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A07807	A full satisfaction concerning a double Romish iniquitie; hainous rebellion, and more then heathenish æquiuocation Containing three parts: the two former belong to the reply vpon the Moderate Answerer; the first for confirmation of the discouerie in these two points, treason and æquiuocation: the second is a iustification of Protestants, touching the same points. The third part is a large discourse confuting the reasons and grounds of other priests, both in the case of rebellion, and æquiuocation. Published by authoritie.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1606 (1606)	STC 18185; ESTC S112912	216,074	250

Carerius your most importunate and most impudent magnifier of Papall authority that excepting your Bozius we can reade of This Carerius reasoneth thus The Donation of Constantine to the Pope whereby the possession of all the kingdoms in Europe were bestowed vpon the Pope was either true or false if true then the Princes of the West parts hold their thrones by the Popes authority if false then had Pope Zachary no authority to confirm K. Pepin of France nor Leo the third to constitute Emperor Charles the great c. This your Doctor giueth vs this antecedent proposition If the pretended Donation of Constantine to the Pope be counterset then hath not the Pope authority to dispose of these Kingdomes But That pretended donation by your owne confe●sion is fabulous so false is it as this is certaine That no Pope was possessed of the dominion of the city of Rome till the yeare of our Lord 1400. Insomuch that Bellarmine can find no title of the Pope till the yeare 755. To the Dukedome of Rauenna The fourth from a necessary consequent strengthened by the authority of S. Bernard who writeth vnto Eugenius the Pope concerning this very point His argument is The successour of S. Peter cannot challenge anie authority as descending from Peter which Peter had not in himselfe But Peter had not this temporall Ergo for Eugenius did not challenge it directy essentiall to the Popedome the Pope by S. Bernards iudgement may not assume any such authority either directly or indirectly We may conclude that both direct scripture torrēt of Fathers and euidence of reasons do all confute this Papall Vsurpation ouer Kings as a challenge meerely ambitious fraudulent and rebellious Come you therefore out of Babylon in this point with holy Bernard and put vpon you his Christian resolution for writing to king Lewis who was A wicked man saith your Barclay multiplying most heinous crimes both against God and man yet against the suggestions of the rebellious spirits of those times thus doth S. Bernard determine for himselfe Though all the world saith he should conspire against me to moue me to practise any conspiracy against the Maiesty of the King I would feare God and not willinglie offend the King ordained of God for I cannot be ignorant of that which is written If any resisteth the power he resisteth the ordinance of God and purchaseth to himselfe damnation c. Mark S. Bernard maketh this necessity of subiection an article of Christian morality necessarily to be defended vpon danger of damnation relying vpō a canon what Papall of Si quis nostris mandatis c. no but Apostolicall Si quis If any resist regall powers he resisteth the ordinance of God purchaseth damnation Whereby you are taught neuer to delude your soules in any such mischiefes by presumption of your good intent as for the Catholicke cause or in ordine ad Deum for that can neuer cary an order to God which is against the ordinance of God Who gratiously sanctifie you with that Feare of God which worketh Honour to your King and glorie through patience to our Christian faith The second Member of this Third part Which is a Confutation of the wicked doctrine of Aequiuocation CHAP. I. I Am now to encounter this new-bred Hydra and vglie Monster which lurked a while in the inuisible practise of the Aequi●ocating sect but at length being discouered is now by the Arch-priest drawen into publicke by a solemne Approbation as it were a golden chaine that it might heereby appeare lesse monstrous The Priuilege of this Treatise of Aequiuocation by their Arch-priest THis Treatise is very learned godly and Catholike wherein doubtlesse the Authour doth confirme the equity of Aequiuocation by euidence of Scriptures Fathers Doctors School-Diuines Canonists and soundest reasons A work● worthy to be published in print for the comfort of all afflicted Catholiks and instruction of the godly Thus do I iudge George Blackwell Arch-Priest of England and the Apostolicall Protonotarie All this is very semblable for who could be more fit to commend this Aequiuocation a piece of blacke art than Blackewell Who can be more willing to autorize this Aequiuocation the Arch-piller of security for Romish Priests then their Arch-priest And from whence rather shall a man expect a priuiledge of lying then from that place falsly called Apostolicall where as their owne learned Bishop saith there is nothing but lying Of which kind by the assistance of the spirit of truth I shall proue this Aequiuocation to be and also the approbation thereof shewing