Dr. HARRIS Reply .

1 I Doe commiserate the seely ignorance of this Iesuite Becane , who knoweth not , that these very words aforesaide , are not onely canonized , but also expresly fathered vpon Chrysostome , in the Popes Canon law ; which the Iesuite dare not affront . Dist. 40. ca. Multi . The wordes of the Canon are these ; Also Iohn Chrysostome : Not euery one is a true Priest , which is named a Priest . Many Priests , and few Priests : Many in name , but few in work : Take heede therefore brethren , how you sit vpon the Chayre ; because the Chayre doth not make the Priest , but the Priest the Chayre , &c. The same Chrysostome : Whosoeuer shall desire Primacy in earth , shall finde confusion in heauen : neither shall he be numbred among the seruants of Christ , Qui de Primatu tractauerit , Who handleth , or ambitiously speakes of , or challengeth Primacy . De Scriptor . Ecclesiasticis . And according to that Canon , the most profound and famously renowmed Canonist ( euen by Bellarmine in his late booke ) to witte , Henry Cardinall Hostiensis ( vpon the 15. Chapter of Penitency and Remission , Cap. Cui Papa ) ascribeth these words vnto Chrysostome , as to the Author of them , thus : And so in the Penitentiall Court , the Pope is made lesse , and his Confessor greater : and this Chrysostome insinuateth , Dist. 40. Multi .

Wherefore the Iesuite may take from mee , thus cleared , this falsity vnto himselfe : or else hee must returne it ouer ; To the Authoritie of their Apostaticall Church ; To their authentike and ordinary glosses and explanations of the Gospell ; To the decrees of the Romane Bishops ; To their chiefest Canonists and Diuines : for in the writings of all those , he may finde sentences written in that Worke , called the Imperfect Worke , alleaged as out of Chrysostom .

2. By the expresse words of the foresaid Canon , it is manifest , that the words of Chrysostom , are by their Canon law referred vnto Priests and Priests onely , who sit vpon the Chayre , in expresse tearmes often repeated . Whereby it appeareth , what a seely and vnmannerly Sophister this Iesuite is , who thence frameth his Argument against our King , drawne thus into form syllogisticall ; as indeed from thence it can be drawne no otherwise .

What Priest soeuer desireth Primacy in earth , shall finde confusion in Heauen .

The King of England is a Priest desiring Primacie in earth .

Therefore he shall finde confusion in heauen .

Were this Iesuite in our Vniuersitie Schooles , he wold be hist out , as an absurd Dunse , for arguing . Our gratious King is no Priest , but detesteth their Priests and Priesthood , as Antichristian . Hee is by the grace of God the high and potent Monarch of Great Britanne , France and Ireland ; and vnder Christ made of God ( without any ambitious desire of his ) Primate or Supreme Gouernour ouer all persons , and in all causes Ecclesiasticallor Temporall , within his Dominions ; maugre the beard of the Pope , and all his Shauelings .

But if the Iesuite will rightly assume out of the Maior proposition , set down in the said Canon law ; he must take the triple crowne of Primacy from the Popes head , and wrap it vp in the dust of Confusion , thus :

What Priest soeuer ( though it were Peter himselfe ) doth challenge , or ambitiously desire Primacy in earth , shall finde confusion in heauen .

But the Popes of Rome haue , and ( now most of all ) doe challenge ( as their right ) Primacy in earth ; [ Not onely ouer the whole Cleargy ( contrary to that Inhibition of S. Peter . 1. Pet. 5. v. 3. Not as Lords ouer Gods Heritage ) but also ouer Kings : and that not only in Spiritualls , but also in their Temporalls : viz. in their Goods , Reuenews , Crownes , Kingdomes , liberties and lines ; As their chiefest Iesuite Writers , Bellarmine & Suarius , and this meane Iesuite Becane , haue not beene ashamed to dogmatize in their late publike writings : some whereof haue beene euen by State-Papists , in their Parliaments censured and condemned , as seditious & pernitious against Kings prerogatiues royall , crownes and dignities . And some of them by vs , here lately haue beene purged by fire . ] and also most ambitiously haue and do desire and practise to get the Popedome ; and being opposed therein , do by all , euen bloudy meanes , endeuour to retaine the same ; Onuphr , in Chronie . Rom. Pont. as the thirtie Schismes in the Church of Rome about the Popedom ( wherof the last & worst lasted by the space of fiftie yeers together , raysed and continued by the ambitious desire thereof in the Popes themselues ; euen to the shedding of the liues bloud , of two hundred thousand christians , caused by two Antipopes at once ) doth more then demonstrate . To instance this ambitious desire in one , but their principall one and chiefetaine , Hildebrand the first , who with brasen face did openly vndertake to depose the Emperour from his Empire : The Cardinall Beno , who liued with Hildebrand and knewe him too well , writeth thus of him ; Hildebrand poysoned sixe Popes , to make his waie to the Popedoma . Nauclere reporteth that the clergy saide , Pope Hildebrand was excommunicated by the Bishops of Italy , as hauing defiled the Apostolike Sea with Simonie , &c. And Abbat Vrspergensis writeth , Anno. Dom. 1080. that the Councell of Brixia censured Pope Hildebrand as an vsurper of the Sea of Rome ; not appointed by God , but intruding by fraude & money . And to speak in general , as Mantuan saith , of Rome and Romanists ;

