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.

BY this it is manifest, that this Iesuit neuer saw, or ranne ouer cursorily the Canons & Glosses, but is better seene in scurrilities. Otherwise, ha∣uing the 40. Dist. ca. Si Papa before him, in the verie next page of the next leafe to the Canon Si Papa, and there in the Glosse, cap. Non nos. verb. quis enim; with the same view, hee might haue read these words: Sem∣per praesumitur pro Papa, vt 93. Dist. cap. 1. Vnde sacri∣legij instar esset, disputare de facto suo. Vel die quod facta Papae excusantur, vt homicidia Samsonis, furta Haebraeorum, et adulterium Iacob. Vt extra de diuortijs. Gaudemus.

The Pope is presumed alwaies to be good, Therefore it were a kinde of sacriledge to dispute of his fact; vvhose fact, viz. murder, is excused, as those of Samson; and his thefts, as the thefts of the Hebrewes: and his adulteries, as the adultery of Iacob.

This stuffe is plaine enough: but it is too too filthy. Therefore with what face, or shew of any little skillin the Canons or Glosses, could the Iesuite deny the Gloss to haue any such vvords, since the very words are there in the Glosse to be found? Againe, considering it was the Bishop Iewell, and not I, (as my printed booke of Concord, pag. 8. shewed) who cited Dist. 40 cap. Si Papa. hee sheweth himselfe to be of proiected impu∣dencie, who durst so basely thinke and write of that most learned Bishop, viz. That hee neuer saw the Canons, or Glosses.

If the Glosse write contrary, it writeth contrary to it selfe, and to the expresse words of the Canon it selfe, Si papa; which are these: Papae culp as redarguere, prae∣sumit mortalium nullus, quod cunetos ipse iudicaturus, a nemine est iudicandus; nisi deprehendatur a fide deuius. No mortall man presumeth to reprehend the Popes faults, because he is to iudge all, and to be iudged of none; vnlesse he be found Apostat from the faith.

The Gloss, in 22. q. 2. ca. Non liceat, saith plainely (and not, as here, Credo, I belieue or thinke) Nullus mortalium papam possit iudicare. Extra de Elect. ca. Inno∣tuit. Dist. 40. Si Papa. No man liuing may iudge the Pope. Heresie (as the Gloss, Dist. 40. Si Papa: saith well) makes the Pope no Head of the Church. But other Crimes cannot make him no head: and so long as hee is Head of the Church, by the Canon law, he is the Church, and

aboue generall Councels, Emperours, and all mortall men liuing.

Therefore saith Innocent the Pope, Dist. 96. ca. Sa∣tis euidenter: It is shewed euidently enough, that the Secu∣lar power can neither binde, nor loose the Pope, plainely cal∣led God, by the godly Emperour Constantine: now it is manifest, that God can not be iudged of men.

And in 9. q. 3. Aliorum, he concludeth thus: God vvould haue the causes of other men, to be determined by men: but he hath questionlesse reserued the Bishop of this Sea to his owne iudgement. He vvould haue the successors of blessed Peter to owe their innocencie to heauen only, and to keepe a conscience inuiolate to the triall of the most sub∣tile Discussor. It is manifest, that the faithfull euery where, are subiect to the Pope, vvhen as he is designed Head of the whole Body.

This being the maine, and cleare doctrine of the Romish Catholike faith; it is much to be feared, least that the Pope reading what Becane hath here written (viz. That the Pope may be iudged, and if he be incorrigi∣ble, deposed; not for Heresie alone, but also for other noto∣rious crimes) will not onely be much ashamed of him, as of an vnlearned Iesuite, and casheer him, as a mise∣rable defendour of him; but also, excommunicate him as an Heretike, and an Impugner of his Maiesticall Pri∣macy: whose honour will soone bee buried in the dung-hill, If hee may be iudged for his crimes no∣torious.