Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	allegiance_n	law_n	oath_n	1,012	5	7.8657	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69679	Popery, or, The principles & positions approved by the Church of Rome (when really believ'd and practis'd) are very dangerous to all and to Protestant kings and supreme powers, more especially pernicious, and inconsistent with that loyalty, which (by the law of nature and scripture) is indispensably due to supreme powers, in a letter to a person of honor / by T. Ld Bishop of Lincoln.	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1679 (1679)	Wing B840; ESTC R13608	86,020	134

against the Apostle as to positive Law So that Papists may take as many Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy as their Prince shall please yet the Pope when he pleases can dispence with them and set them free from all obligation of fidelity And hence it evidently follows That a true Roman-Catholique who believes this Popish Power of dispensing with all Oaths may take a thousand Oaths of Allegiance and yet give no assurance of his Fidelity to his Prince seeing the Pope may upon their approv'd Principles when he pleases set them free from all such Obligations 4. But if all these ways of nulling the Obligations of Oaths of Allegiance fail yet the Popes Janizaries the Jesuites have a new way to prevent all such Obligations of Oaths without any Dispensations and that is by Equivocations rectifying Intentions and their Doctrine of Probabilities pernicious Errors destructive of Humane Society and so notoriously now known to the World that I neither shall nor need go about to prove them or shew the pernicious consequences of them Sure I am that by their Popish Principles no Papists in England are permitted to take the Oath of Allegiance to their King and then 't is easie to judge what good Subjects they are like to be For certainly what I may lawfully do that on a just and serious occasion I may swear to do If it be a duty and lawful for me to obey my Princes commands and pay him fidelity then certainly I may by Oath bind my self to the performance of it So all Men by the Law of Nature and Moral Veracity are bound to speak truth it is both lawful and a duty and therefore when in Judicature I am call'd to be a Witness I may and by the consent of all Nations ought to take an Oath to bind me and assure others that I will speak truth All Men as I said and all confess are bound by an indispensable Law of Nature to speak truth when there is a just occasion for it and yet in Judicature his testimony would not pass for good evidence who being required would not by Oath confirm the truth of it And therefore Princes have just reason to believe that those who will not take an Oath to be Loyal Subjects will never be so without it And indeed the reason why Princes may justly suspect the fidelity of their Popish Clergy who refuse the Oath of Allegiance will farther appear if we consider 2. That when and where Popery prevails all their Bishops swear absolute Allegiance and Fidelity to the Pope and therefore cannot swear it to their Prince too The Oath every Popish Bishop must take at his Consecration is this ... I. N. from this time forward will be FAITHFUL and OBEDIENT to my Lord the Pope and his Successors ..... THE COUNSELS with which they trust me I will not discover TO ANY MAN to the hurt of the Pope or his Successors ... I will assist them to retain and defend the Popedome and THE ROYALTIES of St. Peter against ALL MEN ..... I will carefully conserve defend and promote the rights honors priviledges and authority of the Pope I will not be in any Counsel Fact or Treaty in which any thing prejudicial to the persons rights or power of the Pope is contrived and if I shall know any such things treated of by ANY WHOMSOEVER I will to the utmost of my power hinder them and with all possible speed signifie them to the Pope .... I will to the UTMOST OF MY POWER observe the POPES COMMANDS and MAKE OTHERS observe them I will impugn and PERSECUTE HERETICKS and REBELS to my LORD THE POPE I will come to the Synod WHEN HE CALLS ME c. This and much more such stuff you have in that Oath Now this is evidently an Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to the Pope Wherein to omit other things they swear 1. Never to discover the Popes Counsels how treasonable soever TO ANY MAN not the King 2. To defend the Popes ROYALTIES against ALL MEN the King not excepted 3. And if any thing be treated of prejudicial to the Pope BY ANY WHOMSOEVER the King not excepted they swear TO THE UTMOST OF THEIR POWER to oppose and hinder it Here is you see an Oath