A decree of excommunication against such as adhere to the late peace, and doe beare armes for the hereticks of Ireland, or doe aid or assist them by Iohn Baptist Rinuccini, Archbishop and Prince of Firmo, and by the ecclesiasticall congregation of both clergies of the kingdome of Ireland.

Author: Rinuccini, John Baptist.1646

BY IOHN BAPTIST RINVCCINI ARCHBISHOP AND PRINCE OF FIRMO, And by the Ecclesiasticall Congregation of both Clergies of the Kingd [...]me of IRELAND.
A Decree of Excommunication against such as adhere to the late Peace, and doe beare armes for the Hereticks of Ireland, or doe aid or assist them.

NOt without cause (saith the Oracle of truth) doth the Minister of God carry the sword: Rom. 13. 3.4. for he is to punish him, that doth evill, and remunerate him that doth good. Hence it is, that [...]ve have by our former decrees declared to the world, our sense and just indignation against the late Peace concluded and published at Dublin, not onely in its owne nature bringing prejudice and destruction on Religion and kingdome, but being also contrary to the Oath of Association; and withall against the Contrivers of, and adherents to the said Peace. In pursuance of which decrees being forced to unsheath the spirituall sword, we (to whom God, Matth. 16.19. ibid. 18.18. hath given power to binde and loose on Earth) assembled together in the Holy Ghost, tracing herein the steps, and imitating the Examples of many venerable and holy Prelates, who have gone before us, and taking for our authoritie, Io. 20.23. the sacred Canons of holy Church, grounded on holy Writ, ut tollantur [...] medio nostrûm, qui hoe opus faciunt, doe, 1. Cor. 5.2. cum virtute domini nostri Iesu, deliver over such persons to Sathan; that is to say, 1. Cor. 5.5. we excommunirate, execrate and anathematice all such, as after publication of this our decree and notice, either privately or publiquely given them hereof, shall, defend, adhere or approve the justice of the said peace; and chiefely those, who shall heare armes, or make or joyne in warre with, fot, or in the behalfe of the Puritans, or other hereticks of Dublin, Corke, Yoghell, or of other places within this kingdome; or shall, (either by themselves, or their appointment) bring, send, or give any aid, succour, or reliefe of victualls, ammunition or other provision unto them, or by advise or otherwise advance the said Peace, or the warre made against us. Those and every of them by this present decree wee doe declare and pronounce excommunicated IPSO FACTO, ut non circumveniamur a Satanâa; non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius. 2. Cor. 2.11.

Dated at Kilkenny in the Pallace of our Residence, the 5. day of October, 1646.

Ioannes Baptista Archiepiscopus Firmanus Nuncius Apostolicus. De mandato Illustrissimi Domini Nuncij & Congregationis Ecclesiasticae utriusque Cleri regni Hiberniae. Nicolaus Fernensis Episcopus Congregationis Cancellarius.

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