that not one iota in all Scripture not one example in all Catholicke antiquity not one shadow of reason in all the wit of naturall man can be brought for the iust proofe or colour of this Mysterie of iniquitie First we must vnderstand that our Aequiuocatours teach a double kind of Aequiuocation The first is a mentall reseruation in the mind differing from that which I outwardly expresse whether it be by voice or writing Their example If a Catholicke or any other person before a Magistrate shall be demanded vpon his oath whether a Priest be in such a place may notwithstanding his perfect knowledge to the contrary without periurie securely in conscience answer no with a secret meaning reserued in his mind namely that he is not there so vt loquar enim Latinè ne hinc Idiotae ansam sibi arripiant nequitèr mentiendi quis teneatur illud detegere The second is a verball Aequiuocation whether it be vocall that is vttered in the voice or literall that is expressed in writing when one word shall import two or moe different significations as thus To go to fast the word fast whether vocall or literall doth equally signifie to abstaine from meat and also to make haste By liberty of this Aequiuocation one merily did play vpon his friend going at dinner time to a churles house O sir saith he you go to fast But to vse the example of our Aequiuocatours If one shall aske whether such a stranger this is for security of a Priest lieth meaning whether he lodge in my house I may answer he lieth not i● my house meaning non mentitur and heerein I say truth Concerning these two kinds of Aequiuocations I make two conclusions to be manifested in this dispute Our first conclusion is this Euery Aequiuocation by a mentall Reseruation is not an hidden truth but a grosse ●…e The second conclusion is this Euery Aequiuocation whether it be mentall or verball if it be vsed in an oath though it be no lie yet is it an abhominable profanation of that sacred Institution of God by whomsoeuer or to whomsoeuer this oath be performed To prooue that Aequiuocating by a mentall Reseruation is a lying falshood we must first distinguish of falshood lest the doubtfulnes●e of this word falshood dull the vnderstanding of my religious Reader not to perceiue the State of

as Potest as vicaria delegata delegate and by commission to this end that establishing the peoples dominion they may vse them at their assignement for the subuersion of the King as their places alledged do manifest and is yet more amplie auouched by another Iesuite saying that If any King Catholike shall prooue an Heretike it is reason for the people to depose him because this power is in the people which is deriued vnto the King from the people This is that position which we called rebellious and yet behold Abyssus abyssum inuocat one depth of rebellious disloyaltie in deposing doth drawe one another of crueltie in murthering their Kings where the French yeeldeth them Power of life and death ouer their Soueraigne To ouerthrow this many-headed beast by weapons borowed from your owne men The Confutation There is one honest Frier that dare aduenture to light a candle to discouer the murderous for speaking of the power of and by Election Though there be saith he in the people a freedome of Election yet after they haue chosen their King they haue no more power to remoue the yoke but stand in necessitie of subiection This man was but a Frier and therefore peraduenture in your Synods may not haue any definitiue sentence which you say is proper to Bishops Here is therefore one of this order Bishop Cunerus who from the holie writ doth mainely impugne your former assertion Some there be saith he who imagine that the authoritie of Princes dependeth vpon the courtesie of people as to thinke that they who gaue consent to choose Kings haue likewise now a power to depose them But the blessed Apostles who by the holie Ghost were inabled to search the mysteries of God haue more profoundly enquired into the foundation of the state and autoritie of Kings * Saint Peter saith he entering into this argument doth thus admonish Christians Be ye subiect vnto the ordinance of man whether to the King as to the more excellent or his messengers sent from him to the punishment of wicked and praise of the godly so is the will of God as free and not as hauing libertie as a cloake of maliciousnes but as the seruants of God And S. Paul There is no power but of God and whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God c. From whence he inferreth Though all meanes whereby Kings come to the Crownes be not commanded of God yet whatsoeuer meanes they vse whether by Election Succession or inuasion whensoeuer they are by consent of the Kingdome once established this is the ordinance of God and henceforth he as sent from God is to rule and people to obey the Apostle saying of the people It is necessary to be subiect This witnesse your selfe called for saying As saith Cu●erus so I thus saith Cunerus You may not in equitie refuse him For this was iustice in the Gouernor when S. Paule said I appeale to Caesar to answere And to Caesar shalt thou goe Yet if he be not sufficient behold a Iesuite will pleade our cause