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A10389	A revievv of the Councell of Trent VVherein are contained the severall nullities of it: with the many grievances and prejudices done by it to Christian kings and princes: as also to all catholique churches in the world; and more particularly to the Gallicane Church. First writ in French by a learned Roman-Catholique. Now translated into English by G.L.; Revision du Concile de Trente. English	Ranchin, Guillaume, b. 1560.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1638 (1638)	STC 20667; ESTC S116164	572,475	418

furnish us also with varietie of examples and show us this right annexed to the Crowne of their Kings to use it when they please In the yeare 905 King Edward the elder together with Plegmond Archbishop of Canterbury called a famous Councell of Bishops Abbats and other persons In the yeare 1070 saith an English Monke there was a great Councell holden at Silchester upon the Octaves of Easter by the command and in the presence of King William the Pope consenting thereunto and contributing his authority by his Legates In the yeare 1301 Edward the first called a Councell at Lincolne Sometimes the Kings let either the Archbishops of Canterbury call them or some other of the Clergie who proceeded thereunto onely so farre as they had their leave and consent So Anselme Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry the first by his will and pleasure called a Councell at London in the yeare 1102. Pope Alexander the third saith another English historian assisted by the favour of the Princes he means the Kings of England and France held a Generall Councell at Tours in the year of grace 1163. King Henry the second of England having quieted the state of Ireland caused divers abuses not sufficiently purged out of the Church to bee reformed and corrected according to the doctrine of Christianitie and by a Councell by his meanes holden at Casselles The same King caused a Councell consisting of Bishops and other Princes to bee called at Northampton King Henry made all his adversaries bee pronounced enemies of their Country by a Councell which he caused to be holden at Winchester which others call Silchester Hee that will be curious to enquire into their histories may finde divers other presidents and yet it may be said that this Kingdome of all others hath beene most subject to the papall power 20 As for Spaine the Acts of almost all those Councels which wee have in the great collection of them doe plainely shew us that the Kings had the whole stroke in this matter For the Preface of the first which was holden at Braque in the yeer 572 runnes thus Whereas the Bishops of Gallicia were met together in the Metropolitan Church of the Province by the command of the most Illustrious King Aramirus And a litle below Now then seeing our most glorious and most devout sonne hath by virtue of his command royall granted unto us this day so much desired of our Congregation for us to assemble our selves all together let us in the first place treat of the state of the Catholique faith In the yeere 573 there was another Councell holden in the same place By the command of the same King In some copies Miriclias is named in stead of Ariamirus but that imports not the point in hand The third Councell of Toledo where the Arrian heresie was condemned ann 589 was called by King Recharedus as is set downe in expresse termes both in the Acts thereof and by divers Historians The fourth of Toledo was called by the command of King Sismand The fifth and sixth by King Suintilla for besides that it may be proved out of the Acts of them there is a Prebend of Barcelona which affirmes it downright This King saith he called the fifth and sixth Synod in the citie of Toledo The seventh of Toledo was called by King Sindasund The eighth ninth and tenth by King Risisund After he was received into the Kingdome saith the same Prebend of Barcelona hee commanded three severall Councels to bee held in the Citie of Toledo under Arch-bishop Eugenius But we have no need of his testimony for the Acts themselves plainely say as much of those Councels at least of two of them The eleventh of Toledo was commanded by King Bamba in the yeer 674. The Acts doe obscurely intimate so but Tarafa clears it Bamba saith hee after his victory over Paul and the Gauls returned to Toledo where hee commanded the celebration of the eleventh Councell So likewise the third of Braque was called by him the same yeere as we have it set downe in the end of the Acts. The twelfth thirteenth and fourteenth of Toledo were called by the command of King Eringius The Acts of the first testifie as much directly those of the second intimate so and for those of the third wee have them not but the same Prebend of Barcelona relates it in this manner This Eringius in the second yeere of his reigne caused the twelfth Councell of Toledo to be holden which consisted of thirty six Bishops in his fourth yeere he made the thirteenth be holden consisting of fourty eight Bishops and the foureteenth in his fifth yeer wherein were twelve Bishops all three under Iulian Archbishop of Toledo The other foure following Councels of Toledo King Egytas assembled the Acts of two wherof were carried to Rome to help to correct Gratians Decret's by as is mentioned in a note put at the end of the Acts of the thirteenth of Toledo but waiting till they bee put out in print we shall content our selves for the present with what is delivered concerning this point by the forementioned Canon of Barcelona King Egyta saith hee in the first yeere of his reigne which was the yeere of our Lord 693 caused the fifteenth Councell to bee celebrated under Iulian Archbishop of Toledo consisting of sixty one Bishops the sixteenth Councell in his third yeere and the seventeenth in his fourth under Philip Archbishop of the same Church Wee shall observe by the way that these Councels of Spaine consisted partly of the Bishops of Languedoc a Province of France● for there are named in the subscriptions of some of them the Bishops of Carcasson Narbo Beziers Lodeu● Agde Maguelone who is now Bishop of Montpelier Nismes and others in the same Province and this because the greater part of it was then under the dominion of the Gothes who held it together with Spaine wherfore it is sometimes by our French Historians called Gothia Gottica Provincia and Gothica regio CHAP. VIII That it belongs to the Emperour and Kings to appoint the time and place when and where Councels shall bee held and not to the Pope 1 HAving proved already that the calling of Councels belongs unto the Emperour and Kings and not unto the Pope it follows then that it is for them also to appoint the time and place Yet notwithstanding we will further confirme it by some examples It is storied by Sozomen that Constantine the Emperour resolved to hold a Councell at Nice upon occasion of the new doctrines of Antiochus and the heresie of Aetius and how by the perswasion of Basil hee changed his purpose and would have removed it to Nicomedia but by reason th●t citie was ruined by an earthquake by the advice of the same Basil hee made choice of Nice againe and how when there happened another earthquake there too hee resolved upon the perswasion of

