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A07806	An exact discoverie of Romish doctrine in the case of conspiracie and rebellion by pregnant obseruations: collected (not without direction from our superiours) out of the expresse dogmaticall principles of popish priests and doctors.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1605 (1605)	STC 18184.5; ESTC S113001	24,569	35

limit him lawes at their pleasure The French Iesuite sheweth a reason For maiestie saith he is rather seated in the kingdome than in the King Like to Stapleton his glosse People are not ordained for the Prince but the Prince for the people But more finely Reinalds A King is but a creature of mans creation Secondly the Pope To auouch his preeminence these men goe beyond the Moone as first Bozius The Pope the head of the Church hath power in all temporall causes and states This is true saith Bellarmine vnderstood indirectly as it may auaile for the spirituall good In briefe This supremacie of the Pope saith Stapleton is a doctrine to be holden of all Christians vpon paine of damnation and separation from the Church of God We demaund how farre th●se pretended powers may extend and hereupon we argue The third Reason Whosoeuer vpon any pretended supremacie whether of Pope or people d●e denie the necessarie right of Election or of succession of Protestant Princes are to be holden amongst all Protestants seditious but all popish priests doe vtterly abolish the title of succession in all Protestant Princes by pretended prerogatiue of Pope and people Ergo. The Minor prooued by their positions In Election 1. The Romish Cardinall There is no election whether of King or Emperour of any force if he that is elect such they esteeme all Protestants be excommunicate In Succession Reinalds The right of Kings Christian must depend rather vpon their religion than vpon order of succession and therefore all Christians are bound to cut off all hope least that any such speaking of Protestants may aspire to the Throne Otherwise saith Stapleton what do people else but euen preferre man before God Hereupon doth Simancha conclude that the kingdome of an Heretique departed doth lineally descend vpon his sonne but if the sonne in the race royall be heretical the Catholique Common-weale may chuse a Catholique Prince but if also the kingdome be hereticall then the choice of the King belongeth to the Pope and so the kingdome may be taken by Catholiques And least peraduenture any should consent to the lawfull succession Father Parsons doth pronounce sentence Whosoeuer shall consent to the succession of a Protestant is a most grieuous and damnable sinner Thus farre of the position Now behold their Practise 1. In France Reinalds doth forewarne the French Will ye proclaime Nauarre a Caluinist King of the most Christian kingdome of France What is this else than to aduance a dogge to be soueraigne ouer men Shall Catholiques pray God saue that King whom they may not admit into their houses For suppose saith Father Creswell that hee professe to bring in a more sound religion what is this to the purpose he is bound to defend the Romish faith From France we will returne home where Father Parsons busieth himselfe to disable the title of succession of our most dread Soueraigne King Iames with intent to aduance the Infanta of Spaine thereunto Thus much of Successors now of possessors The fourth Reason When the King is established in his Throne by common consent of the kingdome whosoeuer shall manacle the hands of his subiects detracting all obedience may iustly by order of law be challenged and condemned for a disordered and rebellious person But all popish priests doe dissolue the oath of obedience to all Protestant gouernours Ergo. The Minor proued by Their Positions First one of their Bishops resolueth that As soone as a Christian King becomes hereticall foorthwith people are freed from subiection Secondly their Cardinall As long as the Prince continueth excommunicate the subiect is freed from the oath of subiection By whom are they freed By the Pope saith the Iesuite who vpon iust cause hath power to absolue from oathes both himselfe and all others Sometime the Prince is personallie excommunicate what then Then saith their Lawyer subiects are freed from their allegeance and all his hereticall assistants to be rooted out and their land to be exposed to be possessed of Strangers Catholiques But how if he be not excommunicate by name Yea what though not excommunicate If saith another his heresie be publiquely knowne there needeth no pronunciation of the sentence of excommunication So that saith the Iesuite