The English concord in ansvver to Becane's English iarre: together with a reply to Becan's Examen of the English Concord. By Richard Harris, Dr. in Diuinitie.

D^r. HARRIS Reply.

HEere againe, this vnluckie Iesuit shewes na∣ked his great ignorance, when hee saith that those later words (or the substance of them) are not in the Canon law or Glosse, but are of my Gloss: hee would haue said Bishop Iewells Glosse.

Had not the Iesuit beene a very vnlearned man in∣deed, the learned Bishop, directing him to the Glosse, verb. Reprobantur, might haue taught him presently to haue found those later words, or the very matter, viz. That it is heresie, wilfully to disobey, or oppose the statutes of the Romane Church. For in that very place, the Glosse citeth 24. q. 1. cap. Haec est fides, where S. Hierom is produced, asserting, That if any shall blame that, quod Papae iudicio comprobatur; vvhich the Pope alloweth; se non atholicum, sed haereticum comprobabit, hee shall proue himselfe no Catholick, but an haeretick. The reason wher∣of the Iesuit may read Dist. 22. cap. Omnes, in these words; Fidem violat, qui aduersus Romanam Ecclesiam agit quae est mater fidei: For he violates the faith, vvho doth against the Romane Church, the mother of saith.

It may be, the simple Iesuit knoweth not, that by their Canon law, the Pope may make new Articles of faith, through his statutes. Let him therfore read, Ex∣tra. Ioan. 22. De verborum significatione. cap. Cum inter nonnullos, in Gloss and these words there: Papa princeps Ecclesiae, Christique Vicarius, potest articulum fidei facere: The Pope, Prince of the vvorld, and Christes Vicar, can make new Articles of faith: and there shall the Iesuit find this case put; The Pope did newly in that Canon, statuere, ser it downe, That Christ and his Apostles had some-what proper, or in speciall. After which it is there thus resolued: That to assert obstinatly, that Christ, & his Apostles had nothing (in speciall) in proprietie, haereticū fore censendum, was to be accounted hereticall, cum De∣cretalis exi••t, after the Decretall had gone forth, and not before. I will put a few more cases to the Iesuit, to make him vnderstand it better.

Admit the Pope (as Nabuchodonoser did by his I∣mage set vp) at the lifting vp of his Idol, the wafer cake, (which hath no moe eyes to see, nor eares to hear, nor hart to vnderstand, then Nabuchodonosers Image had, but wil sooner putrefie then his) should commaund all Nations, kindreds, and people, to fall downe, and wor∣ship it; and three were found, as those three children, who would not fall downe, & worship it, should they not all three be reputed hereticks?

Admit that the Pope should statuere, establish, that Doctrine of Diuels, 1. Timo. 4. verse 2. that is, should forbid eating of flesh in the Lent, as vnholie; and one should, as one did, eate wilfully a pigge in Lent, should not that one be, as indeed he was, burnt for an heretick?

Admit, where Christ commaunded euen the lay people to read, and search the Scriptures, the Pope,* 1.1 con∣trary to Christ, that is, in one word, Antichrist, should forbid all laytie to read and search the Scripture; and one layick should be found, either reading the Scrip∣ture, or carrying, about him, the Bible translated into his mother tongue: should not such a one, be estloones carried into the house of slaughter, I meane the house of Inquisition, whence commonly such neuer returne aliue?

Admit that the Pope (contrary to the lawes of God and man, the lawes of nature, of Nations) should sta∣tuere, set it downe in his Briefes, that what subiect soe∣uer, should take the Oath of Allegiance (but euen so far, as to swear to maintaine, and defend to his power, the life of his Soueraigne against all forraine power) should sweare against the Catholick faith; and any one vvilfullie opposing that stature made by the Pope, should take the Oath, as law full: should not hee goe for an heretick, vnlesse the Pope dispensed with him to take it?

By these palpable instructions, the Iesuit may learn, that those later words afore-said were not my Glosse (as hee saith) of no value; but the capitall Popish doctrine, most pernicious to Kings and States, An∣tichristian, disloyall, diabolicall. By force vvhere∣of, if the Pope (as I said before) should statuere, set it downe, that Becanus the Iesuit, should goe into England, to raise there sedition and rebellion, to contriue, and act a new GVNNE-POWDER∣TREASON, wherin to fold vp in one suddaine de∣struction, the King, Queene, Prince, Nobility, Cōmunalty,

Bishops, Iudges, &c. as a thing meritorious, and the Ie∣luite should wilfully refuse to doe it, as a thing vnlaw∣full; hee would be reputed and punished as an here∣tick; although he should haue lost his life on earth, and hangd his soule in hell, by dooing it. So farre exten∣deth their blind obedience Iesuiticall, to the Statutes and authoritie Papall.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Iob. 5.39.