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A46878	A sermon preached before Q. Elizabeth by that learned and reverend man Iohn Iewel ... ; with an answer of the same authour to some frivolous objections against the government of the church.	Jewel, John, 1522-1571.	1641 (1641)	Wing J739; ESTC R16610	20,215	57

purposed and Solomon finished and Ezechias and Esras and other godly Princes preserved in which was kept the book of the law whither all the people assembled together to serve God was not used like Gods house but like a common faire or market was made a denne of theeves when these grosse abuses were suffered and things were let runne to such extremities and all this under pretence of holinesse as if it were not only lawfull but needs it must be so moved with zeale he could not abide it he made a scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple and poured out the mony-changers overthrew the tables said make not my fathers house a house of merchandize And his Disciples remembred that it was written the zeale of thy house hath eaten me up This was no frantick or melancholy passion neither in Moses nor in David nor in Christ Moses was a very meek man above all that were on the earth David was a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofes And Christ said learne of me for I am humble and meeke when his Disciples James and John grew wrothful against the Samaritanes that would not receive him and said Lord wilt thou that we command that fire come down from heaven consume them even as Elias did He turned about and rebuked them and said yee know not of what spirit you are yet through zeale for Gods house Christ whipped out the buyers and sellers David shed forth teares abundantly and Moses dasht in pieces the tables of Gods Commandements All men ought to be patient and gentle in matters appertaining to themselves but in Gods cause no man must yeild or be patient In our daies upon whom the end of the world is come when we did lately see those times whereof our Saviour foretold so long sithence that desolation should be in the holy place and such confusion ignorance and blindnes that men should stumble at noon-daies that truth should be a stranger upon earth that men should forsake wholsome doctrine and give eare unto fables that the mystery of iniquity should worke and the very elect if it were possible be deceived what tryall was made of true godly zeale How notably did it shew it selfe against the rage and fury of the wicked What should I speake hereof The examples are fresh you cannot forget them you heard of them so late it is so late since you did behold them What moved so many so learned so vertuous to yeild their backs to the scourge their necks to the tormenters their bodies to the fire to forsake their goods their friends their parents their wives children but the zeale of Gods house Neither death nor life nor Angels nor things present nor things to come was able to separate them from the love of God they continued stedfast unto the end The zeal of Gods house did eat them up But now God hath restored us he hath taken away the desolation from us he hath given us his truth he hath revealed the man of sin he hath raised up a banner of hope we see and enjoy such things as many Kings Prophets would have enjoyed could not what remaineth but that we take the zeale of the Lords house into our hearts and seek by all meanes the glory of the same As our good fathers and brethren shewed the vehemency of their love in disliking the disorders which troubled the Church of God so in this blessed peace which God giveth to his Church let us witnesse our earnest zeale in seeking that it may be made beautifull established for ever Let our next care be to continue possession Kingdomes are preserved by the same meanes by which they were first gotten that which is conquered by zeale by carefull zeale must be kept It was said of Anniball that he knew how to get the victory but how to use it he knew not Many have lost that by negligence which they had by diligence wonne Therefore we ought as our hearts were carefull and desirous to see these daies so by our thankfulnesse to God for so great a blessing and by christian and godly providence fore-see such meanes whereby we may long hereafter enjoy the same When Phydias had made the pourtraiture of Jupiter Pisanus he overlaid it with oyle that it might continue fresh and greene never putrifie When God gave order to Noah for making the Arke he said thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch that it might be sound and sure and abide the waves He which challengeth to himselfe that proud and wanton name to be called the head of the universall Church after by litle and litle he was gotten into possession was not behinde hand by all meanes to maintaine and keep the same In this policie he took away the reading of the Scriptures from the people he made Noble-men and Princes his Cardinalls he threw down and set up and changed whom and what hee would The Kings and States of the world the Bishops Professours and Schollars in Universities and Preachers were brought to sweare allegiance and obedience unto him I devise not this the stories here of are abroad and the oath which they took is known his authority grew greater then the authority of generall Councells nothing might be decreed in Councels but what pleased him none might be admitted to speak in Councels but such as were sworne to him he had all law in his breast There was sometimes a proclamation made in Rome that for considerations no man should erect or build up any Theatre and that if any were set up it should be rased pulled downe Pompeius a Gentleman of great wealth and noble courage did build a Theatre such a one as before had not been seen which would receive 2500 men contrary to the Proclamation and order taken But doubting least the next Magistrates should destroy it he caused a place of religion to be set upon it and called it the Temple of Venw whereby he provided that if any would overthrow it because it was a Theatre they might yet spare it for the Temples sake for to pull down a Temple was sacriledge Even so there have been proclamations Canons that no man should be called the chiefe or the head of all Churches or usurp such authority over others but whē the Pope built up his supremacy against the meaning of such Canons he pretended religion for his doing he said it was de jure divino that no man should presume or attempt against it and that so his power might continue forever If they have been thus carefull to maintaine falshood how much more carefull should we be to maintaine the truth If they to advance their own kingdome how much more we to set forth the kingdome of God and to build up the Church of Christ And if they sought to doe that by lyes and by false meanes why should we be slack to use the right

