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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

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

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

Feudataries to the holy See and how difficult it would be to wrest it out of these Harpyes talons had they power equal to their will or to the Right they have so insolently forg'd The King of England says Bellarmine is a Vassal to the Bishop of Rome ratione directi dominii What can be more directly said to prove what I assert Nay and as a learned Prelate of ours well observes Masconius transferrs the Title of Fidei Defensor to the Pope also though 't is well known our Princes have a right of more antiquity to it then any Pope's donation and that jure Coronae as were easie to evince though we admitted Leo the Xth to have prophesied that year as his brother Caiaphas had done before him But this is fortified say they by the authority of the Canonists Decretals and what is yet more formidable then all this by the subjects and properties of a new Obediential Vow of an whole Order of King-killers Let us produce a specimen or two to shew with what Secrecy and Religion they proceed The Jesuite Binet told Casaubon at Paris that 't were better all the Kings in Christendom were kill'd then that a Confession should be reveal'd in which the life of a Prince might be concern'd and Emanuel Sà that the Confessor potest jurare se nihil scire may swear and lie too whatever he heard rather then detect the Villany of such a Traitor Eodémque modo potest penitus jurare se nihil tale dixisse c. And upon this it is that Bellarmine celebrates our Garnet for his laudable Obstinacy though the less-perverted Monks of the other Orders have made no scruple to reveal the Treason and prosecute the Traitors to the Gallows I tremble almost to repeat the Instance but 't is his Majestie 's Grandfather of Glorious Memory who affirms it of them That there was not long since a French Jesuite so impudent as to assert That if our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ himself were now conversant on Earth passible and obnoxious to death should any man confess to him that he design'd to murther him he would suffer Jesus Christ to be kill'd rather then reveal the Confession To this Perron's Reply is so impertinent and superficial as one would even blush to see how he shuffles it over The Confessor says he needs not reveal the manner of his Treason 't is enough he give the King warning to take heed of himself So 't is reported did the Augurs to the great Caesar but it prevented not one Stab of the two and thirty nor did their Garnet so much as this nor any one of those reverend Fathers that ever I could learn But let us have a tast of their Politicks Caeso Rege ingens sibi nomen fecit says one of Henry the Third's Murtherer and Emanuel Sà Clerici Rebellio in Regem non est crimen laesae majestatis quia non est Subditus regi The Rebellion of a Church-man against his Prince is no such thing as Treason for he is none of his Subjects An excellent argument to make Kings in love with Jesuites But this is not all Summus Pontifex says Bellarmine Clericos exemit à subjectione Principum plainly Non sunt ampliùs Reges Clericorum superiores Kings are no more their superiors so that upon the matter how many Priests and Jesuites in a State so many Kings and Emperors Who art thou speaking to Princes that judgest another man's servant Domino suo stat aut cadit says the Cardinal And Santarel goes farther yet Papa sine Concilio the Pope does in spite of a Council depose an Emperor quia Papa Christi unum est tribunal they are Collegues in Office but which is more then Bozius it seems allows who speaking in the person of Popes alone says Per me Reges By me Kings reing he may remove them yea and mulct them too with death not for Heresie onely but if they so much as favour it I cannot affirm that all our Roman Catholicks are of this Belief but then I can hardly call them Roman Catholicks indeed my Lord they are not through-pac'd We see how Barclay Watson Widdrington Sheldon Bekinsaw and others have been censur'd hated and reproch'd for maintaining the contrary as of old the more loyal Sorbonists now sinking under this prodigious Tyranny to their everlasting reproch as well as prejudice of the poor Jansenists who with the Church of England are the onely Confessors amongst all the Christian Professors now extant that I could ever reade of or discover And though one might instance in some few honest Papists who were in times past of this Opinion too yet when I seriously reflect how many are now-a-daies devoted to the Jesuite I am amaz'd to consider to what disloyal temptations they are expos'd even by their very Institution Indeed Cardinal Perron denounces severely against any who shall dare to perpetrate the Crimes but in the same breath he ingenuously tells us that he means it whilst they are Kings since being once Excommunicated they are no more so but become Plebeians or but Wild beasts rather made to be taken and destroy'd and therefore that their new Saint Clement who murthered Henry the Third did not kill the King because he was depos'd Which Lesson was well took forth in our late Holy Warr at home when they were by no means to kill the KING forsooth but to shoot at CHARLES STUART For thus have all the malicious Topics and devilish Arguments been made use of by our late Fanatics as if this Cardinal had inspir'd them witness what they borrow of him from the Prophet Abias's deposing Roboam as they call it Azarias's outing Ozias c. Bellarmin affirms that Kings are not only subject to Popes but even to the most inferior Deacons We have a Pack My Lord amongst us that would think themselves much injur'd to be call'd Jesuites yet speaking of the Consistorian Discipline and power of Eldership are bold to say Non hic excipitur Episcopus aut Imperator to omit the famous T. C. and the many others I could bring on the Stage suffragans of this Doctrine had we no worse experience of it But it is not their Passion for God but for the World which makes these men defend their Interest by such pernicious Consequences Adde to these the Crue of Anabaptists and those other truculent Champions of the Fifth Monarchy who have improv'd their Principles to that notorious height and danger that God forbid their Dominion should ever be founded in his Majestie 's Grace For let us but examine what they Teach and what they have practis'd from that infallible Dictator in S. Peter's Chair to the meanest Sectarian their Writings and their Actions from Knipperdolling to Venner from Pope Hildebrand to Pope Henderson are sufficiently instructive what Princes are to expect One would think the divine right of Kings as Superiors Obedience to Governors Relative duty of