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A52328 The pernicious consequences of the new heresie of the Jesuites against the King and the state by an advocate of Parliament.; Pernicieuses conséquences de la nouvelle hérésie des Jesuites contre le roy et contre l'estat. English Nicole, Pierre, 1625-1695.; Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.; Arnauld, Antoine, 1612-1694. 1666 (1666) Wing N1138; ESTC R16118 63,076 176

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Campianus Capistranus Carrerius Catena Chirlandus Creswell Doleman Duval Eudaemon Fevardentius Gabulius Garnet Greg. of Valentia Gretser Guignard Kellerus Lessius Molina Pacensis Parsons Pelagius Richeome Ribadeneira Rosseus Sà Sadlerus Santarel Scribanius Stapleton Symancha Tesmond Veruna Wendeckius Zodoricus and thousands more who have dipp'd their Pens in the bloud of Kings with a Praeclarè cum rebus humanis ageretur si multi c. as one of these Gallants does not blush to say publickly and in print Velim sciatis says Campian quod ad Societatē nostrā attinet omnes nos qui per totum orbem longè latéque diffusi sumus quorum est continua successio magnus numerus sanctum foedus iniisse neque quamdiu vel unus nostrûm supererit studiū consilia nostra de salute vestra meaning the Subversion of the Government and the Religion profess'd in it intermissuros Jampridem inita ratio est inchoatum certamen nulla vis nullus Anglorum impetus superabit and 't is bravely resolved Nor are these all of one but of several Nations also to shew that 't is not the Vote of private Doctors onely as Creswell would bear us down but of their whole College Divines and Lawyers too Et certum est de Fide That if any Christian Prince deflexerit shall but warp a little he is immediately deposeable possunt debent eum arcere like another Nebuchadnezzar ex hominum Christianorum dominatu and who shall say nay Nos nos Imperia Regna Principatus quicquid habere Mortales possunt auferre dare posse I could not forbear a smile at the pretty Interpretation which Father Creswel gives to a place of Scripture upon this Deflexerit which we mentioned Such a Prince says he does ipso facto forfeit his right of Government according to that of the Apostle Si Infidelis discedit c. If the Unbelieving depart let him depart A Brother or a Sister suppose a Subject He or She is not under bondage in such cases But all this is no news My Lord to those who shall observe how happily they apply that Concession to S. Peter to invade the unclean Beasts whenever his Holinesse's stomach serves him Occîde manduca Christ must reign 'till he have put all his Enemies under his feet That is as one inferrs 'till the Pope have serv'd all Heretical Kings as Barbarossa was To which we adde that of Jer. 1.10 See I have constituted thee over the Nations and over Kingdoms to root out and to pull down to destroy and to throw down to build and to plant for so they interpret that passage of the Prophet as our Author observes And what of all this We must know that the Pope has a faculty beyond any Prophet or Apostle of them all as Antonius Maria blushes not to affirm and Hosius once for all Unless the sense of Scripture says he be expounded juxta sensum Ecclesiae Romanae according to the sense of the Roman Church 't is not the express word of God but the express word of the Devil My hand trembles to proceed to the rest and it was high time My Lord for the Gallican Church as it is for us to lay their hand to the Buckler and to look after these Monsters who have felt the effects of these bold and perverse spirits from their Childeric to their darling Henry his Majestie 's renowned Grandfather not to mention that Henry of our own It would fill an Iliad but to repeat the sad consequences of this exauctorating Doctrine since Gregory the VIIth degraded that Proto-Martyr-Emperor as we may style him to this Idol the Pope And what befel our John of England whose Crown was given away to Philip Augustus K. of France and received again on condition of a sordid Vassalage Nor did Innocentius the IVth pretend less to the Emp. Frederic the II d Bonifacius the VIIIth on King Philip the Fair Julius the II d who deposed John of Navarr Sixtus V tus Henry the III d as a fore-runner of the Knife Who can with patience reade the insolent treatment of Celestine the III ● crowning an Emperor with one foot and spurning it off with the other And where the neck of a Frederic was proudly trod on we have beheld the very Marble and Inscription justified by that perverted Scripture Super Leonem Aspidem to shew their contempt of Kings Dr. Parry was encouraged to murther Q. Elizabeth from his Holiness by an express Letter of the Cardinal of Como's extolling the design and Perron has celebrated the like pretences to palliate the Odium or at best leaves it problematical when after all that the Third Estate had declared in abhorrence of it and the Parricide committed on the person of the French Henry he tells us the Doctrine which renders Kings indeposable is a Doctrine which opens a gap to no less then Schism and Heresie and is wholly unnecessary advising his