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A46362	The history of the Council of Trent is eight books : whereunto is prefixt a disourse containing historical reflexions on councils, and particularly on the conduct of the Council of Trent, proving that the Protestants are not oblig'd to submit thereto / written in French by Peter Jurieu ... ; and now done into English.; Abrégé de l'histoire du Concile de Trente. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1684 (1684)	Wing J1203; ESTC R12857	373,770	725

under both kinds the third that Priests might be allowed to Mary and the fourth that they might pay no more Annats and that a national Synod might be called in Poland for adjusting the Differences about Religion He broke forth into a rage when the Proposals were made to him and all these things concurring together made him resolve to call a Council at Rome He ordered the Ambassadours to acquaint their Masters that he intended to celebrate a Council in the Church of Lateran and declared the same in a Congregation of Cardinals On his Coronation-day being the six and twentieth of May a great many Cardinals with the Ambassadours of Princes being with him at Table he said that he had acquainted Princes with his design merely out of form and civility that he would make them sensible what the Holy See can doe when it is possest by a resolute and couragious Pope that he well foresaw that his Proposal would displease them because of the Place that he had pitcht upon but that though they should not send one Prelate to his Council he would not be much concerned and that he well knew how far his Authority reached Whilst matters went thus at Rome news came that by the mediation of Cardinal Pool the Emperour and the King of France had made a Truce for five Years Peace is made betwixt the Emperour and the King of France the Pope breaks it off this News vexed the Pope to the heart because it broke all his measures and suited not at all with the design he had of engaging the King of France in the War of Naples and of making use of the Arms of that Prince for seizing that Kingdom however he pretended to be glad at it But he could not forgive Cardinal Pool to whom he owed so great obligations for having reduced England to the obedience of the Holy See for he sought a pretext to break with him he deprived him of his Legateship and put into the Inquisition his Friend Thomas de S. Felix Bishop Della Cava Immediately he dispatcht two Legates one into France and another into Germany under pretext of essaying to convert the Truce into a Peace But instead of endeavouring to make peace Caraffa his Legate in France perswaded the King to break the Truce and offered him absolution from his Oath The Princes of the house of Guise solicited him to that action but the rest of the Court looked upon that perfidiousness with abhorrence There was onely one thing that stuck with Henry II. and that was that the Pope being extremely old he could not hold out long that after him another would come who might take other measures and that so he would be left alone in the mire into which the Pope had plung'd him The Cardinal of Lorrain a man for expedients found out one presently he told the King that he must get the Pope to create so many Cardinals of the French faction that the King might always be sure of having in the holy See a man at his Devotion This was a cross ill laid trap however Henry was caught in it and did whatsoever they would have him doe But these Negotiations could not be kept so secret but that the Emperour began to suspect that the work that was preparing for him was of the Pope's cutting out for the Legate that was sent to him made but very small Journeys and when he came to Maestricht he had orders from Caraffa to come into France to stop there and not to goe to the Emperour though he was but two days Journey from him The Pope breaks with the Emperour and undertakes a War which prov'd fatal to him The Pope seeing his Train pretty well laid sought for no more but a fair pretext to break with the Emperour which he presently found in that Ascanio Colonna and Marco Antonio his Son were protected at Naples The Pope had excommunicated both deprived them of all their Lands and Estates and given their Forfeitures to his Nephew Montorio with the Title of Duke of Pagliano The Colonna's fled to Naples from whence they made frequent inrodes upon the Ecclesiastick State and especially upon the Lands that had been taken from them The Pope was mad with the Emperour because his Enemy had found refuge within the Territories of that Prince and spoke of Charles and Ferdinand in very outragious terms in presence of their Ambassadours and Friends In fine he resolved to make open War he secured all suspected Persons and shut up several Cardinals and Gentlemen in the Castle of St. Angelo Nay and year 1556 contrary to the Law of Nations he cast into Prison Garcillasso di Vega King Philip's Ambassadour and Postmaster of the Empire he gave protection to those that were banished out of Naples and broke open the Emperour's packets When the Duke of Alva who was then Viceroy of Naples expostulated with him for these injuries threatning that if he persisted in so doeing his Master would right himself by the Law of Arms the Pope made answer that he was a free Prince that as he was not to give account of his Actions to any so as Pope he might call all men to an account of theirs and that nothing could move him to fail in what he was obliged to doe for the maintenance of the Church At length the Duke of Alva finding that fair means could not prevail with him and that great preparations were making in the Pope's Territories thought it his part to take the start and declare War first which he did the fourth of September 1556. He seized almost that whole Countrey which is called Campania di Roma keeping it in name of the succeeding Pope and put Rome it self into a fright The Pope fell to fortifying the City and forced all even the Monks to labour at the Works There was a weak place at the end of the Street called Flaminia where stood a stately Church of our Lady that hindered the fortifications The Pope was about to demolish it but the Duke of Alva sent to entreat him not to doe it promising not to take advantage of that place In the mean time the Duke thinking it enough to have put Rome in a fright drew off and did not lay siege to the place This was the Year wherein Charles made a Resignation of all his Dignities and retreated to a solitary Life having first made over his hereditary Dominions to his Son The resignation of Charles the V. and the Empire to his Brother People hereupon made reflexions much to the disadvantage of the Pope for they compared his haughtiness with the humility of that great Prince who being born in the height of honour and having lived in so great Glory had freely renounced all the Pomps and Vanities of the World whereas on the other hand Paul having been first a Bishop and having afterwards betaken himself to a Monastery of Theatins came out again to be a Cardinal and at the age of 80 Years

