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A33951	Observations on a paper intituled, The declaration of the Lord Petre upon his death, touching the plot in a letter to His Most Sacred Majesty : being a full answer thereunto.	Care, Henry, 1646-1688.; Petre, William Petre, Baron, 1622-1684.	1684 (1684)	Wing C530; ESTC R12088	5,929	4

of his Church is highly Concern'd And it may be he could not get an Absolution from his Ghostly Father without he sign'd this Paper And therefore how far the same is to be Credited any that are acquainted with the Popish Priests Practical Divinity and the Wicked Tyrannies and Devilish Impostures they dayly Impose on poor Dying Creatures● will soon be able to judge 3. In this Protest there seems a Fallacy or Equivocation in the very Words For he speaks of Oates's having Sworn that He the Lord Petre received a Commission ●onstituting him Lieutenant General of an Army which was to come into England and protests he never saw any Such Commission whereas I believe it will be found Oats deposed not of an Army that was to come into England but to be raised in England And besides as I Remember Oats tells us That they call'd these Instruments from the Jesuites General Pateuts Now this Protester denies not the receiving of any Patent Letter or Instrument from De Oliva but only a Commission which perhaps the● will now say it could not be because Oliva ha● no Legal Power to grant a Commission of tha● kind The Letter But of the Folly as well as the Falshood of th● Information the sober part of Mankind as I conceive sufficiently ere this Convinced Observations This Paragraph smells rank of a Popish Priests Contrivance being the highest Affront imaginable since it not only openly Arraigns the Government the Wisdom the Justice of the Nation but in effect proclaims his Sacred Majesty horresco referent several Parliaments all our Judges c. to be all Fools or Madmen But so far is it from Truth That any sober men are Convinced of the Folly or falshood of Mr. Oat's Evidence That it stands still unshaken by all the little Arts the Romanists have used to supplant it and firm as the Pillars of the Earth for so is every Truth Whereas true it is on the other side all sober men cannot but observe the Numerous Calumnies and Subornations c. Which the Papists have set on foot to Blast Oats's Credit have been abundantly detected by Providence to their Confusion and are legible in our Records to all future Generations as in the Case of Knox and Lane c. And what need was there of such Hellish Artifices if their Cause durst have looked Heaven and Truth and Innocence in the Face But we may rationally make Judgment of the whole Paper by that which follows For he that will Avouch with the highest Asseverations one Notorious Untruth cannot expect to be believed in his other Affirmations by any that are not Bankrupt of Reason and too prodigal of their Faith The Letter And as for those Aspersions which the Ignoran● and Malicious have thrown upon the Roman Catholick-Church of which I am and by the Grace of God do dye a Member As if Murthering of Kings and taking up Arms against our Soveraigns were an Authoriz'd Principle of that Religion I do knowingly affirm There is nothing with more Horrox detested by the Catholick-Church as being expresly contrary to the Command of our Saviour and Christian Doctrine and as such I renounce and detest it As I do all Plots and Conspiracies against your Sacred Person Observations What an Innocent Loyal parcel of Folks would this man perswade us his Church of Rome consists of Never alas was Prince Assassinated Never Arms taken up by them against their Soveraigns upon the Account of Religion Their Church only Excommunicates a Prince and gives him to the Devil a little and deposes him from his Crown if he will not believe and do as she would have Him And then if any zealous Son of the Church shall think fit to Kill him this is no Murthering of a King for neither is the Prince according to her Doctrine any longer a King nor the Act Murther but doing of Justice on an Enemy to God and the Church Nor does she allow Subjects to take up Arms against their Soveraigns only she Absolves them from their Allegiance when she thinks meet and thenceforwards they cease to be Subjects and their King to be their Soveraign What Sots what Dolts what ignorant not observing Cockscombs does the Author of this Libel fancy us Englishmen to be Or how could he have the Impudence to Address this stuff to that Sagacious Majesty who both by the Works and Perils of his Royal Grandfather the Rebellion of the Irish Papists against his Incomparable Father by his own Experience and a tho●sand Observations cannot but know this bold Averment to be either wholly delusive or utterly false I. For what does this Author mean by his Roman Catholick-Church Or by an Authoriz'd Principle If by Church he intends the Pope whom they call the Church Vertual and whom all of their Communion are bound to obey how many Kings has he deposed how many Assassinations Commanded Encouraged or Abetted