Auditors to submit to the Judgment of the Pope as the onely Moderator in the Case and what that is we have in part declar'd Woe be to that Prince whom our Holy Father resigns to Chastisement propter Haeresin or that the Eruditi Graves pronounce for a Tyrant and burthensome to the State as Pope Bradshaw and his Assessors not long since with us Would one think the action of Jehoiada upon Athaliah should be suborn'd to justifie a Popish Regicide But 't was done zelo matris Ecclesiae says Tolet. I omit to speak of the Decrees of the Council of Constance against this accursed Doctrine so worthily vindicated by our illustrious Author and of the Practice as well as Precept of our Blessed Lord himself the Apostles Primitive Fathers and the Ages they liv'd in because they are written with the beams of the Sun And if Tertullian had not long since assured us they wanted neither Strength nor Numbers the duty of our Obedience had been sufficiently described to teach us subjection to our Princes good or bad 'till our modern Fathers did open the eyes of the superstitious World forsooth and obtained a Brief of his Holiness by which subjects were dispens'd withall ut servirent tempori or until as our Country-man explains it they should have vires idoneas sufficient force which Ribadeneira styles Christian Prudence For then Omnium Catholicorum sententia 'T is universally agreed upon that Subjects are not onely to rebell against Heretical Princes but are by divine precept conscientiae vinculo arctissimo and under pain of damnation obliged to it That which I would evince is the peril Kings are in who stop their ears to the Trumpets which are daily sounded to alarm them against a sort of Sycophants and Roman Pensionaries who swarm in their Courts and Kingdoms watching onely for this bloudy signal Let our own incomparable PRINCE but consider how often his Dominions have been claim'd as
Of You Sir our most Noble Lord by the Grace of God King of France the people of Your Kingdom supplicate and desire because it behoves them so to doe that You preserve the Sovereign Freedom of your Kingdom which is that You own and acknowledge no Sovereign on the Earth over Your Temporals but God alone and that You give all the World to understand that Pope Boniface does manifestly erre and commit a most notorious mortal sin in sending You word by his Letters and Bulls that himself was Sovereign of Your Temporals c. and those who should believe the contrary he esteem'd as Hereticks Also that You cause to be declared that we are bound to hold the Pope himself an Heretick and not You good King and all the liege people of Your Kingdom who have ever believed and do believe the contrary The same Protestation is to be seen in several Acts inserted in that Collection which Mons. du Puy has made of the difference between King Philip the Fair and Pope Boniface where you 'l see how Pope Boniface's Bulls were then explain'd and what was the opinion of France touching Infallibility 'T is in vain to strive to make any other replies to these kind of Popes Decrees then such as the French of that Age did before us For as there 's nothing to which the Court of Rome aspires with greater passion then to this Temporal Empire so neither is there any thing which the Popes have establish'd with so much industry Cardinal Bellarmine summs up no less then 18 since Gregory the VIIth to our times who manifestly attributed to themselves this right as they call'd it of deposing Kings and chastising them temporally even to the privation of their States viz. Victor the III d Urban the II d Paschal the II d Gelasius the II d Calixtus the II d Alexander the III d Innocentius the III d Honorius the III d Gregory the IXth Innocent the IVth Boniface the VIIIth Clement the VIth Paul the II d Iulius the II d Paeul the III d Pius the Vth Gregory the XIIIth and Sixtus the Vth He counts to 16 or 17 Kings and Emperours against whom Popes have pretended this right of Sovereignty as a debt due to them amongst which there are 5 French Kings Philip the I st Philip the Fair Lewis the XIIth Henry the III d and Henry the IVth Baronius mentions also the Excommunication of a world of Germans who are not yet well agreed concerning the Pope's Power by which it appears that they alwaies pretended to make it an Heresie when at any time they were the strongest party Nor is there any thing more frequent in these Bulls then their menacing Kings and Princes to deprive them of their States in case of Disobedience Which universally betraies that Passion which the Court of Rome has to infuse this belief into the minds of the People But if one could forget those other enterprises of Rome against our Kings which are founded upon this pretented Superiority as this Superiority is upon Infallibility since France has so universally hindred their effects yet we cannot but remember that which made us lose Navarre because the wound is yet bleeding Ferdinand had no other pretext to swallow it up from Iohn d' Albret Great-Grandfather to Henry the Great besides a Bull which he obtain'd of Iulius the II d against the King and Queen of Navarre importing