— Venalia nobis . Templa , Sacerdotes , Altaria Sacra , Coronae : Ignis , thura , preces , coelum est venale , Deusque . Where Church , Priest , Altar , Masse , Crowne , for money tolde : Also Fire , Incense , Prayer , Heauen , and God are solde .

Where all things come for money , there is no probabilitie , that the Popedom ( there more worth then all things else ) should come freely without money , &c. Rome is no changeling : of which the Iesuites may read in the Canon law , thus : Roma fundata fuit a praedonibus , adhuc de Primor dijsretinet ; dicta Roma , quasirodens manus .

Roma manus rodit : quos rodere non valet , odit .

Rome was first founded by thieues , and sauoreth still of her beginnings .

By th' hand Rome byteth States : and whom shee cannot bite , she hates .

If Rome bite all not giuing ; sans gifts , shee popes none liuing .

Now since the Assumption is so plainely proued , we may thus conclude ,

Therefore the Popes of Rome shall finde confusion in Heauen .

Hence the Popish Antichrist is by the Apostle tearmed fitly , Filius perditionis , The sonne of perdition or confusion .

Moreouer , from the words of Cyprian , is this Syllogisme ( as canon-shot ) directed against the verie heart of the Popes Primacy , thus : If Peter did not , ne could challenge to himselfe Primacy ; then the Pope hauing no Primacy , but as Peters successour , cannot challenge Primacy to himselfe : But Peter could not challenge Primacy to himselfe ( as Cyprian here saith , De Simple Praelator and else where proueth thus : Hoc erant vtique , &c. The rest of the Apostles were the same that Peter was , endewed with like fellowship of Honour and Power . )

Therefore the Pope cannot challenge the Primacy .

This of Cyprian the Iefuit passeth ouer , dry-foot : and not without cause ; seeing hee could get no baulme from Gilead to cure this deadly wound giuen to the Pope , by Saint Cyprians foresaid Canon-shot .

3. The Iesuite doth here shamefully bely Chrysostom , affirming that hee speakes promiscuously of both Primacies , Secular and Ecclesiasticall ; whereas most distinctly hee writeth thus of them : Dominus introduxit , &c. The Lorde brings in a diffeference betweene worldly , or temporall Princes , and Ecclesiasticalls : because the Princes of the world are therefore made , that they might rule ouer their subiects , and serue themselues of them , 1. Sam. 9 ver. 11. &c. and spoyle them to their owne profit and glory ( according to the saying of God to Samuel ; This shall be the manner of your King : hee will take your sonnes for his Chariot-driuers , Captaines , and Husbandmen ; and your Daughters for Apothecaries , Cookes , and Bakers : he will take your fields and vineyardes , and giue them to his seruants , &c. )

But the Princes Ecclesiasticall are therefore made , that they may serue their vnderlings , and minister vnto them all things which they haue receiued from Christ : That they should neglect their owne profit , and procure the profit of others : and if neede be , that they should not refuse to die , for the safety or saluation ( pro salute ) of their inferiours . Therefore if these things be so , there is cause and profit to desire the Secular Primacy ; but to desire the Ecclesiacticall , there is neither reason nor cause . For what wise man would hasten willingly to submit himselfe to seruitude , labour , griefe , and such a danger , as to render an account for all the Church , before the iust Iudge ? vnlesse peraduenture , he thinke there is no iudgement of God , or feares it not : as one , abusing his Ecclesiasticall Primacy secularly , changeth the Ecclesiasticall into the Secular .

