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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45899	The Pope's third breve threatning to excommunicate the most Christian king together with the French clergies reply upon the subject of that breve / faithfully translated from the originals ; giving an exact account of the grand controversie concerning the regalia.; Charissimo in Christo filio nostra Ludovico Francorum Regi Christianissimo. English	Catholic Church. Pope (1676-1689 : Innocent XI); Innocent XI, Pope, 1611-1689.; Catholic Church. Assemblée générale du clergé de France. Lettre éscrite au roy par nosseigneurs les archovesques, evesques, & autres ecclesiastiques deputz du clergé de France, assemblées à S. Germain en Laye. English.	1681 (1681)	Wing I203; ESTC R13162	5,511	12

THE POPE'S Third Breve Threatning to EXCOMMUNICATE The Most Christian King Together with The FRENCH CLERGIES Reply UPON The Subject of that BREVE Faithfully Translated from the Originals giving an exact Account of the grand Controversie concerning the Regalia TO Our dearest Son in Christ LEWIS The MOST CHRISTIAN King of France INNOCENT P. P. xi Health and Apostolical Benediction Most dear Son in Christ BY two of our Letters we have already at large clearly shewn to your Majesty from the unanimous testimony of almost all your own French Authors and out of the very Acts and Records of your own Courts how injurious to the Rights and Liberty of the Church and how contrary to the usage and proceedings of all your most Christian Predecessors that Edict was which seven years since being set forth by you does order and command That the Custome of possessing the fruits of all vacant Benefices vulgarly called Regalia shall also extend to such Churches within your present Dominions as never before were subjected to any such Custome Now in the aforementioned Letters of ours according to the duty of our Pastoral Office and that Paternal care which we owe to the salvation of your Soul we did earnestly beseech your Majesty that the said Edict and all other Acts ensuing thereupon contrary to the Rights of the Church in general and to the immunities of such Churches in particular might by your Royal Authority be abrogated and repealed And truly such is the merit of the Cause it self and such is our opinion of your Generosity and Equity that we did not at all doubt but that your Majesty would before this have rectified the Abuse by restoring things to their former places and thereby have freed us from any farther solicitude upon this subject especially in consideration of our having so many other cares upon us in our administration and superintendency over the whole Church of God But after our patient attendance of many months we have received no Answer to our last Letter and finding no Redress of past Grievances that on the contrary we are inform'd that all things tend to greater disorder and that under colour of these pretended Regalia Collations of Benefices and Canonical Institutions are obstructed the Episcopal Authority deprest the Ecclesiastical Order and Discipline disturb'd and finally that a new Practice is set up by a Secular Power contrary to the antient usage of the Church and to divine Institution and this not covertly or in the dark but at noon-day and by Regal Authority We will not at present repeat how many Scandals and Complaints justly arise from such proceedings what inconvenience to the Gallican Clergy what danger to the universal Church may follow from such an Example with what blemish of your Honour and stain upon your Conscience These things we have sufficiently laid forth unto you in our former Monitories and they sufficiently lay forth themselves But now our sincere and Paternal Charity towards your self your most flourishing Kingdom will not suffer us in a matter so injurious to the honour of God and so perilous to your Soul to be longer silent for we are compell'd with a most passionate affection of heart and in the bowels of Christ Jesus to intreat and obsecrate your Majesty that mindful of the words spoken by our said Lord to the Governours of his Church He that hears you hears me you will rather give ear to us who hold the place of a Father and of a most loving Father towards you telling you things wholsome and true than to those Sons of Diffidence who onely savour earthly things and who by their counsel profitable indeed in appearance but in reality pernicious and destructive shake the very foundation of that antient and glorious Monarchy whose Fundamentals always were the maintenance of Christian Religion nda the conservation of the Rights Authority of the Church Were these men such as their Office and Dignity and your extraordinary favour towards them oblige them to be they would rather imitate the Integrity and Loyalty of those who formerly in their station as it is Recorded in History and not long since inserted into the Acts of the Gallican Clergy did with Christian liberty in a like case admonish the Kings your Predecessors to remember how Sacredly they had promised by their Coronation-Oath to serve and advance the glory of God with all their study and power and to be always ready to spend their Blood and lay down their Lives They would mind you also how frail and uncertain the Lives of all Mortals are especially of Kings and Princes who when they are called before our impartial Judge must appear without Houshold-Guards or Attendance without Pomp or Power naked and unarm'd to render an Account of their Actions to the Searcher of Hearts from whom nothing can be concealed with whom there is no exception of Persons who has power to send into Hell-fire where the Powerful are Powerfull tormented Nor was there wanting in the former Age a Bishop in France who in a full Assembly of Prelates and other Peers of the Realm pleading the cause of the Church in the presence of Henry the Third freely told the King how it was observed that the Race or Line of their Monarchs had never failed till such time as they did arrogate to themselves the undue nomination to Ecclesiastical Benefices from which the glorious St. Lewis great in his Temporal state but much greater in his Christian humility did so religiously abstain that he refused to meddle even with those Nominations which were offered and tendred to him from the Apostolick-See This was formerly in France and I hope it still continues the Apostolical liberty of Speech in the Episcopal Order who feared and hoped nothing but from God And such their liberty was so far from being distastful to their Soveraigns that they both obtained their Suit and the just commendation of all good men by which means the Sanction of the Oecumenical Councel of Lions was preserved Sacred and Inviolate And some of the Kings themselves as in the French Annals does appear did by their Edicts declare such persons Impious and Sacrilegious who should any ways attempt to extend the Regalia and right of Nomination to any Churches where no such usage had formerly been But this distemper of our present Age is so much the more grievous to us in that we know your Majesty in your own Royal Inclination prefers above all things the zeal of Justice and the honour of God In maintenance whereof you have lately set forth so pious and salutary Edicts and at present you so vigorously proceed to the joy of all good men and to the immortal honour of your Name in destroying those Nests and Receptacles of Heresie by which means we hope you will no less raise to your self in Heaven an Eternal Monument of your Piety as a Preserver and Propagater of the Christian Faith than leave behind you upon Earth the Trophies of your