364 Churcb-Hf-tory of Ir3ifhops and Pope ,a^ ces of Government without a call, elfe the belt man muf be always chary be- King : And then.what Pope had Title to his Seat? Right to Heaven, will Iieved not prove a right to Kingdoms Nor,é contra, Power to caft out Devils not. will not prove that theexorcift may caft out the King,nor give him Laws. ÿó* uBufeto 2. What though the King be a Scholar to a Grammarian, a Mufician, a fay that Phyfician?Is it therefore abfurd that he be King over thefe Mafters ? What Kings are though he muff obey his Phyfician for his"life 2 May he not command not tor that Phyfician for the common peace ? What though he cannot do that fouls theeut which a Phyfician, a Mufician 2J c. can do ? May he not rule them for all body. that? 3. What a difcontented mind have fuch holy Prelates, that cannot be fatisfied with their Title to Heaven, their Miracles, Sanftity, Church- Keys ec. unlefs they mayalto be above Kings, and have the fecular power alto ? 4. And what caufehave Kings and States to look to them- Wye's, that are under fuch Priefts, where every Clergy man is their Mafler? And how many fuperiors then hath every PopifhKing ? Even as many as he bath Prelates, Priefts or exorcifts. Yet I will confers that if Princes had been as bad Rill "as tome of them have been, and" as filch Popes pretended; and Popes and Prelates, andPriefts hadbeen as Infalli- ble, Holy, Wife and Peaceable as they have pretended, and had not proved the flume of Religion and Incendiaries of the Chriftian World, info many generations, it would have tempted men ftrongly for the intereft of Religion and mankind, to with that all power had been committed to the Clergy', and that Campanella's RegnumDei, or Fift-Monarchy, by Priefily Government of the World, had takenplace. But when their own hiftort- ans make fourty Popes together Monfters of wickednefs, and piety at the fame time to be tranflated to the Princes, this turneth our thoughts another way : Efpecially when we find (till that a proud, worldly, wicked Clergy, are'the great confounders of the World. 4 59. Epift. 23. He fends to his Legates to demand of the King of o France, that every hoiefe do give apenny to St. Peter, if they take him for their Father and Pallor. It feemeth the Roman Peter mutt have money, Rule and Honour of all the world, though he cry it down in others. § 6o. Lib. 9. Ep. r. He fufpendeth the Arch Bifhop of-Rouen in Normandy, from confecrating any Bifhop or Prieft, or Church, becaufe he had not váfited the Pope at Rome, whenas men and women came to him from the remoter parts of the Earth ; (The'Pope loved much company, and loved not privacy fo well as I do.) and becaufe he had not fought his pallitem ; though he wrote fubmiffively to him. 6i. Even this Pope Ep. 2. 1. 9. Profeffeth to the King of Spain [that ôa Lye is a fin though it come from a pious intention forpeace ; but in Priefis it is a kind of Sacrileda.] And if fo, Priefts had need to takeheed that theyLye not, by fwearig, fubfcribing, declaringorprofefng isny fal. ¡hood though a Pope fhould- command them. § 6z. In the fame Bp. he congratulates that Spain received his Order of fervice or Liturgie, becaufe that which theyufedhitherto had fame things contrary
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