BY JOHN BAPTIST RINUCCINI ARCHBISHOP AND PRINCE OF FIRMO, And by the Ecclesiastical Congregation of both Clergies of the Kingdom of IRELAND.  
A Decree of Excommunication against such as adhere to the late Peace, and do bear arms for the Heretics of Ireland, or do 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 evil, 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 only in its own nature bringing prejudice and destruction on Religion and kingdom, but being also contrary to the Oath of Association; and withal against the Contrivers of, and adherents to the said Peace. In pursuance of which decrees being forced to unsheathe the spiritual sword, we (to whom God, 
Matth. 16.19. ibid. 18.18.  hath given power to bind and lose 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 authority, 
Io. 20.23.  the sacred Canons of holy Church, grounded on holy Writ, ut tollantur● medio nostrûm, qui hoe opus faciunt, do, 
1. Cor. 5.2.  cum virtute domini nostri jesu, deliver over such persons to Satan; 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 publicly given them hereof, shall, defend, adhere or approve the justice of the said peace; and chiefly those, who shall hear arms, or make or join in war with, for, or in the behalf of the Puritans, or other heretics of Dublin, Cork, Yoghell, or of other places within this kingdom; or shall, (either by themselves, or their appointment) bring, send, or give any aid, succour, or relief of victuals, ammunition or other provision unto them, or by advise or otherwise advance the said Peace, or the war made against us. Those and every of them by this present decree we do 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 Palace of our Residence, the 5. day of October, 1646. joannes Baptista Archiepiscopus Firmanus Nuncius Apostolicus. De mandato Illustrissimi Domini Nuncij & Congregationis Ecclesiasticae utriusque Cleri regni Hiberniae. Nicolaus Fernensis Episcopus Congregationis Cancellarius.