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A04285	Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus. Or An apologie for the Oath of allegiance against the two breues of Pope Paulus Quintus, and the late letter of Cardinal Bellarmine to G. Blackvvel the Arch-priest. Authoritate regiâ.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621.; Bellarmino, Roberto Francesco Romolo, Saint, 1542-1621.	1607 (1607)	STC 14400; ESTC S121305	37,662	98

sufficient to exhort him to Courage and Constancie by Eleazars and Basils examples but he must be vtterly cast downe with the comparing his fall to S. Peters and Marcellinus which two mens cases were the most fearefull considering their persons and places that are to bee found or read of either in all the Bookes of Diuine Scripture or the volumes of Ecclesiasticall Stories the one denying the onely true God the other our Lord and Sauiour IESVS CHRIST the one sacrificing to Idols with the profane Heathen the other forswearing his Lord and Master with the hard-hearted Iewes Vnles the Cardinall would driue the Arch-priest to some horror of conscience pit of despaire I know not what he can meane by this comparison For sure I am all that are not intoxicated with their cup cannot but wonder to heare of an oath of Allegiance to a naturall Soueraigne to be likened to an Apostats denying of God forswearing of his Sauiour But to let passe the Disdiapason of the Cases as his ill fauored coupling Saint Peter the head of their Church with an Apostate Pope I maruaile he would remember this example of a Looke Platina in vita Marcellini Marcellinus since his brother Cardinall Baronius and the late Edition of the Councels by b Concil Tom. 1. pag. 222. Looke Baronius Anno 302 ●●m 96. Binnius seeme to call the credit of the whole Story into question saying That it might plainely be refuted and that it is probably to be shewed that the story is but obreptitious but that hee would not swarue from the common receiued opinion And Subiects from their obedience to their naturall King nor bee so cruell to their owne Mancipia as returning them with these wares put either a State in iealousie of them or them in hazard of their owne liues Now to our Apostle since the Cardinall will haue him so called I perswade my selfe I should doe a good seruice to the Church in this my labour if I could but reape this one fruite of it to moue the Cardinall to deale faithfully with the Fathers and neuer to alleadge their opinions against their owne purpose For this letter of Gregorius was written to Iohn Bishop of a Greg. lib. 11. cap. 42. Palermo in Sicily to whom hee granted vsum pallij to be worne in such times and in such order as the Priests in the I le of Sicily and his Predecessours were wont to vse and withall giueth him a Caueat that the reuerence to the Apostolique Sea be not disturbed by the presumption of any For then the State of the members doeth remaine sound when the head of the faith is not broken by any iniury and the authoritie of the Canons remaine safe and sound Now let vs examine the vvordes The Epistle was written to a Bishop especially to graunt him the vse of the Pall a ceremonie and matter indifferent As it appeareth the Bishop of Rome tooke it well at his hands that hee would not presume to take it vpon him without leaue from the Apostolike Sea and giuing him that admonition which followeth in the wordes alleadged out of him which doctrine wee are so farre from impugning that we altogether approue and allow of the same That whatsoeuer Ceremonie for order is thought meete by the Christian Magistrate and the Church the same ought inuiolably to be kept And where the Head and gouernours in matters of that nature are not obeyed the members of that Church must needes runne to Hellish confusion But that Gregory by that terme Caput fidei held himselfe the head of our Faith and the head of all Religion cannot stand with the course of his doctrine and vvritings For first vvhen an a Iohan. Constan Greg. lib. 4. Epist 32. other vvould haue had this stile to be called Vniuersalis Episcopus he said Whosoeuer would giue himselfe that Title was the Fore-runner of Antichrist Which notvvithstanding vvas a Stile farre inferiour to that of Caput fidei And vvhen it vvas offered to himselfe the vvords of Saint Gregory be these refusing that Title a Greg. lib. 4. Epist 32. 