Henr. 4. quo supra an ancient a modest and an impartiall Relatour of such occurrents as happened in his time declareth his dislike of the Popes practises and the Germanes tumults against their said soveraigne Lord. Magnum Mundo documentum datum est A great instruction was given to the World that no man should rise against his Master For the hand of Rodolph being cut off shewed a most just punishment of perjury hee feared not to violete his fidelity sworne to the King and his right hand was punished as if other wounds had not beene sufficient to bring him to his death that by the plague of the rebellious the fault of rebellion might bee perceived Thus farre hee The sixth Chapter proveth the same by the testimony of the Writers from the 12. hundred yeares downeward I Will for conclusion produce Otho Frinsingensis Thomas Aquinas Gratianus Philip the faire King of France the Parliament of England in the time of Edward the first Vincentius and Aeneas Silvius that afterward was Pope by the name of Pius secundus Otho Frising in his Epistle Dedicatory before his Chronicle Otho Frisingensis hath an excellent saying in his Epistle Dedicatory to Frederick Barbarossa Cum nulla persona mundialis inveniatur quae mundi legibus non subjaceat c. Although no earthly man can bee found that is not subject to the Lawes of the World and in respect of subjection liable to correction Kings as it were placed over Lawes are not restrained by them but reserved to the examination of God according to the words of the King and Prophet Against thee onely have I sinned It becommeth therefore a King both in respect of the noble disposition of his mind Psal 51.5 and the spirituall illumination of his soule to have God the King of Kings and Lord of Lords ever in his mind and by all meanes possible to take heed that hee fall not into the hands of God seeing it is as the Apostle saith a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the living God It is more fearefull for Kings then for any other because Kings have none but God himselfe above them whom they need feare It shall bee so much more horrible for them by how much they may offend more freely then other men So farre Otho Thomas Aquinas if the Tractate De regimine Principum bee his maketh three sorts of Kings Aquin. de regimine Princ. lib. 1. cap. 6. Kings by election Kings by subordination and Kings by succession For the first hee saith that they which did establish may abolish for the second wee must have our recourse to him that did surrogate the subordinate King as the Iewes did to Caesar against Herod for the last his resolution is Recurrendum esse ad omnium Regem Deum that wee must flie to God the King of all Kings in whose onely power it is to mollifie the cruell heart of a Tyrant And that men may obtaine this at the hands of God they must cease from sinne for wicked Princes by Divine permission are exalted to punish the sinnes of the people Tollenda est igitur culpa ut cessat Tyrannorum plaga Wee must therefore remove our sinnes that God may take away his punishment Thus farre Thomas Gratianus which compiled the decrees is very peremptory that the Bishop of Rome ought not to meddle with the temporall sword the state of Common-wealths or the change of Princes Hee saith nothing indeed De Regni ordinibus which in his time and a 100. yeares after him never dreamed of any such authority Cum Petrus qui primus Apostolorum à Domino fuerat electus materialem gladium exerceret When Peter whom the Lord had first chosen of all the Apostles drew the materiall sword to defend his Master from the injuries of the Iewes hee was commanded to sheath his sword Math. 26.52 For all that take the sword shall perish by the sword As if Christ should have said Hitherto it was lawfull for thee a thine Ancestours to persecute Gods enemies with the temporall sword hereafter thou must put up that sword into his place and draw the sword of the Spirit Caus 23. quest 8. parag 1. which is the word of God to slay the old man whosoever beside the Prince and without his authority that hath lawfull power and as the Apostle teacheth Rom. 13.4 Beareth not the sword in vaine to whom every soule must bee subject whosoever I say without or beside the Princes authority beareth the sword shall perish by the sword Thus farre Gratian. About the yeare a 1300. beganne a quarrell betweene Boniface the eight and Philippus Pulcher the French King about the collation of benefices Prebends and other Ecclesiasticall promotions Whereupon the Pope wrote unto the said King as followeth Boniface Bishop the servant of Gods servants to his wel-beloved Sonne Philip by Gods grace King of France Greeting and blessing Apostolicall Feare God and keepe his law Wee give thee to understand that thou art subject to us both in spirituall things and temporall and that no gift of benefices or Prebends belongeth to thee If thou have in thy hand any vacant keepe the profits of them to the Successours and if thou hast bestowed any wee decree the collation void and recall it how farre soever it hath proceeded Whosoever beleeveth otherwise wee account him a foole Dated at Lateran the fourth of the Calends of December and in the sixth yeare of our Papacy King Philip returned his haughtinesse a correspondent answer viz. Philip by tho grace