Duty. 2 Secondly, if the Lord hath made bare his holy arm for your deliverance; if he hath saved you with a great salvation, as it is this day; you, and your Fathers, and Children from the hand of Rome, and of the Papists; then why should you not all prejudice your hearts against that Religion that was the Mother of such a bloody design as the Powder-Treason was? The Papists said indeed, when their Plot miscarried, That it was but the work of some few unfortunate Gentlemen. I, and blessed be the Lord they were so unfortunate. But had the Plot sired, and taken, then the Execution thereof would have been painted in the Popes Palace: as I have read the Massacre of Paris was, in perpetuam rei memoriam. But if their(m) Religion it self do carry such principles in the bosom of it as do naturally breed and lead to such practises, then it cannot be said that this was only the design of a few unfortunate Gentlemen. Now what are the Principles of that Religion? the Papists themselves say, That what a Pope determines in a Council, or General Councell, is de fide: ask therefore the Lateran Council, and Concilium Lugdunense, ask Aquinas, Bellarmine, Suarez, Tollet, Sa, Mariana, Tannerus, and Becanus, they will tell you, that infidelious, heretical, apostatizing ⟨p. 26⟩Princes and Governors are to be deposed and excommunicated by the Pope. Secondly, that being so sentenced, their Subjects are absolved and freed from the Oath of fidelity and Allegiance. Thirdly, that excommunicated persons (being heretics) cujuscunque ordinis, are to be deprived of their estates, jurisdictions; yea, their lifes; haeretici sunt comburendi. And though this Powder-Treason were the design of some infortunate Gentleman: yet I dare challenge all the Jesuits in the world, to show such a practice designed by any unfortunate Gentlemen of the Protestant party.
Duty. 2 Secondly, if the Lord hath made bare his holy arme for your deliverance; if he hath saved you with a great salvation, as it is this day; you, and your Fathers, and Children from the hand of Rome, and of the Papists; then why should you not all prejudice your hearts against that Religion that was the Mother of such a bloudy designe as the Powder-Treason was? The Papists said indeed, when their Plot miscarried, That it was but the work of some few unfortunate Gentlemen. I, and blessed be the Lord they were so unfortunate. But had the Plot sired, and taken, then the Execution thereof would have been painted in the Popes Palace: as I have read the Massacre of Paris was, in perpetuam rei memoriam. But if their(m) Religion it self do carry such principles in the bosome of it as do naturally breed and lead to such practises, then it cannot be said that this was onely the design of a few unfortunate Gentlemen. Now what are the Principles of that Religion? the Papists themselves say, That what a Pope determines in a Councell, or Generall Councell, is de fide: aske therefore the Lateran Councell, and Concilium Lugdunense, aske Aquinas, Bellarmine, Suarez, Tollet, Sa, Mariana, Tannerus, and Becanus, they will tell you, that infidelious, hereticall, apostatizing ⟨p. 26⟩Princes and Governours are to be deposed and excommunicated by the Pope. Secondly, that being so sentenced, their Subjects are absolved and freed from the Oath of fidelity and Allegiance. Thirdly, that excommunicated persons (being hereticks) cujuscunque ordinis, are to be deprived of their estates, jurisdictions; yea, their lifes; haeretici sunt comburendi. And though this Powder-Treason were the designe of some infortunate Gentleman: yet I dare challenge all the Jesuites in the world, to shew such a practice designed by any unfortunate Gentlemen of the Protestant party.
- (m)Si vero dominus temporalis requisitus & monitus ab Ecclesia, terram suam purgare neglexerit ab hac haeretica foeditate, per Metropolitanum & caeteros Episcopos excommunicationis vinculo innodetur: & si satisfacere contempserit intra annum, significetur hoc summo Pontifici ut ex tunc ipse vassallos ab ejus fidelitate absolutos denunciet & terram exponat Catholicis […] pa••am, qui eam exterminatis haereticis sinc ulla contradiction possideant. Edecretis Concilii, Ge•e•alis L••e•anensis tempore Innocentii Papae 3. de fide Cathol. cap. 3. Binius. Omnesque qui […] (Imp•ra••ra s••l.) j•ra nento fidelitatis aliquo modo tenentur astricti, vel obligati, a juramento hujusmodi perp•tuo absolvimus & liberamus, auctoritate Apostolica firmiter & strict inhibendo ne quisquam de•a••ro •i tanquam Imperatori vel Regi pareat: decernendo quoslibet qui deinceps ei velut Imperatori vel Regi consilium, vol auxilium praestiterint, seu fautorem ipso facto excommunicationis vinculo subjacere. Concil. Lugdun. 13. oecumenic. approbatum centum & quadraginta Episcoporum, causa Frederici 2. Imperat. deponendi celebratum, 1245. Bin. vide plura apud Mat. Paris: cum depositione, & submissione Jo•nnis Regis Anglicani. Principibus apostatantibus a fide non est obediendum, & ideo cum cito aliquis per sententiam denunciatur excommunicatus propter apostasiam a fide, ipso facto ejus subditisunt absoluti a dominio ejus & juramento fidelitatis, Thom. Aquin. 22. quaest. 12. art. 2. & qu•st. 10. art. 10. Non licet Christianis tolerare Regem infidelem haereticum si ille conctur pertrahere subdito ad suam haeresim vel infidelitatem, tenentur Christiani non pati super se regem non Christianum, si ille co•etur avertere populum a fide. Bellarm. de Roman. pontif. lib. 5. cap. 7. Possumus veritatem hanc authoritate & praxi Ecclesiae ostendere, & post varia exempla addit, at vero haec omnia, & similia non temere nec in angulo, sed aliqua ex illis in conciliis frequentissimis, aliquando in Generali. Ergo incredibile est fuisse actus usurpatae, & non verae authoritatis. Suarez. lib. 3. de Rom. pontif. cap. 23.24. qua nam sunt apostatarum & haereticorum poenae? privatio politicae potestatis juxta Canonem nos Sanctorum & can. juratos 15. q. 6. & extravagantem Martini 5. ad evitanda; septima poena est poena corporis, viz. incarceratio, exilium, mors. Tannerus de fide, disput. 1. quaest. 8. dub. 6. Tom. 3. in Thom. Aquinat. Em. Sa in voce, Tyrannus. Mariana lib. 6. de reg. c. 6. p. 59.
