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A15350	A second memento for magistrates Directing how to reduce all offenders, and beeing reduced, how to preserue them in vnitie and loue both in Church and common wealth. By W.W. Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplains in ordinary.; Obedience or ecclesiasticall union	Wilkes, William, d. 1637.	1608 (1608)	STC 25634; ESTC S114429	40,774	86

A SECOND MEMENTO FOR Magistrates Directing how to reduce all offenders and beeing reduced how to preserue them in vnitie and loue both in Church and common wealth By W. W. Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chaplains in Ordinary AT LONDON Imprinted for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street neere the Conduit 1608. TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Great Brittaines most renowned Monarch Iames the first of France and Ireland King defender of the saith c. MOst dread Soueraigne GOd which hath put the Globe of this little world into the hands of your rule doth in the bottomlesse graces wherewith he hath imbrodered your Scepter merite your thankefulest recognition of his diuine goodnesse in whose bosome their Spring ariseth and oblige the Christian Nations of your Kingdomes in straightest bonds of loyaltie vnto your Sacred Person the next and immediate Conduit by which all happinesse is deriued vnto them Your Highnesse religious affections to the seruice of God experienced in those effects of your royall desires with best offices to glorifie his eminent and eternall being hath a most sure promise of blessings from the immortall rewarder of holy workes And for so much as your Maiestie in your admirable wisdome studying by all meanes to continuate the tranquill peace of the Gospell hath seene it necessarie to propose and by intimation of your gratious pleasure inioyned one vniforme order of worship due to Gods diuine excellencie The Subiects of your Dominions whose toungs are the true witnesses of their hearts to acknowledge that supreame Power which is in existent in your princely rule will not faile by their cheerefull obedience the true workemaister of happy State to manifest their religion to God and submission to your iust commaund If any through a wanton Superfluitie of fancie shall disaccustome their deuotiue actions from the traine wherevnto your Lawes would range them God shall in time reueale better things vnto their apprehension and by their industrie whom your Maiestie hath deputed for the administration of gouerment frame them to that method of deuotion which in the Prerogatiue of your wisdome is prescribed vnto all In meane time I know he which shall oppose himselfe against this euill now growne headdie by custome and suffrance of time lyes open for the racket of mallice to band him into the hazard of vndoing the thoughts whereof seconded with the knowledge of my owne disabilitie to write in a matter of so great consequence had kept me resolute in my resolued silence but that my priuate conscience and sorrowe to see this vnnaturall distraction wherein the body doth refuse to follow the will of the head counterpoized the validitie of all other opposite respects and gaue confidence in your Maiestie for my protection who hauing nothing better then my selfe to bestow vpon your Maiestie do with best alacrity of spirit deuote and giue my all to be disponed at your Princely pleasure God which ballanceth the times prolong the time of your most glorious Regiment and so strengthen your sacred power in the continuance of that vnmatchable goodnesse wherewith he hath honoured all your liues time that when the time of times shall come wherein time shall be without time you may be receiued into his timelesse eternitie Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect and humble Seruant WILLIAM WILKES BY THE KING THe care which we haue had and paines which we haue taken to settle the affaires of this church of England in an vniformitie as wel of doctrine as of gouernment both of thē agreeable to the word of God the doctrine of the Primitiue church and the lawes heertofore established for those matters in this realme may sufficiently appeare by our former actions c. In the meane time both they may resolue either to conforme themselues to the church of England and obey the same or else to dispose of themselues and their families some other waies as to them shall seeme meet And the Bishops and others whom it concerneth prouide meete parsons to be substitutes in the place of those who shall wilfullie abandon their charges vpon so light causes Assuring them that after that day we shall not faile to do that which Princely prouidence requireth at our hands That is to put in execution all wayes and meanes