let him remember how the Popes opened the veine how they lighted the candle how they sung the Te Deum at the murther of our Kings how they would have turn'd our state tops●e turvie that they gave the greatest blowes to it that the champions we speake of did wonders there and made their names immortall 5 Great Prince your Majesty needs not feare any of this being protected by the particular care and extraordinary favour of God which overshadowes it and makes it redoubtable to all your enemies for your valour your power and your trophees being cherished by a Clement truly ●lement But Sir what shall become of your poore posterity what hope of safety doe you leave to them what meanes of refuge having the rat in the bag the serpent in the bosome the powder in the pistoll or to speake more properly in the foure corners of France to which an Inclement will easily give fire But I come to their maximes They being servants and slaves to the Pope cannot bee good subjects to their Princes for they professe themselves exempt from their subjection and avouch as much of all other Clergiemen to make their party the stronger 6 See here an Aphorisme which Emanuel Sa the Iesuite sets downe in his booke intitled Aphorismi Confessariorum printed at Anvers the yeare 1599 and afterwards at Paris this present yeare 1600 after he had studied the point forty yeares as he professeth in the preface The rebellion of a Clergyman against the King is no treason because he is no subject For as much as they make profession of this rebellion they provide for themselves beforehand by such like axiomes as these They make maximes in State affaires even such as respect the persons of Princes and occasion their subjects to make conspiracies and enterprise upon their lives Loe here one He that governes the Realme or Dominion which he hath justly got in a tyrannicall way cannot be deprived of it but by a publique judgement But the sentence being once past any man may be the executioner of it He may be deposed even by the people that have sworne perpetuall allegiance to him if he doe not amend after he hath beene admonished But he that tyrannically usurpes the government may be killed by any of the people if there be no other remedy for hee is a publique enemy See here another of the like straine The Prince may bee deprived of his dominion by the common wealth either for his tyrannie or if he doe not doe his dutie or if there bee any other just cause and another may be chosen in his stead by the major part of the people 7 Let every man bethinke himselfe whether these Maximes have not been practised in our France and let him adde to all this the excommunication of a Pope incensed against some Prince whom he will declare by his Buls to bee a tyrant or heretique and he will easily judge whether he that shall be pronounced such ought hereafter to thinke of any thing but the sepulchre of his ancestors to procure that he may obtaine it at least In my opinion if our Iesuites deny to speake roundly and say 't is a meritorious worke to kill him it is lawfull for any man to execute the sentence Yet this is the doctrine which they teach their disciples confessed by Iohn Chastel registred in the Arrest of this venerable Parliament of the 29 of December 1594. the words are these Hee said at the same examination that it is permitted to kill Kings and that King Henry the fourth now reigning is not in the Church till such time as hee hath got the Popes approbation Confessed likewise by William Parry executed in England Confessed by Peter Panne the Iesuits of D●wayes emissarie to assassinate Prince Maurice giving unto the Governour or Rectour of that Colledge the honour of that doctrine which he had learned from him Maintained in a publique writing made by Mr. Allen Principall of the Colledge of the Seminary at Rhemes declaimed in their ordinary talke in their solemne orations whispered in the eares of those that come to them for absolution and infused into their soules as it is declared by those true discourses made upon that subject by the finest wits of France 8 Let us run over the other maximes which concerne the present state of this Kingdome and judge whether they tend to peace and quiet If Luther say they in their Cullen censure had beene rooted out by fire and sword fortie yeares agoe or if others had beene so dealt with peace might by this meanes be restored to the Church 9 Father Emond in a booke of his printed at Paris by Sebastian Nivelle the yeare 1568 and by him dedicated to King Charles the ninth with this inscription The Pedagogue of Armes To instruct a Christian Prince to undertake a good warre well and accomplish it with successe to be victorious over all the enemies of his State and of the Catholique Church gives us other rules which have beene put in practice See here some of them 10 That warres have beene alwayes accounted not onely profitable but necessary 11 That the Pope is bound to take armes against heretiques 12 That to a Monarchie undertaking such a warre a man cannot urge any of his former Edicts or Ordinances 13 That no man how potent soever he be can contract with an infidell or one that hath revolted from his conscience Hee gives this reason For what King is there how redoubted soever he be that can without villainously falsifying and breaking his oath made to God permit and give leave to the enemies of all truth and condemn'd by the generall sentence of all the world to so● heresies in his countries and allure soules Hee addes further That what conditions of peace so ever he can grant unto his rebels in this case will not endure long But it will behove him not to awake such strong and potent enemies that to make a peace with them at last hee must resolve to make a good warre And anon As oft as by the Articles of peace licence is granted to every man to adhere to which of the two opposite parties he please without being offended at it it is all one in my opinion as if one should cast a man into the fire and forbid him to burne himselfe 14 In the seventh Chapter he saith If such persons were infidels or heretiques I would never excuse the Monarch that having sufficient means in his owne hands should not essay by all wayes even of fact to reclaime such a kennell or drive them farre out of his countrey out of the territories of Catholiques And so much the more roughlie ought he to proceed against them as hee knowes them perverse in all respects and of the Huguenots stamp which should be accounted the most pernicious most devillish upholders of lies that ever rose up against the Church 15 After he hath