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Show 11053. 01" A CHRISTIAN; Chit/2,42; If they pleafe therefore, they may ( as. many Chrifiian Kings now doe) commit the government of theirvbubieetsin matters or Religion to the Pope.7 but then the Pope is in that pornt Subord1_ mate to them, and exerciieth that Charge in another-s Dominion lure Cz'vzli, in the Right oftlie Civill‘S_overaign;,not 11m DPT/1710,") Gods Right; and may therefore be diicharged or that thice, when the Soveraignfor the good of his Subjects ihallthinle it necef'lary. They may alfoif they pleafe,commit‘the care of Religion to one Supreme Paitor, or to an Aflembly oi Pailors-7 and give them what power over the Church, or one over another, they thinlc molt convenient, and what titles of honor, as of Billiops , Archbiihops, Pricfls, or Presbyters, they will; and make {uch Lawsaor their maintenance, either by Tithes, or otherwiie, as they pleaie, {othey doe it out ofa fincere confcienee, or which God onely IS the Judge. It is the Civill Soveraign,that is to appoint judges , and Interpre- ters of the C anonicall Scriptures-for it is he that maketh them Laws. Itis he alfo that giveth firength to EXCOI'IImLImCLIUQHS; which but for i‘ueh Laws and Puniihments,as may humble obihnate Libertines, and reduce them to union wrth the reft ofthe Church , would bee contemned. In fumme, he hath the Supreme Power in all caules , as well Eccleiiaflicall, as Civill, as far as concerneth 3&10n5,and words, for thofe onely are known, andmay be accrued», and or that which cannotbeaccul'ed, there is no judg at all, but God, that knon'eth the heart. And thefe Rights are incident to all Soveraigns, whether Monarchs, or Ailemblies : for they that are the Repreientants or a Chriflian People , are Reprefentants of the Church : tor a Church, and a Common-wealthof Chrifiian l'eOple, are the lame thing. Cardinal Ecl- Though this thatI have here (aid, and in other places of this Book, feem cleer enough For the aflerting of the bupreme EL‘Clt‘lli aflicallPowerto Chriitian Soverargns, yet became the hope or Romes challenge to that Power univerially , hath been . maintained chiefly, and Ithink as firongly as is poiiible‘, by (,zirdinall liellarmine, in his Controveriie De Sammy Perm/fire; l have thought it He". cellar-y, as briefly as Ican,to examine the grounds,andi'trength or his Dii‘courfe. Thrfirfilook. Of five Books he hath writtcnofthis fubjec‘t, the firll contained: three (Lueflions: One, Which is iimply the belt government, .W- mare/J], Ariflacmry, or Der/meme); and concludeth for neither, but it If agovernmenrmixtofallthi‘ee : AnOther, which ottheieis tln 5th Government of the Church; and concludeth tor the mixt, but which ihould moi} particrpate of Monarchy : The third, whether in this inixt Monarchy,St. Peter had the place orMonarch. Ccmcern- ing his firit Concluiion, Ihave already {uihciently proved (chap; 18.) that all Governments, which men are bound to obey, are Millple, and Abiolute. In Monarchy there is but One Man Suprcxmjs and all othermen that have any kind of Powerin the State, il.;‘."cll by his Commiifion, during his pleaihre; and execute it in his, name: _ And in Atifiocracy, and Democracy, but One Supreme Aileuiuij"; \‘ttiii rm. 3. C 0 MM 0 N-WE A 1. TH. chit/.42; with the fame Power thatin Monarchy belongeth tuthe Monarch, which is notaMixt, but an Abfolute Soveraignty. And three forts, which is the bell, is not to be difputed , where of the one of them is already eflablilhed, but the prefent ought alwaieany s to be preferred, maintained, and accounted belt; becaufeitisa gainfl both the Law of Nature, and the Divine pofitive Law, to doe any thing tending to the fubverfion thereof. Befides,it maketh nothin Power or‘any Pafior, (unlefTe he have the Civill Soveraignty,g)to the what kind OfGovernment is the beflgbecaufe their Calling is not to gover men by Commandement, but to teach them, and peri'wade them n by Arguments, andleave it to them to confider, whethe r the {hall embrace, or reject the Doe‘trine taught. For Monarchy, Xriflo- cracy, and Democracy , do mark out unto us three forts of So- veraigns, not of Paflors; or, as we may fay, three {Orts of Ma- fiers of Families, not three forts of Sehoolmafiers for their children‘. And thereforethe {econd Conclufion, concerning the belt form of Government orthe Church , is nothing to the quelli on of the Popes Power without his own Dominions: For in all other Come mon-wcalths his l'owet ( if hee have any at all ) is that of the Schoolinaller onely, and not of the Mailer oi‘thc I31- mily. For the third Conchifion, which is, that St. Pctcrwas Monarch ofthe Church. he bringeth for his chicfe argument the 8.2111317. tehap. 16. 13, 19. )7/mn.trt Pm'r, And upon place of flu; rack I nit/Hull my (.‘I'mrt/v, (at. Ami! tell/gm» the: [he kcyer of Heaven; WbJI/ilt'l'lrIllylljlult 60H! m Hart/1, [hill I): 60erle in [Isn't/ m, 11ml blur/(recur t/rot'r flux/t Ian/e rm Edit/r, fluid 6: [Mfr/l m [lame/I. Which pilfc well confidtred, prot'eth nomore, but that the Church of Chriil hath tor foundation one onelv Article; namely, that which Peter in the nameor allthc Apoillesproiefling, gaveoc ca» {iontoonr Samour to fpcakthe words here cued», which that wee may cleerly lindtrfland, we are toconiider, thatourSariour preachedby himhtli, byjohn Baptiil, and by his Apollles, nothin g but {his Amt}: of liaith, Ilia: henna the (film/l, all other Articles requiring huh no othtiwile, than astoundedon that. john began firll, a Jinn-1.2., preaching only this , 7/): lt'mgdomt' 0/604 15 at him/1'. '1 hen ourbarionrhiinlelrt'i'll.zt.4. 17.) preached the fame : And to his l‘welt'e Apoillcs, when he gave them their Conunilhon (Mal. re. ".,itl:ere is no mention of" preaching any otl'er Article but Kitt't, This nasrh: tiindamcntall Article,thati:-;thc ltrunduion of the Churches Faith. AfterwardstheApoliles being reiurn edto him, he asheththem all, 'MM. 16.13.) not l'cter onely, W/m mm faza' hernia, and they anointed,tliatfumefizidbr war John the 3-! . {if}, for»: E/ngzmd 61/)er leremhzr, or one aflht I'fflP/MIJI Then (ver.ts.) he asked them all again] not Peter onely ) W/W" ,h‘)' 7" that 1 amPTherefore S.Peter anhrered "for them all)7/m:z art C/m/l, 1/"sz oft/w sz‘zzg Gad, which I laid is the Foundation of the Faith of the whole Church; from which our Saviour takes the oc- Q\ (1 gallon |