A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe].

Stubbe, Henry, 1632-1676.

Date:: 1671

Credit: A censure upon certain passages contained in the History of the Royal Society [by Thomas Sprat] as being destructive to the established religion and Church of England / [Henry Stubbe]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$bone to this day continues its former judgement: and even the pre-a Vide Robert, fent Kin° of Fiar.cc hath averted the liberties of the ■fiattick.Church Baron.de obje- in that point. See ArrtfidtU Cour deParlement, portant que les Fro- doforroah fr portions contenues en la Declaration ile la Faculte de Tbeologie de Pa- • • ‘ * ris &c. Da. 30. May 1663. And Declaration du Roy pour I’Enregt-™-*X1V- firemcftt dcs fix Propo/itions de let Feicultt dt Soibotitic &.C* A Pans 4* d’Aouft. 1663. , , What the Popifk Church now holds and requires, amounts not tocafaubon. rtf}. any fuch Authority as our Author afferts , if you will believe Cardi- ad Cardin. Per* nal Perron before our Virtuofo. Scribis de Romano Pontifice nolle teron. ■ ‘verba facere : quumvel mediocriter in Hiftoria Ecclefiaftica verjatis . ‘compertum fit, primorum feculorum Patres , Concilia , & Imperatores Jr- “ £ ‘ Chriftianos, primas ill} femper detulife, & pneceHentis dignitatis^.V fe£ff ‘ pracrogativam , in omnibus negotiis, ad religionem aut Ecclefiam fpe- t ^ ‘ ft anti bus: atque hoc folum exigere Ecclefiam vefiram pro articuloy' ‘ fidei credendum ab iis, qui communioni ju<e Je adjungunt. ■ If this p)ay^nant de dinal underhand any thing, the Romifh Church demands no more of her • dice & norma Members then that they own the Pope's primacy, not Supremacy , or Infal-cdti cap, 2U Ubihty •. nor have the books of fuch as derogate from the exceffive greatnefle of the Papal power been ever called in , or cenfured in that a opinio vera Church , or communion denied to the Aflertors of the infallibility ofeJt,poffeefeff*' Oral tradition , or of General Councils, in oppofition to theferfonalln- reticum. fallibility of the Bi/hop of Rome. It was, and is Rill a common opinionb Probabikejf* amongft 'the Papijis, that the Pope may be an Hereticfej I learn’d it from isrptendipo- Francifcus Vifforia in hisReledions , Hareticuspoteft e{fe non folum Pre-tff >h*rV -sbyter , fed. Pontifex etiam fummus •, ergo caput Ecclefia. And Bellarmine W f jr ' himfelf doth not afiert the Infallibility of the Pope , no not though ^ vcncQcL be aiTiRed with a provincial Council. llnlibr. 2. de Conctl. c. 5. fate- vir2.Pag. 236. ‘tur hanepropofttionem , fcilicet, Concilia particulana, a fummoPon- ‘ tifice confirmata , in fide & moribus errare poffunt, non effe fide Ca- 3Jndialogo part. «tholica tenendam : e]us tamen contradidoriam temerariam & erroneam 1. lib. 6. cap. 1. pronunciat. Nay the fame Writer in hisfolemn tenures at Rome teacheth,b In fama lib. that3 it is true , the Pope may be an Heretick.:b But it is probable and godly 5; tit.de to be thought, that he cannot be an Heretick. In the conference betwixt * Dr. Ray no!ds and Hart, I find this paffage. 1 i2.d* de ‘ Ray molds. The Pope may not onely erre in dottrine, but alfo be an ?cn. ‘ Hereticky, which (I hope ) you will not fay that Peter might. tificittn.« dtcon- * Hart. Neither by my good will that the Pope may. corj% catholicd. ‘ Raynolds. But you muft : no remedy. It is a ruled cafe. Your School- . 2.0.\ydfumm. ‘ men, an d Canonijis, 3 Ockam , b Hofiienfis,c Turrecremata, d Zabarel- part. 3. 0A- 22. ‘la,* Cufanus,f Antoninus, g Alphonfus, h Canus,1 Sanders,k Bellarmine, c. 7. e adv.ha- ‘and 1 others y yea the m Canon Law it felf, vea a Council, a11 Ro- refes l. 1. c. 2. ‘ man Council, confirm’d by the Pope , do grant it. 4- ‘Hart. They grant that the Pope may be an Heretick perhaps by7tofy.L6.cX. * a fuppofal: as many things may be , which never were , nor are , ‘ /hall be. For you cannot prove that any Pope ever was an Heretick a- trov*p'art.z.q. * dually, though pofiibly they may be , whereof I wnl not drive. ^1 canonijl*in This point of the fallibility of the Pope , and his fubjefhon to a Coun- dijl.^o.c./i Fa¬ c'd, is fo notorious with every man , that is acquainted with the more p(Jt 4t-ehid. is B 2 ancient$