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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

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. L d Bishop of LINCOLN Rev. 18. 4. Jer. 15. 6. Come out of her my people least ye be partakers of her Sins and Plagues In the SAVOY Printed by Tho. Newcomb for James Collins in the Temple-passage from Essex-street MDCLXXIX FOR MY Honored Friend L. N. P. SIR I Received and read your Letter and this comes to bring my humble Service and tell you so In your Letter you tell me First Of an Inhumane and Bloody Design and Popish Plot a Traiterous and Roman-Catholick Conspiracy as you call it against the Sacred Person and Life of our Gracious KING whom GOD preserve and many more by them design'd for Ruine and for the Subversion of the true Religion Establish'd by Law and introducing Papal Tyranny Superstition and Idolatry A Design not only Unchristian but Inhumane and Barbarous beyond all examples of Turkish or Pagan Cruelty nor has it in any story any parallel Impiety unless perhaps that Bloody French Massacre or the Gun-powder-Treason all contriv'd and carry'd on by Men of the same desperate Principles and though with the blood and ruine of many thousand innocent persons to advance the Papal Interest Secondly You say That the Popish Party decry this Impious Conspiracy as a State-Trick without truth or reallity to make Catholicks as they commonly miscall themselves odious to the People and this whole Nation This I believe and know they do As their Plots and Conspiracies so their Impudence to deny or lessen them when discover'd is monstrous and were not their Persons and Principles known incredible So they did where and when they durst and still do call the Gun-powder-Treason A State-Design to make them though they were innocent seem guilty and Criminals Thirdly Lastly you say that several Papists tell you in excuse of Popery and their Party That if indeed there be such a Plot and Conspiracy as is pretended yet it is the only fault of those persons concern'd in it not of Popery or their Religion the Principles and Doctrine of their Church giving no ground or incouragement to such impious and Anti-Monarchical practices This I believe too because I find them making the same Apology for themselves to take off the guilt of the Gun-powder-Treason For without all truth or modesty they tell us in Print That the Gun-powder-Treason was MORE THAN SUSPECTED to be the CONTRIVANCE of Cecil the great Politician TO RENDER CATHOLICKS ODIOUS and that there were but VERY FEW of that Religion AND THOSE DESPERADOES TOO detected of it c. All sober Catholicks detesting that and all such Conspiracies Now these things premis'd you desire to know of me whether I think these their Allegations and Apologies true or if I think them untrue and insignificant as you may be sure I do that I would give you some reasons why I do so In obedience therefore to your command and to satisfie that Obligation that lies upon me so far as I am able to Vindicate Truth and my Mother the Church of England though I have little time and few Books here being absent from my own save what I borrow of friends I shall endeavour to say something which may I hope be pertinent towards the conviction of our Adversaries and your satisfaction And here I shall plainly set down I. The Position I undertake to make good II. The Proofs and Reasons of it I. The Position is this ...... The Doctrine and Principles of Popery own'd by the Church of Rome when believed and practised are not onely dangerous but pernicious to Kings especially to those who are Protestants prejudicial to the just rights of Monarchy and inconsistent with that Loyalty which by the Laws of Nature and Scripture is due to them and particularly to our Kings by the establish'd and known Laws of England made antiently even by Popish Kings and Parliaments against Papal Usurpations and Anti-Monarchical Practices And here because it is impossible distinctly to shew how Popish Principles are dangerous to our Kings and prejudicial to their Just Rights and Royal Prerogative unless we first know what that Prerogative and those Rights are I shall inquire 1. What the Jura Coronae the Rights and Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of England are as to our present concern 2. How Popish Doctrines and Principles may be dangerous or pernicious to them 1. For the First That England is a Monarchy the Crown Imperial and our Kings SUPREME Governors and SOLE SUPREME Governors of this Realm and all other their Dominions will I believe I am sure it should be granted seeing our Authentick Laws and Statutes do so expresly and so often say it In our Oath of Supremacy we Swear that the King is the ONLY SUPREME Governor SUPREME so none not the Pope above Him and ONLY SUPREME so none co-ordinate or equal to Him So that by our known Laws our King is Solo Deo minor invested with such a Supremacy as excludes both Pope and People and all the World God Almighty only excepted by whom Kings Reign from having any Power Jurisdiction or Authority over Him For this Soveraignty and Supremacy belonging to our Kings and the Imperial Crown of England is asserted not only by the Statutes of Q. Elizabeth King James and Charles the Second Protestant Princes but even those Statutes made by Popish Princes and Parliaments declare the same I instance only in Richard the Second Henry the Eighth and Q. Mary though all the Statutes of Provisors were pertinent to this purpose That Richard the Second and His Parliament were Roman-Catholicks is manifest and it is as certain That Henry the Eighth and His Parliaments when the Statutes cited were made were so too For 't is evident that those Statutes were made Anno. 24. and Anno. 25. Hen. 8. that is Anno. Dom. 1532. and 1533. when neither He nor His Adherents were Excommunicate but actual Members of the Roman Church then and for some years after For though Pope Paul the Third was angry and about it Anno. 1535. yet he did not actually Excommunicate him or his Adherents before the year 1538. which was six years after Henry the Eighth and His Popish Parliament had Vindicated the Rights of the Imperial Crown of England against the irrational and unjust Pretences and Usurpations of the Pope and declared that the Supremacy both in Ecclesiastical and Civil Things ever did de Jure belong to the Imperial Crown of England not to the Pope's Mitre He having no more to do in England Jure proprio or by any Law of God or Man than Henry the Eighth in Italy And that Parliament of Queen Mary