Though it be better to haue a more wise King then a simple yet when he whom we haue is but sillie then may he no more be depriued of his Kingdome then an vnlearned Prelate of his Bishoprick otherwise the state of mortall men should be exposed to rapines and bloodshed But to returne to the Oracles of God S. Peter called mans entrance into the kingdome by consent of people mans creation vpon this ground it may be your Reinolds did descant where he called the King mens creature as though he could see in mans election nothing but man whereas S. Peter in the same place saith to man creating Be ye subiect vnto the creation of man Propter Deum for the Lords sake in the creature beholding God Why S. Paule will satisfie Because the powers that are be ordeined of God Rom. 13. So that mans creation is but the bodie of soueraintie Gods ordinance in that meanes is the very soule thereof and ought in all Christians to be the life of loyall subiection The Answer retorted In the last place I must make bold to strike you with your owne sword There is no King to rule say you where there is no people to be ruled for King and people be Relata All this is most true Well now our Question is whether after the peoples election of a King the power to depose a King remainestill in the people you affirme we denie it strengthned by this your Argument frō relation originall thus The power of gouernment resteth rather in the Ruler then in the partie to be ruled But a King is elected to rule the people Ergo the rule remaineth not in the people but in the King In coniugall societie before the contract the woman is free but after contract à relatis now his wife there followeth a necessitie of subiection not to be dissolued * Let the wife be subiect Notwithstanding in your conclusion you bewray this modestie to exact Learning in your Accuser and shew none in your Answere Thus much of your people now we proceed orderlie to the Pope CHAP. XI The Discouery Secondly of the Pope TO auouch his preeminence these men goe beyond the Moone as first Bozius The Pope the head of the Church hath power in all temporall causes and States The moderate Answerer It will be obiected from the second Reason that Catholikes hold the Pope head of the Church in ciuill power and also ouer Kings circa omnia temporalia Therefore he may depose Princes and command Subiects to take armes against them once excommunicate First I answere The Reply But first I aske why would you answere this in discourse of the first Reason and omit it here in this second where being his proper place you had reason to answere I should thinke it was for loue of breuitie but that your manifold superfluous repetitions doe except against it yet I rather thinke it was your modestie least that my accusation and your Answere as different colors iointly examined might one illustrate the other that to be constant and iust this a meere fugitiue But be not offended we must compare them seeking your Answere where it is seeing we cannot find it where it should be your first and second and third must be discouered in the reason following What say you to the present point Haue Popes prerogatiue ouer Kings in causes temporall as of autority to depose them The very moderate Answerer I answere for all Catholikes in generall to the maine Obiection that Henricus Victor Iohannes de Turrecremata Couor●●ius the common opinion of Schooles do teach that there is no such temporallor regall power in Popes ouer Princes in ciuill affaires And againe These Autors do not say that this ciuill power is simplie and absolutely subiect to the Papall autoritie And yet againe The discouerer cannot sinde any such

most impious and sacrilegious whome your Lawyers vpon better intelligence do commend if this be a commendation As one that was too deuout and religious But you as it becometh a moderate Answerer answer nothing and thus in saying nothing bewray what you would or rather what you would not say CHAP. XXIIII The discouerie in the eight Reason THose Snakes that do naturally sting as soone as they get warmth may not be harboured in the bosome of the Cōmonwealth but all Popish Priests professe rebellions as soone as they can presume of their strength Ergo c. The Minor proued by Their Positions The Discouerie Bannes maintaineth this as a necessarie Parenthesis Subiects before sentence of Excommunication if they haue sufficient force may then depose their King This Father Creswell addeth as a war●e caution Let subiects take heed saith he that they haue competent strength in such a case otherwise it may preiudice the Catholike cause And lest any taking an Antidote against their poyson should obiect the condition of the Church of Christ primitiue and of the glorious Christians of those times who intended not killing of Kings the enemies of the Gospel but to be willingly killed for the profession of the holy faith marke with what vntemperate morter those men daube vp the consciences of Christians Then saith the French Defence the Christians did onely suffer because the Church was not yet perfect and because their enemies were more in number Againe It is commendable to suffer when thou canst not resist Which is the last miserable