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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

Philip King of Spain hearing of the strange defeat and ruine of his Fleet and seeing the Hand of Heaven in it said more soberly ...... That he did not send his Fleet to fight against God to whose Power and Providence he attributed the loss of it but against Men. 4. The Queen being dead Popish Conspiracies did not die with her the Pope and his Party continue as industrious and as to their Designs and Plots as impious as before They saw and knew that King James a Protestant was Legal Successor and Heir to the Crown of England yet used all Roman Arts to hinder his having possession of it and to this end Father Parsons the Jesuite writes a Book to prove what was evidently untrue and he could not chuse but know it That King JAMES had no just Title to the Crown of England though the whole Right of the Saxons and Normans and of the Houses of York and Lancaster were intirely and evidently united in him But when these Popish and Jesuitical Arts prevailed not having neither true Reason or Religion to further their Designs which were impious and irrational they contrive and resolve to execute such a Conspiracy as for barbarous and prodigious Villany neither Heathens nor Hell had till that time ever put in execution I mean the Gun-Powder-Treason which was not any ordinary or before-known Wickedness as the Killing a King or Poysoning a Prince c. but a black and unparallell'd Villany worthy Rome and a Jesuite the Blowing up of a whole Parliament King Lords and Commons the Murdering of a Kingdom in its Representatives and this in a moment before they could see or dream of any danger But though this for its impiety was a prodigious Conspiracy carried on with sworn secrecie and lay hid in the dark and under ground yet there is no Power or Policy against Providence nor concealing any thing from the All-seeing Eye of our God he saw and gratiously discover'd that horrid Popish-Powder-Treason to the Preservation of his People the Confusion of their Adversaries and nisi periisset pudor if they had any to the Eternal Shame of Papists and Popery their Religion which approves and encourages such abominable Impieties When King James slept with his Fathers and was translated to a better Kingdom out of the reach of such Popish Conspirators and whither without a serious and timely repentance of such inhumane Villanies they can never come their Designs slept not they prosecute their Plots and Conspiracies to ruine our Church and establish'd Religion as much in Charles the First 's as in his Fathers time And at last it came to this issue that other means failing the King and the Archbishop of Canterbury must be made away This was conceived the likeliest means to compass their Ends and bring in that Religion they miscal Catholique and Christian. For certainly such barbarous Murders and Assassinations may possibly promote Turcism and the Errors of Mahomet and if you will Popery but never were nor can be any just means to propagate true Christianity This Traiterous Conspiracy to Murder Charles the First and the Archbishop c. was discovered by an honorable Person to the English Ambassador in Holland and by him to the Archbishop and by him to the King And the Original Copy of the Discovery being found in the Archbishop's Library after his death was then publish'd and is in Print in many hands and amongst others in mine In the mean time our unhappy Civil Wars began and our Popish Conspirators animated by a belief of such Rebellious Doctrines and Principles as I have before mentioned and incouraged and assisted by the Pope are first in Arms and the bloody Rebellion and in Ireland murdered above 100000 Protestants in cold blood without any provocation given but to kill Heretiques which according to their impious and erroneous Principles was lawful and meritorious and thereby promote the Catholique Cause This is notoriously known to both Kingdoms England and Ireland And further when in the process of that fatal Rebellion carried on openly by English and covertly by Popish Rebels that good King was taken imprison'd with design to bring His Sacred Head to the Block for the distance is seldom great between a Princes Prison and His Grave our Popish Conspirators had a Council of Priests and Jesuites which sate in London and signifi'd the condition of their Affairs here to a Council of their Confederates at Paris and they transmitted the Case to Rome from whence Directions and Commands were return'd by the same way back again to London In short it was determin'd that it was for the Interest of the Catholick Cause that the King should die and accordingly their Council of Priests and Jesuites in London Voted His Death This is now Notoriously known to be true and in Print publish'd to the World by a Reverend and Learned Person who if any shall call him to an account for it is so convinc'd of the truth of what he writ that he in scriplis publickly offers and promises to make it good I do not hear that he has as yet been call'd to any account to prove what he publickly and in Print has profess'd and promised to do Nor do I think he will be call'd to any such account because I have reason to believe that he can and will produce such Proofs as will evidently demonstrate both their bloody Conspiracies and the undeniable truth of what he affirm'd 6. By the Premises it may sufficiently appear That the Rebellious Popish Principles and Practices have been very dangerous to all our Protestant Princes and their Loyal Subjects ever since the Reformation and had they taken that effect which they designed and with unwearied wickedness industriously endeavoured they would have proved destructive and both to Prince and People pernicious Nay which I have omitted while this whole Nation continued actually in the Communion of the Church of Rome when Henry the Eighth his Parliament and Convocation all Roman-Catholiques and far from being Protestants had deny'd and lege latâ taken away the Popes Usurped Supremacy that we may be sure the Pope's Practices are suitable to his pernicious Principles Pope Paul the Third Excommunicates Curses and Damns the King and all his Good Subjects Commands him to Abrogate and Null the Laws made against his Supremacy and to appear before him at Rome within Ninety Days and his Adherents and Favorers which were all his Loyal Subjects especially his Parliament and Convocation within Sixty Days They not appearing he Ratifies the Excommunication Deprives him of his Kingdom and Dominions Prohibits peremptorily the King or his Adherents if they die as they did before he Absolved them to have any CHRISTIAN BURIAL and declares them ETERNALLY DAMND Then he layes that most impious Interdict upon the whole Nation forbids all Publick Prayers Masses and Divine Offices Nor this only but he Deprives the Children of Henry the Eighth Born

