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faith_n	build_v	peter_n	rock_n	5,754	5	9.5900	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01076	A defence of the right of kings Wherein the power of the papacie ouer princes, is refuted; and the Oath of Allegeance iustified. Written for the vse of all English romanists; more especially, for the information of those priests, or Iesuits, which are by proclamation commanded to conforme themselues, or depart the kingdome. By Edvvard Forset, Esquire.	Forset, Edward, 1553?-1630.	1624 (1624)	STC 11189; ESTC S119405	55,644	106

which the powers of his wit and learning is not able to vphold Nay hee hath in this controuersie taken an head and singled himselfe from the common Catholikes closing hands in conclusion with the Protestants For in this very treatise he hath affoarded vs this fauour that Popes may erre yea euen in the articles of faith yea and become Heretickes and Apostataes and that as Popes that for the same they may be deposed and depriued of their Papall preheminence doth he not speake like an honest plaine dealer as if he would no more adore that I doll of Rome and as if hee cared not any whit for the triuiall obiections made out of the words of Christ vnto Saint Peter I haue prayed that thy faith shall not faile and againe vpon this Rocke meaning Saint Peter I will build my Church Nothing more permanent and vnmooueable than a rock nothing more certaine of effect than what Christ prayeth for and whatsoeuer endowments of gifts or graces was bestowed vpon Saint Peter did become the fee-simple and inheritance of the sea of Rome Hee that regardeth not these inferences and allegations so generally allowed and insisted vpon in the Church of Rome and which hath hitherunto been vsed as the shoulders of Atlas to vphold the earthly heauen of the Pope their earthly god doth he not giue good hope that hee will reuolt from Papacy it selfe But notwithstanding these faire shewes by the helpe of some of his fellowes hee hath found out a shifting distinction to winde himselfe out of all the straights and entrapments wherewith he seemed to be fettered so vnuoydably Aud this it is That albeit the Popes as Popes may erre become Apostataes and Heretikes yet that God as Popes will neuer permit them to decree any hereticall 〈◊〉 to be held by the Church or for the whole Church What can we say to the subtletie of this distinction It is like to the buckler of Achilles that had many plates ensolded one within the other to giue the more assurance against all blowes or thrusts It is a fertile and pregnant distinction it hath these seueral issues of his body begotten First that Popes as men may erre and be Heretikes yea and decree hereticall doctrine but not as Popes for that God will not permit It is pretty but what sure marke or token doth he giue whereby it may be knowne what hee doth as Pope or what hee doth as man they say that God permitteth not and we say that onely God knoweth the difference Between his actions or enactings as Pope and his decisions as man and so the Church resteth vncertaine how farre to be bound Secondly God may permit Popes as Popes to hold hereticall doctrine but not to decree it where shall wee finde consistendi locum if in their consistory they shall declare pronounce and resolue vpon Heretical doctrine may that amount vnto a decree we haue had many such decrees reuersed and repeated Thirdly though God permit Popes as Popes to decree an erronious and false doctrine yet if at any time after as if that wild beast euen the Bore of the forrest had reuertendi animum he recall or reiect the same or doth not wittingly as against the known Catholike truth oppose himselfe with peruersitie that doctrine is not to bee adiudged hereticall and thereby commeth vnder the couert of the first distinction Fourthly though God permit Popes as Popes to decree any hereticall doctrine yet doth this distinction affoard one hiding corner more that the same is not decreed to be held by the Church Then let them at the least allow vs this footing against the Pope that the Church is not bound to maintaine all his decrees Fiftly though God permit Popes as Popes to decree any hereticall doctrine to be held by the Church yet the former distinction is further enriched with this clause taken out of Canus that God permitteth not that decree for the whole Church as if by the permission of God the Church like to the moone may bee for the greater part thereof darkned and seduced by such hereticall decrees of the Pope yet that the whole Church and euery member of the same as for instance the Protestant part which is deuided and departed from the abhominations of Rome is not carried headlong into heresie by any sentence or decree Papall Sixtly there is yet included and reserued in this distinction one question more as conceiued in the wombe but not expressed in plaine tearmes which at times of exigent when they be pressed they forget not to cleaue vnto which is that the Church here mentioned is and must be the Catholike Romish Church as if that particular of Rome were the generall of the world and that the Romish alone had this eminent exception aboue all other Churches that the members thereof were not to be concluded or enthralled by euery decrees of their Head I cannot yet haue done with this seauen-headed subtle serp̄et this deceitfull distinction Allow it in his perfectest shape and close it together in all his ioynts God permitteth not the Pope as Pope to decree hereticall doctrine to bee held by the Church and for the whole Church what hath all this more then an equiualence to this saying God permitteth not the diuell to haue power to destroy the elect and faithfull And as when the Angell Raphaell bound the euill spirit from hurting of Tobias it could not be construed to bee a fauour or a signe of loue vnto that euill spirit so the not permitting of the Pope to decree hereticall doctrine is no aduancing or aduantage of the Papall authoritie from being restrained or not suffered to doe so grieuous hurts This may suffice for his distinction and subdistinctions like the foxe and the cubbs vnto which I haue the more respectiuely cast mine eye because I find this matter of the vnfallibilitie of the Popes decrees so closly couched euen to the centure of our question of his power ouer Princes If I haue beene too long in examining his malam 〈◊〉 in the mittigations and omissions before mentioned I must for excuse confesse that I was well content to take him tardy in that very fault which hee so clamerously vpbraideth to his Antigonist Master Morton carping and catching at him throughtout his whole book with a triumph of phrases for the very same corruption as he tearmeth it though I nothing doubt but hee will sufficiently acquit himselfe of all those friuolous and vniust cauells The matters that we haue hitherto met with haue been but introductory and vpon the bye Now it is meete we look into the maine and substantiall point of doctrine which as if hee were closset-keeper to the Pope hee confidently deliuereth to be Catholike and Orthodoxall inducing his Lordship to set vp his rest vpon that vnreprooueable resolution I protest that when I first considered how to redvce the question to a true discussable state I found that I could not draw downe the right proposition which is to bee