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A19548 A sermon at the solemnizing of the happie inauguration of our most gracious and religious soueraigne King Iames wherein is manifestly proued, that the soueraignty of kings is immediatly from God, and second to no authority on earth whatsoeuer : preached at Paules Crosse, the 24. of March last 1608 / by Richard Crakanthorpe ... Crakanthorpe, Richard, 1567-1624. 1609 (1609) STC 5979; ESTC S308 49,514 56

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and to doe homage and fealty for their Crownes and Kingdomes And to whom else thinke you but to the vtter enemie of God to that man of sinne and sonne of perdition who exalts himselfe indeed as the Apostle saith and whom they also haue exalted aboue all Exalting him first from a Christian Byshop to an Antichristian Pope and then from a Pope or Pastor to a Temporall King supreame Monarch of all whose Soueraignty must be ouer al Kings and people and his Dominion ouer all Lands goods and possessions in the whole world Euen of this man of sinne must all Kings hold their Crownes and Kingdomes and that in the most base seruile tenure that can be deuised holding thē as Tenants at will Ex Pontificis mero fauore gratia by the meere fauor good wil of the Pope as the vaine Triumpher affirmes of the Kingdome of France These to be their resolued positions you may cleerely perceiue by Franciscus Bozius who professedly sets down and vndertakes by the helpe of God and Saint Peter to proue thus much Supremam iurisdictionē temporalem esse penes Petri. successores ita vt idem sit Hierarcha et Monarcha in omnibus that the supreame temporall iurisdiction belongs to the Pope so that hee is both an Hierarch and a Monarch in all things affirming againe his Arguments to shew that to the Pope belonges indeede the Supreame temporall Monarchy for which he entitles his Booke De Temporali Ecclesiae Monarchio By Rodulphus Cupers who saith that the Pope is deseruedly esteemed and is indeed Rex regum Dominus Dominantium the King of Kings and Lord of Lordes and that the direct Dominion of the Empire belongs to God and consequently to the Pope as being Gods Vicar who permits as he saith the power of the sworde Cui libeat to whom hee listeth By Aug. Steuchus who not onely challengeth Soueraignty and Dominion in many Kingdomes as in right belonging to the Pope particularly of Spaine Arragon Portugall England France Italy Denmarke Hungaria Croatia Dalmatia Russia Bohemia Su●…tia Norwegia and in a word of all the Westerne Kingdomes and Countries but as if all this were too small a Patrimony for the Pope he addes that this as he cals it most ancient and almost Omnipotent power is extended ouer all Kinges and Kingdomes and that the Pope rules the whole worlde and holdes the raignes of al kingdoms suffring other Kings and Emperors to raigne Modo Dominam ac reginam agnoscant fateantur but with this condition that they acknowledge and confesse an higher power or Soueraignty to bee in the Pope By the Romish Th●…asonicall Triumpher before mentioned who bragges that all Kingdomes in the world are beholden to the Pope because all do or ought to sweare to defend his Sea And to omit others you may see this most largely in Alexander Carerius the late controuler of Cardinall Bellarmine in the second of those his Bookes De Potestate Romani pontificis intituled by him against impious Polliticians and Haeretickes of this time but of purpose and at large refuting and that not without scorne their owne great Cardinall his position and Reasons Carerius there tels vs that as God so the Pope may be called a Temporall Lord and Monarch of the world that the Pope as Pope is such a Prince in whom is the top of Temporall Authority and therefore that as Pope hee may make ciuill lawes and may chaunge and correct thy Imperiall lawes Further out of Saucius one of their Byshops he affirmes that this is cum recta side tenendum to be held as an Article of the right faith Principa●…um Romani pontificis esse verum vnicum immediatum principatum totius orbis nedum quoad spiritualia sed quoad temporalia that the kingdome of the Pope is the true and the onely immediate principality or kingdome of the whole world that not onely in Spirituall but in Temporall causes In regard whereof he somewhat pleasantly cals the Pope Orbis virū the husband or good man of the world which you may well thinke is indeed a fit wife for his holinesse As for Kings and Emperors they teach that their Authority is but Ministerial deriued from the Pope and dependant of him as the light of the starres depends of the Sun or as the body depends of the soule which receiues being vertue and all operation from it and out of Saucius he affirmes it to be Adiussum princip●…tus Papalis nobilē reuocabilem corrigilem et punibilem the Kingly and Imperiall authority to be at the Popes pleasure and command moueable reuocable corrigible punishable they further to this purpose teach that Kings Emperors are but the Popes Ministers the Popes Commissioners or Deputies yea the Popes men or vassals swearing fealty to him as the Pope himselfe hath defined receiuing Crownes and holding their kingdomes from him and by his donation and being to vse their Temporall sword and Authority Ad nutum Pontificis at the Popes pleasure and sufferance as not onely Bozius but Pope Boniface the eight before him affirmeth In a word that other powers and Authorities à prima summi pontificis regiâ potestate pendent doe depend of that first Kingly Authoritie of the Popes But tell vs I pray you Is the Pope Lord onely ouer the persons or is he not Lord also of the goodes and posessions in the whole world Yes the Pope he is Lord of al. As the Dominion of the whole world was in Christ Ita in Papa idem esse fatendnm est so must it be confessed that the same Dominion is in the Pope saith Carerius And againe seeing the earth is the Lords all that is therein Et per consequens Papae sui vica●…ij by consequent also this belongs vnto the Popes who is Gods Vicar and so the earth is the Popes and all that is therein The same teacheth Bozius seeing in Christ according to his humain nature by the Doctrine of Saint Thomas there was an absolute power of all things Erit itaque Pontifex omnium regionum iure potestate Dominus seu mauis dicere totius orbis therefore the Pope shall be the Lord both in right and in power of all Countries or if ye will rather say so of the whole world Whereupon it followeth that neither Constantine nor any other did neither can any man possible giue ought vnto the Pope for all is his owne already but they may restore vnto him what they vniustly do withhold and so did Constantine the great From this Soueraignty of Dominion and as the Triumpher truly cals it vnlimited power for so it is indeed by his description thereof as extending it selfe aboue the heauens and as low againe