that may take from among our people all grounds and occasions of Sects deuisions and vnquietnesse wherof as we wish there may neuer be occasion giuen vs to make proofe but that this our admonition may haue equall force in all mens hearts to worke an vniuersall conformitie So we doe require all Arch-bishopps Byshopps and other Ecclesiasticall parsons to do their vttermost endeauours by conferences arguments perswations and by all other wayes of loue and gentlenesse to reclaime all that be in the Ministrie to the obedience of our Church lawes For which purpose onely we haue enlarged the time formerly prefixed for their remoue or reformation to the end that if it bee possible that vniformitie which we desire may be wrought by clemencie and by weight of reason and not by rigour of lawe And the like aduertizement we doe giue to all ciuill Magistrates Gentlemen and others of vnderstanding as well abroad in the counties as in Citties and Townes requiring them also not in any sort to support fauour or countenance any such factious Ministers in their obstinacy Of whose indeauours we doubt not but so good successe may follow as this our Admonition with their indeauours may preuent the vse of any other meanes to retaine our people in their due obedience to vs and in vnitie of minde to the seruice of Almightie God Giuen at our Mannor of Ottlands the 16. day of Iuly 1604. in the second yeare of our raigne of England France and Ireland And of Scotland the xxxvii God saue the King OBEDIENCE Or Ecclesiasticall Vnion WE haue now long time been more disputant then agent in Religion and whereas we should study to doe what we know we are set in inquisition to finde what we may beleeue Such is the supple and restlesse volubilitie of wauering mindes whose licentious feruour will not admit strength to ground and settle them in dutifull obedience vnto a stayed rule That there is no Errour so absurd but some doe imbrace it No Paradox so incredulous but some doe beleeue it no Action so irreligious but some doe countenance it not any Sentence so certaine but some by contradiction doe call it into needlesse and subtile dispute That which wrought much hurt amongst the auncient Christians Procopius lib. 3. Goth. hath greatly troubled the State present and would dangerouslie hazard the gouernment both of Church and Common-weale if Princely determination had not preuented it \ To dispute and by triall of disputation to strengthen the weake as Saint Paule did with the Christians at Troada or to conuince the errant as the Saints Act 20 Euseb eccl hist lib. 6. cap. 24. Trip. lib. 1. cap. 11. did Augustine with Poscentius

Sabinus with Photius and Origen with Berillus or to determine things doubtfull as the religious and graue reuerend Fathers did in their councels and Synods or to settle the Peace of the Church as in the colloqui at Ratisbonn An. 1541. An. 1603. Ia. 14. appointed by Charles the fift and it pleased his Maiestie in the late interlocutorie conserence with the Lords Bishops others of the clergie at Hampton Aust lib. 2. cap. 13. 14. contr Crescon Court hath alwaies had speciall approbation But yet if I may in the libertie of a humble spirit freely speake what some of you the Bretheren of the newfangled faction in the merite of your contentious disposition should patiently heare to liue in obedience to orders orderly by iudgment of decision established is more answerable to faith profitable for the Church and honourable for our calling By the first we bring light to the truth and confirme knowledge by the second we giue life to the truth and after our example direct others in the religious seruice of God a dutie amongst all Offices appertaining to man most excellent and most deserued whether we consider the bottomlesse graces wherwith Heauens hand hath embrodered our state in general or vnfould before our selues the vnspeakable blessings he hath enfolded vpon vs in particuler My priuate life hath giuen me the right hand of Opportunitie to read what hath been disputed and finding the christian cause become more contemptible for that the rules of Gouerment haue beene so disputable doe without all partiall construction of what I haue read in singlenesse of heart wish that the spirit of singularity in some particulars of you giuing place vnto publicke Iudgement had rather by dutious actions conformed it selfe vnto Authoritie then by vniust opposition endeauoured for licentious libertie Action is the best blazoner of vertues vertue The truest approuer of Learnings value The soundest witnesse of hearts desire and then worthy principall acceptation When it worketh by the Line not of opinion but of Iudgement not of priuate fancie but of publicke rule patternd vnto vs in the lawes both of God and men §. 