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cause_n	bishop_n	power_n	rome_n	1,714	5	6.7340	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04031	A sermon vpon the words of Saint Paul, Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers wherein the Popes soueraigntie ouer princes, amongst other errors, is briefly but sufficiently refuted, and the supremacie of the King, by cleare euidence and strong proofe auerred, to the silencing of the aduersarie, and satisfaction of the indifferent Christian, not blinded with partialitie and preiudicate opinion / by Thomas Ingmethorpe.	Ingmethorpe, Thomas.	1619 (1619)	STC 14088.5; ESTC S121083	20,575	38

obeyed then man yet the law of God alloweth no man by opposition to rebecke him but absolutely bindeth all men with patience to submit themselues vnto his sword and to endure the penalty which he shall inflict vpon them for refusing to do as he commandeth The one way leadeth to rebelliō the innate fruite of Romish Catholicisme abhominable to God and good men the other to persecution for righteousnesse sake the badge of true Christianitie whereby man is tried by his trial God glorified Further yet the vlcerate Aposteme of the Popes vsurpation in taking vpon him to depose Princes and dispose their kingdoms at his pleasure if they chance to stand in his light or any way to eclipse the bright beames of his vnlimited Maiestie by the interposition of their earthly domination is here crushed and lanced to the quicke If his Holinesse had any such coerciue power ouer Princes allotted him by God as he challengeth and his flattering parasites soothe him vp in doubtlesse S. Paul hauing so fit an opportunitie as here is offered him would haue giuen the faithfull some inkling of it But in that he deuideth the Church into two parts onely subjects and higher powers not mentioning any third state superiour to Princes he giueth that Papall fancie so deadly a stripe as all the balme in Gilead will not serue to heale the wound For except we shall traduce the Apostles diuision as defectiue and insufficient it must needs be granted A plaine demonstration to the eye whereby the mount of the Romish synagogue is subuerted that the Bishop of Rome is included in one of the two sorts either he must go in the tale of subiects or be ranked with the higher powers But among the higher powers he can haue no place as by the context is plaine they being there decyphered to be such as beare the sword and to whom tribute is payable the specificall and as I may say characteristicall notes of the secular Magistrate and so not originally inherent and incorporate in the office of a Bishop as the Pope is whom Christ by speciall prohibition hath interdicted all ciuill dominion whereof the sword is the ensigne Math. 20. Mark 10. This letteth not but Bishops may lawfully deale in ciuill causes being thereunto called and authorised by the higher powers and tribute the earnest Wherfore seeing that the Bishop of Rome cannot be reckoned amongst the higher powers it followeth not as an arbitrary or coniecturall supposition but as a necessary concomitant and certainty more then geometricall that he is to be accounted but in the number of subiects And they by Gods owne institution and ordinance are bound to obey not licensed to domineere and tyrannize ouer Princes as the Bishop of Rome in the pride of his heart arrogantly presumeth to do An vlcer that cannot be pierced with too sharp a naile This Analysis of the place howsoeuer the Popishly affected cannot well brooke nor digest with patience as derogatory to the prerogatiue of the Pope whom they take to be their summum bonam yet is it agreeable to the vniforme confession of the Primitiue Church which euermore acknowledged Princes to be superiour to all and subject to none but God as by the verdict of Tertullian Optatus Chrysostome and other of the ancient Fathers if need were and time and place would permit might more particularly and at large be made good Ridiculous it is and worthy the smeare of a black coale which the Bishop of Rome to bleare the eyes of his silly profelytes withall Extra de maiorit obed c. Solitae 1. Pet. 2. The Popes Glosse corrupteth the text doth comment vpon those words of Saint Peter Submit your selues vnto the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as vnto the most excellent For by as vnto the most excellent he would beare them in hand that the Apostle intended a resēblance only not that the King was very so indeed whereas the particle as doth there betoken the realty and truth of the matter like as in that of Iohn We saw the glorie thereof Ioh 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne And yet is this no point so insulsly paraphrased by reason of the terme of doubting perhaps wherewith he qualifieth his speech as where he a dioyneth without any maner of scruple or staggering at all that Saint Peter said not simply Submit your selues but with this addition for Gods sake following therein the tracke of the vulgar version or rather as other reade more sutably to the Greeke originall for the Lords sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if by those words as they euer haue had a singular grace and dexteritie in transsubstantiating by words the precept were transformed into a counsell See the Glosse vpon the Chapter whereas taken in their right sence they serue rather to giue a sharper edge vnto it and to make it more emphaticall As Saint Paul when he had giuen out of the magistrate He is the minister of God inferres thereupon Rom. 13. Wherefore ye must be subject not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake The Priest indeed as cannot be denied hath a kind of regiment as wel ouer Princes as priuate men annexed to his office In consideration whereof Saint Paul exhorteth Heb. 13. Obey your Ouerseers But this is internall not externall perswasiue not compulsiue spirituall not temporall ouer their soules not ouer their bodies goods and inheritances and so neither hinders the subiection of the one nor is preiudiciall to the principalitie of the other For as the King in sicknesse may be ruled by Physitions in building by Masons and Carpenters in trauelling by guides in warres by souldiers and by his Councell in affaires of State yet this diminisheth nothing of the supremacy he hath ouer them but if these or any of them make default against any of his lawes the King for all that by his princely power may punish them accordingly so the King may be ruled by his Clergie in matters of doctrine and discipline so far forth as they perswade no other then what is consonant to the Propheticall and Apostolicall Scripture But if once they exorbitate from that rule and become either negligent in their office or false in their teaching or vicious in their liuing or in plotting and practising treacherous and perfidious the King may notwithstanding by his royall authority according to the quantity and quality of the offence lawfully correct them whether it be by a pecuniary mulct or by restraint of liberty or by confiscation of goods or by the losse of life or otherwise as he shall see good But if the King on the other side answer not his duty to God in euery point the Priest must not now do the like by him forasmuch as God hath not thereunto authorized him The Priests office is confined to the word and Sacraments it extendeth not to the sword So that the Priest may teach and