of God King of France to Boniface bearing himselfe for Pope Salutem modicam sive nullam Sciat tua maxima fatuitas Little health or none at all Philip. Pulcher Let thy great fooleship know that in temporall things wee are subject to no man And that the gifts of Prebends and Ecclesiasticall promotions made and to bee made by us were and shall bee lawfull both in time past and in time to come For such collations belong to us in the right of our Crowne wherefore wee will manfully defend the Possessours of the said dignities and doe judge them that thinke otherwise fooles and mad men Given at Paris the Wednesday after Candlemasse 1301. Questionlesse this King that did so scornefully reject the Popes chalenge pretended from Christ would little regard the claime of the Nobles derived but from the people The same busie Boniface of whom some write that hee came in like a Fox craftely raigned like a Lyon cruelly and died like a Dogge miserably would take upon him the decision of a controversie betweene the Kings of England and Scotland and commanded King Edward of England either to cease his claime or to send his Procuratours to the Apostolike sea to shew his right and to receive such order from the Pope as justice and equity would require The Lords and Commons then assembled in Parliament at Lincolne sent Boniface this answer in the Kings behalfe Whereas our most dread
sacrifices of the Church Thus farre Hosius You see the grounds that this good Bishop stood upon rather resolved to suffer any death or torture then by his consent to betray the truth or to condemne the guiltlesse He admonisheth freely and reproveth sharply hee offreth his life to the Princes pleasure It was farre from his meaning to revile the sacred Majesty or to stirre up any rebellion against this Hereticall Emperour which infringed the Canons of the Church without all regard of truth or equity to serve the humours of the Arrians and to wreck his anger on them all which yeelded not to that heresie Liberius a Bishop of Rome did neither excommunicate nor depose this wicked Emperour Constantius but appeared at his command and endured his pleasure to the admiration of the Arrians and the confirmation of the Christians as wee find in Athanasius Trahitur Liberius ad Imperatorem c. Liberius was haled to the Emperour when hee came to his presence hee spake freely Cease said hee O Emperour to persecute the Christians goe not about Liberius quo supra apud Athanas by any meanes to bring Hereticall impiety into the Church of God Wee are ready rather to endure any torture then to bee called Arrians Compell us not to become enemies unto Christ Eight not against him wee beseech you that hath bestowed the Empire upon you Render not impiety to him for his grace persecute them not which beleeve in him least you heare It is hard for thee to kick against the prick Act. 9.5 Oh would to God you did so heare it that you might as Paul did beleeve it Loe wee are at hand and come to your presence before our enemies the Arrians can invent any thing to informe against us wee hastened to come at your command though wee were assured of banishment that wee might abide our punishment before any crime could bee objected much lesse proved against us Whereby it may appeare that all Christians are as wee now bee undeservedly punished and the crimes laid to their charge not true but fained by sycophancy or deceitfull subtilty Thus spake Liberius and every man admired his resolution but the Emperour for answer commanded him to banishment Thus â—â—e he Pope Liberius had not learned the language of his Suceesfour Pins Quintus when hee bellowed against our late Queene nor that principle of the Puritans that the inscriour Officer may use force of armes against the chiefe Magistrate that shall become a Tyrant Whereof every seditious Sectary will hee judge and not onely defend himselfe and his owne people but also any other that shall fly unto him Which opinion Lambertus Danaus avoucheth Polit. Christ l. 6. c. 3. contrary to the Law the Gospell and the generall consent of all Orthodoxall Fathers Hilarius a Bishop of France wrote the same time to this same Emperour in most humble manner Hilarius ad Imper. Constant Banefica natura tua Domine beatissime Auguste Your mild nature most blessed Emperour agreeing with your gracious disposition and the mercy which floweth aboundantly from the fountaine of your Fatherly godlinesse doe assure us that wee shall obtaine our desire Wee beseech you not onely with words but also with teares that the Catholique Churches bee no longer oppressed with grievous injuries and endure intollerable persecutions and contumelies and that which is most shamefull even of our brethren Let your Clemency provide c. Surely if it had then beene knowne that the Pope by his absolute power or indirect authority could have punished or deposed Kings which the Papists avouch or for the Peeres or the people to have done it which the Puritans affirme some of these old Bishops would have pressed that point against this Hereticall Prince which abused his sword to the blaspheming of Christ the murthering of the Saints the seducing of many thousand soules by strengthening maintaining and establishing the Arrian errour But they tooke it to bee no Christian mans part to