CHAP. IV. Their Practices to stir people to Rebellion.
THat the Impious book not long since dispersed in England, is a Jesuitical Piece that was forged in the School of Satan, for to embroil this Nation, will clearly appear by these expressions that were in that Book of Sanctarillus the Jesuit, Intituted de Haeresibus, Schismatibus, &c.
The Pope hath both the directive, and corrective power over Princes; for he cannot have the directive without the corrective; why may he not then punish unjust Princes by Eccle∣siastical Censure? Hence I infer that his Holiness hath the power to punish He∣retick Princes, even with Temporal punishments: therefore hath he power not only to Excommunicate, but also to deprive Princes of their Kingdoms and Dominions, and to free their Subjects from their obedience, and allegiance The Pope deposes the Emperour for his iniquities; and sets Governors over Princes, when they are unfit to govern their people. The Pope deposed the Emperour without any Assembly of Council, because the Pope's, and Christ's Tribunal are all one. And it is a very just thing that the Pope should have such a Supreme and absohite power to dethrone and punish Princes, and it is requisite for the good of the Common-wealth, that there be such a Su∣preme Monarch, that may correct the Exorbitances of Kings, and punish their faults, and exercise justice over them, when their malice and the Republick's necessity do require it. The Pope may depose a Prince for many grievous of∣fences, and also because of his Faith, because of his heresie and schism, and al∣so because of his insufficiency, because of his resistance and unprofitableness to the Pope; and he may give his Kingdom and Principality to another, if the Church do not dissent from it. The Pope hath the power to dethrone negli∣gent Kings: as Peter had the power given him to punish with a Temporal punishment, yea with death it self, some persons for the Example and correcti∣on of others, so likewise must the Church and the Pope, (the Head thereof) have such power to punish even with death, the Transgressors of Divine Laws; therefore it's in the Pope's power to warn Princes and to put them to death. It's said to Peter and his Successors, FEED MY FLOCK: now it's in these Pastors power to punish their flock with such punishments as their rea∣son shall think fit: and if for the publick good their discretion and good rea∣son requires, that disobedient and incorrigible Princes be punished with tem∣poral punishment, and be deprived of their Kingdoms, the Pope may inflict such punishments upon them as he pleases, for they are or were part of the Flock.
Janus Guignar, a Rector of a College of Jesuits in France, was convicted, by his own hand-writing before the Parliament of Paris, in the year 1595, to assert in divers Letters, That it was lawful to Murther Kings and Princes, and that the tumultuous crew that arose against the King of France, (on that Bar∣tholomew-day) did very ill that they did not open his Vena Basilica; which if they had done, then the King would not have fallen from his Feaver into Fren∣sie: but he was well paid for his labour; for in the same year he was strangled by Sentence of the Parliament.