INTRODUCTION. 11 honour and dignity, and who for his iniquities is cast away by God, that he should not reign or command, being bound by his sins and cast away, and deprived by the Lord of all honour and dignity) do show, denounce, and accordingly by sentence deprive; absolvingall who are held bound by oath of allegiance from such oath for ever; by apostolical authority firmlyprohibiting that no man henceforthdo obey or regard him as emperor or king; and decreeing, that whoever shall hereafter yield advice, or aid, or favour to him as emperor or king, shall immediately lie under the band of excommunication. "1 Before him, Pope Innocent III., that " true wonder of theworld, and changer of the age,"$ affirmed " the pontifical authority asmuch to exceed the royal power as the sun does the moon ;"8 and applies to the former that of the prophet Jeremiah, " Ecce, constitui to super gentes et regna;" " See, I have set thee over the nations and over thekingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down," &c., Jer. i. 10. Of this power that pope made experiment by deposing the Em- peror Otho IV.; "whom," saysNauclerus, " as rebellious to the apos- tolical see, he first struck with an anathema; then, him persevering inhis obstinacy, in a council of prelates held at Rome, pronounced deposed from empire."' The which authority was avowed by that great council under this pope (the which, according to the men of Trent, represented or constituted the church); wherein it was ordained, that if a "temporal lord, being required and admonished by the church, should neglect to purge his territory from heretical filth, he should, by the metro- politan and the other comprovincial bishops, be noosed in the band of excommunication; and that if he should slight to make satisfac- tion within a year, it shouldbe signified to the pope, that he might from that time denounce the subjects absolved from their fealty to him, and expose the territory to be seized on by Catholics, "s &c. Before that, Pope Paschal II. (anno 1099) deprived Henry IV., and excited enemies " to persecute him;" telling them that they could not " offer amore acceptable sacrifice to God thanby impugn- ing himwho endeavoured to take the kingdom from God's church." s Nos itaque super prmmissis, &c. P. Innoc. IV. in Cene. Lugd. Matt. Paris (anno 1253) says, he deemed kings mancipia papee. z Vere stupor mundi, et immutator seculi. Matt. Par., anno 1217. 3 Ut quanta est inter solem et lunam tanta inter pontifices et reges differentia cog. noscatur. P. Innoc. III. in Decret. Greg., lib. i. tit. 33, cap. 6. 4 Imperatorem ut rebellem sedi apostolicte et inobedientem anathemate primum, deinde in pertinacia perseverantem, in concilio presulum, quod Rome tum Innocentius celebrabat, ab imperio depositum percussit et pronunciavit.Naucl., anno 1212. s Neque enim per Lateranense concilium ecclesiastatuit, &c. Syn. Trid., sess. xiv. cap. 5. Si vero dominus temporalis requisitus et monitus.Conc. Later., cap. 3, In Decret. Greg., lib. v. tit. 7, cap. 13. 3 Nam in hac non tantum parte, sed ubique, cum poteris, Henricum, hmreticorum
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