the History of Father Paul because he says that that Historian makes mirth with every thing and is much too airy in so serious a subject Whereas never was any Work of a more different Character more wise more moderate more free from foolish trisling mirth So that because in the body of so large a Work there are found some few Railleries of Persons dissatisfied with the Council reported with the fidelity of an exact Historian to call this a continual drolling is willingly to expose his Reputation and his Judgment But if in this particular I was much surprized I could hardly believe my eyes in reading another Period some few Pages following in the same Book That this History is a Satyr upon the Roman Church and Religion Pag. 130. of which he exposes a train of knaveries to be revenged of the Pope for deluding him with the vain hopes of being made a Cardinal This is surprizing indeed and permission and with a Preface giving it high Eulogies of Sincerity But France is not a place where Libels and Satyrs against the Roman Church are published with approbation and permissión True it is that Father Paul lays open the very bottom of the conduct of the Roman Court and plainly shews it to be governed meerly by humane Policy Yet are his Enemies very imprudent to impute that to him as a Crime because that Imputation constrains his Defenders to make it apparent that the History of Cardinal Pallavicini is a thousand times more injurious to the Council of Trent and to the Court of Rome than is that written by Father Paul This latter indeed is accused to have expressed discontent and spite against that Court for discovering the Maxims of its Policy and shewing its aim to be onely Power and Greatness and that it had no regard to the Interests of Piety and Religion But it is most certain that Cardinal Pallavicini does expose it under that Character extreamly more than Father Paul The Father contents himself with remarking its Conduct and giving us the History of its Actions without saying much of its Maxims But the Cardinal gives us the naked View of all the Maxims of the Roman Polity shews us the very Basis of it and that it consists of humane and carnal things blended with things dangerous and criminal It is true that in proposing the Maxims of this Polity he undertakes also to defend it and makes a mighty merit of it in those that are the Guides and Directors of the Roman Church whilest those that are of contrary Sentiments pass with him for sottish ignorant and blind Zealots But in praising these Criminal Maxims he does not make them better The difference between Father Paul and Cardinal Pallavicini is this Father Paul in giving us the History of the Polity of the Court of Rome has done it in such a manner as plainly shews his dislike of it and Pallavicini represents it too as it is but wounds it deeper by his Apology than its Enemies do by their most severe Invectives For had he gone about to shew us that the Maxims of the Court of Rome and the Principles of its Morals are directly opposite to the Spirit of Christ and Christianity he could have gone no better way to work The Gospel represents the Church as a Society of People who should take up their Cross ●enounce the World and worldly Maxims and Policies and even themselves who should despise the Pomp the Wealth and Pleasures of the World and onely glory in their sufferings their Poverty their Mortification and their Good Works and who should draw Unbelievers to the Yoke of Christ by ways of mildness by humility and by the exercise of a sincere and ardent Charity But let us see after what sort Pallavicini represents the Roman Church 1. L. 1. c. 23. He confesses that she mixes in her conduct carnal and worldly Polity that her present Government is framed by the rules of this World and maintains that to be according to the intention of Christ 2. Ibidem He confesses that the Churches aim is to augment her Wealth and Glory and says that she ought to endeavour to possess the perfection of humane happiness for that Christ hath framed her in the most fit manner to enjoy such happiness and so as that if Plato and Aristotle were living they would avow that according to the Rules of their worldly Wisdom and Philosophy L. 12. c. 3. there could not be a more noble and excellent form of Republick than the Christian 3. And therefore as according to the Idea of the Wise Men of this World a Republick to be fortunate and well formed ought to be opulent flourishing in Wealth abounding in pleasures and full of Wise Men according to humanity L. 19 c. 9. L. 17. c. 10. L. 23. c. 3. Introd c. 6. L. 24. c. 12. so he will needs have it that the Church should be the same and confesses that the Church of Rome is formed upon this Idea 4. In owning that this Church makes use of all the ways accused for Simonical to heap up Money he undertakes to defend this Simony and all the means she uses to maintain her Opulence as First-Fruits Pensions Commendams Pluralities frequent Jubilees Indulgences and Dispensations given for mony 5. L. 1. c. 2. alibi passim Introd c. 10. He ridicules those that would reform the Church according to the Model and Idea that the Gospel gives us of it He terms such a Reformation an imaginary Whimsey only sought by People pushed on by blind Zeal and filled with extravagant conceptions Men that are enslaved to vulgar Opinions L. 1. c. 25. L. 16. c. 10. who know nothing of the World nor have any understanding in Affairs Pope Adrian VI. who acknowledged the corruption of the Court of Rome and was willing to have reformed it was according to Cardinal Pallavicini one of those blind Zealots who feed themselves with vain imaginations His designs were abstracted Ideas L. 2. c. 6. lovely in contemplation but whose form bare no proportion to the condition of the matter He was to blame to make so free a confession of the corruption of the Court of Rome L. 2. c. 7. it was too severely to censure his Predecessors and an indiscreet Zeal In a word such kind of People are the very Pests of publick Tranquillity 6. L. 17. c. 14. According to Pallavicini nothing is more horrid to the Church than Poverty and she ought to nourish this abhorrence in the minds of Men and her self strive to avoid this evil L. 9. c. 9. Those therefore who say that the greater part of the Goods of the Church ought to be given to the poor are the Churches Enemies and the Cardinal maintains that to do so were directly contrary to the humane happiness of the Church to Gods Institution and to Nature Ibidem He approves very well that the Goods of the Church be employed to maintain