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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

are and ever will be to all PRINCES espeally PROTESTANTS and all those they are pleas'd to call or miscall Heretiques Their received Principles I have hitherto mentioned are these 1. The Pope with them is Supreme MONARCH of all the World even in Temporals at least indirectè as the most moderate amongst them sometimes say and in ordine ad spiritualis which distinction can afford no comfort or security to Temporal Princes For if the Pope have such vast power directè or indirectè 't is all one he has it and if a Prince be deposed or murdered by either end of the distinction he is equally and as surely Murder'd as he who is kill'd by the edge or back of the Sword is as certainly kill'd 2. They say the Pope has power to Excommunicate Curse and Damn Kings 3. To depose and deprive them of all their Royal Power and Jurisdiction 4. To absolve their Subjects from all Obligations whether Natural or afterwards arising from Oaths to fidelity and obedience 5. To Arme their Subjects against their Sovereigns so deposed by the Pope their Supreme Judge and according to the profess'd Doctrine of the Jesuites Canonists c. infallible too In rebus facti fidei 6. That this taking of Arms against their King when deposed by the Pope is no Rebellion against their King seeing by their Traiterous Principles as soon as deposed he ceases to be their Sovereign 7. That if in such a War they kill their King especially if he be an Heretique it is no crime no Homicide or Murder but a Meritorious work to which the Pope has promised Plenary Indulgence and Pardon of all their Sins and an higher place in Heaven 8 Nay to give them the highest encouragements to commit all those Villanies Christians are capable of they shall be reputed Martyrs referr'd into their Calendars in Red Letters and in their opinion be esteemed great Saints in Heaven who in Earth were known to be Rebels to their Prince and justly Executed for High Treason For so as is before said and proved those who by the Hand of Justice perish'd for their Prodigious Villany in the Gunpowder-Conspiracy are reckon'd for Martyrs in the Jesuites Martyrology Now how dangerous such Principles having such Incouragements may prove to all especially Protestant Princes do you and the World Judge But as to the danger of such Doctrines this is not all though too much for it is not only a received Doctrine in the Roman-Church That the Pope may depose Kings and Emperors if they be Heretiques as with them we are sure all Protestants are but further I. That Subjects also as well as the Pope may lawfully depose their Soveraigns if they be Heretiques II. Nay that they ought and both in Law and Conscience are strictly bound to depose their Princes if they be Heretiques III. And their approved and great Writers publickly confess in their Books printed and licensed by the Authority of their Church that both the former Propositions are approved by all Catholiques Sure I am they have not publickly been condemn'd by any Act Decree or Sentence of their Church and therefore we have reason to believe that they approve them For qui non prohibet peccare cum possit jubet For the proof of all this I shall only give you two or three Testimonies of their own by publick Authority approved and licenc'd Authors who expresly say and endeavor to prove what here I have affirm'd 1. One of them says ........ That it is the Opinion of ALL CATHOLIQUES that Subjects ARE BOUND to depose an Heretical KING And he adds there ....... That they are BOUND by the LAW of GOD by the MOST STRICT BOND of CONSCIENCE and UTMOST PERIL of their SOULS to DEPOSE HERETICAL PRINCES And their great Controvertist and Cardinal Bellarmine says as much and with more authority speaking of Heretical Princes ......... OMNIUM CONSENSU all Roman-Catholicks he means possunt ac DEBENT privari suo Dominio It is the consent says the Cardinal of ALL that Heretical PRINCES may and OUGHT to be DEPRIVED of their Dominions And in a Book approved by the Jesuites and highly commended by the Licencer we are told That the Power and Authority of the PEOPLE is greater than that of their Prince 2. That the PEOPLE as well as the Pope may declare a King to be a Tyrant and when the Pope or PEOPLE have so declared him to be such ANY PRIVATE MAN may MURDER HIM 3. And he there tells us That he is a Tyrant who endeavors to ruin the religion of his Countrey the Roman-Catholique Religion you may be sure he means and then by these Jesuitical and Popish Principles All Protestant Princes are Tyrants and may lawfully be kill'd by any private person So that 't is evident that these Popish Principles are not only dangerous but pernicious to all Protestant Princes who in their account being Heretiques are consequently Tyrants and may be declared such by the People and Murder'd by any private Man I know that some Roman Catholiques deny this Doctrine to be approved by the Church of Rome and tell us that the Church has expresly condemn'd it as scandalous and both in faith and manners erroneous and for this they quote the Council of Constance In answer to this I shall 1. Set down the words of the Council 2. The Answer to them 1. The words of the Council are these and the Proposition they condemn this ...... Quilibet Tyrannus potest ac debet licite ac meritoriè occidi per quemlibet vassallum subditum etiam per insidias vel blanditias vel adulationes non obstante quocunque Juramento seu confederatione factis cum eo non expectata sententiâ vel mandato Judicis cujuscunque That is ..... Any Tyrant may and ought to be lawfully and meritoriously kill'd by any vassal or subject of his even by treachery or flattery notwithstanding any oath or confederation made to or with him and not having the preceding sentence or command of any Judge whomsoever 2. This is the Proposition which the Fathers at the General Council at Constance condemned for a General approved Council and confirm'd by a true Pope they acknowledge it though they have little reason for it as may appear by what b Gesner has said and Longus à Coriolano has not though he endeavour it Answer'd But it is penn'd with that Art and Roman-Catholick cunning that though it seem to say something for the Security of Kings and Princes yet indeed it is as to that purpose altogether insignificant For 1. Here is nothing in this Proposition or the Condemnation of it by the Council which condemns or any way disapproves the Popes Excommunications or Depositions of Kings their Absolutions of their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance or giving away their Dominions It is only the Assassinations and Murdering of Tyrants which are