Privation of their Kingdom for having assisted Lewis the XIIth whom it call'd Schismatick and as having denied passage to the Army which Ferdinand King of Arragon would have sent into France to assist the King of England in the conquest of Guienne I know very well that Cardinal du Perron to render this Doctrine of the Power of Popes over the Temporals of Kings less odious to the French tells us that the real cause of the loss of the Kingdom of Navarre was the breach of the Alliance which the King of Navarre had with Ferdinand King of Arragon which Ferdinand pretended to have been establish'd on condition that if the Kings of Navarre should violate it the Kingdom of Navarre should again revert to the Spaniards who had render'd it by deed in Writing to the race of Albret and that Pope Iulius's Excommunication was neither the true Cause nor real Pretence but a certain tail of a Pretence which though Ferdinand had made no use of he had notwithstanding pretended that the Kingdom of Navarre appertain'd to him and consequently possess'd it But I know as well too that there is nothing worse founded then this answer as Mons. du Puy has made appear by most invincible proofs in his Treatise of the Right of the King to the Kingdom of Navarre For he does there prove by the Spanish Historians themselves that Ferdinand during the Usurpation and whiles he liv'd had onely the Title by the Pope's Excommunication to justifie his Arms. He shews how Ferdinand having swallow'd up this Kingdom 1512 and being press'd by the King of Navarre 1513 to doe him reason defended his possession by no other right but by that of the Excommunication and that in the two most authentick Acts on this subject one whereof is the Will and Testament of Ferdinand by which he bequeaths the Kingdom of Navarre to his Daughter Iane Queen of Castile and the other of the Union of that Kingdom to that of Castile it is expresly signified that Iohn d' Albret and Catharine his Wife had been depriv'd of it by the Pope for having adher'd to the Schism of the French Kings against Pope Iulius the II d and that the Pope had given him this Kingdom to dispose of as he pleas'd I omit the other proofs Which sufficiently shews that the Pope's Bull was no tail of Pretext but indeed the onely and sole Pretence of that unjust Usurpation which continues to this very day In the second place there is nothing more absurd then to say that the Spaniards had never rendred the Kingdom of Navarre to the race of Albret but with this written Caution That if their Successors should violate the Alliance the Kingdom should revert to the Spaniards For Iean d' Albret on whom was the Usurpation was the first of Albret's race who possess'd the Kingdom How then could it be said that the Spaniards had render'd it to Albret's race who before never enjoy'd it And supposing we did take the word render'd for given it is no less false that the Spaniards were they of Arragon or Castile gave this Kingdom to the race of Albret who in no sort held it of the Spaniards but by the Marriage of Catharine who succeeded King Francis Phoebus his Brother and Francis Phoebus to Elianor his Grandmother wife of Gastion de Foix and sole superviving Daughter of Blanch Queen of Navarre which Lady had espous'd Iohn King of Arragon the Father of Ferdinand who being born of another Venter had nothing to doe with Navarre So as this pretended Caution can be no other then a
has most ingenuously acknowledged And how indeed can that Party exclaim against his Majestie or his Laws accusing the Regulars as the persons culpable and the Seculars as the persons accidentally and for their sakes onely obnoxious and punish'd whose demerits were the cause It is for these therefore my Lord I would sooner plead for mercy and in earnest I wish it might consist with the Wisdom of the Legislative power to state a difference between them But we have already described the Expedient Let them first renounce their dangerous Opinions by some such publick irreversible and authentick Act as may totally cancel the just presumption which lies at their doors and at once remove that intolerable scandal which the World does universally charge them withall and which even one of their own acknowledges to be their due after a thousand notorious Examples Proprium esse Ecclesiae odisse Caesares That Popes have even a natural Antipathy to Kings It is the Reverse my Lord of these Doctrines and of all those fatal Images of Jesuitical Disloyalty for which the Church of England alone will have the honour to be deservedly celebrated to Posterity And if his Majestie do not love and cherish her above all the Churches and Professions under Heaven a Church which has so constantly maintained a Truth so ancient so pure and so obliging to Kings even in the sense and interpretation of her very Adversaries who have the least grain of true Illumination and ingenuity the Miracle of His and Her stupendious Restauration will rise up in Judgment against us But He has already done it to his eternal renown and I have no more to adde but that God Almighty would still maintain what he has so signally