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A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

PVRITANO-IESVITISMVS THE PURITAN TVRN'D JESUITE OR RATHER OVT-VYING HIM IN those Diabolicall and dangerous Positions of the Deposition of KINGS from the yeare 1536. untill this present time extracted out of the most ancient and authentick Authours By that Reverend Divine Doctour OVVEN Batchelour of Divinity Shewing their concord in the matter their discord in the manner of their sedition August in Psal 36. Conc. 2. Tunc inter se concordant cum in perniciem justi conspirant non quia se amant sed quia cum qui amandus erat simul oderunt Printed for William Sheares at the signe of the Bible in Covent-garden 1643. To the dutifull Subject THe Puritan-Church-Policy and Iesuiticall Society began together a See M. Hockers preface And the preface of Chemnic before his examen against the first part of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536 and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they have bestirred themselvs busily as hee that compasseth the b Iob 1.7 earth or they that coasted c Mat. 23.15 sea and land each one in his order The Puritan to breake down the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the reformed Church the Iesuite to build up the ruines of Babylon by maintaining the abomination of the deformed Synagogne These though brethren in sedition and heady are head-severed the one staring to the Presbyterie and the other to the Papacie but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tied together with firebrands between them that if they bee not quenched by the power of Majesty they cannot those when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an uprore Their many and long Prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shew of austerity in their conversation and of singular learning in their profession as the evill fiend transformed into an angel of light brought them first to admiration Wherby they have not only robbed widowes houses under pretence of prayer and ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of devotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peeres against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And whereas God hath inseparably annexed to the crowne of earthly Majesty a supreme ecclesiasticall soveraignty for the protection of pietie and an absolute immunitie from the judiciall sentence and Martiall violence for the preservation of policy These sectaries bereave Kings of both these their Princely prerogatives exalting themselves as the sonne of perdition above all that is called God 2 Thess 3.4 Lest they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sow the seeds of sedition without shew of reason Caedem faciunt scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to doe in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the doctrine of the Church to whom it was delivered and the practise of all the Godly as well under the Law as the Gospel that did beleeve understand and obey it to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I have in my hand above forty severall places of the old and New Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction doe indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacy and the indeleble character of Royall inunction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I haved added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discover the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K. Iames. Th Cranmer Io. Whitgift Ric. Bancroft Arch. of Cant Henry Earle of Northam Robert Earle of Salisbury The L. Burleigh L. Tresurer of England The L. Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England The L. Stafford The L Cook B Iewell B Horne B Pilkington B Elsmere B Couper B Bilson B Babington B Amirewes B Barlow B Bridges D Ackworth D Saravia D Cosens D Sutcliffe D Prythergh D Wilkes D Morton D Tocker M Bekinsaw M Foxe M Nowell M Hooker many others most mighty Kings the most reverend Prelates honourable Lords loyall Clergie and other worthy men that have in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and undutifull opponents which by Gods helpe I meane to publish when I have added the exposition of the Fathers to confute the falshood of the Puritan popish-faction and to confirme the truth of the Protestants Doctrine in each particular quotation I protest in all sincerity that I neither have in this treatise nor meane in the other hereafter to be published to detort any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the favourers of it more odious then their owne words published with the generall approbation of their severall favourites doe truly infer and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall subject and Godly affected we accept in good part my endeavour and industry intended for the glory of God the honour of the King and the discoverie of the seditious The displeasure of the male contented factions which can no more abide the truth then the Owles can light or the Franticke the Physician I neither regard nor care for Farewell The Table of the Booke The duty of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares cap. 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares cap. 3 pag. 7 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 18 fourth 300 yeares cap. 5 pag. 21 fifth 300 yeares cap. 6 pag. 26 sedition of Puritans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Danger of their Doctrine to Prince Peopl cap 8. p. 37. Puritan-Jesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuites against Kings from the yeare 1536. untill the yeare 1602. out of the most authenticke Authors cap 8. p. 40. THE FIRST CHAPTER Proveth by the testimony of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserved to the judgement of God KIngs have their authority from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Prov. 8.15 to execute justice and judgement for him amongst the Sonnes of men c 2 Chron. 19.6 All subjects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings d Exod. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl. 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne name unto his Lievetenants the Kings of the Earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 82.6 whose word is Yea and Amen with this onely difference that these Gods shall dye like men h Psal 82.7