36. That none of my Predecessors Bishops of Rome euer consented to vse this vngodly name of Vniuersall Bishop None of the Bishops of Rome euer tooke upon vs this name of Singularitie Wee the Bishops of Rome will not receiue this Honour being offered vnto vs. And novv I pray you vvould he that refused to be called Vniuersall Bishop be stiled Caput fidei vnlesse it vvere in that sense as I haue expressed Which sense if you vvill not admit giue me leaue to say that once of one which himselfe saith often of many of the Fathers b Bellar. de Rom. Pontif lib. 2. cap. ●0 lib. 2 de Christo cap. 2. Minùs cautè locutus est To redeeme therefore our Apostle out of his hands and to let him remaine ours and not his in this case It is very true that he saith in that sense hee spake it When yee goe about to disturbe diminish or take away the Authority or Supremacy of the Church which resteth on the head of the King within his Maiesties Dominions ye cut off the head and chiefe Gouernour thereof and disturbe the State and members of the whole Body And for a Conclusion of this point I pray him to thinke that wee are so well perswaded of the good mind of our Apostle Saint Gregory to vs that wee desire no other thing to be suggested to the Pope and his Cardinals then our Apostle Saint Gregory desired the Deputy of the Emperour a Greg. lib. 7. Epist 1. Sabinian to suggest vnto the Emperour and the State in his time His words be these One thing there is of which I would desire you would suggest it to your noble Lord and Master That if I his seruant would haue had my hand in staying of the Lombards at this day the Nation of the Lombards had neither had Kings nor Dukes nor Earles and had bene diuided asunder in vtter confusion but because I feare God I dread to haue my hand in the blood of any man And thus hauing answered to S. Gregory An answere to the authoritie out of Leo. I come to another Pope his Apostle S. Leo. And that hee may see I haue not in the former Citations quareled him like a Sophister for contention sake but for finding out of the Truth I do graunt that the Authorities out of b Leo primus in di●●s●ump suae ●d Pontificat 〈◊〉 mone 3. Leo epist. 89 ad ●pisc V. en Idem ibid. cap. 2. Leo are rightly alleadged all three the words truely set downe together with his true intent and purpose But withall let me tell him and I appeale vnto his owne conscience whether I speake not truely that what Tully sayd to c Cicero in Hort. Hortensius when he did immoderatly praise Eloquence that he would haue lift her vp to heauen that himselfe might haue gone vp with her

put any of his Subiects to a needlesse extremitie might haue bene contented in some sort to haue reformed or interpreted those wordes With his owne Catholikes Either if his Maiestie had so done they had bene thereby fully eased in that businesse Or at least if his Maiestie would not haue condescended to haue altered any thing in the said Oath yet would thereby some appearance or shadow of excuse haue bene left vnto them for refusing the same not as seeming thereby to swarue from their Obedience and Allegiance vnto his Maiestie but onely being stayed from taking the same vpon the scrupulous tendernesse of their Consciences in regard of those particular words which the Pope had noted and condemned therein And now let vs heare the wordes of his Thunder POPE PAVLVS the fifth to the English Catholikes WElbeloued sonnes Salutation The Pope his first Breue and Apostolicall Benediction The tribulations and calamities which ye haue continually susteined for the keeping of the Catholike Faith haue alwayes afflicted vs with great griefe of minde But for as much as we vnderstand that at this time all things are more grieuous our affliction hereby is wonderfully increased For we haue heard how you are compelled by most grieuous punishments set before you to goe to the Churches of Heretikes to frequent their Assemblies to be present at their Sermons Truely wee doe vndoubtedly beleeue that they which with so great constancie and fortitude haue hither to indured almost infinite and most cruel persecutions that they may walke without spot in the Law of the Lord will neuer suffer themselues to bee defiled with the communion of those that haue forsaken the diuine Law Yet notwithstanding being compelled by the zeale of our Pastorall Office and by our Fatherly care which we doe continually take for the saluation of your soules we are inforced to admonish and desire you that by no meanes you come vnto the Churches of the Heretikes or heare their Sermons or communicate with them in their Rites lest you incurre the wrath of God For these things may yee not doe without indamaging the worship of God and your owne saluation As likewise you cannot without most euident and grieuous wronging of Gods Honour binde your selues by the Oath which in like maner we haue heard with