of absolute Allegiance to the Pope which cannot consist with that Homage and Allegiance or Fidelity which not only at present but anciently even in times of Popery all the Bishops of England did and solemnly swore to their King as a great Lawyer tells me And not long before him it it certain that Bishops at their Consecration took no Oath at all to the Pope but only promised him Canonical Obedience For in the old Ordo Romanus which as all agree was writ by Arnoldus Constantiensis Presbyter about the year 1060. The Metropolitan who consecrates askes the person to be consecrated thus Visne Beato Petro suaeque Ecclesiae ejusque VICARIO successoribus fidem subjectionem per omnia exhibere The Answer is Volo Then follows the promise of fidelity and subjection to his Metropolitan But with this difference To the Pope he promises ....... Fidem obedientiam per omnia as to the prime Patriarch But to the Metropolitan he only promises but swears to neither of them Fidem obedientiam exhibere But to let this pass It is manifest that whenever this Oath to the Pope began to be exacted of Bishops it has been in use ever since the time of Pope Gregory the IX who patch'd up and publish'd the Decretals In which you have the form of the Oath the Bishops then took to the Pope neither so long by far nor so bad as of later years has been required of all Bishops yet bad enough For when they swore obedience and fidelity absolutely to the Pope as now they do CONTRA OMNES HOMINES neither King nor Emperor excepted And we are told in some later Editions of their Canon-Law that now not onely all Bishops but whoever receives any dignity of the Pope take an Oath and swear Allegiance to him and is it possible that these persons who do and must Swear such absolute obedience and fidelity to the Pope can be faithful and loyal subjects to their Prince and indeed are not such Popish Principles both dangerous and especially to Protestant Princes pernicious and inconsistent with the Loyalty of Subjects or safety of Supreme Powers nor is this all there is more danger yet to Kings and Princes from their Popish Principles For 3. They Exempt all Ecclesiastiques from paying any Tax or Contribution to secular Princes without the Popes Leave This is the constant Doctrine of their Casuists their Canon-Law and Canonists Who tell us ........ Quod Laici Collectas imponentes Clericis sunt excommunicati cum suis faâ—toribus All Laymen by their Law are Excommunicated if they lay any Tax upon the Clergy And again more fully we are told 1. That

Forbid all the Peers People and Subjects of England to dare to give any Obedience to the Queen her Monitions Commands or Laws And if any do otherwise we involve them in the same Sentence of Anathema and Excommunication Whence it evidently appears 1. That the Pope in this Authentique Bull and Decretory Sentence does so far as he is able Depose the Queen 2. Absolve all her Subjects from their Oath of Allegiance 3. And under pain of Excommunication command and require them contrary to their Natural Allegiance to give no Obedience to their undoubted Soveraign Nor is this all for 6. When he had done all this he gave away the Queens Kingdom and Dominions to Philip the Second King of Spain as is notoriously known and ingeniously confess'd by an honest Roman Catholick Father R. Caron an Irish Priest Many more such impious Bulls there are in the Roman Bullary in all which Kings and Princes and Anathematiz'd and deposed by the Pope and their Subjects absolved from their Oaths of Allegiance on pretence of that vast and extravagant Supremacy and Dominion over all the World which they challenge by Divine Right though without any and against all Reason even over Kings and Emperors For instance the Excommunication and Deposition of the Emperor Henry the Fourth who was twice Anathematiz'd by Gregory the Seventh Of Frederique the Second By Gregory the Ninth and Innocent the Fourth Of our King Henry the Eighth by Pope Paul the Third And to omit all others we have an Excommunication of all Heretical Kings and Princes and Heretiques in general in that famous BullÃ Coenae wherein on Maundy-Thursday an Anathema is solemnly denounced against all Heretiques even Emperors Kings Dukes and all of what Dignity soever and this Anathema is repeated every year So that amongst others our Gracious King and all his Protestant Subjects are Anathematiz'd and Curs'd once every year at Rome as if their Mons Vaticanus were become Mount Ebal from whence all Curses were to come Now whether this Doctrine and Practices of Popes be not dangerous and pernicious to Kings let the World Judge Well but if all this will