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A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

to Charles the fifth by the Pope and the Grant afterwards ratified to his Son Philip and the Natives of this Country were told in Bulls and Breves that the English ought to be as much opposed as the Turks they were promised Victory and the same Rewards which they should have had in a Holy War against Saracens And was not a Plenary Indulgence and Pardon of Sins granted by Vrban the Eighth to all who would joyn in the late Rebellion I could name other Jesuits and Popes who are of these bloody Principles but I fear I am already irregular in this long Collection which is extorted from me by the late Jesuit's forgetfulness at his death who out of politick Charity to others yet untryed and to prevent Scandal could think of none that held this Opinion but Mariana And now do you judge what sort of Religion this is which allows and enjoyns such open violations of the Laws of God and Nature which reconciles Treason to the fith and Murther to the sixth Commandment which saints Men for Rebellion and damns them for Allegiance such Tenets are surely scandalous to Christianity most dangerous and destructive to Princes and highly against this Text and have and will much hinder the Propagation of the Gospel in Infidel and Pagan Countries where the Light of Nature the Practice and Tradition of their Forefathers and the moral Instructions of their Priests teach men to be more Humane and Loyal than are many Votaries of the Roman Church And would to God I could accuse no others for the Violation of my Text but alas O grief and shame to speak it Is not this Doctrine countenanced by many Bigots of Geneva and our neighboring Kirk who would manacle our free-born Princes invade their Prerogative and strip them of those Honours which their Royal Ancestors have always enjoyed who would reduce these three Kingdoms into a Seigniory and make our Imperial Crown as narrow as the Duke of Venice his Cap They would allow the King a kind of Regal but dependant Authority He should have the Robes of the British Monarch but nothing of his antient Power and in short if their Instructions were followed he should be only a Noble Servant to the People whom they might call to an account and punish when they please For does not Buchanan say the People may give the Crown to whom they will that if Princes do not excel in virtue De Jure Reg. they are not to be deemed Kings but should want the benefit of all humane Society and if they wont walk according to the Laws made by the People they are Enemies to God and Man and should be reckoned among Wolves and other destructive Beasts he would have the People carry them into some remote parts or drown them in the Sea as the Romans did their Monsters he says Major pars Populi de Magistratu judicare judices ei forre queat aut si Trib. plebis Romani Ephori Lacedemonii ad leviendam vim imperii quesiti sunt c. which surely he took from Calvin Instit l. 4. c. 20. s 31. who says If there be popular Magisirates to moderate the unruliness of Kings such as the Ephori were to the Lacedemonian Kings the Tribunes to the Roman Consuls or the Demarchi to the Athenian Senate which Power it may be the three Estates have in every Kingdom they are perfidious if they connive at them which very words Bradshaw used when he condemned our late gracious Soveraign or from Beza who affirms 24 Epsi that Inferiour Magistrates are bound to protect the People from domestick Tyrants or from Bucanus de Magistratu who speaks much to the same purpose but he far exceeds them all in most subtle and bitter instigations to rebel against the King and tells them how some have been perpetually imprisoned and others banished and the Actors not censur'd for it and instanceth in James the Third whose Death says he was not revenged but here he forgot what horrour of Conscience seized on his Son whom they forced with them into the Field that he lamented it all his life after and wore an Iron Chain about him in token of his great grief and sorrow of heart And how remarkably God punished him his Nobles and Commons at the Battel of Flowden where many of those Parricides or their Children were signally vanquished and destroyed as their-own Books witness He runs on in that rebellious strain and commends Thebe for killing her Husband Timolean his Brother and Cassius his Son and Fulvius and Brutus for murthering their Sons and near Kinsmen for consulting how to restore the Emperour and says Honours and Rewards were given by many of the Grecian Cities to the Killers of Tyranical Princes and blames Domitius Corbulo for not deposing Nero when he might c. His whole Book is full of such traiterous Incentives and is indeed the Quiver whence showrs of barbed and empoysoned Arrows have been shot at Monarchs by all the Pamphleteers in the late times which makes me quote him so largely Thus did he honour the King in broaching such rebellious Principles among his Subjects in which Knox Cartwright and Goodman three of their great Writers do exactly agree with him in them many more are the Jesuits Principles asserted If Bell says the Ecclesiastical Estate is higher than the Civil L. de Cler. 28. See Rogers 's Preface to the 39 Articles See Cartwrights Reply to the same purpose Mr. Travers will say of the Presbyterian Discipline Omnes orbis Menarchas c. all the Monarchs of the earth ought to submit their Scepters to it I might shew you the like agreement between the Jesuit Parsons and Buchanan between Emmanuel Sa Mr. Melvil and Mr. Gibson and many others but I offend your Ears in naming so many like Herod and Pilate they go hand in hand to destroy the Lords Anointed though they differ in other points and they joyntly violate my Text. The most learned of them declined the Judgment and Authority of K. James and affirmed that what was spoken in the pulpit ought first to be tryed by the Presbytery and that neither he nor his Council might meddle with it in primâ instantiâ though the Words were treasonable they have called him Persecuter in their Sermons said he was possest with a Devil Spotswoods Hist and made the people rise up against him neither the Holiness of the Place nor the Sacredness of his Person could protect him from their rebellious Invectives But least some think these were private and particular persons and what they did ought not to reflect on the whole Kirk pray observe that their general Assemblies and Synods have denied the Regal Power And although in France in Holland in Geneva it self Councils and Synods are still called by the Permission and License of the chief Magistrate yet would the Kirk convene Assemblies and make Acts of the highest Consequence contrary to the Kings express Commands And

