An appeal from the country to the city, for the preservation of His Majesties person, liberty, property, and the Protestant religion

Postscript.

AS well to justifie part of my preceding Discourse, as to acquaint you with the pernicious Tenents of the Church of Rome, how dangerous they are both to Prince and People, I have here inserted some few of their Canons, which all Papists are oblig'd to believe and submit to.

Canons which the Romish Church holds, to the Ruine and Dishonour of Princes, are these which follow.

• 1. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's Subject, and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's Sentence in Temporal Causes.

• 2. Princes Laws, if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome, be of no force nor strength.
• 3. All Kings, Bishops, and Noblemen, that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be vio∣late, be accursed, and for ever culpable before God, as Trans∣gressors of the Catholick Faith.
• 4. The Bishop of Rome may Excommunicate Emperors and Princes, depose them from their States, and dis-ingage their Subjects from the Oaths and Obedience to them, and so constrain them to Rebellion.

These and many more there are to the same purpose; wherefore that Prince, who thinks himself so weak as to need a Governour, who thinks himself too Rich, or desires to be a Slave to an old Bardasso, let him turn Papist.

More Romish Canons, fitting to be consider'd by all Abby-Landed men.

• 1. The Goods of the Church may in no wise be alienated, but whoseever receiveth or buyeth them, is bound to restitu∣tion, and if the Church have any Ground that is little or nothing worth, yet it shall not be given to the Prince; and if the Prince will needs buy it, the sale shall be void and of no strength.
• 2. It is not lawful for the Bishop of Rome to alienate or mortgage any Lands of the Church, for any cause whatso∣ever; except it be Houses in Cities, which be very charge∣able to support and maintain.

So that if any men (who have Estates in Abby-Lands) desire to beg their Bread, and relinquish their Habita∣tions and Fortunes to some old greasie bald-pated Abbot, Monk, or Friar, then let him Vote for a Popish Successor and Popery; for when once that Religion is established amongst us, these Canons will all come in play; and the Pope will then tell you, (whatsoeuer he may pretend at first) that his Predecessor had no Right to give away what belong'd to the Church. And this Mr. Coleman well knew, when he promised himself no less than to be once Master of the Earl of Bedford's Estate: but un∣luckily the Gallows prevented it, in making him a Saint before his time.

He that desires to be further satisfied about these Ca∣nons, let him look into Dr. Burnet's late excellent Hi∣story of the Reformation, and there he shall find the Original and Authentick Quotations, which were too tedious here to insert.

FINIS.