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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45195	The honours of the Lords spiritual asserted, and their priviledges to vote in capital cases in Parliament maintained by reason and precedents collected out of the records of the Tower, and the journals of the House of Lords.	Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3755; ESTC R24392	40,120	57

other Royal Titles and in the fullness of time Jesus Christ himself the King of Kings the Eternal Son of God and Original of all Power thought it not below him telling us expresly Luke 4. 18. That he was sent into the World on no other end than to Preach the Gospel True it is his Kingdom was not of this World and he never went about to dipossess either the Roman or Jewish Governours in Judaea neither did his Disciples ever go about to do any thing like it yet when the Empire became Christians the Prudent Piety of the first and most Christian Emperors for the better Encouragement of Religion and Learning conferred large Immunities and Exemptions upon Church-men freeing them from Subsidies Impositions and sundry services wherewith other of their Subjects were burdened Eusebius and Zozomen record several Priviledges granted by Constantine That those who Minister in Holy Religion be wholly free and exempt from all publick Burthens And some have very well observed that during the continuance of the gift of Tongues extraordinary Learning and other Miraculous effusions of Gods Holy Spirit upon the Primitive Church there were no need of the Piety and Charity which subsequent Christian Emperors bestowed upon the Church the Apostles had no need to study for their Preaching and therefore had leisure enough to fish and make Tents for a livelihood whereas ours are forced to pore upon Books to Meditate Write and all hardly sufficient to search out the deep Mysteries which cost Them no Pains the Spirit supplying the place of all Therefore to make amends for all these extraordinary qualifications and abundant measure of Spiritual Graces wherewith they were furnished above us it hath pleased the Lord of the Harvest in these latter days to raise up Christian Magistrates to assist and encourage his Labourers and appoint them a more setled and plentifull allowance yea and honour also and power together with it for that Wisdom without these is commonly contemned Who ever was chosen a Magistrate in our Neighbour State of Holland or here at home who had not Riches and therefore Honour to support them Wisdom in the esteem of the Vulgar is always thought to be accompanied with Riches and Power So that the pretences of those men who for a Cloak to their Innovations and Sacriledges vainly vaunt that all things should be brought back to the Primitive Purity and the Clergy also to the Apostles Poverty seem to argue thus much that they are no farther true Gospel Ministers and the Successors of the Apostles than they are able to work Miracles and that they though not enabled to it by any Education may be required to work in any of those Callings of which the Apostles were whose Successors they pretend to be We read in Lud. Vives in his Commentary upon St. Aust de Civitate Dei That the Priests of Ceres no other than the Mendicants amongst them of Rome were to renounce the World and Riches and Honour too and therefore that on the day of their Initiation they were to put on a Coat which they never left off till such time as it was so ragged that it would no longer hang to their backs certainly if Spiritual Persons were left to some mens allowance this would be their Portion from them to be clad with Poverty Contempt and Rags and their Callings as well as their Necessities would constrain them to Fast and Pray I know some men particularly Luther amongst our Reformers have sleighted Honours and that Portion due to their Callings out of sincere Principles and a good meaning who have yet lived to Repent their Error though not able to redress it when they have seen how much the Church has thereby suffered and Religion been damnified Witness Luther Epist p. 131. Ego per meo stipendio annuo tantum novem antiquas Sexagenas habeo praeter has ne obolus quidem mihi aut fratribus è Civitate accedit A great and noble reward for such matchless deserts and if so happy an Instrument of Europes Reformation so valiant a Champion who singly opposed the United Power of Rome and Hell What may the Clergy of our days expect viz. To be devested of their Revenues Honours and Immunities because they are the Successors of their Forefathers the Bishops and Reformers in Queen Marys days some of the Principal whereof were publickly Burnt as Martyrs for that Religion which God be thanked maugre the Monstrous ingratitude of some we yet through the Blessing of God enjoy by the Pains and Labours of their Worthy Successors Who are the Persons who have to the Eternal Shame and Infamy of Rome laid open the Vileness Wickedness and Immorality as well as the false Doctrines Idolatries and Superstitions of that Church Who are they who have been the Watchmen upon the Wall that have ever since the Reformation Beaten and Foiled them in their Assaults upon our Church Was not the Walls thereof Watered and as it were Cemented with the Blood of Cranmer Latimer Ridley Hooper and others the Supestructure raised by Jewel Reynolds and others Sed me reprimo And yet now those days through Mercy are over Must their Successors still be wounded by the hands of their pretended Friends and receive such hard measure from their Pretended Well-wishers This strikes to the very Heart Scilicet Hoc Ithacus velit magno Mercentur Atridae CHAP. II. The Clergy under the Law and Gospel also have ingaged in Secular Causes and the State very happy in this their Administration in the Primitive times of the Gospel proved from the Examples of St. Ambrose St. Austine c. WE all know it was a Political Maxim mentioned by Josephus as derived from Moses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Philo. in vit Mos The King must ever take the advice of the Priest Moses himself was a Priest as well as a Ruler and he appointed Priests dureing the Levitical Administration to be Overseers of all things Judges of Controversies and Punishment of Malefactors Joseph lib. 2. cont App. who saw the precept reduced to practice tells us the thing in fact was so Who hath not heard that Ely and Samuel the Lords Priests were at the same time Civil Judges in Israel Chytraeus makes three Consistories amongst the Jews of all which the Priests were the Principal and Essential Members 1. A Triumvirat in every City wherein many matters and lighter Trespasses was decided these Grotius calls Pedaneos Judices 2 The little Sanhedrim Consisting of 23 wherein Capital Causes were determined in the Gate of every City 3. The Council of State or grand Senate of 70 Elders which some make to consist of 71 taking in Moses others in 72. Six out of each Tribe the High Priest being commonly of the Number Now that the Priests and Levites were part of this great Sanhedrim Causabon will bear me out who makes it appear out of their best Authors quod hujus Concilii ea fuit institutio ut si fieri possit e