as against Queen Elizabeth the two last Henries of France and King Charles the first in Ireland where the Popes Nuntio was in the Head of the Rebels If by Church he understands Councils acknowledged by them lawful and general whom they call the Church Representative They have Justified approved and Commanded this Deposing Rebellious Doctrine As the Council of Lions and their great Lateran Council held in the year 1215. in which if they misreckon not there were no less than 1215. Fathers where it was Synodically and Categorically Concluded The Pope might depose Kings absolve their Subjects from their Oaths of Allegiance and give away their Kingdoms If by Authoriz'd Principle he means the Dictates of their Canon Law the Rule whereby their Church acknowledges to be governed and holds in a manner equal to Sacred Scripture there we find the same things asserted If the Judgment of their most famous Divines and Casuists in their Books unreproved unsentenced uncondemned may together with concurrent practises and attempts in Fact be supposed to be the Voice of their Church they have avowed and justified all this as is unanswerably proved by that Judicious Monument of Honour to our Protestant Church the Reverend Bishop of Lancolns Elaborate Treatise on this Subject Or if you would rather have the Testimo●● of a Professed Romanist hea● the before ●●●med Father Walsh in his Preface where amo●●st other lewd Principles he instances these that follow That the Pope hath ●●●er to depo●●●●●ces and absolve Subjects and Command them to raise Arms against their Princes so deposed and to pursue them with Fire and Sword to death if they resist And that whoever Kills any Prince by the Pope Deposed or Excommunicated Kills not a Lawful Prince but 〈◊〉 Vsurping Tyrant and cannot be said to Murther the Anointed of God or to Kill his own Prince And that whoever out of pure zeal to the Roman Church ventures himself and dyes in the War against such a Prince dies a True Martyr of Christ c. All and every one of these Tenets saith Father Walsh are maintained either in Formal or Vertual Terms not only by many of our most famous and most Classical Authors of all sorts out by the Roman Bishops themselves Now if all or none of these are enough to declare to us the Sense and Principles of the Roman Church wherein our Author says this Lord dies we must I think for ever despair of finding either what that Church is or what it maintains But here again we meet with another Equivocation Aspersions as he calls them thrown on the Roman Catholick Church of which he knowingly affirms there is nothing more dete●ted by the Catholick Church Very true but nothing to his purpose Such Principles are indeed detested by the Catholick Church that is by all sincere real Members of Christ but still 't is as true that nothing is more plainly vouched or practised by the Apostatiz'd Politick Brotherhood that call themselves the Roman Church who are indeed Members of Antichrist and the Synagogue of Satan And this our Author tacitely acknowledges by dropping there the word Roman whereon the whole Hing of the Question depended Nor is there any thing more absurd than his Suggestion in the following Clause That his Church detests it as being expresly contrary to the Command of our Saviour and Christian Doctrine For is not his Churches denying the Cup to the Laiety forbidding Priests Marriage Injoyning Prayer in an Unknown Tongue and many other Tenets as expresly contrary to the Command of our Saviour and Christian Doctrine And yet they are not ashamed not only to practise but inforce them under the highest Penalties Besides Our Author makes the Lord only say That he detests it as such that is As far as 't is contrary to Christian Doctrine But what if with the Popes the Councils the numerous Doctors of his Church before-mentioned he believ'd Killing or Rising in Arms against an Excommunicated Prince not to be Murthering of a King or Raising Rebellion against his Soveraign according to Christs Command when his supposed Vicar requires it and declares it lawful Where then is the Kings Safety or the Papists Loyalty The Letter Having thus briefly and with all Sincerity of a Dying Man Discharged my Conscience I shall end where I began and with my last Breath beg of God to Defend Your Majesty from all Your Enemies and to Forgive Those who by their Perjuries have Endeavoured to make Me appear to be One Who am Living and Dying as in Duty bound c. Your most Obedient and Loyal Subject W. Petre. Observations As to the Sincerity of this Paper the Reader may I hope by this time be better able to make a Judgment And so I take leave of it Being certain that all good Subjects will joyn in hearty Prayers to GOD to Defend His Majesty from all His Enemies And that they will also believe That no Papist that understands his Religion and is true to it can ever be a Friend or a Loyal Subject any longer then the Pope pleases to a PROTESTANT PRINCE Entred According to Order London Printed by George Larkin at the Lower-End of Broadstreet next to London-Wall 1684.