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A51221	Of patience and submission to authority a sermon preach'd before the Lord Mayor and the Court of Aldermen at Guild-Hall Chapel on the 27th of January, 1683/4 / by John Moore ...	Moore, John, 1646-1714.	1684 (1684)	Wing M2545; ESTC R32113	43,694	66

this argument be justify'd and victorious Rebels may believe they are carrying on the work of the Lord. It may be here worth noting how Honorius I. who was Pope above an hundred years before Zachary did reprove the Bishops beyond the Po who were earnest with the Nobility to set up Arioaldus in the place of Adoevaldus King of Italy against their oath of allegiance and summon them to appear with their Cause before him The Popes it seems yet had not discover'd that they had power to dispense with oaths and cancell the obligation of that duty of submission to Kings which St. Peter had laid upon all Christians It was not in those days revealed that that Text Thou hast put all things under his feet was meant of the Pope and the better to accommodate it to his Holiness that we are to understand by the beasts of the field Men by the fowl of the air Angels by the fish of the sea Souls in Purgatory All put under the Pope's feet Now as to Hildebrand though he was a publisher of new Doctrines yet there will be no reason to believe he brought them down from Heaven if we may credit the account of his morals which is given by his Contemporaries Cardinal Benno taxes him with all the deadly sins each of which upon the commission of it does immediately put a man out of a state of salvation With murthers rapine adultery and constant practice of the Black-art Hildebrand however passes always with Bellarmine for a Saint and Baronius recommends his example to the imitation of Paul V. as the most excellent person that ever sate in the Papal Chair And they have no names bad enough to bestow upon Benno Both of them also insinuate the probability of the Book being written by a Lutheran which goes under Benno's name but Baronius was very unlucky in his conjecture that Reinerus Reineccius was the Father of this supposed spurious Piece when near 50 years before the Edition of Reineccius the Life of Hildebrand by Benno was publisht among the Tracts in the Book entitled Fasciculus rerum expetendarum ac fugiendarum It is the main business of these two Learned Men in their voluminous Works to ascribe uncontrollable I may say boundless power to the Bishops of Rome and to maintain their right in the most unconscionable claims to a sovereignty over Emperours and Kings otherwise Bellarmine would never have vented it for truth that the Pope can change the nature of things and that if falling into errour he should command vice and forbid vertue the Church would be bound to believe vertue to be vice and vice to be vertue It being strange that in the same period he supposes the Pope can err he should assign such a power to him as by reason of its inconsistency with the perfections of the Divine Nature we may not ascribe to the Almighty God himself Otherwise Baronius would not have pick'd out of the whole Catalogue of the Popes Gregory VII and Alexander the III. as Patterns for Paul V. to govern himself by At the later of whose Feet Friderick Barbarossa lying prostrate he trampled upon his Neck and began to sing that of David thou shalt goe upon the Asp and Basilisc And to the Emperour who his Spirits boiling within him said this submission is made not to thee but to Peter the angry Pope pressing harder with his Foot did reply both to me and to Peter And Hildebrand the other Pope recommended to Paul V. Henry IV. upbraids with having by money got favour by favour got the sword by the sword placed himself in the seat of Peace and when in the seat of Peace banisht Peace from it Gregory could not but confess himself advanced by violent hands into St. Peter's Chair In which Chair he did dictate or decree That his name alone should be rehearsed in the Churches That he has power to depose Emperours That he ought to be judged by no man That he can absolve Subjects from their allegiance to unjust Princes That he should give himself the title of Christ's Vicar and yet make his Kingdom to be of this World and by his Decrees set aside the plain Precepts of Christ that he should pretend to be the Successour of St. Peter and teach Doctrines directly contrary to those of St. Peter In which Chair he thunder'd out Curses against the Emperours Kings Princes Bishops and demanded Tribute almost of every Kingdom in Europe Engaging them in bloudy Wars and setting their Subjects loose from their duty and obedience He contrived an Oath in such a form to be imposed upon Kings as no honest man could take it Kings are to swear faithfully to observe whatsoever the Pope shall command them Bellarmine's Doctrine truly agrees with this Oath For if the Pope should command a Prince to murther an hundred of his innocent Subjects he was bound to believe it would be a vertue so to doe But the very rage of this fierce and haughty man discharged its self chiefly upon Henry IV. whom he excommunicated four times deposed him unheard and unconvicted and gave his Kingdom to Rodulphus And after a terrible journey in the depth of a severe Winter made him without all his Attendants and stript of his Royal Robes to wait barefoot and fasting three whole days before he would admit him but into his presence he all the time caressing his Mistris in the Castle at Canusium Insomuch as in his own Letter to the Germans upon this occasion he acquaints them that all wonder'd at the strange hardness of his heart and some cryed out of him as not proceeding with the gravity of Apostolic severity but with the cruelty of brutish Tyranny The Church of Liege farther inform us they had read that Hildebrand the onely Pope who hath added to the holy Canons had commanded the Marchioness Mawd as the condition of the forgiveness of her sins to subdue Henry the Emperour but whence say they is this new Authority by which impunity of the sins past and licence for those which shall be hereafter is offer'd to the guilty without confession and repentance These Proceedings do indeed suppose God to have committed to the Pope a power not onely of determining disputable points but as Benedict tells Paul V. of making new Creeds So that is was judiciously observ'd by Aventinus that Hildebrand did absolve men not from their sins but from the Law and Sacraments of Christ undermine the Peace and Piety of our Religion raise War and Seditions indulge Whoredom Murther Perjuries Perfidiousness Rapines Fire and to hide his Ambition did not onely devise Fables corrupt Annals pervert Records but also adulterate the heavenly Oracles Forcing the Divine Writings to serve his Lust by false glosses put upon them And the Councils of Mentz Brixia and Wormes did great service to Christianity and pursued truly the interest of the Church when they deposed

