The Papal Tyranny, Title page – Preface
THE PAPAL TYRANNY, As it was Exercised over ENGLAND For some AGES.
REPRESENTED By the Late Reverend Doctor Peter Du Moulin: Sometimes Pastor of the Reformed Church of Paris, And since Doctor of the Chair of Divinity in the UNIVERSITY of SEDAN.
Now set forth by his Eldest Son, PETER DƲ MOƲLIN, D. D. Canon of Christ-Church, Canterbury, one of his Majesties Chaplains.
With an Addition of the same Subject:
And REFLECTIONS upon some Provocations given him by the Papists, about matters of Fact objected to them in his Vindication of the Protestant Religion.
As also TWO SERMONS upon Rev. XVIII. 4, 5. The First whereof was preached upon the Fifth of November last, The Other a little after.
London, Printed for H. Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard at the West End, 1674.
To my Noble and Generous Friends, THE HONOURABLE Sir Robert Hales, BARONET: And his Vertuous NEPHEW, William Longville, ESQUIRE.
SIRS,
FOr the beneficial Protection of my Father by the eldest of you in a dangerous time, and for the most effectual Favour of you both unto me, to which (next to God) I ow a good part of my well-being, I must profess my self in the face of the world your perpetual Debtour. Neither doth my Fathers removal to a better world, nor shall mine when God shall be pleased to bless me with it, put us out of that indebted condition. That it may be acknowledged such after us, I take here my Fathers help, as …im that is able to make himself remembred to posterity, that the Memory of your Goodness to him, and to me for his sake, may …st as long as his Memory. This is the End of my presenting to …ou this scantling of his Works and of my Endeavours for Gods Service. To which I joyn my hearty Prayers for your tempo…al and eternal Happiness; as being, Sir,
Your ever obliged humblest Servant, PETER DU MOULIN.
An Account of the Occasion of the following Discourse.
CArdinal Du Perron having made an Answer to the Book of the Most Excellent King JAMES about the Right of Kings; it pleased His Majesty to send for the late Dr. Du Moulin out of France (a Divine whom he honoured with his especial Love, and whose Pen he had employed before in the like occasions) to confer with him about that Book, and to commit to him the Task of answering the Cardinal. Which he performed in French, the Language in which the Cardinal had writ, and intituled it The Novelty of Popery. The Book was translated into English. But when it began to appear abroad, the whole Edition (very few Copies excepted) perisht in the conflagration of London. Out of that Work, which is of good length, I have singled one Chapter, the XI. of the VIII. Controversie about Penitential Satisfaction, where he represents at large the Popes Tyranny over the Kings and the people of England for some ages under that pretence. This will serve to ar… our ENGLISH ISRAEL against the flattering Insinuations of some Popish Books, which would persuade us that the Pope is the kind Father of all Christians, and the Principle of Unity in whom they al… should meet to enjoy the Blessings of Peace and Comfort, in tha… Church out of which there is no Salvation: To her they invite us even with Tears of Compassion. But we ought not to look to thei… weeping Eyes but to their bloody Fingers. By other good Book… we are taught to reject their Errours, by this to beware of thei… Actions: And to judg what they would do by what they hav… done.