cited in the Margent although a Popish Parliament yet declares fully for the Queen's Supremacy which to some may seem strange for that Act expresly says 1. That the IMPERIAL CROWN of this Realm with all its Prerogatives Jurisdictions c. was descended to the Queen 2. That she was the SOVEREIGN and SUPREME Governor of all Her Dominions in AS FULL LARGE and AMPLE MANNER AS ANY OF HER PROGENITORS therefore in as ample a manner as Her Father Henry the Eighth 3. That by the MOST ANCIENT LAWS of this Realm the punishment of ALL OFFENDERS against the Regality and Laws of this Realm belong'd to the King c. So that even a Popish Parliament acknowledges and declares the Kings of England possess'd of such a Supremacy over all Persons and that by our MOST ANCIENT Laws that He may punish ALL OFFENDERS Clergy or Laity against the Laws and His Regality How contradictory to this the Trent Council and the Doctrine of the Roman Church is you shall see anon But for the Supremacy of the Kings of England according to our Ancient and Later Laws I refer you to the Learned in those Laws who will give you a clear Declaration of this Supremacy and a just Vindication of it from those impertinent and seditious Objections brought against it by some who inslaved to Rome have cast off Loyalty to their King and Love to their Country And lastly As for the Supremacy of Kings so far as it concerns the Laws of God Natural or Positive and Divines to determine it I refer you to the Answer● of the University of Oxon to a Letter of Henry the Eighth requiring their Judgment in that Point To the Articles of Edward the Sixth Of Queen Elizabeth The Articles of Ireland The Injunctions of Elizabeth The Canons of 1. Jacobi And the Canons sub Carolo Martyre 1640. besides the Writings of many particular Learned Men In which you may see the Judgement of the Church of England concerning Supremacy and the Loyalty due to our King clearly and fully express'd and in the late unhappy Rebellion more truly profess'd and practic'd by Her Sons than Papist Presbyter or Fanatique though some of them vainly brag of their Loyalty can with any just reason pretend to If you desire further satisfaction and evidence for the Supremacy of Kings particularly of our Kings and the Roman Emperors even in Ecclesiastical Matters you know and at your leisure may consult the Collections of our Saxon and the Imperial Laws where you may have sufficient and abundant evidence that as to matter of Fact never questioned in those days those Emperours and Kings made many Laws and Constitutions in Ecclesiastical Matters which concern'd the Church as well as Civil which concern'd the State And if you desire it I can shew you an Original MS. agreed upon and approved by the Convocations of both Provinces Canterbury and York and subscribed by both Archbishops and several of each Province wherein it is clearly shewn so far as Scripture and other Records of those times mention them that Kings from the beginning of the World till our Blessed Saviours time did and de Jure might exercise an Ecclesiastical as well as Civil Jurisdiction and Supremacy especially the Kings of the Jews his own People which Monarchy was of Gods own and perticularly Divine Institution These things premis'd I come now to shew you in the second place how dangerous and when and where they have power to put them in execution how pernicious Popish Principles are to the Persons of Kings and their just Rights and Prerogatives And here I say 1. That many of their Popish Principles and generally approved and received Doctrines are not only dangerous but destructive to and inconsistent with the just Soveraignty and Supremacy of Kings Because they generally say and in a thousand Books writ to that purpose industriously endeavor to prove it That all Kings and Emperors are so far from being Supreme that they are Subject to the Pope as to their Superior Lord to whom they owe Service and Fidelity That this may appear consider 1. The Emperor when he comes into the Popes presence as soon as ever he sees him he must His Hat off and bare-headed bow till his Knee touch the ground and worship the Pope and coming nearer must bow again and when he comes to the Pope he must how a third time and DEVOUTLY Kiss the Popes Foot The Emperor must WORSHIP the Pope with the Incurvations or bowings of Body even to the ground and then bare-headed and on his Knees DEVOUTLY Kiss the Pope's Foot Execrable and prodigious Pride The Pope without all truth or probability vainly and ridiculously only pretends to be Christ's Vicar and so if it were true is less than his Master and yet our blessed Saviour never requir'd nor had such Adorations Incurvations or Kissings of his Toe of any much less of Kings or Emperors Nor would any Man require such but the Man of Sin who exalts himself takes that greatness which God never gave him above all that is call'd God or worshipped That is above all Kings and Emperors Well but does not the Pope in this Case shew some respect and civility to the Emperor Does he not uncover his head or bow his body c. No for the same Authentick Book of the SACRED Ceremonies of the HOLY Roman Church tells us .... That the Pope never gives any reverence to any MORTAL whomsoever either by rising up apparently or by uncovering or bowing his head Onely sayes that Ceremonial when the Emperor has kiss'd the Foot of the Pope sitting in his Chair he riseth up A VERY LITTLE to him and so he does sometimes to GREAT PRINCES Whether this can stand with that Supremacy which by Divine Law Natural and Positive is due to Kings to be so far subject and slaves to the Pope let Kings who are most concern'd and the World Judge And it is to be consider'd that the Book I cite for those passages concerning the Pope is no Apocryphal or Non-licenc'd Pamphlet containing the inventions of some private person but it contains the SACRED Ceremonies of the ROMAN CHURCH collected by Marcellus ARCHBISHOP of Corcyra dedicated to POPE LEO the Tenth printed at ROME and highly approved and commended by their eminent Writers 2. But this is not all the poor Emperor must do the Pope his great Superior and Master more service and be his Groom or at best Gentleman of his Horse He must hold the Popes Stirrup till he get on Horseback and then lead the Horse for some paces ..... Caesar traditis sceptro pomo uni ex suis praevenit ad equum Pontificis TENET STAPHAM quoad Pontifex equum ascenderit deinde accepto equi fraeno per aliquot passus ducit equum Pontificis and the Emperors have de facto executed this mean Office which was impious and prodigious pride in the Pope