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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33698	An account of the court of Portugal, under the reign of the present king, Dom Pedro II with some discourses on the interests of Portugal, with regard to other sovereigns : containing a relation of the most considerable transactions that have pass'd of late between that court, and those of Rome, Spain, France, Vienna, England, &c.	Colbatch, John, 1664-1748.	1700 (1700)	Wing C4991; ESTC R20800	212,299	370

Quality were Executed for this Plot yet the Inquisitor General was spared for fear of violating the Ecclesiastical Immunities yet it was as much as His Majesty could do to preserve him and some others of the Conspirators from being torn to pieces by the Rabble For these reasons I am perswaded that some other considerations might concur with the authority of the Inquisition to with hold the King from with drawing his Obedience from the Pope what they were I shall not pretend to guess at It is certain that this Prince was so ill advised that neglecting the Counsels of Wise and Learned Men he would never make use of any other remedy but Supplications and most humble submissions to his Holiness and he was ever after despised and slighted at Rome accordingly For this great Deference of his to the Holy See made those he had to deal with there presume the more upon his Patience and reject with the greater contempt all the Petitions that were offered up in his behalf The Portugueses do not use to grow tame under Indignities one would think therefore that Nation should begin to resent this barbarous Usage of their King and themselves And its true they shew'd themselves to be not altogether insensible on this occasion for in the Year 1653. six years after the King's Remonstrance had been given to the Pope the three Estates of the Realm publish a kind of Manifest Entituled The Bleatings Balidos of the Churches of Portugal after the Sovereign Pastor the Pope wherein they give a most lamentable account of their Grievances and how rigorously the Holy Father had dealt with them and to make their Patience appear the more meritorious they let his Holiness understand that they might have remedied themselves if they had a mind to it setting forth at large the opinions of the Learned on their Case and the reasons they were grounded on which yet instead of making a right use of them they set themselves after their manner to confute and afterwards enter'd a solemn Protest which since it contains the substance of their answers to the advice their Friends had given them I shall here set down that the World may see upon what solid grounds the three Estates of a Kingdom thought fit to intail the most intolerable Yoke of Bondage upon themselves and their Posterity They declare That they hold it for an infallible Truth that the Pope as he is Christ's Vicar on Earth Universal Pastor of the Church and the lawful Successor of St. Peter is the Sovereign Monarch of the Church all the Authority and Power of other Ministers being derived wholly from him which he may suspend and limit in what form and manner he thinks convenient it being unlawful for any other Potentate to intermeddle with his Government secular Princes having nothing to do in the Affairs belonging to the Church any further than contributing to her Defence and Prosperity That though various methods have been used for the Election and Confirmation of Bishops yet it is an undoubted Truth that it hath always been with the express or at least the Tacit Approbation of the Pope who has appointed and consented to those several ways according to the different circumstances of the Times nor hath it been ever proved say they that there were Bishops at any time without this confirmation Particularly they confess and hold for certain that in the Primitive Church after the Apostles times this Power returned to and remained in the Pope That if Bishops were afterwards chosen by the Clergy and People it was by the Pope's Permission if secular Princes in those times intermeddled in these Elections either by concession from the Pope or by their own Authority with an Usurpative Right yet they had never any true Right of their own to do it and for this reason the Apostles in the very beginning of the Church forbad them to concern themselves in these matters and if any Princes pretended to it the Popes severely censured and checked them for it and they coming to understand from whence they had this Right were brought at last to lay it aside and by this means it came to pass that no Respect was had to Princes or the consent of the People but the Power of Elections remained by the Pope's Authority in the Clergy and Fryars of the Diocess and at last in the Chapters alone And thus it continued to the Pontificate of Boniface the 8th and Clement the 5th who began to reserve the Power of instituting Bishops to themselves in some Cases and after that Innocent the 4th by a Rule in Chancery reserved it wholly to the Apostolical See So that say they This Prerogative and Right to create Bishops was always in the Pope as 't is at present they acknowledge indeed that even after the Rule in Chancery came to be in force many Princes continued to nominate Bishops for their own Kingdoms and Dominions but this was by Concession from the Pope or upon Presumption of a Privilege arising by Custom approv'd of by the Apostolical See But that it was in the Pope's breast to receive or reject their Nomination which did no more than capacitate the Person named to procure the Pope's Confirmation and sue out the Apostolical Bulls It is likewise say they An undoubted Truth that the Power of Election which hath formerly been in the Chapter is now wholly extinguished by means of the Reservation made by the Rule in Chancery so that at this time the Pope's Creation or Institution of Bishops cannot properly be called a Confirmation because Confirmation supposeth a preceding Election but Elections are now wholly abolished by reason and virtue of the aforesaid Rule in Chancery and lastly they hold for certain that notwithstanding there was a time when Patriarchs Metropolitans and National Councils had power to confirm Bishops they have now no such Power nor can they exercise it in any case since they enjoy'd it only by the Pope's permission and while there was place for Confirmation before Elections were abolished when the Power to appoint Bishops had not been yet reserved by the Pope to himself viz. by the aforesaid Rule in Chancery Had an Agent from Rome or an Inquisitor argued after this manner it had been no wonder since daily experience shows how far Interest and Passion will blind a Man's Reason and what silly Arguments shall serve the turn for want of better when one is prepossest with hopes of some vast Advantage by gaining the cause but for the three Estates of a Nation after what had been demonstrated to them from Scripture and Fathers from the constant Tradition and uniform practice of the Catholick Church thus to renounce their Sense and Reason in order only to enslave themselves when Liberty was offer'd them is such a Prodigy that I believe no History can furnish us with a like Instance Here we have People exposing their Church and Nation to ruin because a Negative was never proved it having never