The new politick lights of modern Romes church-government: or The new Gospel according to Cardinal Palavicini revealed by him in his history of the Council of Trent. Englished out of French.

THE CONTENTS.

CHAP. I.

THe Necessity, the Utility and Excellency of Religious Policy: It renders men happy in this World, and in the other.

CHAP. II.

The Errors and poisoned Maxims of the scrupulous Policy of the zea∣lous Ignorants according to the Flesh.

CHAP. III.

The only Rule of the Politick Church Government, is, its Felicity ac∣cording to the Flesh, in this World, and in the other, under the Au∣thority of one sole Monarch of the Universe, who is the Pope; to whom all Christian Kings are Tributaries and Subjects, and who hath, or ought to have for his In∣heritance or Demean the Riches of all the World, whose Honours and carnal Pleasures make the Chur∣ches Splendor and Felicity. Jesus Christ hath merited them for her by the effusion of his Blood, to ren∣der her Visible, Perpetual, and Remarkable, as the most happy according to the Flesh, of all o∣ther Republicks, that are, that shall be, or that ever were upon Earth.

CHAP. IV.

Twenty Reasons that prove the Ne∣cessity of the Riches, Honours & Voluptuousness of the Church, to make thereof a Gospel according to the Flesh, the Vocation of all the World to Faith, and a part of that World to the Ecclesiastick Life, without which, Riches, Ho∣nours and Voluptuousness, the Church having no Reputation a∣mong them who fancy those things, would perish, not being able to sub∣sist happy, according to the Flesh, if her Ministers were poor, as formerly, and if they had not vast Riches, as the Glorious Cardinals, who are at this day the Pope's Courtiers: Here also shall be shewn the unluckiness, the shame∣fulness, and even the Vice of Po∣verty,

CHAP. V.

Here are related the Twelve ordinary means, inriching the Court of Rome, and maintaining the splendor there∣of, according to the flesh, which is the act of all Religious Policy, the most pious, and the most important. The Twelfth and most efficacious of those means, to teach every where the Gospel according to the Flesh, and this Religious Policy accor∣ding to the Doctrine of Aristotle, to whom the Church is beholden for many Articles of Faith; is to establish Colleges of Jesuites, with power to set up the Inquisi∣tion,

CHAP. VI.

Here be related the Interests and dif∣ferent Sentiments of the Catho∣lick Christian Crowns, and Re∣publicks according as they are more or less favourable to this Religious Policy according to the Flesh, and 'tis made appear that there's none more opposite than those of the Crown and of the Church of

• ... France, which proposed no less at the Council of Trent, than to throw down the Churches Monar∣chy and Empire, and to take away the splendor of the Court of Rome.