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A43562
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Three sermons preached at the Collegiate Church in Manchester by Richard Heyricke.
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Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.
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1641
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they may bee excommunicated deposed and deprived and experience showes it necessarily followes they must be murdered The same Bellarmine in his fift booke sixth chapter speakes out The Pope may change kingdomes and take them from one and give them to another and gives this Reason else saith hee Kings may pervert their people experience shewing that as the King is so is the kingdome Instancing in Ieroboam Constantine Constance Iulian King Henry the eight King Edward the sixt Queene Mary Queene Elizabeth All whose kingdomes changed with their Kings He affirmes this to bee a Catholike Doctrine and to prove it brings in the Verdict of Twenty Italians foureteene French nine Germans seaven English and Scots nineteene Spaniards all these prime Authors yea the Priests and Iesuites the great fomentors of those damnable Treasons against Queene Elizabeth give up father Bellarmine for their chiefest authority for their Oracle you see Bellarmine speakes plaine he saith enough yet not all I must tell you Bellarmine is modest to others that come after him though he saith somewhat yet they much more He maintained indeed against Aquinas that Kings are not to be murdered though they are Hereticks except they labour to make their people so too and maintaines against others that except the Pope have excommunicated and accursed them subjects are not to rise against their King But others Mariana and the rest of that blacke Guard speake out people are to rise against their King and though the Pope neglects his duty they are not to neglect theirs hee advises rather to poyson their chaire Incarnate devils yea the very vow that the Iesuites take will necessarily inferre this consequence therfore it 's not the opinion of a few alone but the whole order must avouch it I will not say every Iesuite and Papist de facto is not loyall and dutifull to their Prince I will say all their Loyalty depends on the Popes pleasure And what a rotten thread this is to hang so sharpe a pointed sword in over the head of Kings what loyall heart doth not tremble to thinke of it After a solemne profession that they beleeve the Popes absolute authority over all as the Vicar of Christ they make this vow to doe whatsoever the Pope or the Generall of the order shall command them immediately without any Tergiversation disputation or excuse at all and to goe wheresoever he shall command them whether to the Turks Infidels and Indians or Hereticks and Schismaticks among the Christians yea they are bound to beleeve that no error impiety injustice can come from the Pope but that all is Religion Zeale Devotion Equity and Truth My Brethren doe not these men commit themselves soule and body to the Pope doe not they give themselves not to beleeve their owne sences their owne Reason Iudgment and understanding And doe they not vow to goe to come to doe to say to execute upon all persons and against all persons whatsoever he shall command them and if this be true what hope what safety what meanes of refuge have Christian Kings and Princes but the Popes pleasure when these the slaves of the Pope for so the Iesuites call themselves which care not for their owne lives bee masters of the Kings And yet saith Bellarmine was it ever heard or read or did the Pope approve the fact after it was done if the Pope doth not allow of the killing of Kings and Princes wherfore I pray you doth he not set some severe Censure and with a fearefull frowne cry downe those Iesuiticall bookes of Mariana and the rest that not only approves but commends King-killing service Wherefore doth his holinesse suffer at Rome even under his nose those Iesuites that had the chiefest hand in Treasons to be pictured in Bookes like Martyrs and superstitious worship by the common people to bee done to them And those two Kings in France both murdered by Iesuites why did not his holinesse testifie to the Christian world his apprehension of so great misfortune which all Europe had cause to lament why hath not his holines made a Law and a decree against killing of Kings and Princes whereby they may enjoy more safety Let not words be credited when deeds speake so lowd King Iames in his answer to this flaâ—â—ting lye brings a full Iury of witnesses And Bellarmine himselfe in his eight Chapter twelve severall examples to prove the lawfulnesse that Kings may be deposed by the people I will keep at home and only tell you how the Pope proceeded against our King Iohn Queene Elizabeth King Iames Innocentius the first hee first interdicted the kingdome excommunicated the King cursed his person animated his subjects against him gave his kingdome to the King of France at last when the King somewhat relented and submitted to him he forced him to resigne his Crowne and kingdome to Pandolphus his Legate who kept it three dayes and after gave it him and made him tributary for his own kingdome That Bull of Pope Clement sent out against Queene Elizabeth is infamously and notoriously knowne whereby after much railing and blaspheming of her sacred person hee curses all that adhere unto her This Bull he sends into England fastened it on one of Saint Pauls Gates Saunders in his writings maintained it Bristow in his Motives approved it some of the Nobility and many of the Gentry were said to execute it From this fountaine all those bitter streames of cursed water flowed out damnable Treasons against her person But to passe all other the Treason intended this day speakes loud enough occasioned by Popish Religion attempted by Popish Catholikes encouraged by Popish Doctors maintained and blessed by the Pope himselfe I say the Pope himselfe for when father Garnet desired to know the Popes Resolution concerning the bloudy Tragedy Catesby presently resolved him The Pope saith hee that commanded our endeavours to hinder his comming in is willing enough wee should throw him out I know this Anniversary remembrance of this great deliverance troubles the hearts of tender Iesuites and Papists some in Print condemne it and say that the treason of the Powder Traitors ought to bee buryed in the grave of the offendors and not to be imputed to their Religion some impudently now begin to deny it and some with blacke mouthes labour to fasten it on the Puritans God rebuke them T is no new thing my brethren to disavow that which took no effect But had this damnable Treason beene executed it would not have wanted Patrons highly to have maintained it When that Parricide killed Henry the third King of France did not the Pope in full consistory of his Cardinalls make a glorious relation of it comparing the Asacinat to Eleazar and Iudeth forbidding all Masses and dirges to bee said for the soule of the King Is not his picture compleately set up in the Iesuites Colledge over the Altar with Angels protecting and crowning him I could at large relate the manner of the Iesuites proceedings how they raise the