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A74698	Logoi Ōraioi. Three seasonable sermons the first preach't at St. Mary's in Cambridge, May 31. 1642. The others designed for publick auditories, but prevented. / By Tho. Stephens, M.A.	Stephens, Thomas, fl. 1648-1677.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E1839_2; ESTC R210165	57,540	136

to the deadly stroak of the enemies to secure the person of their Emperors Others leaping alive into their Funeral piles as if they could do them no later no greater service But I will name no more lest their dust fly in our eyes so blinde and eclipse the glory of Christians For let me seriously put the question Are we Christions Do we know the vertue of in Oath What think we then of that solemn Oath of our Allegiance An Oath which can receive no dispensation no absolution from what power soever Are we Protestants Nay one step farther yet are we Protestors What think we then of that branch of the late Protestation that I will maintain the establisht doctrine of the Church as it stands in opposition to Popery and Popish Innovations I conceive this mainly material to the work in hand therefore give me leave a while to insist upon it What is the doctrine of the School of Jesuits Bellarmines position will fully tell us non licere Christianis tolerare regem haereticum c. Princes falling into Apostacie from the faith or heresie in the faith lose all dominion over their Subjects and our own Countriman Parsons goes a little farther that the People if they can gather strength sufficient ought to depose such an unworthy Governour and like apt Scholars they will learn their lesson quickly for thus a Jacobine with an Assassination shall soon make good in practise what their School hath taught them Thus without much straining they make good the Text Those there work their pleasure because there was no King in Israel these here will have no King because they might the more freely work their pleasure Contrary to this is established doctrine of the Church of England in the 37th Article The Kings Majesty his the chief power in this Realm of England and his other Dominions and is not nor ought to be subject to any Jurisdiction whatsoever but may and must restrain with the sword the Stubborne and Evil doers Farr different it seems from that he is tobe restrained by Stubborne and Evil-doers upon a pretence of his evill doing To which purpose are those six parts of the homily against Rebellion so full and apposite that we must either disclaim them from being the interpreters of the Doctrine of our Church or sit down convinc'd in the manifest truth of this assertion To these I shall and the Testimony of some unquestioned Divines amongst us purposely avoiding the authority of such who are amongst some men perhaps unworthily suspected lest their names prove a blemish to the Calendar Bishop Cranmer in his Necessary Erudition for Christian Men A work composed by him and other Divines of Henry the Eight and printed long since by the same King upon the fifth Commandement declares that by it we are bound not to withdraw our Fealty Truths Love and Obedience from our Princes for what cause soever it be nor yet for any cause may we conspire against his Person nor do any thing towards the hindrance or hurt thereof or of his Estate Not long after Bishop Hooper upon the same commandement determines that if he be naught that rules the place he is in it is the Order and work of God so if thou put a difference between the Office it self which is good and the Officer which is evill it shall keep thee in a religious fear that thou reverence a good and godly Government in a bad Governour Bishop Latimer a Companion of them both in a Sermon upon Twelfday tells us that we may for nothing in the World observe the Universality rebell against the Ordinance of God that is the Magistrate All these three glorious Saints did in their Actions consirme their Doctrine and in the days of Queen Mary received the triumphant crown of Martyrdom obeying her in suffering for that which their consciences would not give them leave actually to perform Next them comes that painfull and Reverend Bishop Jewel who dispuring the Case with Harding drawes issue in the story Chilperick of France whom the Nobles deposed the people were contented with it and then Pope confirmed it rebellion as well strengthened as we could wish yet did his Succcessor Pepin scarce ever with quiet injoy the Kingdom and of the nine Generations which were all that of that race succeeeded hardly one was found which went down into the grave in peace Dr. Humpheryes Sermons upon Abisha's story 1 Sam. 26. are so full to our cause in hand that I should do him wrong to cite any part of him and not spin it put to a just Treatise I referr yee to the book it self as also to Bishop Bancrofts English-Scottzing Bishop King in his 35. Lecture on Jonas makes it the very case of the Brownist who in his reformation would tread Conscience Obedience Religion and Duty both to God and Man under foot Whereupon the Reverend Bishop Davenant in his twelfth determined Question tells us induant quam venlint pietatis larvan● isti Magistratuum marke that Magistratuum not Religionum reformatores Albiniani tamen Nigriani out Cassiani rectius audient quam Christiani Let them mask under what cloak they will Religion may be their plea but Rebellion is their practise I shall forbear the envy of naming such as are still alive amongst us of whom Bishop Morton is not the least But one passage of the Reverend Primate of Armagh in a speech in the Castle Chamber may not be forborne because of the Universality of the position There is nothing so contrary to the nature of Soveraignty which I hope we still allow our Kings if not how fell they from it as to have any Superiour power to over-rule them Qui Rex est Regem Maxime non habeat I forbear Seravia because although one of our Church yet a stranger born and the Learned Erwin of Scotland their works will testify sufficiently Yet if you desire to know the consentient opinion of the Protestant Divines take Calvin in his 25. Sect. of his 4. book of Institutions Beza in his exposition on the 13. to to the Rom. and the Harmony of them all in the confession of the Helvetian Divines in the 19. Sect. Article 25. They have prepared against Sophistications in their Anathema there is put in both the palam and the Arte too whosoever openly by offence as well as cunningly pretending defence shall do it there is a damnamus past upon him there is sentence given by the Church against him acquit him who will These are men whose names will tell you never were yet suspected for a Malignant Party Should we blot out these from the Catalogue of the Churchy I fear we had but a poor Charter for our Religion if we esteem them as they are Protestants I wonder how we can make so brave a flourish with this late taken Protestation in our hats and banish the genuine interpretation from our hearts If then there be any here with whom that sacred name of Majesty like a high