subiects may lawfully denie him obedience How so For the euidence of the crime saith their whole Schoole doth inferre a sentence of condemnation because as the more common opinion defineth there must wee vnderstand the Pope his will is to haue him excommunicate whom vpon the knowledge of his fault he would excommunicate Say Father Creswell is this true It is certaine and of faith auouched by the vniuersall voice of Schooles Satisfie vs yet in one question more Suppose that the Protestant Prince haue a iust quarrell what then No warre can be lawfully denounced or waged by the Queene being excommunicate by name though otherwise in it selfe it were most iust because her power is vnlawfull Thus farre of the Positions Practise First Pope Gregorie the 7. alias Hildebrand beginneth his Pageant We by Apostolicall authoritie doe absolue al from their oathes which they haue giuen to persons excommunicate And another Gregorie vseth the like tenour We absolue c. in the same case Lastly Pius Quintus their successor in place but superiour in malice We commaund all subiects saith he c. and absolue them from the faith they haue plight with Elizabeth their Queene We haue alreadie vnderstood how they forbid obedience to Kings Now will we examine how they also inforce violence and in this case we argue thus The fifth Reason Whosoeuer suggesteth a doctrine of forcible deposing of Princes from their Thrones are therein manifestly rebellious But all Popish priests defend violent deposing of Kings and Emperours Ergo. Their positions Costerus This power saith he of deposing Kings of their Crownes and Emperours of their dignities in behalfe of the good of the Church was alwaies peculiar to the Pope Who hath no lesse authoritie as Christs Vicar ouer Christians than the hireling hath ouer his beasts So the Pope hath authoritie ouer the Emperor saith Molina because the Emperour is but the Popes minister and is to vse his temporall sword only at his beck But what if Kings will not inthrall themselues to the Popes authoritie It is not lawfull for Christians saith the Cardinall to tolerate anie King who draweth his subiects vnto heresie But subiects ought saith Saunders to endeuour to set vp another in his place Yea they ought saith Creswell to expell him out of his kingdome as the enemie of Christ. An vndoubted doctrine among the learned and agreeable to Apostolicall truth Yea which is more Although the Pope saith Bannes should tolerate an hereticall King yet may the Common-wealth remoue him And yet behold a greater mysterie of this

iniquitie than all these for suppose that the King deposed shall be willing to be reconciled to the Church Yet notwithstanding saith Simancha he may not recouer his Crowne Let vs now see this familie of Corah Practise We will omit their Henries Fredericks Otho's and like Emperours and Kings of former times call but to minde that which hath been visible in our daies the late Henry of France concerning whom their owne Prophet hath published a Treatise the scope thereof is this The French haue with good conscience borne armes against King Henry the 3. and depriued him of his Crowne Returne home there wee see a Comet The Rebell O-neele is vp in armes against his Queene the Colledge of Sal●man bring pitch to quench this flame and resolue thus Whatsoeuer Catholiques shall not forsake the defence of the English and follow the O-neele doth sin mortally and cannot obtaine life euerlasting except he desist Shall we thinke that other priests can haue more loyall spirits Impossible as long as they receiue their breath from that Maister who commendeth the former positions against the foresaid King of France Those Diuines saith Pope Xistus haue done the parts of good Lawyers Confessors and Doctors His predecessor Pope Pius against our late Soueraigne We commaund the subiects of England to take armes against Elizabeth their Queene Hitherto hath been manifested onely their violence against the dignities of Princes now heare of their violating of their sacred persons in conspiring their deaths The sixth Reason Whosoeuer doth intend designe or practise the murther of Princes must necessarilie be holden for desperate Traitors But all Popish priests are guiltie in some of these kindes Ergo. The Minor proued by their Positions They professe all that it is lawfull to take armes against their Kings as we haue prooued from whence wee may argue against them as hee against a seditious one Quis sensus armorum What other meaning can armes haue but onely blood But not to dispute from our suppositions but their positions by these degrees First the French Defence saith that Any man may