one of Pride the other of Securitie of Pride when they thinke to doe Workes t Interim August vbi supra aboue commandement whereas the Law u Psal 19 8. of God is so perfect that if it x Esay 8.20 be not answerable to the Law what wee doe there is no light in vs yea y Matth. 15.9 we worship God in vaine teaching for Doctrines mens Precepts of Securitie when they would haue one so to depend vpon another as vpon his Mediatour when Scripture telleth them plainely That z Psal 49.7 no man can by any meanes redeeme his Brother or giue to God a ransome for him and that when we haue a Luke 17.10 done all that is commanded vs we must say Wee are vnprofitable seruants wee haue done that which was our dutie to doe Ob. For where b Cassander Consultat vbi supra some would cloke this blasphemie vnder the colour of the communion of Saints in which the weaker members are sustained by the stronger as ABRAHAMS c Gene. 20.7 Prayer healed ABIMELECHS Household and Hierusalem d 1. Reg. 15.4 was often saued for DAVIDS sake Sol. They vtterly mistake the question or wilfully abuse the simple ignorāt by casting this mist before their eyes which being cleered by the light of the Gospell may well perceiue their false colloguing if it be but in this since the communion of Saints betweene our selues consisteth not in ministring to others necessities out of our superfluities or Workes as they call them of supererogation but in the vse of graces giuen vs for the benefit of others those graces being only such as whereby one of vs may edifie another alreadie planted in the House of God and not meritorious to procure eternall life for others as they thinke instancing therefore most idly both in ABRAHAMS Prayers which profited ABIMELECHS House in bodie not in soule not by ABRAHAMS communication but vpon Gods only fauour and in DAVID whose merits were not the cause of sauing Hierusalem out of the hands of their bodily enemies but only Gods mercie remembring the Couenant made with DAVID before As therefore the wise e Matth. 25.5 Virgins could not spare any of their Oyle to the Foolish lest they should haue wanted for themselues so the best of GODS Saints cannot spare any whit of grace to others which themselues may haue neede of seeing that as Saint Augustine giueth the f August lib. 83. quaest q. 59. reason Euery man shall giue an account for himselfe neither is any man holpen by anothers testimonie with God to whom the secrets of the heart are manifest and scarsly is any man sufficient to himselfe that his owne conscience may beare witnesse with himselfe Howsoeuer it bee it is an Axiome in PETER t Lombard lib. 1. dist 48. cap. 6. LOMBARD Nullius passione redempti sumus nisi Christi Wee are redeemed by no mans suffering but by Christs But let these second sorts of proud Perfectists now passe for this present Thirdly Swenckfeldians Anabaptists and our English Separatists now soiourning at Amsterdam who u Vid Osiand f. in Enchir. 3. par cap. 6. q. 1. M. Barnards second Booke pag. 93. presume so very much of their owne perfection that they hold two grosse points concerning the visible parts of the Church Militant as first in generall That the true Church must be without Sinners or Hypocrites remayning therein the second in particular that their Churches or Assemblies are such But the falshood of the former is many wayes apparant in holy Scripture first by parable Sol. x Matth. 13.32.38 c. in the field sowne with tares the Draw-net bringing fish vp great and small good and bad in the y Math. 20.10 Kings guests at supper whereof one wanted a wedding garment and in a z 2. Tim. 2.20 great house contayning vessells not onely of gold and of siluer but of wood and of earth some to honour and some to dishonour For all these demonstrate that in a visible Church militant are not onely faithfull children but hypocriticall professors also Secondly by plaine termes as where the Prophet a Esay 29.14 said what our b Matth. 15.8 Sauiour seconded This people draweth nigh vnto me with their mouth and honoureth mee with their lips but their heart is farre from me these are Hypocrites and where the Apostle c Gal. 2.5 signified what we shall still find true that false brethren brought in vnawares came in priuily to spye out our libertie which wee haue in Christ Iesus that they might bring vs into bondage and these were glosing Heretikes for d 1. Cor. 11.19 there must be Heretikes amongst you that they which are approoued may be made manifest among you Thirdly by necessary consequence in reason for if the parts be not sound the body is not whole and intire the Church is the bodie whereof all true Professors are members But the best of these members are crazed by corruption as was Dauid e 2. Sam. 11.2 by Adulterie Peter by dissembling f Gal. 2.15 euen after the great descent of Gods Spirit and so the best men that haue in them flesh How then can the Church bee so intire as they would make it As the g Cantic 2.2 Lillie amongst the Thornes so is my loue amongst the daughters pricked and pained by manifold h Matth. 18.7 offences which must needs come while shee is in this world where the i Reuel 12.12 Ephes 2.2 Deuill so rageth and raigneth by open persecutions or secret seductions Fourthly by Histories of all times For in Adams House which was the first Church there was a k Gene. 4.1 Cain in Noahs a l Gene. 9.24 cursed Canaan in Abrahams a m Gene. 21.6 mocking Ismael in Isaacks a n Heb. 12.17 prophane Esau in Iacobs a o Gene 49.3.4.5 rude Reuben and Simeon and Leui brethren in euill but what should I instance further The Church of Israel in the best dayes thereof neuer wanted corruptions or corrupt caitifes as false prophets filthy priests wicked rulers and worse people if we may beleeue the good Prophets bitterly inueighing so many times against them Nay in the Church of Christ what Age wanted Heretikes or what faithfull company was euer void of Hypocrites The Apostles had a p Iohn 6.70 Iudas the seuen Deacons had a q Act. 6.2 Nicholas the Samaritanes a r Act. 8.21 Simon Magus but I neede goe no further since the continuall reformation which is to be sought for in all true Churches doth intimate corruptions therein to be hatched I know the Church is ſ Cantic 1.4 faire Ob. and t Ephes 5.26 made glorious without spot But first it is so by Christ not of it selfe Secondly this beautie is perfected in glory not in grace Sol. I know Ob. we are commanded to separate our selues u 2. Cor. 6.14 Ephes
