A vindication of the Animadversions on Fiat lux

the meaning of which assertion as he explains himself, is, that besides that direct power, which he hath over those Countries and Kingdoms which on one pretence or other he claims to be Feudatory to the Roman See, which are no small number of the chiefest Kingdoms of Europe, he hath a Power over them all, to dispose ⟨p. 419⟩of them, their Kings and Rulers, according as he judgeth it to conduce to the good and interest of the Church: which as it really differs very little from the •ormer opinion, so Barclay tells us that Pope Sixtus was very little pleased with that seeming depression of the Papal Power, which his words intimate. But the stated Doctrine of your Church in this matter is so declared by Bozius, Augustinus Triumphus, Carerius, Schioppius, Marta and others, all approved by her Authority, that there can be no question of it. Moreover to make way for the putting of this indirect Power into direct Execution, you declare,

the meaning of which assertion as he explains himself, is, that besides that direct power, which he hath over those Countreys and Kingdoms which on one pretence or other he claims to be Feaudatory to the Roman See, which are no small number of the chiefest Kingdoms of Europe, he hath a Power over them all, to dispose ⟨p. 419⟩of them, their Kings and Rulers, according as he judgeth it to conduce to the good and interest of the Church: which as it really differs very little from the •ormer opinion, so Barclay tells us that Pope Sixtus was very little pleased with that seeming depression of the Papal Power, which his words intimate. But the stated Doctrine of your Church in this matter is so declared by Bozius, Augustinus Triumphus, Carerius, Schioppius, Marta and others, all approved by her Authority, that there can be no question of it. Moreover to make way for the putting of this indirect Power into direct Execution, you declare,