wrought amongst us And for those heroick Assertors of what not onely concerns the French Kings but indeed all the Crown'd Heads of Christendome besides mine Option and Augure is That as God gave Aegypt to the King of Babylon for his hire and reward in having chastiz'd those wicked Nations he was angry with so it may please him to give these sincere Defenders of Jansenius and other Truths in opposition to the Errors of the Roman Court the Light in fine of his divine Truth and to emerge out of that Aegyptian Darkness in which the rest are so miserably involv'd These with my Prayers for your Lordship 's consummate Felicity are the Votes of My Lord Your Honour's most obedient and most obliged servant THE PERNICIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF THE New HERESIE of the IESUITES AGAINST The KING and the STATE Advice to the Reader THis Treatise being written two years since and several Copies thereof dispers'd among divers persons of Condition it was deemed the conjuncture of the present Affairs might render the Publication of it necessary for the benefit both of the Church and the State But it is thought fit to advertise that the Author of this Piece having made use in it of some Memoires concerning Infallibility which he had before prepar'd these Notes happening to fall into the hands of a person of small Iudgment he caused them to be printed under the Title of A Defence of the Liberties of the Gallican Church c. adding of himself a great many impertinent and indiscreet particulars which have exceedingly disfigur'd these Memoires IT does not suffice that our Divines have represented to the Church the Exorbitances of the New Heresie of the Iesuites in what concerns Religion and the honour of God to whom they would equal a mortal man by a most sacrilegious impiety the faithful servants of the King find themselves oblig'd likewise to elevate their voices and to represent those pernicious Consequences as to what regards the safety of his Sacred Person and the good of his Estate The Apostle S. Peter establishes for the two principal parts of Piety the Fear of God and the Honour which is due to Kings Deum timete Regem honorificate If these Divines have satisfied the first of these obligations by the just aversion they have stirr'd up in all pious persons to the pernicious adulation of the Iesuites which they have discover'd to be no less then a kind of Idolatry it were but reasonable that others should satisfie the second by inspiring all those who bear any love or affection to their King with the horrour which they ought to have of a Doctrine which may prove to funest to his Person and is in danger of ravishing from him the most august and supreme Quality that he has receiv'd from God which is to depend on him alone in Temporals and to be independent of all other Powers upon the face of the Earth True it is that his Majesty has already been advertis'd of it and has clearly perceiv'd by that light and vivacity of spirit which all Europe admires in a Prince so young of what pernicious Consequence this novel Doctrine was which they would introduce into his State and the advantage which they might take to establish their pretensions who design nothing more then to reach the Heads of Kings and even subject them in Temporals It were fit therefore that all the world knew as much that those who are not sensibly touch'd with the prospect of an Error so prejudicial to Religion as falsly imagining it to concern the Divines onely may at least be affected with the consideration of the prejudice which it may bring to the State and to the sacred and inviolable rights of the Crowns of our Kings But since the address which has been made use of by the Partisans of those corrupt Opinions has been to infuse it into the minds of the people masked under the vizor of Religion and respect to the Pope and to decry the opposers of it as enemies to the holy See it is necessary we should defeat their artifice by discovering it to the world and by teaching them to distinguish as our fathers have done before us the Apostolical See from the Court Politick of Rome which are things totally different For that which we are to understand by the Apostolical Seat is that Spiritual Authority of the Head of the Church which Iesus Christ gave to S. Peter residing in the Pope and which all Christians are oblig'd to acknowledge and reverence by an inseparable union with it as the very center of the Communion of the Church But the Court Politick of Rome is nothing else but that Swarm of Courtiers who are about the Pope's person to advance their fortunes and thrust themselves into Church-Dignities and the person of Popes consider'd not as Popes but as Men who being as obnoxious as others to their Ambition and other humane passions suffer themselves to be often transported by the adulation of their Courtiers to attribute to themselves without reason Rights and Prerogatives which God never gave them and that are equally prejudicial to the Sovereignty of Kings the repose of the People the tranquillity of the Church the good of the Catholick Religion and in fine to the true