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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

I will demonstrate by two or three Iohannes Mariana De Regis instit l. 1. c. 6● whose Booke seemeth to bee written in defence of Clement the Frier who stabbed Henry the third King of France The faults and licentiousnesse of Kings saith Mariana whether they raigne by consent of the people or right of inheritance are to bee borne and endured so long as the Lawes of shamefastnesse and honesty whereto all men bee bound are not violated for Princes should not rashly bee disturbed least the Common-wealth fall into greater misery and calamity But if the Prince make havock of the Common-wealth and expose the private fortunes of his subjects for a pray to other men if hee despise Law and contemne Religion this course must bee taken against him Let him bee admonished and recalled to his duty if hee repent satisfie the Weale-publike and amend his faults there ought as I thinke to bee no further proceeding against him But if there bee no hope of his amendment the Common-wealth may take away his Kingdome And because that cannot bee done in all likelihoode without warre they may levy power brandish their blades against their King and exact money of the people for the maintenance of their warre for when there is no other helpe the Peeres of the Common-wealth having proclaimed their King a publike enemy may take away his life Thus farre Mariana The States-men of the Kingdome saith Franciscus Fevardentius have a soveraigne power over their Kings In Hester c. 1. pag. 88. for Kings are not absolutely established but stand bound to observe lawes conditions and compacts to their subjects the which if they violate they are no lawfull Kings but Theeves and Tyrants punishable by the States Thus farre Fevardentius Inferiour Magistrates saith Iohannes Baptista Ficklerus are the Defenders and Protectours of the Lawes and rights of the State De jure Magist fol. 18. and have authority if need require to correct and punish the supreame King So farre Ficklerus An English fugitive which was the Authour of the booke De justa abdicatione Henrici tertii affirmeth That all the Majesty of the Kingdome is in the assembly of Statesmen to whom it belongeth to make covenants with God to dispose of the affaires of the Kingdome to appoint matters pertaining to warre and peace Lib. 3. cap. 8. to bridle the Kingly power and to settle all things that belong to publique Government So farre hee And the most seditious Dolemon saith Part. 1. cap. 4. pag. 72. that all humane Law and order Naturall Nationall and positive doth teach that the Common-wealth which gave Kings their authority for the Common good may restraine or take the same from them if they abuse it to the Common ill So farre Dolemon and of this opinion are many other as may appeare by Doctor Morton by whom they are discovered and refuted How farre this gangrene will extend I know not The Kings of Christendome are dayly crucisied as CHRIST their Lord was betweene two Theeves I meane the Papist and Puritan which have prepared this deadly poison for Princes whom they in their owne irreligious and trayterous hearts shall condemne for tyranny I hope neither Peeres nor people will bee so fond to beleeve them or wicked to follow them which pretend the Reformation of Religion and defend the subversion of Christian States If inferiour Officers or the publique assembly of all States will claime this power it standeth them upon as they will avoid everlasting damnation not to derive a title from Rome Lacedemon or Athens as Calvin doth whom the rest follow but from the Hill of Sion and to plead their interest from the Law or the Gospell Si mandatum non est praesumptio August in quest mixt ad paenam proficiet non ad praemium quia ad contumeliam pertinet conditoris ut contempto Domino colantur servi spreto Imperatore adorentur Comites If their opposition against Kings bee not commanded of God it is presumption against God for it is a contumely against God the Creatour of all States to despise Lords and honour servants to contemne the soveraigne Emperour and to reverence the Peeres of the Empire So farre Augustine Prov. 24.21 My sonne saith Solomon feare God and the King and meddle not with the seditious for their destruction shall come sodainly and who knoweth the end of them The conclusion of all is That Kings have supreame and absolute authority under God on earth not because all things are subject to their pleasure which were plaine tyranny not Christian soveraignty but because all persons within their Dominions stand bound in Law allegiance and conscience to obey their pleasure or to abide their punishment And Kings themselves are no way subject to the controwle censure or punishment of any earthly man but reserved by speciall prerogative to the most fearefull and righteous judgement of God with whom there is no respect of persons Hee whole servants they are Will beate them with a rod of iron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessell If they abuse that great and soveraign power which God had endued them withall to support error to suppresse truth and to oppresse the innocent God of his great mercy grant us the Spirit of truth to direct us in all loyalty that wee being not seduced by these seditious Sectaries may grow in grace stand fast in obedience embrace love follow peace and encrease more and more in the knowledge of our Lord JESUS CHRIST To whom bee all praise power and dominion now and for ever Amen FINIS

