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A53955	A fourth letter to a person of quality, being an historical account of the doctrine of the Sacrament, from the primitive times to the Council of Trent shewing the novelty of transubstantiation.	Pelling, Edward, d. 1718.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1081; ESTC R274	51,690	83

the Ingenuous * Thuan Hist lib. 6. ad An. 1550. Thuanus ‖ Citat in C●tal Test pag. 1526. Jacobus de Rebira the French Kings Secretary adds that they were in great Esteem above the ordinary Priests for Wit and Learning that they were Honoured by their very Enemies that they were freed from common Burdens and Impositions and that every ones safety seem'd to have been wrapped up in Theirs The growing interest and great strength which the Adversaries of Transubstantiation now had inraged the Court of Rome so that in the Papacy of Innocent the Third they were forced to the most extream but most dishonourable shists And even when they had so much business in their Hands about the recovering of Palestine from the Turks The Heresie at Tolouse being so increased † Non enim disceptationibus verborum tantùm verùm etiam armis opus fuit adeò inoleverat tanta haeresis apud Tolosani Platina in vitâ Innocentii 3. saith Platina there was need not of Disputations but of Arms too And the Zealots for Transubstantiatiation had now got a Tool for their turn at Rome this Innocent the Third made Pope Anno 1198. a young Man about Thirty years of Age Hot Fierce Imperious and as far as I find by his Speeches in the Lateran Ignorant enough This youngster soon laid about him and raised a long and bloody War against the Albigenses Thuanus in his Sixth Book shews particularly what outrages his General Simon Montfort committed in several places of France Hanging Beheading Burning and making the most horrible Slaughters wherever he went throwing into the Flames at Paris several Priests too that were of the Albigenses perswasion The way of dealing with them in England was to burn them in the Shoulders or Foreheads with a Red Hot Iron And the same Author shews you how the Pope used the Earl of Tolouse and the King of Aragon also And Binius Binii notae in Concil Lateran tells us out of Mathew Paris how that the Earldome of Tolouse was given to Montfort for almost twelve years service against the Albigenses after the War against them had been first begun by Pope Innocent As great a War saith Thuanus as that was which was raised against the Thuan. Praefat. Saracens But as he ingenuously acknowledgeth the Result of the War was this that great Numbers of the Albigenses were Kill'd Routed Stript of their Estates and Dignities and scatter'd up and down into several quarters but not convinced by these outrageous Courses After all which Anno 1215 the year before God took this Bloody Pope out of the World that Great Council met at the Lateran wherein the Doctrine of Transubstantiation was decreed in express Terms It had been a wonder indeed if at last one poor Decree could not have been got for the establishing of it after so many years had been spent in Arts and Violence first to form it and then to bring it to some perfection Yet I must desire you to note that this Decree was the Pope's only not Venère multa tum quidem in consultationem nec decerni tamen quicquam apertè potuit Platina de vita Innocent 3. Facto prius ab ipso Papa exhortationis sermone recitata sunt in pleno Concilio capitula 70. quae aliis placabilia aliis videbantur Onerosa Math. Par. in Joanne ad Ann. 1215. the Councils Platina tells us that nothing was openly Decreed by this Council though many things were proposed to their consideration And Mathew Paris assures us that the Pope having made a Speech to them Seventy Chapters or Heads which now are called the Decrees of that Council were read before them which were acceptable to some but seemed burdensome to others 'T is plain that there are no Acts of this Council extant which shew in the least that any of the things proposed were so much as debated but the Council rose before they had consider'd matters or came to any Solemn Conclusion after a Synodical manner The Reasons of it seem to have been partly because there were then Wars in Italy as Platina and others relate which extreamly frightned that Pope and partly too because some of the Council were dissatisfied as to the Reasonableness of the Popes Proposals as Mathew Paris well observed and it seems not improbable but that they might be dissatisfied as to the Doctrine of Transubstantiation in particular I will not be positive in this but leave it to be consider'd by Learned Men But the ground of my Conjecture is this because Sabellicus speaking of this Lateran Council expressy affirms that at that very time the pestilent Heresie of the Sunt Crucigeri Lateranensi conventu probati supremo Innocentii Anno qui salutis fuit humanae duodecies centesimus ac quintus decimus quum pestilen esset Romae Haeresis orta magnusque ex ea motus extitisset multi qui tum fortè in urbe erant cruce signati in Syram credo ituri aut certè inde reversi Innocentii hortatu pestem illam in horas gliscentem naviter extinaeerunt quidam Albiensem ab autore ut reor eam nuncuparunt Haeresim Sabellic Aenead 9. lib. 6. p. 736. edit Basil Albigenses as he terms it appear'd at Rome and that a great Commotion hapned there upon it which the Pope was forced to put an End by the help of the Crucigeri that is a sort of Souldiers that had listed themselves under the Sign of the Cross for an Expedition into the Holy Land. And if it were thus as very likely it was 't is no wonder that the Pope and his great Council should break up in some haste If you ask how it might come to pass that the Popes Decrees were not publickly opposed while the Council was yet sitting The Reason is evident enough This Innocent was a most Proud Insolent Cruel Man One that had deposed I know not how many Bishops that had deprived Otho the Emperour of the Romans that had huff'd Henry the Emperour of Constantinople that had Excommunicated King John of England that had arrogantly treated the Kings of Bohemia Portugal Sicily France and Aragon that had robb'd the Earl of Tolouse of all his Possessions that had Barbarously used the Albigenses by the flashing and burning Zeal of the Crucigeri and that now in the time of the Lateran Council was strengthned at Rome with Great Numbers of them ready to do any mischief that he should command them And then how could it be expected but that the whole Council would be over-awed into silence supposing any of them were against the Doctrine of Transubstantiation Especially if you consider that in the Third Head of his Proposals he had Condemned all Hereticks all that were but suspected of Heresie all that shew'd any Humanity to Hereticks not excepting Princes themselves over whom he claimed a Power and declared his purposes not only to Excommunicate them but moreover to absolve their Subjects from their