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The life and reign of Innocent XI, late Pope of Rome
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of Pamiers acquiesced not in this Sentence but appealed to the Pope who was now engaged in the Controversie and the matter lodged in his Hands 1678. Wherefore the Pope writ his Brief to the French King and in soft and yet pressing Terms complained of the Innovations made on the Liberties of the Church and the Authority of the Council of Lions And after several Arguments to perswade him to desist from this Enterprize he concludes He cannot forget those Popes his Predecessors whom upon the like Occasion had endured long and great Afflictions But these Allegations satisfy'd not the King who pretended That the Rights of the Regale were inherent in the Crown and had been enjoyed by his Ancestors and by them derived down to himself The Pope on the other side replyed That the Secular Power had no Right to things Sacred but as it was derived to them by the Authority of the Church and that the Church had not granted any such Right having expresly limited it by the Council of Lyons which hath now been observed 400 years This Controversie seemed to lie dormant from September 1678. unto December 1679. when it was again revived in the See of Pamiers in that point which concerned the Vacant Benefices and the mean Profits for the Kings Officers seized on them so that the good old Bishop had nothing to live on the last twenty Months of his Life but the Oblations and Charity of his People This occasioned the Pope to write to Cardinal D'Estree to interpose in this Affair as being a Person more than ordinarily concerned in the Dignity of the Apostolical See to which the Cardinal answer'd in the Style of a Court-Bishop extolling the Kings Merit his Zeal for the Faith and respect for the Apostolical Chair what he had done for the suppressing of Calvinists and Heresie within his Dominions and how bravely he had defended the Christian Cause against the Turks and in fine he laid down the dangers which would follow if any Dissention should arise between that King and the Church At length Cardinal D'Estree was dispatched to Rome with a Letter of Credence and Orders to treat immediately with the Pope himself but it seems his Negotiation produced little Alteration for the Pope continued steady and constant to his Principles And on the other side the Parliament of Paris became as zealous for the Kings Right and Authority for which the Kings Attorney General pleading made little esteem of the Popes Censures in respect of the Kings Orders The Church said he may indeed have an Authority to punish Men for Heresie and an ill Life but the World was now too well enlightned not to discern that the Thunders of Rome had been for several Ages vainly employed for extending its Authority beyond all due Bounds the Limits whereof were to be found in the Canons of the Church by which the Pope as well as others ought to govern himself And therefore desired that the last Brief sent by the Pope might be suppressed which was accordingly done by a Judgment of the Court of Parliament on the last of March 1681. And to give a farther Authority to this Judgment an extraordinary Assembly was called of all the Bishops then residing at Paris where were present Six Archbishops Twenty Six Bishops and Six that were named to Bishopricks to whom the Agents of the Clergy represented the Invasions made on the Liberties of the Gallican Church by the Popes Briefs both in general concerning the Regale and in particular in the Affair at Pamiers and the Nunneries and concerning a Book of Gerbais a Doctor of the Sorbonne De Gausis Majoribus which were equally contrary both to Church and State to the Canons and the Concordate by which the Pope upon a simple Complaint without any Appeal did by the plenitude of his Power judge at Rome concerning the validity of Elections and the Authority of Arch-Bishops and Primates c. The issue of this Assembly was They asserted the Authority of National Churches for judging all matters both of Faith and Manners and in the conclusion agreed to make an Address to the King praying him to give leave either for a National Counsel or an Assembly General the later of which was consented unto by his Majesty and summoned to meet the first of October following which met accordingly and at the opening thereof the Bishop of Meaux preached a most eloquent Sermon with much Applause after which the point of the Regale was put to the Question and argued learnedly on both sides and in conclusion the greatest part were of opinion that the Rights unto the Regale were inherent in the Crown and that the pretensions thereunto were Usurpations by the Church as appears by this following Declaration The Declaration of the Clergy of the Gallican Church concerning Ecclesiastical Power WE the Archbishops and Bishops Representatives of the Gallican Church being by Command of His Majesty Assembled at Paris together with others of the Clergy in the same manner delegated with us after long Debate and mature Consideration have thought fit to declare and determine these several particulars following I. That a Power is given by God to St. Peter and his Successors who are the Vicars of Christ and to the Church to Order and Regulate all Spiritual Matters but not to intermeddle in Civil or Temporal matters according to that Saying of our Lord My Kingdom is not of this World And again Give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods And Agreeable hereunto is that of the Apostle Let every Soul be Subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers which are are ordained of God and whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God Wherefore Kings and Princes by the Law of God are not liable in temporal matters to the Ecclesiastical Power nor by the Power of the Keys can they be deposed either directly or indirectly or can their Subjects be absolved from their Fealty and Obedience to them or from their Oaths of Allegiance the which We confirm and determine as Principles not only necessary for conservation of the Publick Peace and Tranquility but for the better Government of the Church and as Truths agreeable to the Word of God the Tradition of the Fathers and to the Example and Practice of Saints and Holy Men. II. That the Apostolical See and the Successors of St. Peter who are the Vicars of Christ have a full and plenary Power in all Spiritual matters in such manner as is given to them by the Oecumenical Synod of Constance which is received by the Apostolical See and in such manner as hath been confirmed by the constant use and practice of the Popes of Rome and the whole Church and observed by the Religion of the Gallican Church and Decreed by the Authority of the General Councils in the Fourth and Fifth Sessions And the Gallican Church doth condemn the Opinion of those who esteemed
