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A27170 The holy inquisition wherein is represented what is the religion of the Church of Rome, and how they are dealt with that dissent from it. Beaulieu, Luke, 1644 or 5-1723. 1681 (1681) Wing B1574; ESTC R13764 91,990 274

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domini in haeresim manifestam sint Capti That Vassals and all Subjects are free from all allegeance and duty to their Lords or Sovereigns if they are faln into manifest Heresie Nay It is proved by many Authorities and good Decretals and Reasons Quod digni sunt majori supplicio Reges Principes Haeretici quam caeteri homines That Kings and Princes become Hereticks deserve greater punishments than inferiour persons And not only if they become Hereticks but also Si domini temporales constitutiones Pontificias contra Haereticos latas servare noluerint excommunicentur omni honore officio priventur If they do not execute the Popes Laws against Hereticks they forfeit their Crowns and Dignities This is so often repeated Si Reges alii Principes Christiani facti sint Haeretici protinus subjecti vassalli ab eorum dominio liberantur And this De Haeresi damnatus non debet vocari sub nomine dignitatis pristinae A King who is an Heretick is no King and ought not to be called by that name That one that hath truly and fully embraced Popery might act and intend any thing against Charles Stuart and all the while in a sense which he believes true profess himself a loyal and obedient subject to the King of England SECT IV. Of the Authorities and Authors used in this Book MOst of what hath been said of the proceedings of the Popes and the Inquisition against Hereticks and Heretical Princes is to be met with in so many Authors and with so little variation and recurrs so often that to bring quotations for every particular would have swelled and crowded my Margin to no purpose at all when it may do as well here to name those Books which will prove what I have alledged Indeed most of it is so unreasonable so strange and inhuman that to men of a good temper it will look like the Fiction of a malicious and a melancholy brain Did many that are in the Church of Rome believe it to be guilty of such unnatural Principles and bloudy Practices as are here mentioned they would be mightily staggered in their belief of its being the pure and only Church of Christ and some would forsake and even detest the communion of that merciless persecuting party who now with a good zeal follow it and think to go right Many Protestants also would be mightily confirmed in that Profession of the Christian Religion which is established among us and would be more thankful for being delivered from under the Roman yoke if they knew how heavy and intolerable it was to such of our Forefathers as saw the Truth and desired to follow it I know it is objected that we have those amongst us who are very froward and seditious towards their Governours and upon Rebellious Principles have done very vile things But it is our unhappiness and our grief our established Church and Religion are hated and persecuted by them and were by them altered and ruined when they had power and it is clear as the light that they have their ill Principles out of those very Roman Schools which they seem so much to abhor In them are taught at large those opinions which make Dissenters bad Subjects and those which countenance the usurpations of the Popes and the cruelties of the Inquisition I profess that what I have laid down as their Tenents or Practices I have had from their own Authors and that in them I have consulted there is vastly more and sometimes worse than what I have extracted I shall be amply justified as to the faithfulness of what account I give of the Papal and inquisitory proceedings against Hereticks be they Princes or Plebeians by them shall read the Canon Law or but seek under proper Titles in the Extravagants Clementines Sexte and even in the Decretals of Gregory IX But in that vast Collection of the Pontificial Law Printed at Venice you have many Authors inserted who treat at large of all things relating to Hereticks wherein a man may fully inform himself of those Writers I have but lightly touched I cite some Bulls that are in the Bullarium of Laërce Cher. and other Collections since But to save the labour of searching into great Volumes Alois Bariola and Franc. Pegna have made a Collection in quarto of above an Hundred Bulls since the beginning of the Reformation to injoyn direct and encourage the extirpation of Hereticks all manner of ways but especially by the Inquisition And because some might say Who regards old Bulls or Decretals And what do most of them signifie that have been long out of date We must know that every thing is in force that makes against Hereticks That we may not flatter our selves Canonists frequently tell us Extravagantes in corpore juris non clausae contra haereticos editae sunt validae si constitutionibus in corpore juris registratis contra haereticos non obvient That is That all those Laws and Papal prescripts new or old some forged some of uncertain Authors that are not digested into order and have no proper place assigned to them in the Body of the Canon are of force as far as they make against Hereticks and moderate or oppose none of the more Canonical Constitutions that are against them And we know how strictly they are executed where the Pope is obeyed and how general that execution would be if he might have his will There is a Bull of Pope Paul IV. anno 1558. whereby he very streightly commands Renovari inviolabiliter observari omnes leges decreta sive statuta à Romanis Pontificibus sacris conciliis sanctorum Patrum decretis in haereticos schismaticos quovis tempore edita etiamsi in literis Pontificum extravagantibus contineantur c. That all Laws Decrees and Statutes made at any time by Roman Popes sacred Councils or holy Fathers against Hereticks and Schismaticks should be renewed and inviolably observed even such as are among those Decretals which they call Extravagants And he commands further that if they have been upon any account disused or neglected they should now be revived and brought into use again and that they should be strictly obeyed and executed against all persons whatsoever without regard to their greatness or dignity If we believe him to be in earnest we see what would become of us and of Protestant Princes had he those that could or would put his Sentence in execution These publick and in the Church of Rome highest Authorities give greater force and credit to those lesser ones of private Writings which are licensed and allowed and are as it were but Comments upon the Text Declarations of the practice of the Church that her Laws are taught and obeyed so that all those Inquisitors Fiscalis's Consultors of the Holy Office and Canonists which have written about the Crime and punishment of Heresie are to be looked upon as the Sentences of the supreme Roman Tribunal or the executions of them Lud.