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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42563	The Council of Trent no free assembly more fully discovered by a collection of letters and papers of the learned Dr. Vargas and other great ministers, who assisted at the said Synod in considerable posts : published from the original manuscripts in Spanish, which were procured by the Right Honourable Sir William Trumbull's grandfather, envoy at Brussels in the reign of King James the First : with an introductory discourse concerning councils, shewing how they were brought under bondage to the Pope / [translated] by Michael Geddes ...	Geddes, Michael, 1650?-1713.; Vargas Mejia, Francisco de, 1484-1560.	1697 (1697)	Wing G445; ESTC R16012	203,517	370

23d who was owned as Pope by most of them to call a Council to meet at Constance in the Year 1415 and to promise to assist at it in Person Which Council being met at the time appointed and having presently discovered that John notwithstanding all his Promises and Oaths to the contrary was at that time caballing with Princes to maintain him in the Papacy the first thing it did was to require John immediately to bind himself by Bulls to observe the following Orders 1. That the present Synod should not be dissolved until the Union was perfected 2. That it should not be removed from Constance 3. That he himself should not depart from thence till it was done 4. That he should constitute a Procurator with full Powers to resign the Papacy in his Name And lastly That it should not be lawful for any Prelat to leave the Council or not to repair to it but in case of Poverty or Sickness To which Demands John the next Day after they were made returned the following Answers 1. That the Council should not be dissolved until it had finished the Union 2. That it was nevertheless his Opinion that it would be convenient to have it translated to Nice in Provence and for him to go thither to it in Person And lastly That he was resolved to make his Cession in Person which he reckoned would be more honourable both for himself and the Synod than to do it by Proxy But the Fathers not being satisfy'd with this shuffling Answer and insisting upon having his Cession immediately under his Hand he promised them faithfully that they should have it next Morning but before that came he stole out of Constance by Night in a Woman's Apparel and was got to Schafhousen a Town then belonging to the Duke of Austria now one of the Cantons who had promised to protect him if he were once in his Territories From which Place he immediately wrote to the Council to assure them that the Reason of his having retired from Constance was not to avoid the being obliged to make a Cession but on the contrary that he might do it with the more Liberty and Security which he reckoned he might do at Schafhousen where he now was But his Letters to the King of Poland and all the other Princes under his Obedience tho writ at the same time were in a quite contrary Strain in which he endeavoured to justify his having left the Council because he and it were both robbed of their Liberty his Life having been likewise in great danger by a Conspiracy which he had discovered complaining likewise of the Bishop of Salisbury who had said publickly and in the Emperor's hearing that the Emperor was superior both to him and the Council none daring to reprove him for such scandalous Doctrine The Council when it came to hear next Morning that John had given them the slip was in great disorder and continued under a great Consternation till the Emperor came amongst them and assured them that he would protect them against the Duke of Austria and all the Enemies John was able to raise up against them The Fathers were likewise much confirmed by a Sermon preached to them at that time by the Learned John Gerson Chancellor of the University of Paris who demonstrated to them that being a General Council they were superior to the Pope and might sit and act without him Pope John who had too many Spies in the Council not to be acquainted with every Word that was said in it reckoning he was too near the Emperor at Schafhousen which is but four Leagues from Constance removed from thence to the Castle of Loufemberg which tho he did in great haste yet before he begun his Journey he declared by a Publick Instrument that he was under no Obligation to observe the Oaths and Promises he had taken and made at Constance having been forced to take and make them by a Fear that was sufficient to make any Act that it caused to be involuntary pretending to justify his having left Schafhousen by having discovered that he was there in danger of his Life which he was willing to preserve because should he be murdered before the two Pretenders to the Papacy had made their Cessions they in all probability would never be perswaded to it When John left Schafhousen the Cardinals who had been sent thither by the Council to perswade him to come back returned to Constance and six of them at the following Session declared therein that the Council now the Pope had left it was dissolved Which bold Declaration gave occasion to the Fathers to lay the Ax to the Root of the Tree all of them but particularly the Cardinal Peter de Aliaco and John Gerson maintaining thereupon That the Pope being inferior to a General Council which the present Synod was he could not dissolve it without its own Consent and accordingly in the next Session at which with the Emperor there assisted nine Cardinals and two hundred Fathers the Embassadors of the Kings of England France Poland Norway Cyprus and Navar with several German Princes being present the following Constitutions being read and unanimously agreed to were published by the Cardinal of Florence which Constitutions being as the Magna Charta of General Councils I shall here set down at length In the Name of the Holy and Vndivided Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen THIS Holy Synod of Constance being a General Council lawfully assembled in the Holy Spirit to the Praise of Almighty God for the Extirpation of a Schism and the Union and Reformation of the Church of God both in its Head and Members doth for the easier and safer obtaining of the said Union and Reformation of God's Church ordain define decree and declare as followeth In the first place it declareth That it being lawfully congregated in the Holy Spirit is a General Council and represents the Catholick Church and that having its Authority immediately from God all Persons of whatsoever State or Dignity the Papal not excepted are bound to obey it in all things appertaining to the Faith and the Extirpation of Schism and the Reformation of the Church in its Head and Members It furthermore declareth That whosoever of what State Condition or Dignity soever the Papal not excepted shall obstinately contemn and deny to yield Obedience to the Commands Statutes Ordinances and Precepts of this Sacred Synod in any of the foresaid Matters or in any thing that has or shall be done relating to them if he does not repent thereof shall be subjected to condign Penances and if it be found necessary recourse shall be had against him to other legal Remedies The said Holy Synod doth furthermore declare and ordain That Pope John the 23d shall not remove or translate the Roman Court or any of its Publick Offices to any other Place from this City of Constance nor shall directly or indirectly compel the Officers of the said Courts to follow him to any