Works of Piety We have observed this wholsom discipline establisht by the Fathers all along from the beginning of our Popedom and with the Lords help shall observe it as long as we live But to declare to our Successors what we think unlawful we have forever firmly Decreed to establish the same Discipline in this holy See from which Bishops and other Prelates of Churches ought to take Examples of Truth being partly led to it by the present Exigencies and narrowness of the Pontifical Treasury which we do not doubt but is sufficiently known to our Brethren Therefore for the glory of Almighty God the honour of this Apostolical See and the good example of Prelates and Governors in the Church and also that the Apostolical Chamber may have no damage We do for ever Establish and Decree That it shall not be lawful neither for Vs nor for any of our Successors Popes of Rome by any manner of pretext or colour directly or indirectly or by any sort of Title of Bounty or Free-Gift or for Gain and Advantage in whole or in part to dispose of Monies Places of the Montes void or not void set to Sale and dispos'd of in consideration of their Price or any manner of Rights that do any ways belong to the Apostolical See and Chamber in favour of Brothers Nephews or others related by Blood or Marriage or the intimate Acquaintance or Favourites as well of Our Self as of every Roman Bishop Our Successor for the time being respectively and likewise that nothing of this shall be done in favour of those that may be any ways made choice of and taken into the Family of any Pope in the room of Nephews or other near Relations Moreover We Decree That it shall not be lawful neither for Vs nor for any of the Popes of Rome Our Successors by Apostolical Grant to enrich Brothers Nephews and Relations by Blood or Marriage or any that may be received or chosen in their place or Favourites aforesaid with Churches Monasteries or any other Benefices or Pensions of what kind or quality soever nor with any manner of Ecclesiastical Incoms Fruits Revenues Perquisites Rights or Profits beyond the merits of any one of them and the decent maintenance of that Dignity they obtain in the Church that so a due moderation and the Rules of distributive Justice being in all things observed there may be no occasion of complaining or cavilling left to any one but the Ecclesiastical Revenue may be distributed to those that labour in the Church of God according to every ones merit But if the aforesaid Brothers Nephews and other Relations by Blood or Marriage or those that are chosen and received in their Place should fall into want the Pope for the time being in his tender concern may relieve their Poverty out of the Revenues of the See and Chamber aforesaid in the same manner as he relieves poor Strangers out of the Goods of the Church which are God's but so as the Goods of the See and Chamber may not be bestowed on those or havock't or imbezel'd for the sake of those But if which God forbid the measure of kindness equally here and wholsomly prescribed should be exceeded towards Brothers Nephews and other Relations by Blood or Marriage and Favourites the Bishops of Rome successively may and ought either at the Instance of any one or by their own proper motion to take away those things that were unduly obtained from them and to revoke and annul what is given or freely granted in the way above-mentioned and herein must be no place for ill-will or favor but all things must be reduced to the rule of Apostolical Equity besides other Punishments which may be inflicted at the Will of the Pope And that as little damage as is possible may accrue to the Apostolical Chamber We do suppress and abolish the Office of General of the Roman Church and the Stipend or Emolument of the Superintendent of the State of the Church and also of the Government of the City Beneventum which was used to be paid by the said Chamber adhering in this both to the sense of the College of Cardinals our Brethren in a late Conclave wherein We by the Grace of God were raised to the Popedom and also by a Secret Decree made by Vs in Our Consistory the 16th of December 1676. And do We also Establish and Decree That other Military Offices which have been estimated according to the changes of the times and as we at this present do estimate them shall not be bestowed with a Salary or Stipend And that all things as is aforesaid may for ever remain in their full strength We will and command That as all and singular the Cardinals present have promised and sworn as much as in them lies to observe this Bull and never to withstand it nor to consent to any Pope's acting against it so likewise that this shall be done by the Cardinals now absent from the Consistory and Court of Rome whensoever they shall repair to the said Court and shall be promised and sworn to by all future Cardinals when they receive the Hat and this Oath shall be added to that which is taken of course by all the Cardinals And we Decree That those that do otherwise shall thereby incur the pain of Perjury and perpetual Infamy Juris Facti Moreover We Decree and Ordain the Cardinals in the Vacancy of the Apostolical See promise by Oath the Observation of the Bull of Pius V. of happy memory our Predecessor De non infoedandis c. and of Sixtus V. concerning the aforesaid Monies reposited in the Castle of St. Angelo and likewise the Constitutions of other Roman Bishops our Predecessors So every one that shall be Elected Pope after he is elected to the Papl Dignity shall promise and swear inviolably to observe this our present Bull according to the express form and tenor of the aforesaid Bull of Sixtus V. our Predecessor in the 11th Section And We will that these Our Letters be drawn into a Libel and added to the aforesaid Decrees of Pius and Sixtus V. c. for Entry and Publishing c. But since Princes are not able to undergo the Burthen of Government without Officers and assistants and that as these are so must they expect the eyents of their Governments This Pope without any respect to his own Relations chose such as he thought were Men of Sincerity and adequate to the Imployments he intrusted them with In the first place he made Cardinal Cibo his Secretary of State being a person endued with a great and generous Soul a clear Understanding Zealous for the welfare of the Church and dexterous in the management of Publick affairs The Family of the Altieri having before enjoy'd it he continued in their Military Employments as he did the other Officers But since they were at Peace with all the World for ease of the Chamber much indebted he caus'd the Officers of the Papal Army