not do if the Testimonies of their own Writers which both for learning and dignity in their Church are most eminent nor their receiv'd and establish'd Laws and Canons nor their Authentique Papal Bulls and Decretal Constitutions I say if all these be not evidence enough to intitle the Church of Rome to this Seditious Impious and to Kings especially if they be Protestants Pernicious Doctrine yet the Decrees and Canons of their own General Councils which by their own Principles and Confessions are Representatives of their whole Church and Infallible I say the Decrees of such Councils if there be any such will and must be undeniable Evidences of what I have said in this particular And that their approved General Councils have approved this Doctrine of the Popes Power to depose Kings and Emperors and absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance I shall give you two or three evident Instances I. In the General Council of Lions for a General Council they do universally acknowledge it Pope Innocent the Fourth deposed the Emperor Frederique the Second That he deposed him in that Council is undeny'd by any I have yet met with and that it was after diligent deliberation had with his Brethren and the Council appears by the form of the Excommunication registred and upon Record in the Body of their Canon-Law Where 1. He deprives him of all his Honor and Imperial Dignity 2. And then absolves all his Subjects from their Oaths of Fidelity 3. And Excommunicates all who should acknowledge him King or Emperor or should counsel assist or favor him II. In the great Lateran Council for so they commonly call it in which if they misreckon not there were no less than 1215. Fathers it was Synodically and Categorically concluded That the Pope might depose Kings absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and give away their Kingdoms The Series and Sum of the Canon is this First It is decreed That all Secular Powers shall expel all whom the Pope and his Party shall call Heretiques out of their Dominions and they were to be admonish'd to do this Moneantur seculares potestates c. Secondly But in case they obey'd not that Monition they were to be COMPELL'D And not only the Lateran but the Trent-Council a most Apocryphal Conventicle as I shall when required make evident to you useth the same Saucy Language to Princes and Supreme Powers even Emperors Kings Princes and all other of what State or Dignity soever for all these are COMMANDED to observe all the Sacred Canons and ALL GENERAL COUNCILS and so even the Lateran Council and this Canon we are speaking of which are in favor of Ecclesiastical Persons and the Liberties of the Church and they are to observe all these and ALL OTHER PAPAL SANCTIONS as the PRECEPTS OF GOD and DIVINE ORDINATIONS And the Lemma or Title to that Chapter is this ..... COGANTUR c. LET ALL CATHOLIQUE PRINCES and much more Heretical be COMPELL'D to observe ALL the SANCTIONS concerning Ecclesiastical Liberty c. And this is the common and usual Language of their most eminent Writers of their Popes and Councils as you may see to omit all others in Cardinal Tuschus the life of Pope Gregory the Seventh by Platina and in the Lateran Council under Leo the Tenth where the Pope in his Monitory against the Gallican Pragmatical Sanction faucily says .... We PEREMPTORILY COMMAND KINGS c. Secondly Well then by this Lateran Council and Canon we are speaking of Kings are to be COMPELL'D by the Pope to do their duty and that is as the Canon tells us to expell all Heretiques out of their Kingdoms And if you ask Who or What Heretiques those are The same Canon tells you That it is all those whom the Pope and his Party shall be pleased to call Heretiques Thirdly And they Kings and Princes must be COMPELL'D to take an OATH and swear they will Expel such Heretiques and this Oath they must take publickly that all may see and know that Princes obey the Pope for the words of the Canon are .... Praestent JURAMENTUM PUBLICE quod universos Haereticos AB ECCLESIA NOTATOS exterminare studeant Fourthly And if any King or Prince neglect this duty and when it is tendred refuse the Oath or to expel Heretiques out of his Dominions Then the Metropolitan and the Bishops of his Province must Excommunicate him Fifthly And then if he persist contumacious and refuse to give satisfaction by expelling all Heretiques they must signifie it to the POPE that he may DEPOSE HIM ABSOLVE HIS SUBJECTS FROM THEIR OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE and GIVE HIS KINGDOM TO CATHOLIQUES So the Canon So that if the Pope and a

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