a woman threw upon him from a turret as hee made an assault in sport against his owne Castle to try the valour of his souldiers Ex vita Henr. quanti quae bibotur in fasciculo rerum sciendarum Coloniae impresso Then did Egbertus by the Popes encouragement ascend the Imperiall throne whereon he sate but a while for as hee stepped aside from his army into a mill to rest himselfe in the heat of the day hee was discovered by the miller to the Emperours friends and lost his life for his labour During this hurly-burly in that state Walthramus a godly Bishop wrote to one Ludovicus an Earle of the Empire diswading him from partaking with the seditious against that good Emperour whom the Pope had deposed Walthram by the grace of God that hee is to Lewes the noble Prince with instance of prayer offreth himselfe in all things serviceable Concord is profitable to every Realme and justice much to bee desired these vertues are the Mother of devotion and the consecration of all honesty But whosoever seeketh after civill dissention and incenseth other to the effusion of bloud hee is a murtherer and partaketh with him who gaping for bloud goeth about seeking whom hee may devoure The worthy vessell of election that was taken up to the third Heaven protesteth saying Let every Soule submit himselfe to the higher power there is no power but from God Hee that resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God If that bee true which some men prate among women and the vulgar sort that wee ought not to bee subdued to the Kingly power Then it is false which the Apostle teacheth that every Soule must submit himselfe under power and superiority Can the truth lie did not Christ the Lord speake by the Apostle Epist Wald. quae habetur in appendice Marian. Scot. Why doe wee provoke the Lord are wee stronger then hee Doth not hee thinke himselfe stronger then the Lord that resisteth the ordinance of God seeing there is no power but of God what saith the Prophet Confounded bee they that strive against the Lord and they that resist him shall perish Rodolphus Hermanus Egbertus with many other Princes resisted the ordinance of God in Henry the Emperour but for they are confounded as though they had never beene for as their end was ill their beginning could not be good c Haec ille Pope Paschalis seeing the bad successe of those seditious subjects which his Predecessours Gregory and Vrbanus had armed against Henry that worthy Emperour did perswade the Emperours owne Sonne against all Law of God Nature and Nations to rebell against his Father The Bishop of Leige tooke the Emperours part against this young Prince for the which hee was excommunicate his Church interdicted and Robert Earle of Flanders commanded by the Pope as hee hoped to have the forgivenesse of his sinnes and the favour of the Church of Rome to destroy that Bishop and his false Priests The Churchmen of Leige terrified with the Popes excommunication and fearing the Earles oppression wrote an Apologie for themselves about the yeare 1106. Wee are excommunicate say they because wee obey our Bishop Epistol Leodiensium apud Simonem Scard who hath taken part with his Lord the Emperour These are the beginnings of sorrow for Sathan beeing loosed compasseth the earth and hath made a division betweene the Prince and the Priest who can justly blame the Bishop that taketh his Lords part to whom hee hath sworne allegiance perjury is a great sinne whereof they cannot bee ignorant that by new Schisme and novell tradition doe promise to absolve subjects from the guilt of perjury that forsweare themselves to their Lord the King c. In the progresse of their Apologie they determine three great questions First whether the Pope hath power to excommunicate Kings Secondly to whom it belongeth to inflict temporall punishment when Church-men offend against faith unity or good manners And thirdly what remedy subjects have against their Kings that are impious or tyrannous Si quis respectu sancti Spiritus c. If any man having respect to the Spirit of God shall turne over the old and new Testament he shall plainely find that Kings ought not at all or very hardly be excommunicate whether wee consider the Etimologie of their names or the nature of their excommunication Even till this day hath this point beene questioned and never determined Kings may bee admonished and reproved by such as bee discreet and sober men for Christ the King of Kings in earth who hath placed them in his owne stead hath reserved them to his owne judgement c. Their answer to the second question is grounded on the testimony of Saint Augustine the practise of Princes and the authority of Paul Kings say they and Emperours by their publike Lawes have forbidden Heretiques to enjoy any Worldly possession Wherefore seeing wee are no Heretiques and that it belongeth not to the Pope but to Kings and Emperours to punish Heresies why doth our Lord Paschalis send Robert his Armour-bearer to destroy the possessions and to overthrow the Villages of the Churches which in case they deserved destruction ought to bee destroyed by the edict of Kings and Emperours which cary the sword not without good cause c. For answer to the third question they shew by sundry places of Scripture that there is no other helpe against evill Princes then prayer and patience Nihil modo pro Imperatore nostro dicimus c. Wee will for the present say nothing in defence of our Emperour but this wee say though hee were as bad as you report him to bee wee would endure his government because our sinnes have deserved such a Governour Bee it wee must needs grant against our will that the Emperour is an Arch-heretike an invader of the Kingdome a worshipper of the Simonaicall Idoll and accursed by the Apostles and Apostolike men as you say of him even such a Prince ought not to bee resisted by violence but endured by patience and prayer Moses brought many plagues upon Pharaoh whose heart God had hardened but it was by prayer and the lifting up his hands to Heaven And Saint Paul requireth prayers to bee made for all men for Kings and such as are in authority which Kings were neither Catholikes nor Christians Baruch also from the mouth of the Prophet Jeremy wrote unto the Iewes which were captives unto the King of Babylon that they must pray for the life of Nabuchodonoser the King of Babylon and Balthazar his Sonne that their dayes in earth may bee as the dayes of Heaven Epist Leod. c. Saint Paul teacheth why wee ought to pray for evill Kings namely that under them wee may lead a quiet life It would become an Apostolike man to follow the Apostles Doctrine it were propheticall to follow the Prophet c. Thus farre they in their Epistle Apologeticall Hee that wrote the life of this Emperour Henry the fourth Vita