Ecclesiae Bona census ac jura etiam feudalia c. quacunque arte aut quocunque quaesito colore in proprios usus convertere iis Anathemati tam diu subjaceat c. Sess 22. c. 11. and Kings as well as others to be Excommunicated who shall upon any account whatever sell and alienate any Church-Lands Goods or Chattels without the Pope's leave And if any person great or small King or Subject shall be found guilty of Contumacy against any Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Judge then the said Judge may (c) Sitque erga judicem Contumacia tunc reos etiam Anathematis mucrone arbitrio suo praeter alios poenas fevire poterit c. at his pleasure not onely Excommunicate such an offender but also decree him to be punished any other ways as the said Judge shall think fit And if the said excommunicated person though a King for it is Concil Trid-sess 25. e. 3. Quicunque post legitimas admonitiones non resipuerit c. Whosoever shall after legal Admonition continue obstinate he shall be punished as an Heretick that is with Death Contra eum tanquam de Haeresi suspectum procedi possit ibid. Bonaventure declares it for an undoubted Truth that the Supreme Power (a) Jam verò possunt Sacerdotes Pontifices ex causa amovere Reges deponere Imperatores sicut saepiùs accidit visum est quando scilicet eorum malitia hoc exigit Reipublicae necessitas sic requirit Summus verò Pontifex penes quem in terris prima residet Auctoritas non à Rege non à Principe seculari non ab homine judicatur sed solius Dei judicio reservatur Bonavent lib. de eccles Hierarch c. 1. on Earth is in the Pope and that as he already has often done so again he may Remove Kings and Depose Emperours for their Wickednesses and that the Pope is accountable for so dling unto no Earthly Power whatever whether Regal Imperial or otehrwise but onely unto God Cardinal Bellarmine assures his Reader That the Popes of Rome have power not onely to Excommunicate but also to Depose and Sentence to Death Heretical and ungodly Kings and to give away (a) Posse à Romano Pontifice Principes Christianos excommunicari principaetu privari eorúmque subditos ab obeâ—ieutia eorum absolvi c. Bellarm. de potest sum Pontif. praef p. 6. their Crowns and Lands unto others that are Godly and Catholick and to absolve their Subjects from all Duty and Allegiance to them and to confirm the truth of what he asserts he quotes the Authority and Judgment of Pope Gregory the 7th of Cajetan Pet. Ancharanus Sylvester Prieras Astensis and many others for the same And he highly applauds and justifies the Pope's excommunicating Hen 8th King of England for Heresie which Heresie was onely King Henry's Renouncing the Pope's Supremacy and Defending his own The Horrid practice of Assassinating and Murthering Lawfull Kings for want of Grace and for Heresie is amply justified and highly commended as a meritorious Act by Pope Sixtus Quintus in his large Oration made to the Cardinals in Consistory at Rome on Septemb. 11. 1589. upon the Murther and Death of Henry the Third King of France who was most barbarously Assassinated and Stab'd to Death in the midst of his Army by JAQVES CLEMENT a Popish-Dominican Fryar Some of the said Pope's own words are as follow in the Margin In which you will find Pope Sixtus (a) Hoc de quo nunc verba facimus quod his diebus nostris evenit verè insigne memorabile penè incredibile opus est nec sine Dei Op. Max. particulari providentia perpetratum Occidit Monachus Regem non pictum Quintus so far from disclaiming against the Monk for that execrable Murther committed upon the aforesaid King's Person as that he rather in high strains of Rhetorick wonderfully applauds the said Hellish Fact and styles it a most famous memorable and well-nigh incredible Act yea a work done not without the particular Providence and disposition of Almighty God A Fryar has kill'd a King And for fear his Auditours should think he told them a Romance he repeats it again saying I assure you A Monk has kill'd a King not a King (b) aut fictum in charta aut pariete sed Regem Francorum in medio exercitûs sui milite custodiâ septum painted in Paper or pictured upon a Wall not a Jack of Lent but a real living King even the French King in the midst of his Army whilst encompassed about with his Guard And although All Monks by their Holy Order and Profession (c) Iste Monachus praeliis ac pugnis non erat assuefactus à sanguine vitae suae inslituto ita abhorrens ut nec ex vena incisione fusum cruorem forsan ferre potuerit were forbid to shed bloud yet it was commendable in this Monk And farther the Pope acquaints the Cardinals with what Instrument (a) Etiam cum Cultello ad hoc propositum praeparato non in vagina condito unde poterat esse probabilis excusatio sed nudo ac in Manicâ abscondito quem si invenissent mox fuisset in crucem actus the Monk effected his bloudy design to wit with a Knife which he had cunningly hid in his Sleeve for that purpose But that which seems most inhumane in this Pope was his Denying the aforesaid Murthered King Christian Burial and his