lawfully murder a Tyrant which I defend saith hee by common consent Now It is euident saith our Reinolds that euery heretique Prince is most properly and perfectly a Tyrant Which is supposed by the Spanish Iesuite speaking of this point That if saith he they may bee bereaued of their liues then much more of their liuings and renownes And which is the height of furie Hereticall Kings saith Simancha deserue more grieuous punishment than priuate men therefore the Scythians as he well deserued did put to death their King Scylen for violating their Bacchanals Scythia a most barbarous nation is the fittest glasse that these priests can finde to looke their faces in Well shew vs then your Scythian and Heathenish practises Practise Let vs trauell but in your thoughts into India where as your Arnoldus in his publique Oration in the Vniuersitie of Paris did contest the generall clamour of the poore people was that Iesuites were the causes of all tyrannie which was exercised amongst them Passe homeward through Germany there we see Duke Rodolph persecuting the Emperor Henry his King by force of armes through instigation of the Pope From thence wee come to France where Clemens the Monke as a bloodie parricide did murder Henry his King Lastly to arriue at home where after the Bull of Pius Quintus few yeres passed without such desperate attempts against their Soueraigne that Bull bellowing thus We will command subiects to take armes against their Queen Which breath possessed all those late conspirators Arden Someruile Parry Cullen Squire Lopez with others all by instigation of priests sought the death of our and their Soueraigne And now at this present behold and be astonished A fornace prouided to consume at once not onely the King but also because an absolute state assembled the whole kingdome Durst these Inginers doe any such thing without direction from their priests First they conspire by oath vnder the seale of the here is a priest Sacrament Secondly he that was to put fire to it runneth once and againe to the Seminarie at Doway doubtlesse to consult with that priestly Oracle Thirdly he will not bewray his complices except he may be warranted by a priest And that this kinde of act is their priestly function will appeare in the subsequents The seuenth Reason Seeing It is in a manner all one to commit a villanie and to commend it We may argue that whosoeuer shall iustifie acts of treasons and parricides are not vnguiltie of the same crimes But all priests doe iustifie such hainous parricides Ergo. The Minor proued by their positions practicall The famous Cardinal and publique Reader in Rome saith Many Popes haue iustly deposed many Princes Our Countrimen Cardinall Allen Reinalds Parsons inciting subiects to armes against their prince do perswade by examples meerly rebellious as resisting of King Iohn of Edward the 2. of Richard the 2. of Henry the 6. as presidents to be followed The Author of the booke of Deposing Henry King of France doth sing a Gaudeamus for his death And againe Allen approueth the perfidious rendring vp of Douentore and incourageth the English malcontents to ioyne their forces with the Spanish Inuasion So the Colledge of the Iesuites at Salamane approued the insurrection of Tyrene And doe not the most of that Sect canonize in their conceits all such popish ones as haue been executed for manifest treasons An example of a notable patron of high treason Xistus Quintus maketh a publike Oration in his Consistorie of Cardinals the subiect matter he sheweth is this The King of France is slaine by the hand of a Monke And what of this This saith he is a notable rare and memorable act But why Because he slew not saith he a King painted in paper or grauen in stone but the King of France in the middest of his host Is it a wonder any should wonder that a Monke could murder a mortall King seeing popish historie doe record that Pope Hadrian being guiltie of the like seditious practise against the Emperour Henry the 2. was choaked with a flye Nay but if the Monke had killed a painted image that had been an act farre more memorable and lesse intolerable notwithstanding no fact is good because great but therefore great because good Say then what is to be thought of the worthines of the fact It was a fact done by y● admirable prouidence will and succour of almightie God How by Gods will counselling and approuing it Holy Iudith is famous saith he for the slaying of Holophernes which she did not without the suggestion of Gods spirit But this religious man hath done a farre more marueilous worke O marueilous Religion yet so it is in this sinne of parricide where A