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A40843 The famous bull in Cœna Domini published at Rome every Maunday Thursday against hereticks and all infringers of ecclesiastical liberties with a preface containing some reflections on the bull, and animadversions on the late account of the proceedings of the Parliament of Paris.; Pastoralis Romani Pontificis vigilantia. English & Latin Catholic Church. Pope (1605-1621 : Paul V); Paul V, Pope, 1552-1621. 1688 (1688) Wing F365; ESTC R2280 23,075 70

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The Famous Bull IN CAENA DOMINI Published at ROME every Maunday Thursday against Hereticks and all Infringers of Ecclesiastical Liberties With a PREFACE containing some Reflections on the Bull and Animadversions on the late Account of the Proceedings of the PARLIAMENT of PARIS Printed in the Year 1688. PREFACE AFTER so many and so loud Out-cries against that just and necessary distinction of Old and New Popery which the late Artifices and shiftings of our Adversaries have enforced the Divines of our Church to observe and publish after so many vehement Protestations against the reality of any such distinction and confident assertions of the entire Conformity between the Doctrine of the present Church of Rome or rather some few Emissaries of it and that of the immediately precedent Ages so many new Systems Representations and Expositions of the pretended Catholick Doctrine it might have been justly expected that the Faith and Doctrine if not of the present and precedent Age yet at least of all National Churches at this day in Communion with the Church of Rome should be perfectly conformable and invariable For the Opinions of the precedent Age may be indeed falsly represented to us the truth of them may be obscured by cunning Artifices and Illusions or evaded by a bold and obstinate Denial but the Doctrines and Practice of the present Time cannot be dissembled nor without too manifest an affront to Truth be denied by these Gentlemen of the Mission who may perhaps confound our Reason but can never delude our Senses That this distinction is both just and real needs no other Argument than the known and confess'd distinction between French and Italian Popery For since the Patrons and Defenders of both these Parties appeal to the belief of the Church in the precedent Age since both propose Tradition as the Rule of their Faith and challenge to themselves the Consent and Suffrage of that Rule since both their Pleas cannot be allowed and one Party must necessarily have departed from the true ancient and genuine Popery it evidently follows that as one Party conserves the Old so the other hath framed a New sort of Popery I know it is commonly pretended that these differences are of small moment neither essential to Christianity nor to the Doctrine of the Church of Rome that either side may be safely believed and neither renders any Man either less Orthodox or more Heretical But certainly these Pretences are no other than Protestations against matters of Faith since not only the Subjects of these different Doctrines are Matters of the greatest moment and concern but attended with all the solemn Characters and evident Marks of the most momentous Articles of Faith I mean an infinite Zeal and Concern of each Party for the defence and propagation of their own Opinion and condemning the contrary Doctrine as a Crime worthy of Excommunication and Anathema which are never supposed to be inflicted on Opinions of an indifferent nature and free from all Contagion of Heresy or Schism If then the Pope and Italian Divines will not allow those of France to be truly Orthodox and Catholick if they think them unworthy and incapable of Ecclesiastical Dignities and Promotions and daily issue out Excommunications against such Practices as the Church of France is manifestly known to act allow and command if on the other side the French Clergy so far return the Accusation as to attaint the Pope of Heresy to declare his Censures rash unchristian and destructive of the Church and himself ipso facto excommunicate certainly we must renounce all Sense and Reason to imagined these to be no more than verbal Differences Scholastick Niceties and Opinions of private Divines which may be safely either rejected or received That Differences of this nature have arose between the Church of France and See of Rome and those continued with great Heat and Animosity through several Ages is manifest both from Ecclesiastical and Civil History This indeed our Adversaries deny but surely by the assistance of that wonderful Secret which can enable them confidently to propose the greatest Contradictions and Falsities and then effectually secure them from blushing at them The Violence and Cruelties practised upon many thousand Protestants of France have been acted within a few Months in the view of the World and the face of Mankind yet there are not wanting who decry all Relations of these Cruelties and Barbarities as the Calumnies and Fictions of Hereticks and have added this to the other glorious Titles of Lovis le Grand that he hath reduced his Subjects to the Profession of one Religion by methods of Mercy and Gentleness The present differences between the Courts of Rome and France how conspicuous soever might have suffered the same fate and with equal Reason have been denied if Monsieur Barillon the French Ambassador had not by endeavouring to vindicate his Master's Honour and the Justice of his Cause obliged us with an Account of the Proceedings of the Parliament of Paris upon the Pope's Bull an Account which as it is undeniable and unexceptionable to our Adversaries so it abundantly evinceth what I have hitherto advanced The whole Church of France and after them the Sorbon have within a few Years defined and asserted the Fallibility of the Pope and herein acted consonantly to the Principles and Doctrines of their Ancestors who had constantly taught the same Doctrine but never solemnly defined it However this Article is beyond the Alpes rejected with a no less contrary Zeal and Infallibility of the Pope ranked among the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion For proof of this we need go no farther than the forementioned Account of the Proceedings of the Parliament at Paris which assures us that not only the Italian Doctors and Emissaries of the Court of Rome are employed carefully to propagate the Opinion of the Papal Infallibility as if the belief of that Point were wanting to render France truly Catholick but also that one third of the Episcopal Sees of France being now vacant and the King having nominated to them some of those who assisted at the late National Assembly wherein the Papal Infallibility was rejected Persons as well recommendable for their Piety and Vertue as for their Knowledg and Learning the Pope refuseth to grant Bulls of Confirmation to them on pretence that they do not make Profession of a sound or Orthodox Doctrine because they do Pag. 5 23. not believe him to be Infallible nor like the Italian Doctors attribute to him the Title of Universal Monarch Which evidently demonstrates that the Papal Infallibility is esteemed a necessary Doctrine in Italy and the denial of it incompatible with a sound and Orthodox Belief of the Catholick Faith since Scholastick Niceties were never known to incapacitate Men for Ecclesiastical Preferments or cast them out of the number of Orthodox Christians The Primacy of the Pope is a matter of no less moment How far it extends is indeed controverted among Roman Catholicks but