A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE Q. ELIZABETH BY THAT LEARNED AND REVEREND MAN IOHN IEWEL BISHOP OF SARISBURY Vpon these words PSAL. 69. 9. The zeale of thy house hath eaten me up WITH AN ANSWER OF THE SAME AUTHOUR To some frivolous objections against the government of the Church Printed in the yeare 1641. TO THE READER IF thy heart hath not made a Covenant with Ignorance or not growne obstinate through peevish wilfullnesse read peruse and digest these ensuing lines dropt from the learned and judicious quill of this most pious and renowned Authour whose well-knowne worth and singular wisdome may challenge if not command your faire acceptance He appeares not here like David ruining the Philistine but like our Saviour reproving the Pharisees reserving his downeright blowes for stronger Enemies and more discovering the folly of his Foe than the smartnesse of his scourge whose sudden pen not guilty of any thing that is not pretious carries with it the Aspect rather of an ingenious hast then a studyed Confutation Which neverthelesse upon mature deliberation if it convince not the erroneous fancy and rectifies not the weake Judgement of unwilling ignorance his Pearles are lost till found by such as have the knowledge how to prize them Farwell CERTAINE FRIVOLOVS OBJEctions against the Government of the Church of England answered by IOHN IEWEL Bishop of Sarisbury The First Reason of the Novelists God so loved the Church that He left a perfect patterne orderly Ephes 4. But here is named neither Pope nor Archbishop nor Archdeacon BISHOP IEWELS Answer HOW know you that the fourth Chapter ad Ephes is a perfect patterne of Ecclesiasticall Government Wee have now neither Apostles nor Evangelists nor Prophets yet are they the chiefe in that patterne Neither have we there either Bishop or Presbyter or Diaconus or Catechista or Lector and yet are these necessary parts in Ecclesiasticall Government Therefore this Patterne is not perfect to hold for ever Neither were there then any publique Churches or Pulpits or Schooles or Vniversities c. Saint Paul nameth neither Pope nor Arch-bishop I grant and the Church is not governed by names but by Offices Every Bishop then was called Papa And Anacletus that was next after Peter if there be any weight in his words nameth Archbishops The Second Reason The Synagogue of the Iewes was a figure of the Church of Christ and God to the perfection of that Church omitted nothing BISHOP IEWELS Answer I See not what you would conclude Perhaps you will say they had not the names of Pope or Arch-Bishop So had they not this name Episcopus in all Moses Law yet were not all Priests of like auntiency in government They had other names that were equivalent with Archbishops as Principes Synagogae Principes Sanctuarij Principes familiarum Leviticarum Principes familiarum Sacerdotalium Principes Sacerdotum Principes domûs Dei Pontifex Summus Pontifex Summus Sacerdos Therefore the negative reason is but weake Againe whereas it is said that to the perfection of the Synagogue there wanted nothing it may be answered that to the perfection thereof there wanted many things as it is knowne and confessed And as the Synagogue had not the names of Pope and Arch-Bishop so had it not the name of Apostle or Evangelist The Third Reason Where the substance of any thing is most perfect there the accidents be most perfect But the substance of true Religion was most perfect in the Primitive Church and yet there was then no Arch-Bishop Ergo. BISHOP IEWELS Answer FIRst this Maxime is not proved for it may well be doubted whether the most perfect substance hath evermore most perfect accidents And againe the substance of Religion is the same now that it was then The difference if any be standeth in the accidents and not in substance In the Primitive Church God raised up Apostles and Prophets and gave them power extraordinary as the gift of tongues the gift of healing the gift of government c. In place whereof he hath now given Vniversities Schooles Bishops Arch. Bishops c. But you may say There was then no Arch-Bishop So may you say that before King Saul there was no King in Israel So may you say that before of late times there was neither Duke nor Earle in England so may you say that in the Primitive Church there was neither Deane nor Parson nor Prebendary And yet now both in Ecclesiasticall and civill government all these are thought necessary Last of all where you say there was no Arch-Bishop in the Primitive Church it is written by many that Saint Paul made Titus Arch Bishop of Creta * Erasmus saith Paulus Titum Archiepiscopum Cretae consecravit And Lyra likewise saith Paulus instituit Titum Archiepiscopū Cretensium If these Authorities like you not Chrysostome saith Paulus Tito multorum Episcoporum judicium commisit Now having the Government of many Bishops what may we call him but an Arch-Bishop The Fourth Reason The Ecclesiasticall and civill government may not be confounded or be together in one person But to be a Cheife or a Ruler is a civill power Ergo it cannot be exercised by any Ecclesiasticall person BISHOP IEWELS Answer BOth these governments were confounded in Moses Therefore they may be confounded And the Priests of Israel had the Iudgement and government of the people And Saint Augustine was troubled with hearing and determining of Causes as appeareth by Possidonius And where you say to be a Chiefe or a Ruler is a Civill government nay in Ecclesiasticall causes it is Ecclesiasticall government and not civill And these differences of government may not so unadvisedly be confounded This is the key of Ecclesiasticall correction and belongeth only to the Ecclesiasticall Officer and to none other Hereof Saint Paul saith Sen●rem ne corripueris nisi sub c. Tradidi illum Satana c. This jurisdiction is not civill but Ecclesiasticall and therefore may be exercised by any Ecclesiasticall person I beseech you take these sudden answers in good part As for these reasons in my judgement they are not made to build up and they are too weake to pull downe Stultitia nata est in corde pueri virga disciplinae fugabit illam It is but wantonnesse correction will help it FINIS PSAL. 69. V. 9. The zeale of thine house hath eaten me CErtaine learned and wise men of old time that had no understanding or savour of God when they considered with themselves to what end purpose mankinde was created and set in this world after they had driven the matter as far as they might by naturall knowledge at length they concluded some that man was made to know the properties and qualities the convenience or difference of naturall things either in the ayre or in the water or in the earth or under the earth Some other that man was made to consider and behold the Sunne and Moone the Starres course and