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B02269	A collection of several treatises concerning the reasons and occasions of the penal laws. Viz. I. The execution of justice, in England, not for religion, but for treason: 17 Dec. 1583. II. Important considerations, by the secular priests: printed A.D. 1601. III. The Jesuits reasons unreasonable: 1662.	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598. Execution of justice in England for maintenaunce of publique and Christian peace.; W. W. (William Watson), 1559?-1603. Important considerations which ought to move all true and sound Catholikes.	1678 (1678)	Wing C5192AC; ESTC R174039	70,520	139

England I say all such Benefices and Collations belong more to the King than to the Pope For it being clear that the Offices to which Benefices are annexed are to be provided of able men and who are able men one can tell that understand not the Office 't is plain that Secular Clergy-men ought to be the chusers of Officers of their kind Regulars of Regular Superiors and by consequence the Donors of such Benefices But the people first got an influence on the chusing of Bishops because 't was rationally believed those would be able to do most good who were in the peoples good liking But when Bishops grew to have great Revenues and to be esteemed men of so high Quality in the Common-wealth the Emperors and Kings began to cast an eye on their Election and not without reason for it concerns them that none be in eminent places but such as they are secured of will breed no disturbance in the Common-wealth After this if any Clergy-man had done the King service he found in the best way of recompence to cause him to be chosen into a place of Authority and Eminency The Popes title to the giving of Benefices began by his Office of Patriach of the West which since the Council of Nice he more narrowly looked to the government of exhorting and correcting by Letters such Bishops and Churches there as did not their duties And this held till Pepin found how efficacious the reverence of the Pope was to make him obeyed and accepted for King of France Since which time whether for Ambition or for security sake men began to think no Act firm unless it were ratified at Rome In times following the Popes began to have need of Christian Princes and these found it the sweetest way to help the Popes by granting imposition upon the Clergy So came the first-fruits to the Popes and to assure those Incomes the custom of having Bulls from Rome to confirm the Elections of the Clergy was likewise introduced So that this Authority of the Popes comes from the Princes Agreements with them and not from any Superiority or Power of the Popes Wherefore these Agreements being by time and essential changes annulled all giving of Benefices belong to the Chusers and the King I come now to the close If your renouncing of Benefices make you less subject to the Pope as you pretend it makes you in England less subject to the King And if it makes you more hardly rewardable and more pressing on the Pope it will make you the like to Kings As in Leopold's time you were so wholly the means for coming to Benefices that hardly a command from Spain could take place for any that was not your Confident 11. My Eleventh Doubt is how you answer your banishment out of France and Venice viz. that Both these States have repealed their Acts. Which answer makes nothing to this that you either did not deserve the sentence or deserved to have it released one of which any judicious man would have expected at your hands Now to come to particulars the Venetians were so resolute against you that they made it Treason for any of their State so much as to motion your return and refused divers Princes intercessions for you Till their case reducing them to fear the slavery of the Turk if they had not the Popes assistance promised them largely if they would re-admit you they rather chose to struggle with your Treasons at home than admit the Barbarians conquest of their Dominions Whether they have cause to repent or not I know not But the current news at this present is that the Pope who procured your admittance has having found you so unfaithful to him notwithstanding all his love to you insomuch that he 's about question you by what means you are so suddenly raised to so great wealth wherein I fear he 'l not find obedience so ready as he found flattery when he was to pleasure you Your measure in France was indeed hard the fault being not proved to be universal but particular and so in divers places was never executed and easie to be repealed having proceeded more out of presumption than proof But your case in England is far different your whole English Congregation following their Head Parsons and maintaining his Acts even since his Death 12. My Twelfth Doubt is concerning your conclusion Whether you intend to mend what hitherto you have done amiss or rather to persist in your Equivocations and Dissimulations For first whereas you being the chiefly or only suspected Body are therefore bound to offer more satisfaction than others you make your Proposition to submit to whatever all other Catholick Priests shall agree to which sounds as much as if any disagree you will adhere to them or in plain terms that you 'l agree to no more than by shame you shall be forced to for not plainly appearing the worst of Priests and Enemies to the Catholick Cause 13. My Thirteenth Doubt is why you pretending to be the greatest Divines among Catholicks remit your selves to the determinations of others and not as good Subjects ought examine what satisfaction is necessary and fit to be given the State and both offer it your selves and provoke others to do it not standing so scrupulously upon your generals decree which surely should not be thought to bind in such extreme cases even the Laws of the Church and of general Councils we know oblige not where our obedience would ruine us and will you still more precisely observe your own By-Laws than the sacred Canons of the Universal Church Methinks therefore in due satisfaction concerning the pretences of the Pope against the King whatever Catholick Doctors hold favourable to Princes in these differences should by you be gathered together and subscribed and promised to be maintained with all your power As first the Doctrine which denies that the Pope has any Authority in any case to depose or temporally molest the King or any of His Majesties Subjects Likewise that he has no Authority to release any lawfully made Oath of Allegiance or other promise to his Majesty or any of his Subjects And because none of these or the like assertions can be strong and firm in the mouth of him that holds the Pope's Infallibility in determining points of Faith but whenever the Pope shall determine the contrary he must renounce what before he held for good therefore you should do the like in respect of the Pope's Infallibility Moreover because if the Pope by his own or any others Authority may force his Majesties Subjects to go into Countries where they cannot enjoy the protection of their Prince the Subjects are not free to maintain these assertions therefore this Position also that a Subject to England is bound to appear before any foreign Tribunal without His Majesties consent is also to be condemned Nor is it less necessary you should expresly renounce the Doctrines of Equivocation and Mental Reservation without which all the