Holiness pleaded Sacred Scripture for his (b) De persona ergo Regis â—autum ista cum dolore diximus cujus infaustus finis eximit quoque ipsum ab iis officiis quae solet haec sancta sedes Imperatoribus Regibus post morâ—em exhibere quae pro isto libentèr fecissemus nisi id fieri in hoc casu Sacrae Scripturae vetarent warrant After all this Barbarity any one in pity and charity would have thought that although the said Pope denied the Massacred King Honourable and Christian Burial yet he would not have denied him his own and all compassionate mens Prayers for His Majesty's Souls deliverance if not from Purgatory yet from Hell But such was his implacable malice against the said King as that he did not onely decree that (a) Decrevimus pro ipso Rege non esse celebrandas exequias no funeral Rites should be performed for him But also that (b) Intelligimus praedictum Regem ex hac vita sine poenitentia seu impoenitentem excessisse nimirum in Consortio Haereticorum at que pro tali peccato seu pro Homine sic peccante noluit Apostolus ut post mortem oraremus Sixt. Quint. Pont. Max. Serm. Romae Consist Sept. 11. 1589. no prayers should be made for him after his Death he dying in his Heresie was excluded from all Grace and Mercy hereafter Jodocus Lorichius assures us also That it is the constant Doctrine of the Church of Rome scil That the Pope
(a) Ita nihil mali contra Imperatorem faciebat Nicomedensis Patricius qui Edictum publicè propositum concerpsit Melancth in Dan. c. 6. p. 101. Edict although the said Edict was possibly not so good as the generality of Reformers would have had it For that passionate and rash Action was no other than Rebellion against the Emperour's Person and Authority And the man might as Lawfully have torn into pieces the Emperour's Person as his Edict And in truth the countenancing such a Rebellious Action does very much encourage disaffected men unto a General Rebellion For if it be Lawfull for One private man then is it Lawfull for every man to Rebell and in like manner to tear the King's Proclamations Laws and Edicts into pieces Which to affirm or to doe is directly contrary to the Doctrine of the Gospel and to the Profession and Practice of the Apostles and Primitive Christians Unto the above-mentioned Foreign Writers we will add The late and present Covenanters and Fanatical Associatours of both Scotland and England Whose Disloyal and Factious Tenents and Positions the Famous and Loyal Vniversity of Oxford have Sum'd up and have printed them with the Authours of them and have by a Vote of their Congregation on July 24. 1683 Decreed That their said Fanatical and Seditious Positions and Doctrines Oxfords Decree and the Books containing them be publickly Burnt by the hand of their Vniversity-Marshall in the Court of their Schools Some of which Seditious Positions were these that follow 1. That if Lawfull Governours become Tyrants or Govern otherwise than by the Laws of God and Man they ought to do they forfeit the Right they had unto their Government Lex Rex Jo Milton Jo. Goodwin Rich. Baxter H. C. And we will add 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 aliàs Jo. Blackbdell 2. That the Sovereignty of England is in the Three Estates scil King Lords and Commons The King has but a co-ordinate Power and may be over-ruled by the other two Lex Rex Hunton of limited and mixed power Rich. Baxter H. C. And note that they took this false Doctrine from Calvin Beza and the rest abovementioned 3. That Proximity of Bloud and Birth-Right give no Title to Rule or Government and that it is Lawfull to preclude the next Heir from his Right and Succession to the Crown Lex Rex Doleman Julian Apostate and we may add the Votes of the late Associatours against the present Duke of York's Succession to the Crown of England 4. That it is Lawfull for the Subjects without the Consent and against the Command of the Supreme Magistrate to enter into Leagues Covenants Associations for defence of themselves and their Religion Solemn League and Covenant and the late Association 5. That the Presbyterian Government is the Sceptre of Christ's Kingdom to which Kings as well as others are bound to submit And the King's Supremacy in Ecclesiastical Affairs asserted by the Church of England is injurious to Christ the sole King and Head of his Church Altare Damascenum Cartwright Travers add Presbyt General Assembly in Scotaland 1592. Jam. Guthry's first Speech to the Parliament in Scotland 6. That wicked Kings and Tyrants ought to be put to death and if the Judges and Inferiour Magistrates will not doe their Office the power of the Sword devolves to the People if the major part of the people refuse to exercise this power then the Ministers may excommunicate such a King after which it is Lawfull for any of the Subjects to kill him as the people did Athaliah and Jehu Jezabell Buchanan Knox Goodman Gilby 7. That King Charles the First was Lawfully put to death and his Murtherers were the Blessed Instruments of God's glory in their generation Jo. Milton Jo. Goodwin