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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57374	A discovrse of the originall and fundamentall cause of naturall, customary, arbitrary, voluntary and necessary warre with the mystery of invasive warre : that ecclesiasticall prelates, have alwayes beene subject to temporall princes ... / by Sir Walter Rawleigh ...	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.	1650 (1650)	Wing R158; ESTC R9599	18,812	70

Saviour By their works you shall know them what the works of those that occupied the Papacie have been since the dayes of Pepin and Charlemaine who first enabled them with Temporall donation The Italian writers have testified at large Yet were it needlesse to Cite Machiavell who hath Recorded their doings and is therefore the more hatefull or Guicciardine whose works they have gelded as not enduring to heare all that he hath written though he spake enough in that which remains What History shall we Read excepting the Annales of Caesar Baronius And some books of Fryars or Fryarly Parasites which mentioning their Annales doe not leave witnesse of their ungodly dealing in all quarters How few Kingdomes are there if any wherein by dispensing with others transferring the right of Crowns Absolving Subjects from alleageance and cursing or threatning to curse as long as their curses were regarded they have not wrought unprobable mischiefs The shamelesse denyall hereof by some of their friends And the more shamelesse justification by their flatterers makes it needfull to exemplifie which I had rather forbeare as not loving to deale in such contentious arguments were it not follie to be modest in uttering what is knowne to all the world Pitty it is that by such demeanour they have caused the Church as Hierome Savanarola and before him Robert Grosthead Bishop of Lincolne prophecied to be reformed by the sword But God would have it so How farre the Popes blessing therefore did sanctifie the enterprise upon Ierusalem it rests in every mans discretion to Judge As for the honourable Christians which undertooke that conquest to justifie their Warre they had not only the redresse of injuries and protection of their oppressed Brethren But the repelling of danger from their owne Land threatned by those misbeleivers when they invaded If the Popes extortions which were not more forcible then those of Peters the Hermits added spirit unto the action yet altered they not the grounds of the Warre nor made it the more holy Let the Indulgences of Pope Leo the tenth beare witnesse of this who out of politick feare of the Turkes violence urged a Religious contribution towards a Warre to be made upon them The necessity of that which hee propounded was greater doubtlesse then any that had perswaded the Conquest of Palestina But too foule and manifest was the unholinesse of obtruding upon men Remission of sins for money That the Sums which Pope Leo thereby raised and converted to his owne uses have made his Successers loosers by the bargaine even to this day Pius the Second formerly well knowne by the name of Aeneas Silvius was discernedly reckoned among the few good Popes of latter ages who neverthelesse in a Warre of the same Religious nature discovered the like though not the same imperfection His purpose was to set upon Mahomet the great who had newly won the Empire of Constantinople and by carrying the Warre over into Greece to prevent the danger threatning Italie In this action highly Commendable he intended to hazard his owne person that so the more easily hee might win adventurers who else were like to be lesse forward as not unacquainted with such Romish tricks Yet was not his owne devotion so zealous in pursuit of this holy businesse but that he could stay a while and convert his forces against Malatesti Lord of Rimini letting Scanderbeg waite his Leisure who had already set the Warre on foote in Greece For said he we first subdue the little Turke before we medle with the great He spake reason if we regard policy But attending one to Religion find we not that he held the Chastisement of one which molested the Sea of Rome a like pleasing to God as would have been the holy Warre against the Common Enemy of our Christian Faith So thought all the rest of those Bishops And so much more upon their severall occasions declared themselves to thinke it by how much they were commonly worse men then this Aeneas Silvius And good reason was there that they should be of such beliefe or Endeavour to make the Christian world believe none otherwise For the naturall Constitution of their estate I meane since the age of Pepin and Charlmaine or the times not long foregoing hath urged them all hereto though peradventure some few Popes may have been overlewd by their own private natures and thereby have swarved from the rule of policy To speake in generall whosoever hath dominion absolute over some and authority lesse absolute over many more will seeke to draw those that are not wholly his owne into intire subjection It fares with politick bodies as with the physicall each would convert all into their owne proper substance and cast forth as Excrement what will not so be changed We need not Cite Philip the Father of Alexander nor Philip the Father of Perseus Kings of Macedon for examples Of which the former brought the Thessalians the latter would have brought the Acheans and many estates in Greece from the condition of followers and dependants unto meer vassallage Philip the second of Spaine is yet fresh in mind who attempted the self same upon the Netherlands Exceptions may be framed here against one of the honest quiet or timerous disposition of some Princes yet that all or the most are thus inclined both reason and experience teach yea even our Cities and Corporations here in England such as need the protection of great Men Complaine otherwhiles of their patrons overmuch diligence either in searching into their private estates or behaving themselves master-like in point of government But never hath authority better means to enlarge it self then when it is founded upon devotion And yet never doth authority of this kind worke to raise it self unto meere dominion untill it fall into the hands of those whose piety is more in seeming then indeed The Leviticall Priests in the old Law never arrogated unto themselves any Temporall or Coactive power Nor advanced their Miters against the Crowne of Israel They well understood what authority God had committed unto them and rested therewithall content Some wrangling hereabout hath been of late The Popes flatterers labouring to prove That the high Priests of old were not meerly Subject unto the Kings of Iuda and men of better spirit and learning having shewed the contrary But whatsoever befell in those dayes when there was no King in Israel that is before the Reigne of Saul or after the Captivity of Babel sure it is that the sons of Aaron were alwaies obedient unto the sons of David And acknowledged them their Lords As for the race of the Maccabees that held both the Kingdome and the Priesthood at once It falls not within this Consideration the first thereof of whom I read that used the advantage of honour given to him in matter of Religion towards the getting of Temporal possession was if not Mahomet himselfe Abubaechar the Successor unto Mahomet This man having obteined by help of his friends the miserable happinesse