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A02608	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie in the Church of Beauly in Hampshire, the thirtieth of Iuly. M.DC.IX. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and one of his Ma[jes]ties chapleines.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1620 (1620)	STC 12738; ESTC S120498	29,853	115

will haue it euer hee will neuer resigne it to any of his Apostles Hee sent them but as his Father sent him into the World that was without any Royaltie or Kingly power But after his Resurrection he saith All power is giuen mee both in Heauen and in Earth and addeth Go therefore vnto his Apostle By that power which was giuen him both in Heauen in Earth he sheweth that hee hath authoritie to send forth his Apostles so he addeth rightly Goe ye therfore But how shall they goe Suerly not with that fulnesse of Power ouer Heauen Earth which hee mentioned instantly before and then was the fittest time to haue giuen it But Goe teach all nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost teaching them to obserue all things that J haue commaunded you This is their Charter their Commission their Letters Patents and it containeth all the notes and markes of the Church Those things bee within their charge the preaching of the Gospell the administration of the Sacraments the setling not of any one modell but of that discipline that may bring men to the obedience obseruation of CHRIST his Commaundements For planting or transplanting of kingdomes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is no Title in all their Commission Bellarmine makes much adoe about the translation of the Romane Empire from the Greekes to Charlemaine by the B. of Rome and pleaseth himselfe with coniecture more then his Iudicious Reader with soliditie of reason The verie trueth of that storie is that Charles the great had it not by the authoritie of the Pope but by Conquest and Transaction with Nicephorus the Greeke Emperor when he could hold it no longer But allow the Cardinall that which he cannot proue that Charles obtained the Empire by the Popes authoritie then he may call to minde That the restitution of the Romane Monarchie must be done by Antichrist as it is in the 13. Chap. of the Reuelation But Bellarmine tells vs that the B. of Rome effected the restitution of the Romane Empire therefore Bellarmine makes the Bishop of Rome to be Antichrist which I will not confute You haue heard how CHRIST his Censure doth deiect the Pope from his vsurped Monarchie Vos autem non sic You that be Ministers of the Gospel may not raigne like Kings And some of our Brethren alleage the same words also to dispossesse the Reuerend Bishops of this Church from their Superioritie But they set CHRISTS wordes vpon the tentar-hookes and stretch them too farre His meaning is not to make an equalitie amongst the Ministers but to set a difference betweene Kings the Ministers of the Word that none should inuade the right of Princes vnder the pretence of their Ministerie As for Aequalitie when one aduised Lycurgus to establish it amongst the Lacedaemonians whereby the least meanest might beare like sway and rule with the greatest The wise man answered that he which calleth for that should begin it first at home in his owne house And if all men be carefull to exclude Paritie out of their priuate families if men experienced in Policie and Gouernement will not admit it into the Common-wealth because that cannot bee preserued with equalitie but by authoritie and rule Why are not men as sensible of the House of God as of their own houses why should Aequalitie that is found intollerable in other Societies be obtruded to the Church Because distinctions and inequalitie of Pastors cannot bee proued by Scripture That is not so There were diuers Pastors vnder the Law so I thinke I may call the Priests but they were not equall for there was one High Priest as it were a Transcendent aboue them all But his eminencie was to expresse the Soueraignetie of IESVS CHRIST But then there were Captaines of euerie family of the Leuites and that proues an inequalitie Last of all there were two ioyned with the high Priest which are called Rulers in the House of God in the first Paralip Chap. 24. Vers 5. In the New Testament there was distinction and inequalitie betweene the Apostles themselues or else Paul would neuer haue called Peter Iames Iohn cheife pillars of the Apostles There was distinction inequalitie betweene the twelue Apostles the seuentie Disciples Paulus Appellat seipsum Architectum Wee reade of many Pastors at Ephesus Act. 20. in the Reuelat. John writeth To the Angel of the Church of Ephesus which euicteth necessarily that there was one greater then the rest Par in partem non habet Imperium One equall hath no power ouer another But Paul gaue Timothy authoritie ouer Pastors Therefore he intended ordained an inequalitie no paritie amongst the Pastors of the Church The reasōs of those that call for equalitie in the Ministers of the Church are not made to build vp and they are too weake to pull doune Zeale is good a sweet thing it is to vow your hearts vnto God but euery Sacrifice must be seasoned with Salt least yee goe about to reform the Church with one hand to subuert the state with the other Abraham sayes grauely vnto Lot Let there be no Contentions betweene mee and thee for wee are Brethren That is one reason And it is both good pleasant for Brethren to dwell together Againe The Chananite the Peryzite are yet in the land that is another motiue In which case who knows not that the aduersaries of our doctrin wil sooner be ouercom with vnited thē distracted forces And so we that fight the Lords battels cannot dis-joyne our selues without preuarication bootie Away then with all singularitie and admiring our owne opinions know ye not that it is the Seminary of inward Contention The spirit of the Prophets must be subiect vnto the Prophets Let vs haue but one heart one way that we may fill the Lords House with Garlands of victories that wee may beat our Aduersaries from humane merits and bring them to the diuine mercies from Free-will and the possibilities of Nature to the Grace of God from Traditions to the written Word from Eleuation Adoration Circumgestation Transubstantiation of the Sacrament to the Commemoration of Christs death a sweet fruition thereof by Faith from their Hierarchy visible Monarchy to the Headship of our Lord IESVS CHRIST from superstition to the true worship of God Oh how glorious are these holy triumphes how instantly doe they call vpon vs to combine our selues together that the Conuersion Offering vp of the Papists may be acceptable and sanctified And thus much for Concord to my Brethren of the Ministerie I would not dismiss you of the Laity after this long discourse of contention without som short exhortatiō to peace The very name of Peace is a sweete word but the worke is sweeter I cannot alwayes speak of it but that which I cannot speake of alwayes you