beare armour no not desensive against his Prince though never so wicked cruell or ungodly Holy Athanasius confesseth the power of Kings to bee of God and their impiety not to bee punished by man Sicut in toto mundo Deus Rex est Imperator potestatent exercet in omnibus As God is King and Emperour over all the World and exerciseth his power in all creatures so the King and Prince is over all earthly men and doth by his absolute power what hee will even as God himselfe Ad Antioch quest 55. Haec ille When it was objected against this reverend Father Athanasius that hee had incensed Constance the Religious Emperour of the West against Constantius Apolog. Athan ad Constant in the behalfe of the persecuted Christians hee cleared himselfe from that accusation in an Apologie to the said Emperour Constantius The Lord saith hee is my record and his annointed your brother that I never made mention of your Majesty for any evill before your brother of blessed memory that religious Emperour Constance I did never incite him against you as these Arrians doe stander mee but whensoever I had accesse unto him I recounted your gracious inclination God knoweth what mention I made of your godly disposition Give mee leave and pardon most courteous Emperour to speake the truth The servant of God Constance was not easily drawne to give care to any man in this kind I was never in such credit with him that I durst speake of any such matter or derogate from one brother before another or talke reprochfully of one Emperour in the hearing of another I am not so mad neither have I forgotten the voice of God which saith Carse not the King in thine heart and backbite not the mighty in the secrets of thy Chamber for the birds of the aire shall tell it and the winged foule shall bewray thee If then the things that bee spoken in secret against Princes cannot bee hid is there any likelihood that I in the Emperours presence and before so many as continually attended his person would say any thing otherwise then well of your Majesty Thus farre Athanasius This is sounder and seemelier doctrine for subjects then that which Henry Garnet and Robert Tesmond caught some Romish Catholike Gentlemen of England who imployed Thomas Winter into Spaine in the Moneth of December Ann. Dom. 1601. to make request to the Spanish King in the behalfe and names of the English Pope-catholikes L. Cooke in his speech at Garnets arraignment that hee would send an army hither into England for the advancement of their Catholique cause and to promise that the forces of the Papists here should bee ready to doe him service against the late Queene The selfe same Doctrine of sedition was published in the yeare after viz. Ann. Dom. 1602. by Gulielmus Bucauus a man of no meane esteeme among the Puritans and that at the earnest request of Beza and Goulartius the chiefest Ministers of the Church of Geneva if
PVRITANO-IESVITISMVS THE PURITAN TVRN'D JESUITE OR RATHER OVT-VYING HIM IN those Diabolicall and dangerous Positions of the Deposition of KINGS from the yeare 1536. untill this present time extracted out of the most ancient and authentick Authours By that Reverend Divine Doctour OVVEN Batchelour of Divinity Shewing their concord in the matter their discord in the manner of their sedition August in Psal 36. Conc. 2. Tunc inter se concordant cum in perniciem justi conspirant non quia se amant sed quia cum qui amandus erat simul oderunt Printed for William Sheares at the signe of the Bible in Covent-garden 1643. To the dutifull Subject THe Puritan-Church-Policy and Iesuiticall Society began together a See M. Hockers preface And the preface of Chemnic before his examen against the first part of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536 and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they have bestirred themselvs busily as hee that compasseth the b Iob 1.7 earth or they that coasted c Mat. 23.15 sea and land each one in his order The Puritan to breake down the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the reformed Church the Iesuite to build up the ruines of Babylon by maintaining the abomination of the deformed Synagogne These though brethren in sedition and heady are head-severed the one staring to the Presbyterie and the other to the Papacie but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tied together with firebrands between them that if they bee not quenched by the power of Majesty they cannot those when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an uprore Their many and long Prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shew of austerity in their conversation and of singular learning in their profession as the evill fiend transformed into an angel of light brought them first to admiration Wherby they have not only robbed widowes houses under pretence of prayer and ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of devotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peeres against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And whereas God hath inseparably annexed to the crowne of earthly Majesty a supreme ecclesiasticall soveraignty for the protection of pietie and an absolute immunitie from the judiciall sentence and Martiall violence for the preservation of policy These sectaries bereave