Than which words , what could be written more distinctly and plainely , against this lying Iesuite , and his Popes Primacy ; to stop the mouth of the one , and to plucke vp the other by the rootes ? I meane the Primacy Papall , which is now become the highest temporall Primacy in the earth : of which , the Emperours , as vassals , holde their Imperiall crowns , yea their liues ; and yet neither of these , but during the Popes pleasure . And this is with them become an article of the Romish faith . Hence it is , that his Maiesties subiects are forbidden by the Pope , in their oath of Allegiance , to sweare , that , what in them lieth , they will preserue the life of their Soueraigne , against the Papall , and all other forrain power ; because ( as the Pope hath definitiuely set it down ) they should therein deny the faith . Is not this his Ecclesiasticall Primacy become Temporall , or rather Diabolicall ? Therefore euery good Christian , from Chrysostome here is to learne , That the Pope either thinketh there is no God , or Iudgement of God to come ; or that the feare of God , and of his Iudgement , is not before his eyes . Surely , if the popish Primacy be that Ecclesiasticall , here described by Chrysostome ; the Pope will no longer contend for it ; he will soon hate it worse than dogge or snake .

4. The Iesuite here either very ignorantly , or very impudently abuseth his Reader ; whom hee would make belieue that Chrysostome in that Homily , so distinguisheth the Primacy of Honour , to witte Ecclesiastical , from the obtaining of that Primacy ; as though he misliked the one for vanitie , and approued the other as a good thing giuen by God : whereas the expresse words of Chrysostome are cleane contrary ; thus : Nune scimus , &c. Now we knowe that a good worke is one thing , and the Primacy of honour is another thing ; And that it is good to desire a good thing : but to couet the Primacie of honour , is vanitie .

To shut vp this point ; The Christian Reader may here vnderstand , that the Pope euen by the vertue of this testimony of Chrysostome , set down in , and authorized by , the Canon law , is incapable of Ecclesiasticall Primacy . For if he be no Priest indeede , he can be no Ecclesiasticall Primate indeede . But by this Canon indeede he is no Priest , because he is no Priest Opere , in Priestly work , that is , as S. Paul expounds it , to preach the word in season , 2. Tim. 4.2 1. Pet. 5.2 Heb. 5.14 out of season , &c. or as Saint Peter explaines it , To feede Christs flocke with the sincere milke , or strong meat of the word : or as Chrysostome here describes it , To serue his inferiours , by ministring vnto them all that hee hath receiued from Christ : ready not onely to neglect his owne profit , to procure theirs ; but also , if neede were , to lay down his life for them . The Pope therfore being lesse in nothing then in this work , is , by the expresse words of this Canon , nothing lesse then a Priest indeede ; and by necessary ineuitable consequence , nothing lesse then Ecclesiasticall Primate indeede . Here is now high time for this Iesuite to lay-vnder his shoulders for support of the tottering Primacy of his Pope , very sore shaken by this Canon law-shot , and ready to fall down into the dust . Wherein , pittiful is the Popes case , who in this conflict , for his defendour , bath so seelie a weakeling , and so ignorant a Iesuite , as this Becane is , and hereafter will more and more appeare to be .

English Concord .

BEcane , in his book of Iarre , & in his second Question , demanded , Whether that Primacy of the King be Ecclesiasticall and Spirituall ?

And I in my booke of Concord , Page 4. and in my second Question , demanded , Whether that Primacy of the Pope be Secular and Temporall ?