2. The iust constitutions of lawfull Princes are the setled boundaries of duty vnto their Subiects and doe confine euery man within the lists of his particular obedience as the land-markes in the fields doe limmit out their inheritance He which * Deutr. 27. remoued these was held accursed Consider I pray you whether he who vncharitably offendeth against those can in his offence be reputed blessed The determinations of God are the vncontroulable warrants of power vnto Princes The infallable rules both of their duty vnto the highest ruler and authoritie ouer the greatest that are ruled Rules made knowne vnto them not so much by the dim light of nature as by the euerlasting director of holy actions in the euidence of Scripture wherein are the trulie honourable instructions for higher powers to commaund their subiects and most honest directions for Subiects to obey higher powers Vnto the King it is a patterne and carde to guide Austin lib. de vera relig cap. 31. vida lib. 2. de Reip. dignit by vnto the Subiects it is a light wherewith to iudge aright of the lawes vnder which they liue So that whatsoeuer is good in the lawes of Princes or commendable in the dutie of subiects That same is as it were coppied out of and iustified by the eternall lawe of God by whose powerfull grace Kings doe raigne and by whose gratious influence Princes doe Sap. 7. decree righteousnesse If you had made this lawe the chiefe head and principall ruler of your actions and held it so ordinary in your thoughts as it was common in your talke it would haue bred in your religious mindes a dutifull estimation of Princely offices and made you respectiue of publicke obseruances if your mindes be religious this being an Axiom inuincible that nothing is more auncient in the lawes of God nothing more pregnant to aduance common good then obedience First to God the supreame guide of this worldes masse to whose soueraigne power all flesh must stoope and to whose will all kingdomes doe owe conformitie in that he requireth Secondly to the King sent of God to be the * Rex dei figuram inter homines representat Diotogines lib. de reg representer of his Maiestie and the † Plutar. li de doctr principis Leutenant of his regencie The memorie of which subordination as it serueth to drownd all selfe conceipt that may hold the King with admiration of his sublimitie and strengthen him against all aduersary meanes which interrupt him in the exercise of that high dutie the deuine goodnesse requireth of him So it doth obedience to God preserued binde vs generallie without exception and particularlie without respect of person to obay him cheerefully without cunctation and readily without inquisition what he ought or may commaund vs to doe whether it be in causes Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill §. 3. That Princes may commaund the obseruation and practise of religion in their Realmes dominions and kingdomes according as God informeth their consciences by the direction of his alteaching spirit and rules of his sacred worde in the hands of those Priests whose lippes he hath sanctified to be the treasuries of his wisdome is by the vnited practise of all common-weales manifestly conuinced and hath euidence in the testimonies of the best common-wealths-men Amongst all things incident into the actions of men there is none more excellent then Religion saith a In Epinenide Plato In it our cheefest good consisteth saith b Lib. 3. cap. 10. Lactantius It is the vnmoueable foundation of Princely honour saith c Lib. de recta side ad Theodosium Cyrill The safest defence of publicke state saith d De conceptione digestorū Iustinian The richest store-house of mans felicitie saith e Neceph lib. 7. ca. 46 Constantine And therefore ought to be the f Inter caeteras solicitudines quas amor publi us preuigili nobis cura indixit precipuam imperatoriae maiestatis curam esse perspicimus verae religionis indagiman lib. legum Nouell tit 2. cheefest care of Maiesties Empire saith Valentinian In deed most worthy to be the highest care of all cares appertaining to Pincely rule both in respect of the Prince and of the People In respect of the Prince for by religion and * Rex orat habita in Senat. workes according therevnto God is moued to giue life vnto their councels perfection to their indeauours and settlement to their throanes for which cause the more eminent they are in regall Authoritie the more vigilant they ought to be in religious pietie In respect of the People for that the happinesse of our liues doth primarily and principally consist in the well ordering of our liues according to the rule of his will who did at the first imbreath life And when our wills doe yeeld to the regiment of his will