Kings of both these their Princely prerogatives exalting themselves as the sonne of perdition above all that is called God 2 Thess 3.4 Lest they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sow the seeds of sedition without shew of reason Caedem faciunt scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to doe in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the doctrine of the Church to whom it was delivered and the practise of all the Godly as well under the Law as the Gospel that did beleeve understand and obey it to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I have in my hand above forty severall places of the old and New Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction doe indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacy and the indeleble character of Royall inunction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I haved added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discover the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K. Iames. Th Cranmer Io. Whitgift Ric. Bancroft Arch. of Cant Henry Earle of Northam Robert Earle of Salisbury The L. Burleigh L. Tresurer of England The L. Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England The L. Stafford The L Cook B Iewell B Horne B Pilkington B Elsmere B Couper B Bilson B Babington B Amirewes B Barlow B Bridges D Ackworth D Saravia D Cosens D Sutcliffe D Prythergh D Wilkes D Morton D Tocker M Bekinsaw M Foxe M Nowell M Hooker many others most mighty Kings the most reverend Prelates honourable Lords loyall Clergie and other worthy men that have in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and undutifull opponents which by Gods helpe I meane to publish when I have added the exposition of the Fathers to confute the falshood of the Puritan popish-faction and to confirme the truth of the Protestants Doctrine in each particular quotation I protest in all sincerity that I neither have in this treatise nor meane in the other hereafter to be published to detort any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the favourers of it more odious then their owne words published with the generall approbation of their severall favourites doe truly infer and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall subject and Godly affected we accept in good part my endeavour and industry intended for the glory of God the honour of the King and the discoverie of the seditious The displeasure of the male contented factions which can no more abide the truth then the Owles can light or the Franticke the Physician I neither regard nor care for Farewell The Table of the Booke The duty of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares cap. 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares cap. 3 pag. 7 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 18 fourth 300 yeares cap. 5 pag. 21 fifth 300 yeares cap. 6 pag. 26 sedition of Puritans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Danger of their Doctrine to Prince Peopl cap 8. p. 37. Puritan-Jesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuites against Kings from the yeare 1536. untill the yeare 1602. out of the most authenticke Authors cap 8. p. 40. THE FIRST CHAPTER Proveth by the testimony of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserved to the judgement of God KIngs have their authority from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Prov. 8.15 to execute justice and judgement for him amongst the Sonnes of men c 2 Chron. 19.6 All subjects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings d Exod. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl. 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne name unto his Lievetenants the Kings of the Earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 82.6 whose word is Yea and Amen with this onely difference that these Gods shall dye like men h Psal 82.7
Lord Edward by the grace of God the Noble King of England caused your Letters to bee read openly before us touching certaine occurrents of state betweene him and the King of Scotland wee did not a little marvaile at the contents thereof so strange and wonderfull as the like hath never beene heard of Wee know most Holy Father and it is well knowne in this Realme and also to other Nations that the King of England ought not to make answer for his right before any Iudge Ecclesiasticall or secular Parliament at Lincolr c quoted by M. ekenshaw by reason of the free estate of his Royall dignity and custome without breach at all times unviolably observed Wherefore after treaty had and diligent deliberation this was our resolution that our said King ought not to answer in judgement nor send Procuratours or Messengers to your Court seeing that tendeth manifestly to the disinheriting of the right of the Crowne the overthrow of the state of the Kingdome and the breach of the liberties customes and lawes of our Fathers for the keeping whereof wee are bound by the duty of an oath and will by Gods helpe maintaine and defend with all our power and strength c. Dated at Lincolne Ann. Dom. 1301. Anno Edwardi primi 29. This was then the resolution of the State of this Land if our late Sectaries Popish or Puritan bring in any other Doctrine wee may not leave the cawsey of