refuge of their desperate cause Whereunto notwithstanding their grand-Cardinall is glad to betake himselfe I answer saith he that Christians in auncient times did not beare armes and seeke to depose Emperors and Kings enemies to the Catholike faith because they wanted power Wherby the now Romish faith doth seeke to make wicked men excusable By this second conclusion saith Bannes the English Catholikes who now do not take armes against the Protestants are excused because they want sufficient power Hence we may perceiue that as long as Protestants liue safe they must acknowledge themselues beholden to the Popish faction because they haue no power to hurt them otherwise they may heare of them before they can see them peraduenture in such a manner as to Receiue a terrible blow and yet not know who did them the hurt Yea they must perish for Christian people saith Creswell are bound in conscience and hazard of their soules to resist whensoeuer they can make resistance The moderate Answerer To the first Proposition I say Concedo The Reply Concedo that is in English I grant it wo then and thrice woe to all your Priests who fall violently vpon it thereby to be conuinced rebellious Is it not so The moderate Answerer To the second Proposition I answer that if this be the opinion of Bannes he speaketh ignorantly in this case The Reply Bannes an Author easily to be had of all men I deliuer his name I cite the place I expresse his words apparantly signifying that this was Bannes opinion and yet your Answer is to speake moderately too moderate If this be say you the opinion of Bannes I alledge for the same opinion your English Iesuite Creswell your French Iesuite De iusta Abdicatione your Romish Iesuite Bellarmine al of the opinion of Bannes teaching Then and not before to take armes as soone as they haue strength And you answer to one onely saying If this be the opinion of Bannes Is this modestie This opinion say you is false this is honestie but then are your greatest Clearkes Blind and leaders of the blind as namely Creswell Felinus Caietan Tolet Sà Alane Bellarmine Saire and the present currant of Romish Schooles as hath bene proued This doctrine therefore being false which the supposed lights of your Religion do auerre I may well take vp the complaint of our Sauiour against your Church If the light that is in thee be darknes ô how great is that darknes In the last place you name Gregorie the 13. for the contrarie but all you could do only name him opposing names to expresse writings shadowes to things O moderatorem These are but Positions Now followeth CHAP. XXV Their Practise The Discouerie IN the yeare 1580. when Campion and Parsons came into England they procured a dispensation from the Pope that al Papists in England notwithstāding the Excōmunication of the Queen might professe a large obedience in al tēporal causes but with this addition Rebus sic stantibus i. the case thus standing that is as the sequele did interpret till you waxe stronger For in the yeare 1588. when the Spanish Armado was a sloate when by doubling their strength they might presume the better then our Countriman Alane doth write an Admonition to the Nobilitie of England making his booke the Popes Nuncio to expound his former Parenthesis Though the Pope saith he hath tolerated obedience vnto the Queene in temporall conditions yet now our holy Father Xistus Quintus doth discharge all men of their faith and loyaltie vnto her This is the Popes common guise when he doubteth his faction shall be ouermatched then to inioyne obedience but it is onely in policie to gaine his souldiers a breathing as Clement the late Pope dispensed with the Irish for their fidelity to the Queene till that he had some confidence of Tyrones successe For then in the 20. of Ianuarie the yeare 1601. he writ a letter for incouragement Fili dilecte nobilis vir salutem c. My deare sonne all health c. After he calleth the Rebellion Sacrum foedus an holy league promising in the way of blessing an happy successe Deus pugnabit provobis conteret inimicos suos ante faciem vestram i. God will fight for you and tread his enemies vnder your feet But he God be thanked proued a false Prophet The moderate Answerer I answer that Cardinall Alane better acquainted with these affaires then any Protestant Writer relateth the Popes declaration for Catholike obedience to Queene Elizabeth without any restraint or limitation neither doth this man discouer where he findeth any such restricting clause The Reply It seemeth you are not acquainted with Cardinall Alane shall he be brought to auerre a Commission of subiection without restraint of Rebus sic stantibus the case so standing who Rebus sic non stantibus Anno 1588 raised English Recusants against the Queene prouoking them to fight I did not indeed discouer where I find any such restraining clause Here is one onely little clause Rebus sic stantibus that wanteth the Author and I must be suspected for a coyner you in all your Answers scarce alledge the expresse sentence of any one and yet challenge credit Such are the times which are fallen vpon vs and the oddes which by mens wilfull infatuation you haue obtained But I must produce my Author