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CHAP. V.

Argum. 3. That Doctrine which teacheth men to destroy or undo them whom Christ hath bound them to love as Christians, and absolveth Subjects from their Allegiance to their Princes, and requireth the deposing of them, and committing the Government of their Dominions to others, because they are judged to be Heretics by the Pope; yea or if they will not destroy and extirpate such as he calleth Heretics; I say this Doctrine is not of God, nor such as Christian Princes should smile upon. But such is the Doctrine of Popery: therefore, &c.

Argum. 3. THat Doctrine which teacheth men to destroy or undo them whom Christ hath bound them to love as Christians, and absolveth Subjects from their Allegiance to their Princes, and requireth the deposing of them, and committing the Government of their Dominions to others, because they are judged to be Hereticks by the Pope; yea or if they will not destroy and extirpate such as he calleth Hereticks; I say this Doctrine is not of God, nor such as Christian Princes should smile upon. But such is the Doctrine of Popery: therefore, &c.

I know that a Paper entitled An explanation of the Roman Catholics Belief, and other the like, do seem to renounce the opinion of breaking faith with Heretics, and of promise breaking with ⟨p. 18⟩Magistrates (It seems they think they owe no more obedience to their Magistrates then they promise.) But as I refer the Reader to what King James and his defenders have said on this point (besides many more) so I shall now give you but the words of one of their own approved General Council 12. the fourth at the Lateran under Innocent 3. as Binnius and others of their own record it. In the first Chapter they set down their Catholic faith, two Articles of which are, 1. That no man can be saved out of their Universal Church. And 2. That the bread and wine in the Sacrament of the Altar are transubstantiate into the Body and Blood of Christ, the appearances remaining. And in the third Chapter they say, [We excommunicate and anathematize every heresy extolling it self against this holy orthodox Catholic faith, which we have before exponed, condemning all heretics by what names soever they be called—And being condemned, let them be left to the present secular Powers, or their Bailiffs to be punished, the Clergy being first degraded of their Orders; and let the goods of such condemned ones be confiscate, if they be Lay-men, but if they be Clergy men, let them be given to the Churches whence they had their stipends. And those that are found notable only by suspicion, if they do not by congruous purgation demonstrate their innocency, according to the considerations of the suspicion and the quality of the person, let them be smitten with the sword of Anathema, and avoided by all men, till they have given sufficient satisfaction; and if they remain a year excommunicate, let them then be condemned as heretics. And let the secular powers, in what Office soever, be admonished and persuaded, and if it be necessary compelled by Ecclesiastical censure, that as they would be reputed and accounted Believers, so for the defence of the faith, they take an Oath publicly, that they will study in good earnest according to their power, to exterminate all that are by the Church denoted heretics, from the Countries subject to their Jurisdiction. So that when any one shall be taken into Spiritual or Temporal power, he shall by his Oath make good this Chapter.