truth and obedience whereon our Fore-fathers walked to their commendation to follow these new guides in their bypaths of pride disobedience and contempt of authority to our destruction Vincentius in his Speculo Historiali hath a notable place to disswade from sedition and perjury Lib. 15. c. 84. Vt pace omnium bonorum dixerim haec sola novitas ne dicam Haeresis nec dum è Mundo emerserat That I may speake with the favour of all good men this meere novelty if not Heresie was not sprung up in the World that Priests should teach subjects that they owe no subjection to wicked Kings and albeit they have given an oath of fidelity unto them they are not bound to keepe it Nay they that obey an evill Prince are to bee held as excommunicated and all such as rebell against him are free from the guilt of the crime of perjury So farre hee I will end this Chapter with Aeneas Silvius Pius 2. de ortu author Imperii c. 23. who died in the yeare 1464. Sit tandem finis litium Let there bee an end of contention and one principall head to determine all temporall matters let the occasion of perpetuall debate bee taken away let men acknowledge themselves subject to their Prince and give reverence to him whom God hath made his vicegerent on Earth As that which God commandeth must bee obeyed without contradiction so the temporall Commandements of Caesar may not bee resisted But let the Kings themselves beware that they oppresse no man unjustly nor give their people cause to crie to God against them for the Earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof hee will not forget the crie of the poore and for the sinne of the Prince hee translateth the Government from one Nation to another There is nothing more offensive to the greatest God the King and Creatour of Heaven and Earth then the neglect of justice and the oppression of the poore as the Psalmist saith The poore shall not alway bee forgotten and the patient abiding of the needy shall not perish for ever So farre Silvius The seaventh Chapter sheweth the concord of Papist and Puritan for the deposition of Kings and their discord about the meanes and persons to bee imployed in the execution of their designements CHilderick was deposed and Pipine crowned King of France about the yeare 750. The truth of which History is this Childerick void of all princely gravity gave himselfe over to pleasure and wantonnesse leaving the burthen of the state to Pipinus that was his Lord Marshall Who conspired with the Nobles to advance himselfe by the deposition of the King his Master To set a better colour on the matter Pipine sent his Chaplaine to Pope Zachary to have his answer to this Question Whether should bee King hee that bare the name and did nothing or hee that governed the Kingdome The Pope gave sentence with the Marshall against the King whereupon Childerick was made a shorne Monke and Pipine a crowned King It is a wonder to see how these opposite Sectaries doe insist upon this fact of the French-men to justifie their dangerous doctrine and seditious conspiracies against Princes As Cardinall Bellarmine de Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 17. Thomas Harding against the Apologie of the Church of England fol. 181. Franc. Fevardentius in his Commentaries on Hester pag. 85. Boucher alias Raynolds de justa abdicatione Henrici 3. lib. 3. cap. 14. Ficklerus de jure Magistratuumfol 30. Alexander Carerius patavinus de potestate Papae lib. 2. cap. 3. D. Marta de temporali spirituali Pontificis potestate lib. 1. c. 23. and Doleman in his conference touching succession part 1. cap. 3. pag. 48. And also these Puritans Christopher Goodman in his treatise of obedience pag. 53. George Buchanan de jure Regni apud Scotos pag. 47. Danaens de politia Christiana lib. 3. cap. 6. pag. 221. Brutus Celta dejure Magistratuum pag. 286. Phyladelphus dialogo 2. pag. 65. Franc. Hottomanus in his Francogallia cap. 12. and Speculum tyrannidis Philipi Regis pag. 27. The Papists which ascribe this deposing power to the Pope endeavour by tooth and naile to disprove that interest which the Puritans grant the Peeres or the people First this example served Gregory the seventh to excuse his presumptous practises against Henry the fourth Quidam Romanus Pontifex A certaine Bishop of Rome deposed a King of France not so much for his ill life as for that hee was not fit for government Lib. de unit Eccles apud Scard pag. 3. and placed Pipine which was Father to Charles the great in his place absolving all the French-men from the oath of allegeance which they had sworne to their King Thus farre Gregory in an Epistle to one Herimanus that was Bishop of Metz in France Thomas Harding concludeth from this fact a Divine power in the Pope Consut of the Apolog. fol. 181. Can you not see saith Harding what strength and power is in the Pope which is able with a word to place and displace the mightiest King in Europe with a word I say for I am sure you can shew us of no army that hee sent to execute his will Is it in the power of man thinke you to appoint Kingdomes can the Devill himselfe at his pleasure set up and depose Kings no surely Much lesse can any member of his doe the same Remember you what CHRIST said when the Iewes objected that hee did cast out Devils in the name of the Prince of Devils