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A08803	The allegeance of the cleargie A sermon preached, at the meeting of the whole clergie of the dyocesse of Rochester, to take the Oath of allegeance to his most excellent Maiestie, at Greenewich, Nouem. 2 1610. By Samuel Page, Doctor in Diuinitie.	Page, Samuel, 1574-1630.	1616 (1616)	STC 19088; ESTC S113755	8,460	22

to you of the Cleargie that you should also doe the like thus did Saint Bernard teach who flourished eleauen hundred yeares after Christ Origen interpreting this Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans vpon this Chapter lib. 9. giueth a reason why the Apostle in an Epistle to the Brethren in Antiochia Syria and Cilicia Acts 15.29 doth only admonish them to abstaine from things sacrificed to Idoles from the strangled and from bloud not adding any prohibition of adulterie murther theft c. Superfluum videbatur ea diuina lege prohibere quae sufficienter humana lege plectuntur It seemed to him more then needed by diuine decrees to inhibite those things which humane lawes did sufficiently punish His collection from hence is very notable and sorteth with my present Argument Ex quo apparet iudices mundi partē maximā Dei legis implere omnia enim crimina quae vindicari vult Deus non per antistites principes Ecclesiarum sed per mundi iudices voluit vindicari Hence it appeareth that the Secular Iudges doe fulfill the greatest part of the Lawe of GOD for all crimes which GOD will haue punished hee referreth to the vindication of these and not of the Prelates and chiefe Priests in his Church And heerein he hath met with the Church of Rome in an euasion learnd of the Donatists and detected and despised by Saint Augustine contra Parmenianum Donatistam Episcopum libr. 1. saying Nisi forte quemadmodum nonnulli eorum sane imperitissimi intelligere solent de honoribus Ecclesiasticis dictum esse velint vt gladius intelligatur vindicta spiritualis cùm prouidentissimus Apostolus satis aperiat quid loquatur dicens propter hoc tributa praestatis Vnlesse perchance as some most foolishly are wont to interprete these words they would vnderstand Saint Paul as speaking of Ecclesiasticall powers that by the Sword is meant Excommunication whereas the Apostle wisely prouided to preuent any such interpretation and expresseth himselfe plainely when hee sayth For this cause pay you tribute and Tribute is not due but to Secular powers And Saint Ambrose maketh good this interpretation Tom. 5. vpon this place saying Principes hos reges dicit qui propter corrigendam vitam prohibenda aduersa creantur Dei habentes imaginem vt sub vno sint caeteri The Apostle Paul in this place meaneth Kings who are created for the correction of mens liues and the defending of them from aduersitie bearing the Image of God that one should sit aboue the rest And Theophilact as for the most part he doth followeth Saint Chrysostome in the interpretation of this Text saying Vniuersos erudit siue Sacerdos sit ille siue Monachus siue Apostolus vt se principibus subdant Hee teacheth all sorts of men whether he be Priest Monke or Apostle hee must submitte himselfe to his Soueraigne Prince And the holie Apostle Saint Peter whom the Roman Vsurpers boast to succeede taught the same generall doctrine 1. Pet. 2.13 c. Submit your selues to all maner ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether to the King as superiour or vnto gouernours as sent of him c. for so is the will of God Saint Gregory the great who sate Bishop of Rome sixe hundred yeares after our Lord and Sauiour Christ knew no other nor taught none other doctrine for hereof his Epistles giue good witnesse Mauritius the Emperour had made a Decree That no olde Souldiers should be admitted or receiued into anie of the Monasteries because hee perceiued that many of them vsed this as a shift to shunne and escape from going to the warres and hee was thereby likely to bee the worse serued such power had that Christian Emperour to decree in matters concerning the Church and Gregorie then Bishoppe of Rome grieued at this constitution of the Emperor did not conuent the Emperour to his Consistorie drew not out against him the sword of Excommunication did not menace him with interdiction depriuation or any other shew of Papall iurisdiction but as an humble and duetifull subiect addressed to him his earnest petition by an Epistle wherein he pleadeth for the Church and as if it became him ill to contest with his Soueraigne hee bringeth in Christ Iesus thus expostulating with him Ego te de notario comitem excubitorum de comite Caesarem de Caesare imperatorem patrem imperatorum feci In a word I haue aduaunced thee from lowe to high degree Sacerdotes meos tuae manni commisi I haue giuen thee charge and gouernement of my Priests Registr lib. 3. epist 61. And to make his suite more possible he wrote an earnest Letter to Theodorus the Emperours Physician to intreate him who might best chuse an opportune time to sollicite this request in which he complayneth saying Epist 64. Valde mihi durum videtur vt ab eius seruitio milites prohibeat qui dominari illum non solum militibus sed etiam Sacerdotibus concessit It seemeth hard to mee that hee whom God hath made to rule not only Souldiers but Priests also should restraine Souldiers from doing seruice to that GOD So making Theodorus his competitor to the Emperour for repeale of that Law But this Gregorie the first of that name was so farre from the present Antichristian pride of his successor as that he would not suffer the Title of Oecumenicall Bishop to be put vpon him herein following Pelagius his most worthy predecessour He writ an angry reprehension to Eulogius Patriarch of Alexandria for stiling him Vniuersall Bishop in an Epistle sent to him And when Iohn Patriarch of Constantinople had vsurped that title he wrot to him to rebuke him for it And to Mauritius the Emperour whose loue to him and the Church could haue affoorded him so honorable a title he said whosoeuer assumeth to himselfe or admitteth of any such title Elatione sua Antichristum praecurrit he doth fore-runne Antichrist in his pride He calleth that title Ne fandum stultum superbum vocabulum a wicked foolish and proud title He saith that the counsell of Calcedon offered it to his predecessors to bee so stiled sed tamen nullus sibi hoc temerarium nomen arripuit none of them took this rash and in considerate name vpon him He would haue staid the pride of that Roman See at the first for when in respect of the Empire seated at Rome the chamber of that great Monarchie there was giuen the first place in Councels to the Bishop of Rome the next ambition was to be chiefe Bishop and then to be vniuersall ouer all the Church as Hart saith the Pope cannot be non resident for all the world is his Diocesse and what was then left but to intrude vpon the rights of temporall Princes as in succeeding times they did and at this day doe But we heare God promising Kings shall be thy nursing fathers and Queenes thy nurces not Bishops not Popes and Prelates Esay 49.23 Two proofes let mee but name because we haue