can the King have better hold of them by any Oath they shall please themselves to take since that Oath also according to the doctrine of the Decree would become unlawfull and so cease to bind them if it should happen once to be condemn'd by one of the Breves or Bulls of the Pope Moreover though these Jesuits do profess yet indeed they do not exhibit as much obedience to the King as other Popish Subjects do to their Prince for it is well known that they of the Gallican Church do pay obedience to the Laws and Edicts of their King even against his Holiness's Bulls and sixty Doctours also of the Sorbon have declared that the English Subjects of the Roman Persuasion may lawfully and safely take the Oath of Allegiance which this Consult of Jesuits has condemned But to doe the Reverend Fathers of that Order right it must be confess'd that notwithstanding all the affronts they have put upon Kings they can grosly flatter them when it will serve the interest of their Society Of which egregious flattery the French Jesuits in their College at Paris founded by the Bishop of Clermont have given a very late instance Where in the place of their old Inscription Collegium Claromontanum Jesu they have put up this Collegium Ludovici Magni wiping out at once the names both of their Founder and Saviour What a change will Interest make in the Opinions and Practices of Men Pope Hildebrand to whose dictates the Jesuits pay most religious respect declares Kings to be the Priests Servants and even inferiour to the Exorcist but these pious Fathers did not think they had given testimony sufficient of their loyalty till they had preferr'd their King before Jesus Christ And having thus proved that all resistence to the Supreme Authority is unlawfull and that the Popes were the first abettours of it in the Christian Church by pretended Arguments from Scripture I come 2. To shew with what care impartiality and patience the good Christian searches into the grounds and causes of his Persuasion that the commands of Authority are sinfull before he refuses to pay obedience to them No power on Earth can make him withdraw his obedience to God nor any danger awe him into the doing of that which he believes to be a sin Where Man's Laws stand in opposition to God's Law if it may be done without detriment to his Religion he accepts the benefit of Christ's Licence given to his Disciples and makes his escape by flying from one City to another or else he patiently submits to the penalty decreed to be inflicted upon him for his conscientious refusal But because men have refused to conform to the Laws of the Government when there has been nothing in them repugnant to the Will of God and have been justly punished for their disobedience at the same time they have thought themselves Martyrs for the Cause of Christ and since on the one hand it is most unhappy for them to suffer for their mistakes and on the other of ill consequence to Governours that their Laws when just and expedient should not be duly observed therefore the man who has possest his Soul with patience does not run away with the first appearances of things as being prone to suspect the errour may lie rather in his understanding than in the Laws of his Superiours nor does he forbear to comply with the will of the Higher Powers till upon much consideration he becomes persuaded there can be no compliance without involving himself in sin And if a Law chance to be enacted the matter whereof may seem evil to him he does not hasten rashly into any conclusion but he imploys his patience his sincerity his prudence in all the proper methods to inform his judgment truly before he comes to a resolution how he must behave himself And in order to prosper in a work of such importance he begins it with hearty prayer to God to bless his undertaking and guide him into all truth Before he enters into the merits of the Cause it self he impartially enquires whether he be not carried into it by prejudice passion profit fame or some other secular end Whether he has not taken up this opinion of the unlawfulness of conformity to the Laws as well as many false ones by the prejudices of a disadvantagious education by having heard the Arguments read the Books and conversed with the Men onely who are of one side There being reason to believe that many of the Dissenters from our Church are mere strangers to all the constitutions of it They have rarely if ever been present all the time of Divine Service they have never seriously perused any one office of our Liturgy and fairly weighed what may be said for it They scarce can pretend to have read more leaves of the Book of Publick Prayers than of the Alcoran However these men separate from us because they have been taught to doe so and because their Friends do upon whom they have such a dependence as not to dare to displease them And in which course while they continue their most dangerous errours will be incurable He farther considers whether his present dissent does not proceed from his having had a known reputation in such a Party a long time and although he could now without any violence to his Conscience yet he is ashamed to retreat or whether it be not because he finds his opposition to the Government to be popular and he draws crowds after him of admirers or to be very profitable he gains a fair livelihood by it and should be at a loss for his subsistence did he not engage himself in the interests of the Dissenters Lastly He considers whether he doth pass judgment in the other cases which occur in his life with the same scrupulosity and tenderness he does in this for if he have with such art managed his Conscience that notwithstanding it's tenderness in the matter of Conformity it can allow him to live quietly in the known breach of any of the moral duties of Religion he has just reason to suspect his want of sincerity as to the causes for which he divides from the Church If notwithstanding his long refusal to join with us in our Common Prayers as stinting the Spirit and not tending to edification he yet can submit to the forms of solemnization of Marriage to gain a person with a great fortune and to legitimate his issue to inherit it and if after many years absence from our Churches and separation from our Communion as antichristian and unlawfull he yet can receive the holy Sacrament with us to qualify himself for an office or employment it will be obvious either that his Conscience is perversely instructed or that he is an hypocrite Now as none of the reasons before-mentioned can justify any Man's disobedience to Authority seeing they owe their rise to pride interest or passion so were such heads of enquiry duly poised in the balance and allow'd