not to believe the Popes power of deposing Indeed Emmanuel Sa wont have the King killed Voce Tyran till he be Excommunicated but then latâ sententiâ any one may be his Executioner And Suares says T is lawfull to Resist and kill your own King L. 6. c. 3 6. if you cant defend your selves otherwise from his violence and in another place he says such insurrections are no Treason but a Just war which Doctrine was defended by Dr. Petit upon the Murther of the Duke of Orleance Simanca says an heretical Prince must not only lose his Kingdom but his Children shall be debarred from the succession L. Dict. Philop. sec 2. p. 1.9 And Creswel affirms That if any King desert the Roman Religion all Divines and Canonists agree that by the Law of God Man he immediatly looses all power and dignity before the Pope give Sentence against him his subjects are free from all Oaths of Allegiance which they have taken and they may and ought if they have strength to depose him as an Apostat Heretick And says he This is the most certain Definit and undoubted opinion of the most learned men L. 6. de Reg. p. 59. Mariana says The King must be admonished to own the Popes Supremacy but if he wont they may kill him how highly does he and so does the Jesuit Ribadeneira also defend and extoll that inhuman Monk who murthered H. 3d. and calls that horrid wickedness C. 6. an admirable greatness of spirit and an Act not to be forgotten by which he had raised to himself a great and mighty name There does he Justify the Killing of Kings for the alteration of Religion and in the next chapter directs the manner how he would have them poysoned which very Book was approved of by their General the Visitor and other Grave and Learned men of the Jesuitical order It were endless to name all who maintaine this Opinion read Amphitheatrum Bonarsii and the Book De Abdicatione H. 3 and you 'l find the assassinating of Kings largly justified and in Franciscus Veronas Apology for the wicked Chastel Pars. 2. c. 2. you 'l see the Killing of Kings Vindicated with this Circumstance Non obstante decreto supradicti Concilij Constantiensis Privatis et Singulis licitum sit Reges et Principes Haereseos Tyrannidis condemnatos occidere Tho the Council of Constance decreed the Contrary yet may any Private man kill Kings and Princes condemned for Heresy and Tyranny Gretzer Burgoin Andreas Eudemons Apology for Father Garnet and many more too tedious now to mention are full of such discourses De. Pontif. Rom. Their great oracle Bellarmine cryes out Papa potest mutare Regna uni auferre atque alteri conferre c. The Pope as he is supream spiritual Prince may take a Kingdom from one and give it to another and in another place he says C. 7 if the King be Tyrannical or Heretical all agree that he may and ought to be deposed and pretends the Primitive Christians would have served them so but that they wanted strength though he well knew they abhorred such Doctrines when they were equal to their Adversaries as is fully evident from St. Cypr. Tert. St. Aug. and others which great Truth is confessed by Barclay and Tollanus and other of their writers They own it was not for want of strength the Christians did not Rebell but out of obedience to the Principles of their Religion But that Cardinals judgment prevayled more than all the Primitive Fathers he affirms all agree in it and who will contradict him seeing one Pope says Non eos Homicidas arbitramur Urb. 2 Rescrip de Occis Excom c. quos adversus Excommunicatos zelo Catholicae Matris ardentes eorum quoslibet trucidâsse Contigerit That good Pope counted them no Murtherers who out of zeal to the Catholick Church would kill those whom she Excomunicated Who will doubt this to be the Doctrine of the Roman Church when the infallible head thereof as they call him gives such great encouragement to slay all who are under that sentence or sees another Pope grant a Jubile to all Christendom for the Massacre of Paris or reads the Oration which his Holiness made upon the Murther of H. 3d which is attested by Father Warmington Sixt. Quint. who writ and distributed the copies among the Cardinalls to second which Guinard made a Book in praise of the Monk who did it and in it advised the like to be done to his successour which Ravaillac performed and was also justified in their Publick writings and the Doctrine of Deposing Princes is fully asserted in many other books dedicaed to the Pope and the greatest Cardinals and the Superiors of their Orders carrying their Approbation and Licence in the Front and not only particular persons Conc. Lat. 4. Can. 3. Tom. 28. but above a thousand of their Clergy at once invested the Pope with the Power of Excommunicating and Deposing such Princes as at any time should refuse to extirpate Hereticks And did not another Council ratifie the Deposing of Frederick the Second Conc. Lugd. T. 28. by Innocent the Fourth and their Doctors tell us plainly what may be done with them when the Pope has deprived them for which I might quote Creswell and Windeck and others who say that Subjects are bound in Conscience and by the Command of God to expel their Heretical Princes and that they hazard their Souls if they don't do it and that all Hereticks should be put to death they should be burnt or cut in pieces By which you see 't is not the opinion of one but of many and the Practice of their greatest Church-men hath been agreeable to this Doctrine I could name several of their Bishops who in this Kingdom turned their Mitres into Helmets and their Croziers into Swords and embrued their hands in the blood of the Kings good Subjects and who can tell when they will be of a better mind and more merciful disposition for their Jesuit Campian says He would have all know In Concer Eccl. anno 1583. that their Society which is spread over all the world has made a League a holy and solemn Oath that while any one of them is alive they will go on in using all ways to extirpate and root out Protestants and that they will pursue the Ruine of our Princes Person Religion and Kingdom and we have found his words true hitherto Becan l. 5. c. 16. Comp. Contr. And another of his Brethren says A Catholick Prince ought not to suffer a Heretick to live in his Dominions unless they be too numerous and strong for him or unless he fears some Heretical Prince will invade him for it And in the preceding Chapter he says Hereticks do more disturb the Christian Peace than Murtherers or Thieves but they may justly be put to death much more may Hereticks In order to which these Kingdoms were formerly given