologize for Murther to which it appears there is a Club or number of them consenting and attempting and they are not ashamed to assert That though they murther Privy-Councellors yet the Murtherers may be good men nor are they to be blamed for it for 't is a True and Spiritual Resolution But enough of this Letter to which the Earl himself was pleased to give an Answer The Oath of Allegiance was prudently drawn up and confirmed by Act of Parliament which Oath being the Foundation and Sum of this Treatise take as followeth word for word and for distinction sake divided into several Branches or Articles The Oath of Allegiance Anno Tertio Jacobi I A. B. do truly and sincerely Acknowledg Profess Testifie and Declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Soveraign Lord King is Lawful and Rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesty's Dominions and Countreys And that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to Depose the King Or to dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions Or to Authorize any Forreign Prince to Invade or Annoy him or his Countreys Or to Discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty Or to give License or Leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults c. Or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors And him and them will defend to the uttermost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise And will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart Abhor Detest and Abjure as Impious and Heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or Deprived by the Pope may be Deposed or Murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved That neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath