The true P eace-ma~r. A trulls, wrongfull detentions ofmoney,goods,lands,coozenages,oppreffions, exrortions? Could the honel!y and privat Julliceofmen preventthefe enormities, filence andfolitude would dwell in that wide palace of Jul!ice; neither would there be more Pleas then Cob·webs under that vall: roofe. Every way therforeiriscleere, that theworke ofJul!ice isPeace; In fo much as rhe Guardians ofPeace are called Jull:iccrs. . . This for the Commcn-wealth; If Jt pleafe you tO call: your eyes upon her S11!er the Cburcli., youlliall find rhattli outward Peace rhereofalfomul! arife from Jut lice. Alas; thence Jsour hopelefnes: never may they p'rofper that love nor, that wifh nor Peacewithin rhofe facred walls;but what poffibiliry ofPeacc in theperemprory repulfesofJul!ice; What poffibility ofJullicein the long ufurped tyranny of rhc fucceffor ofKomtdtH ? Could wehope to fee Jullice once fhine from thofe feven hils, B we would make account ofpeace; bur oh, themiferable injulliceofrhar imperious Sea; Injul!iceofclaime, injullice ofpractice. Ofclaime, overKings,Church, Scrip· rures Confcience: Over Kings; rhere isS. Pau/.J fuperexalted (iT«p61'.,9-) His ufu. all ri:le is tJrbis Dcmi11tH; DomintH tmiverfor•m in themouths and pens ofbis flatterers: And leall Princesfhouldfeeme exempted; he is l!tx Reg•m, as Paul"' 4.fayes ofhimfelf; He isf•per Imperatores & Regu, fmh their AtJiowiHI, Tri11fJJphHI C4piJiran114, and who not?Howmuch? you know the calculation ofthemagnitudeofthe rwogrearlighrs: How over rhem? As rhemaller overrhe fervanr; they are the words oftheir Pope Nithol.n; The imperiall throne is 1111de nifi .l nobw, faith Pope Adria11 : What fhould I tell youof his bridle, ll:irrop, toe, cup, canopy? Let rhe bookeofholy Ceremonies fay the reil; Thefe things are ll:ale, The world bath long C feene and blufhed. Over the Church; There is challenged aproper head-!hip, from whomall infiuencesoflife, fenfe, motion come; astheir Boo;iru: why faid I over?He is underrhe Church: For he is the foundation ofthe Church, faith BeN•rmille;'Over,as the head, underasrhefoundation? WhatcanChrill:bemore? Thence, wherearegenerall councels but under him, as the llreame ofJefuites; Whobur he is regu/4 ftdei, as their A"dradi111: be alone harh infallibilityandindefeQibility, whether in decretis fidei, or in pr.ecepti1morum, os BeUarmine. He harh power to make new Creeds, and to obtrude them to theChurch; the deniall whereofwasoneofthofe Articles which uo the tenth condemned in Luther. D over Stripturu. There is claimed a power toautborize(hem for ftJch; Apower to interpret them,Jemmtialifer & oS!ig•tme,being fuch;A power to difpenfe with them, ex c••f•, rhough fuch. Over rhe confciences ofmen; In difpenlingwirh their oarhes, in allowance oftheir fins. It is one head ofrheirCanon Law, A J•ramento fideliwit abfolvit. Demt.p.o.Caufts ,qu.6. And in everyoorh is underll:ood a refervarion and exception ofthe Popes power, fay his Parafires. I am•fhamed ro reil, and youwould blufh toheare, rbe ciitpenfation reponed ro be granted by Sixt"' 4r.othe f•mily ofrheCardinall of S.Lurit; and by Alexa11Jer6. to Peter Mendoo;aCardinall ofvalenlia. And as rhcreishorrible injul!ice in rhefe claims; fo is rhere no leffein pratl:ice. Takeatall:eofall:What can be more unjul! then to ea(( om of the lap of rhe E Church thofe that oppofe their novelties, to condemn rhem to the ll:ake, to hell for Herericks?What more unjull rhen ro falfifie the writin~ ofancient ormodern Aurborsby fecret expurgations, bywilfull rrlif-ed<rions? What more unjufr than rhe withholding the remedy ofgenerall Counccls, and tranfail:lng all rhe atfairesofthe Church by apack'r conclave; What more unjufr than the fuppreffion oftheScriptures, andmutilation ofthe Sacrament to theLaity? What more unjull than allowance ofequivocation, than upholding afail:ion bywillingfalfhood ofrurnors, than plotting the fubverlion ofKing and Stare, by unnatural! confpiracies?Well may we .:all heaven andearth to record againll the unjulliceofthefe claimes, ofrhefepracti· fes. What then ? Is it ro hope for peace, norwirhll:anding the continuance of all rhefe ?So rheworke ofinjull:ice !hall be Peace: Andan unjul! and onfound Peace mul! needsbe that arifes from injul!ice; Is it to hope they will abandon rhefe things for 499 Urdo[tbt WtJr/d. Ovtr"EmptrorJ anlfl(il!~S· InDtcrm of [althtJT'prmpu ,[mllllntrs. Httl/;{ol<~tt fnm tbt O,ah o{AUtgtiQict.
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