A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

The Hildebrandine branch of your Supremacy, I mean the power that you challenge over Kings and Potentates, in ordine ad spiritualia, which having made some progress by insensible degrees, was enthroned by Pope Gregory the seventh, hath as little escaped opposition, censure, and condemnation▪ as any Heresy whereinto your Church is fallen. This Gregory may be accounted the chief Father of this Heresy, for he sicked the unshapen Monster into that terrible form, wherein it hath since ranged about in the earth. What this mans Principles and Practices were, I shall not desire you to learn of Cardinal Benno, whom yet I have reason to judge the more impartial Writer of the two, but of Cardinal Baronius, who makes it his business to extol him to the skies: Facit eum apud nos Deum, virtutes narrat, he makes almost a god of him, or at least [Greek or Hebrew], as Socrates tells us the Lacedaemonians called an excellent man, Plato in Men. The chief Kingdoms of Europe, as England and Spain, with Sicily and Sardinia, and sundry other Principalities, he claimed as his own unquestionable fee. The Empire he accounted his proper Care, making the deposing of ⟨p. 80⟩Emperors much of his business. The Principles he proceeded upon, the same Cardinal informs us of, in his Annals ad […] 1076. n. 30. And he hath done well to record them, that they might be preserved In perpetuam rei memoriam, that we might learn what your great Father exercised himself about, Dumb succus pecori & lac subducitur agnis, whilst the poor sheep famished for want of knowledge and instruction. They are called Dictata Papae, and ex tripode we may not doubt, being in number twenty seven, whereof I shall mind you of a few. The first is, Quod Romana Ecclesia à solo Domino sit fundata; That the Roman Church was founded by the Lord alone. 2. Quod solus Romanus Pontifex jure vocatiur Universalis; That the Roman Bishop is rightfully called Universal. So some think indeed, ever since Pope Gregory the first taught them, that he who assumed that Title, was a forerunner of Antichrist. 3. Quod ille solus possit deponere Episcopos, vel reconciliare; That he alone can depose Bishops, or restore them; which agrees well with the practice of all the Councils from that of Antioch, which deposed Paulus Samosatenus. 7. Quod illi soli licet, pro temporis necessitate, novas leges condere;

The Hildebrandine branch of your Supremacy, I mean the power that you challenge over Kings and Potentates, in ordine ad spiritualia, which having made some progress by insensible degrees, was enthroned by Pope Gergory the seventh, hath as little escaped opposition, censure, and condemnation as any Heresie whereinto your Church is fallen. This Gregory may be accounted the chief Father of this Heresie, for he sicked the unshapen Monster into that terrible form, wherein it hath since ranged about in the earth. What this mans Principles and Practices were, I shall not desire you to learn of Cardinall Benno, whom yet I have reason to judge the more impartiall Writer of the two, but of Cardinall Baronius, who makes it his business to extoll him to the skies: Facit eum apud nos Deum, virtutes narrat, he makes almost a god of him, or at least , as Socrates tells us the Lacedaemonians called an excellent man, Plato in Menn. The chief Kingdoms of Europe, as England and Spain, with Sicilia and Sardinia, and sundry other Principalities, he claimed as his own unquestionable fee. The Empire he accounted his proper Care, making the deposing of