Sweare to defend the foulest errors of their false Ora∣cles:—
Quos penes arbitrium est, & ius, & norma loquendi.
If Bellarmine and Baronius, the one in controuersies, the other in Histories (men indeed deep, and famous in know∣ledge, if it were sanctified) if they haue once beate their braines about any point, then the Ignatian brood, (a soci∣ety like to Hannibals Army, gathered Ex colluuie omni∣um gentium, Of the drosse, and dregs of euery Nation, will tooth and nayle defend it; as if Chrysippus had bred them, who vsed to boast, That if once he had the opinion, he ne∣uer wanted arguments to defend it. Reade but Mariana de rege & regis instit. lib. 1 c. 10: pag. 88: or Francis. Bozius de temp. Eccl: Monar. lib. 2, c. 1, pag. 264, & 265: or to be briefe, Catechis: Iesuit, lib. 2, c. 26, pag. 235: you shall find how they concurre and conspire like Simeon and Leui, to draw the Clergy out of the yoke of obedience from secu∣lar Powers, to inthrall them to a base bondage to the Pope; & indeed it was a pollicy vsed long ago among the Popes, the better to raise the pontificall Hierarchy by de∣grees, to decree Clericall Immunities from secular Autho∣rities, as we reade in diuers places; Nullus iudicum saecu∣larium Presbyterum, Diaconum, aut Clericum vllum sine per∣missu pontificis condemnare praesumat, &c. Let no Iudge Se∣cular, presume to condemne Priest, Deacon, or Clerke, without leaue of the Bishop; if he doe, let him be seque∣stred from the Church: Donec reatum emendet; Till he hath mended his fault. And againe, Episcopi, Diaconi, & quili∣bet Clerici, siue in criminali siue in ciuili negotio, seculare iudi∣cium non possunt subire: Bishops, Deacons, or any Clerkes, may not vndergoe iudgement; either in any criminall, or ciuill businesse, or proceeding: And so againe, Ecclesiasti∣cis mandatur sub depositionis poena, vt laicis imperatoribus, regibus, principibus, comitibus, &c. Talias, collectas, nec sub adiutorij; mutui, aut subsidij, vel doni nomine, licet promissas soluant: It is commanded Ecclesiasticall men, vnder paine of deposition, or depriuation, that they shall not pay to Lay Emperors, Kings, Princes, or Rulers, Taxes, or Tenths,