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Show MM, 314 0ftbe Pope: 7071;0ch I‘m‘tr. OF A CHRISTIAN cl}.zp.42.‘ In the lift Book he hath four Conelufions. The firfi is, Tim: :5: Papei: natLord 0f alltbemrld: The fecond, Tim the Pope is ‘not Lord ofall the Cari/Zia" world .- The third, 711.1111): Pope (with. 'out his owne Territory) Im- not any Tempura/l Jeri/milieu DIRECTLY: Thefe three Co'nclufions are eafily granted. The fourth is, T/mt tée Pope lm (in the Dominions of other Princes) the Supreme Tm 074/] Power INDIRECTLT : which is denyed; unlefle hee mean y Indirefily, that he has gottenit by Indirect mean55then is that alfo granted.But I underfland,that when he faith he hath it Indrrcc'ily, he means, that fuch Temporall Jurifdic‘tion‘ belongeth to him ofRight, but that this Right is but a Confe- quence of his Paftorall Authority, the which he could not exer» cife, unlefle he havethe other with it : And therefore to the Pa- fiorall Power (which he calls Spirituall ) the Supreme Power Civill is neceffarily annexed; and that thereby hee hath a Right to change Kingdomes, giving them to one, and taking them from another , Souls. when he ihall think it conduces to the Salvation of Before Icome to confider the Arguments by which hee would prove this Doctrine, it will not bee amiife to lay open the Confequences ofit; that Princes, and States, that have the CivillSove- raignty in their feverall Common-wealths, may bethink themn felves , whether it bee convenient for them, and eondueing to the good oftheir Subjectspfwhom they are to give an account at the day ofjudgmentao admit the fame. When it is (aid, the Pope hath not(in the Territories of other States ) the Supreme Civill Power Dzrrr'fly -,we are to underfland, he doth not challenge it, as other Civill Soveraigns doe, from the originallfubmiflion thereto of thofe that are to be governed. lior it is evident, and has already been fufliciently in this Treanfe de1nonflrated,that the Right ofall Soveraigns; is derived originally from the confent ofevery one of thofe that are to bee governed; whether they that choofe him, doe it for their common defence againfi an Enemy, as when they agree amongli themftlves to appoint a Man,or an Afleiiibly of men to protect them-,or whether they doe it, to favetheir lives, by fubmifiion to a conquering Enemy. The Pope therefore, when he difclaimeth the Supreme Civill Power over other States Dzrtt'Y/y, denyeth no more , but that his Rght cometh to him by that way, He ceafeth not for all that, to claim If another way; and that is, ( without the confent of them that are to b: governed) by a Right given him by God, ( which hee calleth "Mina/y) )in his Afliimption to the Papacy. But by what way foever he pretend, the Poweristhe fame, and he may iifit bit granted to be his Right )depofe Princes and States, asbften asitis for the Salvation of Soules, that is, as often ashe will; for he claimeth allo the Sole Power tojudge, whether it be to the Salvationofmens Souls, or not. And this is the Doctrine , not omly that Bellarmine here, and many Other Doctors teach- in their Sty» mom and Books, but alfo that Tome Conn-cells have decreed, it; t;.C pm. 3. COMMON-WE A LTH. 034;.42. the Popes have accordingly, when the occafion hath fetVCd them put inprae‘tifc. For the fourth CounCell of Lateran held uncle ; Pope 17010th the third, (in the third Chap . Canon. Ifa King Mike Pope: admonitaw, De Herman) hath this due dame of Hermquer, and bang Exwmmmiirate mt pt/rze lair ng/br they/17m mike not [awfuflan wit/yin 4 yecr, Iii; Sztéje c'i‘r are Mfg/ma! 0" t/mir oboe/tame. And the practife hereof hath been feen on divers occafions-7 as in the Depofing of Clit/ periqtte,Kin0 ofFrance- in the Tranflation ofth e Roman Empire to Char/mama {ion of lob/1 King of England; in Transferring in the (Sppref- the Kingdomc of Navarre; and oflate years, in the Leag ue France, and in many more occnrrcnces. Iagainft Hmry the third of think there be few Princes that confider not this as Injuft, and Inconvenient; but I with they would all refol ve to be Kings, or ubjeé two Mafiers: They oughttherefore toeafe ts. Men cannorferve them, either by holdinsy theReins or Government wholly in their own hands; or by wholl; delivering them into the hands of the Pope; that fuch men as are Willing to be obedient, may be protected in their obedienc e. For thisdiitinetionof Temporall, andSpiritual l Power is but words. Poweris as really divided, and as dangeroully to all purpofes , by {hating with another Ina/Ire?! Power, as with a Dyer} one. But to come now to his Arguments. The firll is this, ‘11:: Civil! Power 1'; "th 7 to the SpiritIm/l: Tbrre/m'e/ict/uz [mt/1:1): Supreme Panzer Spur/mall, lull) ri/r/lt to tommam'fempnra/l Puma, and a'zfixofc of'tr'mr Temporal/r iiorder to the Spirited/l. As for the dietinc‘tion of tual] , lctus confiderin what fenfeit may Temporall and Spiribe laid the 'I‘ernporall, or Civill Power is luluect to the intelligibly that Spirituall. There be but two ways that more words can be made leitle. For when wee fay, one Power is fubiecttoanother Power, the meanin? eitheris that he which haththe one, is fubiee‘t to him that hathitihe other-7 or that the one Poweris to the other, as thcm eans to the entialiof‘ wee cannot underfiand, that one Power hath Powe r over another Power; or that one Power can have Righ t or Command over ano- ther : ‘l or Subjec‘tion, Command, Righ t, and Power are accidents mt o1 Powers, but ofl'erfons : One Power may another, as the art ofa badler, tothe art ofaR be fubordinate a; ider. It thenit bee granted, that the (jivill Government be ordained as a means to bi iny us to a Spirituall felicitygyet it does not follow,that ifa King have the: Quill Power, and the Pope the Spirituall, that therefore Vthe King is bound to obey the Pope, more then may Sadler is bound to obey every~ Rider. Therefore as from Subordination ofan Art cannot belntc-rred the Subjectionofthe ProfeilOr; fofromthe Subo rdina- 'tion or a Government, cannot be int d the Subjection ofthe GO< vernor. When therefore he faith,the‘erre Civill Power is Subjetft to the Sputuall, his meaning is,thar the (Iivi ll Sove the Sprituall Sovcraign. And the Argument raign, is Subject to {lands thus 7/1: Ciwl "Cent/4n, lJ'f/tf7}€£7 to 1/}: Spirit/tall, Therefore 21): S [Hill/l" Prim: m)‘ [mm-1M Temporal! Primes. Where the Concluiibn is the flute , with |