Jo. Owen and we will add John Blackbdell aliàs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 By these and the like Instances which may be brought it is proved to a very Demonstration That the wicked Doctrine and Practice of Resisting Lawfull Kings and of Deposing and Killing them and of Excluding their Right Heirs from Succeeding in their Thrones for ill Government Heresie or want of Grace is Grounded on Fanaticism And was never preached nor practised by any Episcopal Protestants but onely by the Papists and Fanaticks who ever denied The King's Supremacy The English Churche's Episcopacy CHAP. VI. A Paralle or A Brief and True Account of some Plots and Treasons of Papists and Fanaticks against the Kings and Queens of England since the Reformation and Abrenunciation of Popery EVER since the Abrenunciation of the Pope's Jurisdiction in England the Papists and Fanaticks have gone hand in hand in plotting and raising Sedition and Rebellion against our Kings and Queens upon the Pretence of Religion As for instance The Papists having Sir Francis Bygott for their General raised War against King Henry the Eighth for his being a Protestant and for Marrying a Lutheran The Fanaticks having Sir Thomas Wyat for their Commander made War against Queen Mary for her being a Papist and for Marrying a Papist The Papists Humfrey Arundell being their chief Captain Rebelled at Excester in Devonshire upon the account of Religion in King Edward the Sixth's Reign exclaiming bitterly against Protestantism The Fanaticks Robert Kett being their chief Leader made War and Rebelled at Norwich in Norfolk against the same King Edw. the Sixth under the pretence of Religion exclaiming Loudly against Popery The Papists plotted several times but were not able to effect the Deposition and Death of Queen Elizabeth a Protestant The Fanaticks plotted and effected the Deposition and Expulsion of Mary Queen of Scotland a Papist The Papists plotted the Alteration of the Protestant Religion that they might introduce Popery in Queen Elizabeth's Reign The Fanaticks in her Reign plotted the Alteration of the established Protestant Religion Some as Cartwright Travers c. that they might bring in their Genevan-Discipline Others as Hacket Barrow Brown Coppinger Penry Thacker c. that they might usher in their Libertinism Enthusiasm and Donatism The Papists plotted to alter Religion and to destroy King James by Gunpowder and other ways The Fanaticks particularly George Brook Henry Brook Lord Cobham Lord Gray of Wilton c. joyning in Conspiracy with the two Popish Priests Watson and Clark plotted to destroy King James to alter Religion to subvert the State and to procure Foreign Invasion The Papists in Ireland upon the account of Religion openly Rebelled against King Charles the First and most barbarously Massacred thousands of his Protestant Subjects thereby endeavouring to bring in Popery The Fanaticks in England and Scotland upon the account of Religion openly Rebelled against the same King Charles the First and caused a bloudy Civil War in which thousands of the King 's Loyal Subjects were Butchered and Murthered they hoping thereby to extirpate the established Protestant Religion and to bring in their Genevan Presbytery or Belgick Consusion The Papists in France Murthered King Henry the Third and King Henry the Fourth of that Kingdom and in Print justified the said Murthers The Fanaticks in Scotland Murthered King James the Fifth And the Fanaticks in England most
inhumanely Murthered in the open sight of Heaven and Earth King Charles the First and in Print they justified the said horrid Murther to be a Lawfull and Meritorious Act. The Papists of Lombardy Banished their Lawfull Prince Frederick Barbarossa the Emperour and at last betrayed him to the Sultan of Egypt The Fanaticks of England by Vote of their Rump-Parliament Banished their Natural Prince King Charles the Second and all the Royal Family and did what they could to have betrayed Him into the hands of his Foreign and Domestick Enemies Since the King 's happy Restauration the Fanaticks have out-done the Papists as to their Number of Plots We hear but of three Popish Plots and onely two of them fully proved The Papists Plots were 1. The Burning of London for which Hubbard a Papist of Roan was Executed 2. Oates his Popish Plot for which Edward Coleman and several others suffered Death 3. The Meal-Tub Plot for which Mrs. Celliers a Papist was imprisoned and fined Whereas the Fanaticks Plots have been Many more since the King's Restauration such as 1. Venner's Plot for which he and several others were Executed 2. The Disbanded Officers of Oliver's Army and others plotted the Burning of London before 1666 and Killing the King for which seven or eight of them were hang'd and quartered at Tyburn 3. Tong 's and other Fanaticks Plot in 1662 to Murther the King and the Duke of York c. was proved against Him and his Confederates at Old-Baily London for which They were Executed 4. Mason's Northern-Plot in 62 and 63. for which about twenty suffered Death in Yorkshire and elsewhere 5. Rathbone Tucker c. in 1666 their Plot to have kill'd the King and to have deposed the Bishops and to have altered Religion 6. Colledge's Plot to have seized on the King at Oxford and with his Protestant-Flail to have Murthered the King's Leige-Subjects for which he died by the hand of Justice 1681. 