Because on the one side , the Pope , Lucifer-like , asserteth , All power to be giuen vnto him , as well in heauen , as in earth . Which power Pope Boniface the eightth went about to put in practise , when hee endeuoured to strike a Terrour into Kings , Princes , Nations , and people on the earth ; rather then to plans Religion in them . And on the other side , Chrysostome saith : They who belieue not the Iudgement of God , nor feare it , abusing their Primacy secularly , turne it into the Secular . And Christ saith , first vnto Peter ; I will giue thee the keyes of the kingdome of heauen ( not of earth ) and then of himselfe ; My kingdom ( that is , my Primacie , which to the Pope is in stead of his kingdome ) is not of this world . Ioh 18.36 If it were of this world , my seruants would surely fight , that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes . And this said diametrall opposition betwixt the Primacy of Christ , and the Primacy of the Pope-Antichrist , caused Pasquill to write in verse no lesse truely , then eloquently , thus : Christus regna fugit : sed vi Papa subingat vrbes . Spinosam Christus ; Triplicem gerit ille coronam . Abluit ille pedes : Reges his of cula praebent . Pauit oues Christus : Petit hic Regna omnia mundi . Pace venit Christus : venit hic radiantibus armis . Christ , worldly kingdoms offered , did eschew : The Pope by force , seeks kingdoms to subdue . A Crowne of Thorne our Sauiour Christ did beare : The Pope a triple Crowne of gold doth weare . Christ washt the feet of his disciples all : But all must kisse the Popes feet , great and small . Christ fed his sheepe and lambs most carefully : The Pope to worldly kingdoms casts his eye . Christ to his owne , both milde and meeke did come : The Pope with Armes , the world doth ouerun .

Here is a matter very dangerous to the Popes Primacy : which this shallow Iesuite not daring to denie , and yet not able to answere vnto it ; leauing it as it were the body , flyeth onely vpon the shadow , that is , the Citation , as it followeth .

Dr. HARRIS Reply .

IS this beseeming the grauitie of Iesuiticall Fatherhood , so childishly to snatch after flyes , that is , Escapes in Citations , either of the transcriber , or composer , or correctour , and sometimes , peraduenture , of the Author himselfe ; seeing those escapes are so frequent in most bookes printed ? The Glosse of the Canon law , is so accurately and iudiciously written , that the most learned Canonists circ it often for good Canon law , as they doe the very text of the Canon law : and yet the saide accurate Glosse faileth often in the Citations , which it vseth ; whereof these two Escapes may serue for a taste : viz. Dist. 81. ca. Si qui verb. Emendent : The Glosse citeth Dist. 22. ca. Nullus : and yet in that Distinction , there is no such chapter to be found . Againe , in Dist. 96. ca. Si Imperator . verb. Definimus ; the Glosse citeth , Cause 20. Quest. 3. ca. Quasitum : and yet there is no such chapter or Canon to be found in that third Question , nor in that twentieth Cause .

If this Iesuite had written against the Authors of that learned Glosse , he would haue strewed vpon them , ( as he hath done vpon me , in like case ) these his rhetoricall flowers , or rather boyish scurrilities ; viz: You cite the Canon falsely . You haue not read the Canon . You vnderstand nothing . How ost shall I warne you to cite truly ? It irketh mee to warne you so often . I see I doe but lose my my labour in desiring you to cite truely , since I can obtaine nothing , &c.

In Page 8. of my English Concord I cited Iewell his Apologie , part. 4. cap. 21. Dinis . 7. collecting certaine reasons to proue that which I there alleaged . Iewell , for proofe of his collections , cited First : 9. q. 3. Neque ab Augusto . Secondly , Dist. 40. Si Papa . Thirdly , Dist. 19. Si Romanorum .

For my part , the authoritie , and most profound learning of that reuerend Father , bred such a reuerence in mee towards him , that I would not so much as examine the saide Citations , but set them downe , as I found them written in his booke . Now the Iesuite , in his Examination of the saide Citations , finding some small slips in some of them , bestowed vpon the Bishop ( through , or by , my sides ) these scurrile and disgracefull flowers following : You profit nothing . I will teach you once againe . It casilie appeareth that you neuer saw , either the Glosses , or Canons . Such Glossators , out of England , are of no estimation . Who would not admire the insolency of this Iesuiticall Bragadochio , obiecting ignorance to the incomparablie learned Bishop Iewel ? vnto whom , in the indifferent iudgement of any equall and iudicious Readers of the writings of them both , Becane is not worthy to holde the candle , or to carry his books after him .

