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head_n	church_n	pope_n	vicar_n	3,197	5	10.9896	5	false

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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

much as a true Church I mean in a moral sence or so far at least as she teacheth such Doctrines If it be replyed that it is not the Church of Rome it self but only some particular Doctors of that Church that teach all or any of the aforesaid seditious Doctrines I answer that these and the like Doctrines being publickly asserted and maintained by the chief Pillars and Professors of that Church and notoriously countenanced and abetted by the Head of that Church and never condemned censur'd or disclaimed by the Representative Body of that Church no nor so much as taken notice of as dangerous or erroneous by their Index expurgatorius which censures all such Authors and Opinions as that Church doth not approve of we must needs conclude them to be the Doctrines of the Church it self and not of some of her particular Doctors and Professors only though some of her particular Doctors may Dissent from some of them which signifie little or nothing as long as the Head of the Church approves them and as long as they all hold the Pope to be Head of the Church whereunto the whole Body of the Church must submit and whereby it must be guided and consequently they all hold he hath an Universal Jurisdiction over all Christians which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first of those false seditious Doctrines I before named and whereunto all the rest are but instrumental and subservient as being at first invented and ever since maintain'd in order either to the bringing in or keeping up of that grand Imposture as one of our Bishops calls it I mean the pretended Soveraignty of the Papacy over all Christendom which whosoever will acknowledg and submit unto he may hold either pro or con in almost all of the Controverted points besides and yet be a good Catholick as they call him as appears by the offer made by Paul the IV. to Queen Elizabeth which was this That if she would acknowledg his Supremacy and take it as a Favour from him or as an Indulgence granted by him and by his Authority Gratiam facturum Pontificem ut sacra hìc omnia hoc ipso quo nunc sunt apud nos modo procurari fas esset his Holiness would graciously dispence with our way of serving of God in all things pertaining to his Worship in the very same manner as now we do They are the words of Bishop Andrews one of the Worthiest most Pious and most Learned of my Predecessors in his Tortura Torti from whence as he infers it plainly appears that the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that which is so much contended for by the Pope and those of his Party is not that Faith or any part of that Faith which was once delivered to the Saints as Saint Jude tells us and which he exhorts us earnestly to contend for but the exorbitant power of the Papacy in and over the Church of Christ for the gaining or keeping or recovering of which exorbitant power that Ball of contention hath been kept up for so many hundreds of years in the Christian World For what was that which made that great Schism in the Church whereby the Eastern were and still are divided from the Western Christians or what is that which now divides that of the Roman from all other Christian Churches but the Popes affecting and assuming the title of Universal Bishop or of being Head of the whole Church as if all other Patriarks Metropolitans and Bishops were all of them but his Vicars and he Christs Again what made all those quarrels first betwixt the Popes and the Senate and People of Rome and afterwards betwixt the Popes and the Roman Emperors as likewise betwixt the Popes and the Kings of France and betwixt the Popes and the Kings of England whereby all Europe was sometime in one place and sometimes in another distracted and divided and torn in pieces as it were by Feuds and Factions and by causeless and cruel Wars sometimes the Father against the Son and sometimes the Son against the Father and always Christians against Christians What was the cause of all this I say but the extending of the Popes aforesaid Primacy over the whole Christian Church in spiritual things to a Supremacy over the whole Christian World or over all Christian Princes and States in the World Lastly what was the cause of so many Conspiracies against Queen Elizabeth especially after her Excommunication by the Pope which was seconded first by a Rebellion in the North of England and afterwards by the Spanish Invasion in Eighty Eight or what was the cause of the Gunpowder-Treason it self was it not a zeal for the recovering and re-establishing of the aforesaid pretended power of the Pope here in England I am sure those that were the Contrivers of it and Actors in it as many of them I mean as were brought to Tryal for it did all and every one of them confess that to be the only cause for what they did and for what they suffered namely their zeal for the Catholick Religion as they call it of which as I told you before their great Cardinal tells us the Popes Supremacy est unum ex praecipuis fundamentis one of the chief foundations And as it was the restoring of the Popes pretended Authority that was the cause of that horrid Conspiracy so the Bull of Clement the VIII whereby a little before the Queen died he had forbidden all of his Party here to suffer any but a Roman Catholick to succeed her was the ground or warrant whereupon they undertook it as appears by what Catesby the chief of the Lay Conspirators said when some of his Complices seemed loth to proceed in it without the Popes express command for it or approbation of it To what end said he should we trouble his Holiness any farther was not the forbidding us to receive him warrant enough for the removing of him assoon and by what means soever it might be effected He might have added that Heretical Princes might be Deposed or taken away by their Subjects even before the sentence of Excommunication or Deposition be pronounced by the Pope against them as some of their Doctors hold and therefore there was no reason they should stand upon such formalities in a matter of such Importance and which required a speedy Execution And thus no doubt they were resolv'd in point of Conscience by Garnett the Provincial of the Jesuits at that time here in England and the chief manager of this inhumane Conspiracy together with Oldcorn and three more of the same Order of all whom it was confessed by their Lay Complices that they were not only privy to it but Authors of it I mean of the aforesaid Conspiracy and that they were the aforesaid Jesuits that had encouraged them to undertake it and had often by the Sacrament of Penance and the Eucharist confirmed them in the Resolution of it as of a most Catholick and meritorious Undertaking and now