against the Apostle as to positive Law So that Papists may take as many Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy as their Prince shall please yet the Pope when he pleases can dispence with them and set them free from all obligation of fidelity And hence it evidently follows That a true Roman-Catholique who believes this Popish Power of dispensing with all Oaths may take a thousand Oaths of Allegiance and yet give no assurance of his Fidelity to his Prince seeing the Pope may upon their approv'd Principles when he pleases set them free from all such Obligations 4. But if all these ways of nulling the Obligations of Oaths of Allegiance fail yet the Popes Janizaries the Jesuites have a new way to prevent all such Obligations of Oaths without any Dispensations and that is by Equivocations rectifying Intentions and their Doctrine of Probabilities pernicious Errors destructive of Humane Society and so notoriously now known to the World that I neither shall nor need go about to prove them or shew the pernicious consequences of them Sure I am that by their Popish Principles no Papists in England are permitted to take the Oath of Allegiance to their King and then 't is easie to judge what good Subjects they are like to be For certainly what I may lawfully do that on a just and serious occasion I may swear to do If it be a duty and lawful for me to obey my Princes commands and pay him fidelity then certainly I may by Oath bind my self to the performance of it So all Men by the Law of Nature and Moral Veracity are bound to speak truth it is both lawful and a duty and therefore when in Judicature I am call'd to be a Witness I may and by the consent of all Nations ought to take an Oath to bind me and assure others that I will speak truth All Men as I said and all confess are bound by an indispensable Law of Nature to speak truth when there is a just occasion for it and yet in Judicature his testimony would not pass for good evidence who being required would not by Oath confirm the truth of it And therefore Princes have just reason to believe that those who will not take an Oath to be Loyal Subjects will never be so without it And indeed the reason why Princes may justly suspect the fidelity of their Popish Clergy who refuse the Oath of Allegiance will farther appear if we consider 2. That when and where Popery prevails all their Bishops swear absolute Allegiance and Fidelity to the Pope and therefore cannot swear it to their Prince too The Oath every Popish Bishop must take at his Consecration is this ... I. N. from this time forward will be FAITHFUL and OBEDIENT to my Lord the Pope and his Successors ..... THE COUNSELS with which they trust me I will not discover TO ANY MAN to the hurt of the Pope or his Successors ... I will assist them to retain and defend the Popedome and THE ROYALTIES of St. Peter against ALL MEN ..... I will carefully conserve defend and promote the rights honors priviledges and authority of the Pope I will not be in any Counsel Fact or Treaty in which any thing prejudicial to the persons rights or power of the Pope is contrived and if I shall know any such things treated of by ANY WHOMSOEVER I will to the utmost of my power hinder them and with all possible speed signifie them to the Pope .... I will to the UTMOST OF MY POWER observe the POPES COMMANDS and MAKE OTHERS observe them I will impugn and PERSECUTE HERETICKS and REBELS to my LORD THE POPE I will come to the Synod WHEN HE CALLS ME c. This and much more such stuff you have in that Oath Now this is evidently an Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to the Pope Wherein to omit other things they swear 1. Never to discover the Popes Counsels how treasonable soever TO ANY MAN not the King 2. To defend the Popes ROYALTIES against ALL MEN the King not excepted 3. And if any thing be treated of prejudicial to the Pope BY ANY WHOMSOEVER the King not excepted they swear TO THE UTMOST OF THEIR POWER to oppose and hinder it Here is you see an Oath of absolute Allegiance to the Pope which cannot consist with that Homage and Allegiance or Fidelity which not only at present but anciently even in times of Popery all the Bishops of England did and solemnly swore to their King as a great Lawyer tells me And not long before him it it certain that Bishops at their Consecration took no Oath at all to the Pope but only promised him Canonical Obedience For in the old Ordo Romanus which as all agree was writ by Arnoldus Constantiensis Presbyter about the year 1060. The Metropolitan who consecrates askes the person to be consecrated thus Visne Beato Petro suaeque Ecclesiae ejusque VICARIO successoribus fidem subjectionem per omnia exhibere The Answer is Volo Then follows the promise of fidelity and subjection to his Metropolitan But with this difference To the Pope he promises ....... Fidem obedientiam per omnia as to the prime Patriarch But to the Metropolitan he only promises but swears to neither of them Fidem obedientiam exhibere But to let this pass It is manifest that whenever this Oath to the Pope began to be exacted of Bishops it has been in use ever since the time of Pope Gregory the IX who patch'd up and publish'd the Decretals In which you have the form of the Oath the Bishops then took to the Pope neither so long by far nor so bad as of later years has been required of all Bishops yet bad enough For when they swore obedience and fidelity absolutely to the Pope as now they do CONTRA OMNES HOMINES neither King nor Emperor excepted And we are told in some later Editions of their Canon-Law that now not onely all Bishops but whoever receives any dignity of the Pope take an Oath and swear Allegiance to him and is it possible that these persons who do and must Swear such absolute obedience and fidelity to the Pope can be faithful and loyal subjects to their Prince and indeed are not such Popish Principles both dangerous and especially to Protestant Princes pernicious and inconsistent with the Loyalty of Subjects or safety of Supreme Powers nor is this all there is more danger yet to Kings and Princes from their Popish Principles For 3. They Exempt all Ecclesiastiques from paying any Tax or Contribution to secular Princes without the Popes Leave This is the constant Doctrine of their Casuists their Canon-Law and Canonists Who tell us ........ Quod Laici Collectas imponentes Clericis sunt excommunicati cum suis fa●toribus All Laymen by their Law are Excommunicated if they lay any Tax upon the Clergy And again more fully we are told 1. That