7. Shaftsbury's Rumbold's c. Plot at Rye-House in Hertfordshire to have Murthered the King and the Duke of York for which Captain Walcot and others were Executed 1683. and Sir Thomas Armstrong and Holloway were Executed for the same Plot 1684. We cannot but note that The Papists in their Plot would have killed the King but have saved the Duke of York the Right Heir to the Crown The Fanaticks in their Plots would have Murthered both the King and his Right Heir the Duke of York The Papists had their Jesuits Whitebread Gavan Hartcourt c. to promote their Plot. The Fanaticks had their Priests Lob Ferguson Casteers c. who encouraged their Plot. The Papists engaged several of the Nobility in their Plot against the King if Oates Bedloe and others may be credited The Fanaticks engaged many if not as many of the discontented Nobility in their Plot if Keeling Rumsey and the Condemned persons Confession may be believed In Oates his Popish Plot Were six Lords Impeached in Parliament and none fled for it Such as The Earl of Powis Viscount Stafford who was Executed Lord Petre. Lord Arundell of Wardour Lord Bellasis In Keeling's Fanatick Plot were accused to be eight Noble Men Such as The Earl of Shaftsbury who fled and died in Holland The Earl of Essex who destroyed himself in the Tower The Duke of Monmouth who submitted Ford Lord Gray who fled William Lord Russell who was Executed Lord Howard of Escrick a Witness Lord Melvin who fled Brandon Lord Gerard Bailed And be pleased to Note that All the Papists both Nobles and others denied the Popish Plot to the last but acknowledged the Treason upon the Hypothesis Oates his Plot were true The Fanaticks both Noble Men and others confessed Keeling's Plot but denied the Treason attending it although the Plot was true And which of the two whether Papist or Fanatick lived and died the better Christian we will leave to the World to judge And here we may not impertinently add Two Solemn Leagues Oaths and Covenants one made against the King by the Papists the other made against the King by the Fanaticks And in both they pretend Loyalty and Obedience to the King Zeal for Religion and Good-will to the Common-wealth The Solemn Oath and Covenant of the Papists in Conspiracy against King Henry the Fighth To wit YE shall not enter into this out Pilgrimage of Grace for the Commyn-welthe The Popish Bygot's Covenant Speed's Hist H. 8. c. 21. p. 787. but only for the Love that you doe vere unto Almighty mighty Godde his Faith and to Holy Churche Militant the maintenance thereof to the preservation of the King's Person his Issew to the purifying of the Nobilitie and to expulse all Vilayne Blode and Evil Councellers against the Commyn-welthe from his Grace and the Privie Counsell of the same and that ye shall not enter into oure said Pilgrimage for no particular profite to your self nor to doe no displeasure to no privey person but by Councell for the Commyn-welthe ner Slee ner Murder for no envye but in your herts put away all fear and dread and take afore you the Crosse of Criste and in your herts his Faith the Restitution of the Churche the Suvpression of these Herytyks and their Opynyons by all the holle Contents of this Book The Fanaticks Solemn League and Covenant against King Charles the First To wit YE doe swear The Fanaticks Scotch and English Covenant That ye shall sincerely really and constantly thorough the Grace of God endeavour in your several places and callings Full. Hist ch 1. lib. 11. c. 21. p. 201. The REFORMATION of RELIGION in England and Ireland as it is Reformed in Scotland That ye shall without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-Government by Archbishops Bishaps Deans their Chancellours and Commistiaries and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on the Hierarchy That ye shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in your several Vocations endeavour with your Estates and Lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments and the due Liverties of the Kingdom and to Preserve and Defend the King's Majesty his Person and Authority That the World may bear witness with your Consciences of your Loyalty and that ye have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesty's just Power and Greatness That ye shall also with all faith-fulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindring the REFORMATION dividing the King from his People that they may be brought to Tryal and receive condign punishment That ye shall assist and defend what ye can all those that enter into this Blessed League and Covenant That ye profess and declare before God and the World your unfeigned desire to be humbled for your sins and for the sins of the