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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50274	The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.; Works. English. 1680	Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Neville, Henry, 1620-1694.	1680 (1680)	Wing M129; ESTC R13145	904,161	562

and be Baptized every one of you in the name of Iesus Christ for the remission of Sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for this promise is to you and to your Children and to all that are afar off even as many as the Lord our God shall call Next to judge infallibly of Divine Truth and to forgive Sins as Christ did Then to be the Head of all Ecclesiastical persons and causes in the world to be so far above Kings and Princes as to Judge Depose and deprive them and to have an absolu●e jurisdiction over all the Affairs in Christendom in Ordine ad Spiritualia yet all this the Canonists allow him and he makes no scruple to assume whilst it is plain that in the whole New Testament there is no description made of such an Officer to be at any time in the Church except it be in the Prophecy of the Apocalyps or in one of St. Paul's Epistles where he says who it is that shall sit in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God Christ tells us his Kingdom is not of this world and if any will be the greatest amongst his Disciples that he must be servant to the rest which shews that his followers were to be great in sanctity and humility and not in worldly power The Apostle Paul writing to the Christians of those times almost in every Epistle commands them to be obedient to the higher Powers or Magistrates set over them and St. Peter himself from whom this extravagant Empire is pretended to be derived in his firs● Epistle bids us submit our selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King or c. and this is enjoyn'd although it is plain that they who govern'd the world in those days were both Heathen Tyrants and Usurpers and in this submission there is no exception or proviso for Ecclesiastical immunity The practice as well as Precepts of these Holy men shews plainly that they had no intention to leave Successors who should deprive Hereditary Princes from their right of Reigning for differing in Religion who without all doubt are by the appointment of the Apostle and by the principles of Christianity to be obeyed and submitted to in things wherein the fundamental Laws of the Government give them power though they were Iews or Gentiles If I should tell you by what Texts in Scripture the Popes claim the Powers before mentioned it would stir up your laughter and prove too light for so serious a matter yet because possibly you may never have heard so much of this Subject before I shall instance in a few They tell you therefore that the Jurisdiction they pretend over the Church and the power of pardoning Sins comes from Christ to St. Peter and from him to them Thou art Peter and upon this Rock I will build my Church I will give thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven whatsoever thou shalt bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever thou shalt loose on Earth c. From these two Texts ridiculously applyed comes this great Tree which hath with its Branches over-spread the whole Earth and kill'd all the good and wholsom Plants growing upon it The first Text will never by any man of sence be understood to say more than that the Preaching Suffering and Ministry of Peter was like to be a great foundation and Pillar of the Doctrine of Christ the other Text as also another spoken by our Saviour to all his Apostles whose sins ye remit they are remitted and whose sins ye retain they are retained are by all the Primitive fathers interpreted in this manner wheresoever you shall effectually Preach the Gospel you shall carry with you Grace and Remission of Sins to them which shall follow your instructions but the people who shall not have these joyful Tidings communicated by you to them shall remain in darkness and in their Sins But if any will contest that by some of these last Texts that Evangelical Excommunication which was afterwards brought into the Church by the Apostles was here praesignified by our great Master how unlike were those censures to those now thundered out as he calls it by the Pope these were for edification and not destruction to afflict the flesh for the salvation of the Soul that Apostolical ordinance was pronounced for some notorious Scandal or Apostacy from the Faith and first decreed by the Church that is the whole Congregation present and then denounced by the Pastor and reached only to debar such person from partaking of the Communion or fellowship of that Church till repentance should readmit him but was followed by no other prosecution or chastisement as is now practised But suppose all these Texts had been as they would have them how does this make for the Successors of St. Peter or the rest or how can this prove the Bishops of Rome to have right to such succession But I make haste from this subject and shall urge but one Text more which is The spiritual man judgeth all men but is himself judged of none from whence is inferred by the Canonists that first the Pope is the Spiritual man and then that he is to be Judge of all the world and last that he is never to be liable to any judgment himself whereas it is obvious to the meanest understanding St. Paul in this Text means to distinguish between a person inspired with the Spirit of God and one remaining in the state of Nature which latter he says cannot judge of those Heavenly gifts and graces as he explains himself when he says The Natural man cannot discern the things of the Spirit because they are foolishness unto him To take my leave of this matter wholly out of the way of my Studies I shall beg of you Zenobio and of Guilio and the rest of our Society to read over carefully the new Tes●ament and then to see what ground there is for Purgatory by which all the wealth and greatness hath accrew'd to these men what colour for the Idolatrous worship of Saints and their Images and particularly for speaking in their hymns and prayers to a piece of wood the Cross I mean S●lve Lignum c. and then fac nos dignos beneficiorum Christi as you may read in that Office what colour or rather what excuse for that horrid unchristian and barbarous Engine called the inquisition brought in by the command and authority of the Pope the Inventor of which Peter a Dominican Fryer having been slain amongst the Albigesi as he well deserved is now Cannoniz'd for a Saint and stil'd San Pietro Martine In the dreadfull Prisons of this Inquisition many faithful and pious Christians to say nothing of honest Moral Moors or Mahometans are tormented and famish'd or if they out-live their sufferings burnt publickly to death and that only for differing in Religion from the Pope without having any crime or the least misdemeanor proved or