very great griefe of our heart is administred vnto you of the tenor vnder written viz. I A. B. doe truely and sincerely acknowledge The Oath professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world That our Soueraigne Lord King IAMES is lawfull King of this Realme and of all other his Maiesties Dominions and Countreys And that the Pope neither of himselfe nor by any authoritie of the Church or Sea of Rome or by any other meanes with any other hath any power or authoritie to depose the King or to dispose any of his Maiesties Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorize any forraigne Prince to inuade or annoy him or his Countreys or to discharge any of his Subiects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Maiestie or to giue Licence or leaue to any of them to beare Armes raise tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Maiesties Royall person State or Gouernement or to any of his Maiesties Subiects within his Maiesties Dominions Also I doe sweare from my heart that notwithstanding any declaration or sentence of Excommunication or depriuation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his successors or by any Authoritie deriued or pretended to be deriued from him or his Sea against the said King his Heires or Successors or any Absolution of the said subiects from their Obedience I wil beare faith and true Allegiance to his Maiestie his Heires and Successors and him and them will defend to the vttermost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoeuer which shal be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and dignitie by reason or colour of any such Sentence or declaration or otherwise and will doe my best endeuour to disclose and make knowen vnto his Maiestie his Heires and Successors all Treasons and traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or heare of to be against him or any of them And I doe further sweare That I doe from my heart abhorre detest and abiure as impious and Hereticall this damnable doctrine and Position That Princes which be Excommunicated or depriued by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subiects or any other whatsoeuer And I doe beleeue and in conscience am resolued that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoeuer hath power to absolue me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authoritie to be lawfully ministred vnto me and doe renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I doe plainely and sincerely acknowledge and sweare according to these expresse wordes by me spoken and according to the plaine and common sense and vnderstanding of the same words without any Aequiuocation or mentall euasion or secret reseruation whatsoeuer And I doe make this Recognition and acknowledgement heartily willingly and truely vpon the true Faith of a Christian So helpe me GOD. Which things since they are thus it must euidently appeare vnto you by the words themselues That such an Oath cannot be taken without hurting of the Catholique Faith and the Saluation of your Soules seeing it conteines many things which are flat contrary to Faith and Saluation Wherefore wee doe admonish you that you doe vtterly abstaine from taking this and the like Oathes which thing we doe the more earnestly require of you because we haue experience of the Constancie of your Faith which is tried like Gold in the fire of perpetuall Tribulation We doe well knowe that you will cheerefully vnder-goe all kinde of cruell Torments whatsoeuer yea and constantly endure death it selfe rather then you wil any thing offend the Maiestie of God And this our Confidence is confirmed by those things which are dayly reported vnto vs of the singular vertue valour and fortitude which in these last times doeth no lesse shine in your Martyrs then it did in the first beginnings of the Church Stand therefore your Loynes being girt about with Veritie and hauing on the Brest-plate of Righteousnesse taking the Shielde of Faith be ye strong in the Lord and in the power of his might And let nothing hinder you He which will crowne you and doeth in Heauen beholde your Conflicts will finish the good worke which he hath begun in you You knowe how he hath promised his Disciples that hee will neuer leaue them Orphanes for hee is faithfull which hath promised Hold fast therefore his correction that is being rooted and grounded in Charitie Whatsoeuer ye doe whatsoeuer ye indeuour doe it with one accord in simplicity of Heart in meekenesse of Spirit without murmuring or doubting For by this doe all men knowe that we are the Disciples of Christ if we haue Loue