Two sermons preached at Northampton at two several assizes there The one in the…Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the…

¹Nay, more then this, from the ground of that fellows reply, to the fore-named passage of de Ferrieres Oration, concerning the Articles for the reformation of Princes, I do not see how any true Papist, either Ecclesiastic, or Laic, can possibly be a true subject, to any monarchical Sovereign: my reason is this at this time, Boniface the eight, guided (as they dream, and damnably lie,) by an infallible spirit, pronounceth peremptorily in the fore-cited Extravag▪ unam sanctam] that it is altogether of the necessity of salvation to be subject to the Pope of Rome. How then is it possible, that any one of those mighty swarms of stinging ^*Locusts, and busy wasps, which lye at ease in the bowels of this Kingdom, ready and adderest, when time serves, to cut the very heart strings of it, should be a sound subject to King Charles, sith upon pain of damnation, and as they would be saved in the Romish Church, they must be absolutely subject to a foreign, Antichristian, and sometimes Sodomitical, and Atheistical Priest, of whom, (as they ^*say) he immediately holds his Crown, and who may for many causes, depose, and butcher him? Bellarmine names six, De officio Chr. Principis. One of them is; If he offer injury to the Pope, who many times will complain without cause; so that if King Charles perhaps should refuse to kiss his cursed toe, (a thousand times more worthy to trample upon his triple Crown) he might lye open to the bloody stroke of some ⟨p. 43⟩Clement, or Ravillac: Nay, and had not CHRIST JESUS given this power to that holy father, saith the Glossator upon the fore-named Extravagant, (prodigious blasphemy!) he should have been undiscreet.⁴ These are the words; for he would not seem to have been discreet to the Gods, (that I may speak with reverence,) unless he had left one only such Vicar behind himself, who could have done all these things.

¹Nay, more then this, from the ground of that fellowes reply, to the fore-named passage of de Ferrieres Oration, concerning the Articles for the reformation of Princes, I doe not see how any true Papist, either Ecclesiasticke, or Laicke, can possibly be a true subject, to any monarchicall Soveraigne: my reason is this at this time, Boniface the eight, guided (as they dreame, and damnably lie,) by an infallible spirit, pronounceth peremptorily in the fore-cited Extravag unam sanctam] that it is altogether of the necessity of salvation to be subject to the Pope of Rome. How then is it possible, that any one of those mighty swarmes of stinging