This I thought meete ( gentle Reader ) to signifie vnto thee in generall , because this trifling disputer in his whole discourse following about Citations , dooth nothing else , but misspende the time in such emptie sopperies . As for this Citation in particular , viz. Dist. 9. ca. Innocent ; The very truth is , it was onely the fault of the Transcriber : for those very words , D. 9. ca. Innocent . written , I expuncted with mine owne hand , before any Iesuiticall censure passed ouer them . The matter comprised in the words which I cited ( viz. That all power is giuen to the Pope , as well in heauen as in earth ) was a thing so well knowne to all papists of any reading , and also acknowledged as an article of popish faith ; that for proofe thereof , I set downe no Citation in the Margine of my booke . But now , least this vnlearned Iesuite , hauing read so little ( as by all his writings may appeare ) in the Canon law , or popish Councells , or Canonists , should imagine that no proofes of the said matter are to be found in them ; I will direct him , for his schooling sake , first to the Canon law , Dist. 22. ca. Omnes . Where Pope Nicholas speaketh thus : Christ himselfe alone founded the Romane Church , and erected it vpon the rock of faith , when he gaue to Peter , clauiger of eternall life , the rights of the Empire earthly , and also heauenly . What is this else , but more plainely , translated into English , thus : He gaue to Peter ( and consequently to the Pope ) all power in heauen and earth . But it may be , the Iesuite would faine see the place , where the very words are written . Therfore ,

Secondly , I doe direct him to the popish Councell of Lateran vnder Pope Leo the tenth ; in which Councell Stephanus the Bishop of Petracha , spake thus openly , with great applause : In the Pope is all power , aboue all powers , as well in heauen , as in earth .

Thirdly , I direct him to the most famous Canonist , Abbot Panormitan ; who , super prima primi de Electione , cap. Venerabilem . verb. Transtulit , writeth thus : The Pope may , vpon very great cause , transferre the Empire from one nation to another , because he can doe whatsoeuer God can doe ; otherwise Christ had not beene so diligent a father of his family , if he had not lest one on earth in his place , who can doe all things that Christ himselfe can doe .

By this it is plaine , that as All power in heauen and earth was giuen to Christ : So all power in heauen & earth , is giuen to the Pope . And consequently , it is as plaine , that as Christ is God : so the Pope is God . For better vnderstanding of which consequent ; I send the Iesuite to that learned and iudicious , yet popish , Writer , Marsilius Patauinus , who relateth out of Bernard thus : All things were giuen to Christ , because he was the eternall Sonne of God . And Christ doth challenge to himselfe all things , by the right of creation , and merit of redemption . And whosoeuer takes these vnto himselfe , makes himselfe indeede God . 2. Thes. 2.4 That is ( as Saint Paul describeth him ) the popish Antichrist , sitting in the temple of God as God , shewing himselfe that he is God ; or rather , exalting himselfe aboue all that is called God , or worshipped . Which may better appeare by Becanes solution of these two Questions following : First , whether , as to Christ and Pope , All power is giuen in heauen and earth ; so both Christ and Pope , haue one and the same name giuen to them , viz. The name aboue euery name ; that at the name of the Pope , Phil. 1.9 . as at the name of lesus , euery knee should bow of things in heauen , in earth , and vnder the earth ? Vnto this former question , I suppose Becane would say , Respondetur quod sic , that is , affirmatiuely : because in his Examen , pag. 133. he saith , The Pope Peter was receiued into the fellowship of the name and dignity of the indiuiduall vnity , or Godhead .

Then the second question goes further , thus : whether at the name , yea at the feete , of the Pope , all should not doe more , than bow the knee ; since the greatest Emperours must fall downe flatte with their faces on the ground , to kisse his feete ; and with their necks stretched out , must receiue and entertaine his feete trampling vpon them ; and lastly ( as it is challenged at this time ) must offer readily their throats to be cut at the Popes pleasure .

Before I leaue this Straine , I must set downe that which the Glosse , out of the foresaide Canon Omnes . D. 22. inferreth , viz. thus : Argumentum quod Papa habet vlrumque gladium , et spiritual●m , et temporalem . This argueth that the Pope hath both the swords , Spirituall and Temporall . Euen as the Canonists also thence gather the Popes supreme power temporall euen ouer the Empire , to conferre it to whom he will , and to transferre it whence , and whither he will . And so the Pope falleth into the iust condemnation of God , and Confusion in heauen : whereof we heard before out of Chrysostome .

Here two great mischiefes are necessarily inferred , pat vpon the Popes head : the former ; That he is that Antichrist , and his Primacy Antichristian .

The later ; That the Pope , by reason of that his Primacy , lieth deepely plunged into hellish confusion .

And yet here the Iesuite Becane is as mute as a fish : so miserable a desendour of the Pope is he ; even that Becane , who in the Preface to his Examen wished , that he might be the kings valiant Champion to desend his Cause . Now surely his Maiestie should be maincly wel holden vp , through his great store of ignorance ; more grosse then euer I perceiued in any Iesuite Writer whatsoeuer .