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

Lord Edward by the grace of God the Noble King of England caused your Letters to bee read openly before us touching certaine occurrents of state betweene him and the King of Scotland wee did not a little marvaile at the contents thereof so strange and wonderfull as the like hath never beene heard of Wee know most Holy Father and it is well knowne in this Realme and also to other Nations that the King of England ought not to make answer for his right before any Iudge Ecclesiasticall or secular Parliament at Lincolr c quoted by M. ekenshaw by reason of the free estate of his Royall dignity and custome without breach at all times unviolably observed Wherefore after treaty had and diligent deliberation this was our resolution that our said King ought not to answer in judgement nor send Procuratours or Messengers to your Court seeing that tendeth manifestly to the disinheriting of the right of the Crowne the overthrow of the state of the Kingdome and the breach of the liberties customes and lawes of our Fathers for the keeping whereof wee are bound by the duty of an oath and will by Gods helpe maintaine and defend with all our power and strength c. Dated at Lincolne Ann. Dom. 1301. Anno Edwardi primi 29. This was then the resolution of the State of this Land if our late Sectaries Popish or Puritan bring in any other Doctrine wee may not leave the cawsey of truth and obedience whereon our Fore-fathers walked to their commendation to follow these new guides in their bypaths of pride disobedience and contempt of authority to our destruction Vincentius in his Speculo Historiali hath a notable place to disswade from sedition and perjury Lib. 15. c. 84. Vt pace omnium bonorum dixerim haec sola novitas ne dicam Haeresis nec dum è Mundo emerserat That I may speake with the favour of all good men this meere novelty if not Heresie was not sprung up in the World that Priests should teach subjects that they owe no subjection to wicked Kings and albeit they have given an oath of fidelity unto them they are not bound to keepe it Nay they that obey an evill Prince are to bee held as excommunicated and all such as rebell against him are free from the guilt of the crime of perjury So farre hee I will end this Chapter with Aeneas Silvius Pius 2. de ortu author Imperii c. 23. who died in the yeare 1464. Sit tandem finis litium Let there bee an end of contention and one principall head to determine all temporall matters let the occasion of perpetuall debate bee taken away let men acknowledge themselves subject to their Prince and give reverence to him whom God hath made his vicegerent on Earth As that which God commandeth must bee obeyed without contradiction so the temporall Commandements of Caesar may not bee resisted But let the Kings themselves beware that they oppresse no man unjustly nor give their people cause to crie to God against them for the Earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof hee will not forget the crie of the poore and for the sinne of the Prince hee translateth the Government from one Nation to another There is nothing more offensive to the greatest God the King and Creatour of Heaven and Earth then the neglect of justice and the oppression of the poore as the Psalmist saith The poore shall not alway bee forgotten and the patient abiding of the needy shall not perish for ever So farre Silvius The seaventh Chapter sheweth the concord of Papist and Puritan for the deposition of Kings and their discord about the meanes and persons to bee imployed in the execution of their designements CHilderick was deposed and Pipine crowned King of France about the yeare 750. The truth of which History is this Childerick void of all princely gravity gave himselfe over to pleasure and wantonnesse leaving the burthen of the state to Pipinus that was his Lord Marshall Who conspired with the Nobles to advance himselfe by the deposition of the King his Master To set a better colour on the matter Pipine sent his Chaplaine to Pope Zachary to have his answer to this Question Whether should bee King hee that bare the name and did nothing or hee that governed the Kingdome The Pope gave sentence with the Marshall against the King whereupon Childerick was made a shorne Monke and Pipine a crowned King It is a wonder to see how these opposite Sectaries doe insist upon this fact of the French-men to justifie their dangerous doctrine and seditious conspiracies against Princes As Cardinall Bellarmine de Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 17. Thomas Harding against the Apologie of the Church of England fol. 181. Franc. Fevardentius in his Commentaries on Hester pag. 85. Boucher alias Raynolds de justa abdicatione Henrici 3. lib. 3. cap. 14. Ficklerus de jure Magistratuumfol 30. Alexander Carerius patavinus de potestate Papae lib. 2. cap. 3. D. Marta de temporali spirituali Pontificis potestate lib. 1. c. 23. and Doleman in his conference touching succession part 1. cap. 3. pag. 48. And also these Puritans Christopher Goodman in his treatise of obedience pag. 53. George Buchanan de jure Regni apud Scotos pag. 47. Danaens de politia Christiana lib. 3. cap. 6. pag. 221. Brutus Celta dejure Magistratuum pag. 286. Phyladelphus dialogo 2. pag. 65. Franc. Hottomanus in his Francogallia cap. 12. and Speculum tyrannidis Philipi Regis pag. 27. The Papists which ascribe this deposing power to the Pope endeavour by tooth and naile to disprove that interest which the Puritans grant the Peeres or the people First this example served Gregory the seventh to excuse his presumptous practises against Henry the fourth Quidam Romanus Pontifex A certaine Bishop of Rome deposed a King of France not so much for his ill life as for that hee was not fit for government Lib. de unit Eccles apud Scard pag. 3. and placed Pipine which was Father to Charles the great in his place absolving all the French-men from the oath of allegeance which they had sworne to their King Thus farre Gregory in an Epistle to one Herimanus that was Bishop of Metz in France Thomas Harding concludeth from this fact a Divine power in the Pope Consut of the Apolog. fol. 181. Can you not see saith Harding what strength and power is in the Pope which is able with a word to place and displace the mightiest King in Europe with a word I say for I am sure you can shew us of no army that hee sent to execute his will Is it in the power of man thinke you to appoint Kingdomes can the Devill himselfe at his pleasure set up and depose Kings no surely Much lesse can any member of his doe the same Remember you what CHRIST said when the Iewes objected that hee did cast out Devils in the name of the Prince of Devils