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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70625	A sermon preached before the King at White-Hall, November 5, 1667 by ... George Lords Bishop of Winton ...	Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1683 (1683)	Wing M2796; ESTC R12589	21,545	39

Princes Excommunicated and Deposed by the Pope may be not only deserted but destroyed by their Subjects as being not only absolved from their Allegiance but obliged to put the Popes Sentence in execution which if they cannot do themselves they are to joyn with any foreign Prince to whom the Pope shall please to give away the Kingdom as he did this of England to Lewis of France in King Johns time And against this Doctrine it was that the Oath of Allegiance was specially intended and for this Doctrine sake it was that the Pope forbad all of his party to take the Oath Again to the end that Subjects might with the less scruple of Conscience conspire and rebel against their Soveraigns when they shall be Excommunicated or declared Hereticks by the Pope there is another Doctrine of the Church of Rome which teacheth them That all power which Sovereign Princes have over their People is derived from the People and may be resumed by the People to be transferred and collated upon any whom the Supreme Pastor shall think fit to invest with it This Doctrine was proposed and defended in the Council of Trent by Jacobus Laynez the Popes Divine there emphatically so called and one of the first Jesuits who is herein followed by Bellarmine and by all of the same Order And this Doctrine saith King James in his Admonition to Christian Princes is fundamentum seditionis the ground or foundation of Sedition Fourthly That the Pope may always have a Party of his own and immediately depending upon himself in all States and Kingdoms it is another of their Doctrines that all the Clergy in all places are exempted from all secular Jurisdiction in all Causes criminal whether Civil or Ecclesiastick so that there is no Prince whether he be of the Roman Communion or no but he hath thousands that are born and bred and live under the Protection of his Laws and that are not subject to him but to a foreign Power neither are they answerable to him for any Crime they do or may commit whether Murder Felony or Treason unless the Pope will give him leave to proceed against them which Exemption where it is allowed of gives that Clergy courage to attempt any thing for the Pope against Princes especially being unmarried and consequently not having that obligation of Wife and Children upon them which other men have to indear them unto their Country and their Country unto them they are always the readier and the willinger to serve him upon whom wholly and only they depend And in order to that end no doubt it was that both Marriage was forbidden and Exemption from Secular Jurisdiction was granted unto the Clergy though Suarez saith the latter of these is of Divine Right and therefore is so general that it admits of no exception and so certain that it cannot be denied without contradicting an Article of Faith I suppose he means the Article of the Pope's Supremacy whereunto the Exemption of the Clergy from Secular Jurisdiction is subservient in a very high degree and no less dangerous to the safety of Kings and Princes as King James observes in the aforesaid Admonition Now if Kings or States to prevent the danger they are in by the aforesaid Doctrines shall require an Oath of Allegiance from their Subjects upon such Penalties as that they dare not but take it they have another Doctrine of Equivocation or Mental Reservation whereby they are qualified to say or unsay to swear or forswear any thing that shall be or can be proposed unto them and thereby to avoid both the Penalty of refusing and the Conscience of performing this or any other Oath whatsoever But if the Oath be so warily and so strictly worded as that as it obligeth them to take God to witness that they swear what they do swear without any Equivocation or Mental Reservation as they must if they take the Oath of Allegiance then the Gordian Knot which cannot be untied must be cut asunder by the omnipotent power of Papal Dispensation For Catholici omnes intelligunt saith Tortus or Bellarminus larvatus All Catholicks understand that it belongs to the Popes Power to Absolve not only from Sins but from Penances from Censures from Laws and from Vows and from Oaths too But what if it be part of the Oath to abjure the Popes Power of Dispensing with that Oath as it is in the Oath of Allegiance why yet they have another Doctrine to help them at a dead lift which is that Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks and it is not to be supposed that Catholick Princes or States will tender such an Oath as takes away one of the best flowers of the Popes Triple Crown especially if his Power of Dispensing be taken in the largest extent or according to the practise of it for so it reacheth to the ratifying or making void of any thing not as it is right or wrong lawful or unlawful but as it is or is not for the Interest of him and of his See though it be to the undoing of Families the dis-inheriting of right Heirs or the embroyling of Kingdoms in long and bloody Wars as hath been often done by his Dispensing with Incestuous Marriages by his Legitimating unlawful Issues and by his permitting causeless Divorces which must needs produce endless Disputes and irreconcileable Quarrels in the World To these I will add but one Doctrine of theirs more and that is the Indispensable Obligation of their Priests to conceal I suppose they mean from all but the Pope whatsoever they hear in Confession though it be the intended murder of Kings or destruction of States saith Cardinal Tolet nay the ruin of the World saith Henriques which is so horrid a Doctrine as King James saith in his before-cited Admonition that no Prince or State can be safe where there be such Confessors no nor Romish Catholick Princes themselves as appears by Henry the III. and Henry the IV. of France who would neither of them have been so barbarously murdred as they were had not Fryar Clement and Ravilliac's Confessors been of this opinion So that of what Religion soever they be neither Princes nor States can be secured from the danger of this Doctrine much less from the danger of this and all the former of all which I may boldly say that if the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or touchstone of my Text be true every one of them is false and consequently none of them from the God of truth who is the Author of Peace but all and every one of them from him who is the Author of Lies who is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the stirrer up of Strife and the Author of Confusion whence it follows that the Church that teacheth such Doctrines is so far from being the Catholick that she is not so much as an Orthodox Church so far from being the only true Church that she is not so