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The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…
The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their principles about civil and ecclesiastical authority and obedience ... : mostly written many years past, and now published to save our lives and the kingdoms peace, from the false and bloody plotters ... / by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Political Alphabet of The understanding real Papist. 1. God hath made the Pope the Monarch or Governor of all the earth, or at least of all Christians: And all Kings are bound to be his obedient Subjects. 2. He hath Temporal Dominion over all, say some; or▪ Temporal in ordine ad spiritualia say others, or spiritual at least say all. 3. Saith Card. […] in Bibl. Patr. Our Lord had not been discreet if he had not lest one Vicar to be Lord of every humane creature, to pass sentence on them of deposition, damnation or any other. 4. The civil power is but for the body or outward good, and the Church power is for the soul and the life to come. 5. The Church power excelleth the Civil ⟨p. 108⟩as the soul doth the body & the Sun the Stars. 6. The true fifth Monarchy is Christs Reign over all the earth by his Vicar General the Pope: vid. Campanel. de Reg. Dei. 7. Baptism implicitly obligeth us to the Pope. 8. He is no true Christian or member of Christs Church who is not a Subject of the Pope's, though he have other virtues. 9. The Catholic Church and the Roman are all one. 10. Temporal Lords are all bound on pain of excommunication, Deposition and Damnation, to exterminate all their protestant Subjects, if they can. […]. 4. yea all that will not renounce their senses in the belief of Transubstantiation. 11. All Princes and Christians are bound to obey the Laws of General Councils, at least such as the Pope approveth, though Subjects of other Princes. 12. The Pope hath the right of calling those Councils, and presiding in them, and appr[…]ving or reprobating them. 13. The Disciple is not above his Master; and all Christian Kings are Disciples of the Pope and Bishops. 14. The great Doctors of the Church may be allowed to ⟨p. 109⟩teach, that an excommunicate King is no King, and may be killed, though others say, not till the Pope condemn him. 15. Kings are Henrician simoniacal Heretics that claim a power of Investing Bishops, though the people choose them, and they be lawfully ordained. 16. The Pope and his Bishops may depose Kings pro meritis. 17. Heretics are to be burnt or at least banished. 18. All Christians must be forbidden communion with excommunicate Kings. 19. Living Bishops may be deposed, and Dead Bishops digged up and burnt, who were for the Princes power of Investitures and that the Pope may not depose them. 20.