conceit of meritorious actions as if they could climbe vp to Heauen alone of themselues when the Apostle doth teach vs that it ſ Ephes 2.8.9 is the gift of God not of Workes lest any man should boast himselfe Miserable Fathers which giue vnto your hunger-starued Children for Bread t Mat. 7.9.10 Stones for Fish Scorpions But who are they Surely your Iaylors sent by the Man of sinne Of their Iaylors eyther from Rome or Rhemes Salamanca Vallidolid Conimbricum or some such other strong Towre of Iebus where stand u 2. Sam. 5.6 the Blind and Lame in as high respect as was the x Pompon Laetus in Constantino Magno Palladium in the Castle of Troy Men I say of monstrous shape furnished by their Teachers such as y Quodlib Watson pag. 108.109 236. c good Robin Cowbucke aliâs Parsons with all Craft and Crueltie Craft to deceiue both vs and you vs by word and deed only to escape vs like the Saepia and the Polypus For z Ouid. in Halientico Plin. lib. 9. cap. 29. as the Saepia lest hee should be caught casteth out a blacke Inke to darken the water so these men to escape the hands of Iustice vnder words of a double meaning collude with their Examiners as a Epistola Campiani ad Mercurialem Generalem Iesuitarum Campian did with the Maior of Douer and Garnet in the b Vid Acts of H. Garnets Arraignment whole course of his Examination when Gods Word wisheth vs c Ephes 4.24 not to lye lest they d Wisd 1.11 destroy their Soules for e Iohn 8.44 lying is the Deuils Art But what care they for that For who else is their Master but the dissembling Deuill that teacheth them to counterfeit euery shape of mē in the world contrary to the Apostle his rule who f Rom. 12.2 will not haue vs to be conformed to this world For as the g Ouid. Plin. vbi supra Polypus to auoyd the hands of fishers will turne himselfe into the colour of euery thing he lyeth next so these dissembling wretches to shun the danger of apprehension take vpon them any whatsoeuer habit of men in the world as now they will goe h Boast Bishop Gerard Dudley and other such Renegado disguised doe proue this true like swaggering Gentlemen now like Pedanticall Schoole-masters now like officious Seruing-men now like a rich Farmer now like a poore begger Rat-catcher Glasse-man Pedlar or in other such disguisement both contrarie to their zeale of their falsly so called Catholique faith which at i Allens Apologie of the English Seminaries at Rome and Rhemes their admission into their Seminaries and dismission backe againe into England they sweare to preach without feare publiquely in all places wheresoeuer they come and repugnant to their vow k Bell. lib. 2. de Monach. ca. 4. of Regular obedience wherein they are bound by solemne oath to keepe and not to change the habit of their order I know l Tortus p. 366. Ob. their Great Cardinall would here excuse thē by the example of Eusebius Samosatenus who m Tripart hist lib. 7. cap. 16. in the Arian-persecution went about through Phaenicia Syria Sol. and other places in a souldiers habit to teach Gods people the Catholique truth But one example is no generall warrant especially to them who are bound by vow where he was free who n Tortura Torti ibid. teach falsehood where he spake truth who vnder a colour of Catholique doctrine infuse the poyson of treasonable Designes into the heads hearts of their hearers where hee was in all things carefull to obey superiour Powers so farre as they commanded things not repugnant to the Word of God Yet all this their secret packing is onely say o Tortus vbi supra they to deceiue such as with whom they are not to keepe any faith or promise Indeed so was it taught in the Councell p Concil Constant sess 15. of Constance against all truth both of Religion and of ciuill honestie But alas whom doe they hood-winke Not vs who know them too well but you poore soules whom they entangle by auricular Confession and sensuall Absolution their prettie ginne for Gentlewomen that they may be enriched by your possessions either kept or sold as you well find by the cunning dealing of one Man onely Iohn Gerrard by name whose knauerie discouered by the Author of those venemous q Wats Quod. lib. p. 89.90 c. Quodlibets doth sufficiently assure vs of the like way taken not onely by the Iesuites but also euen by the Secular Priests who are as iealous r Gal. 4.18 ouer you as the false apostles were ouer the Galatians that you might onely loue them excluding all others Their Craft can no longer bee concealed for their Crueltie practised vpon you and intended against vs. For doe not you find by their haunt vnto your Houses a bondage in your soules to vnnecessary obseruations of Fasting and other Abstinences a butchering of your bodies by Flagellations and other Exercises an emptinesse in your Purses by ordinarie Pensions and extraordinary Contributions for the pretended furtherance of the Catholike Cause How many Nobles how many Gentlemen and others of Note haue beene brought as we say to a Staffe and a Wallet euen to begge of others what they had of their owne I need not recount the Countrie is ful of such Dilapidatiōs occasion'd only by their own too simple gentlenesse and these Cormorants too vnsatiable greedinesse whereby they make as great a prey of their poore seduced simple and besotted Followers as Kites doe of Carkasses torne piece-meale amongst them And yet they will not be accounted cruell although to saue themselues they thrust you out into desperate designes of deepest danger as to murder your Soueraigne to ransacke your Countrie to neglect your kinred not ſ Catesbies conceite for the Catholike cause to care for your friends so your enemies perish with them Surely I cannot but feare and quake to thinke of the mischiefe intended against this flourishing Kingdome of England by Pope and Papists set on fire by Hellish Iesuites and Seminarie Priests How eager were they against blessed t Quodlibet p. 260.261 c. Queene Elizabeth first to procure an Excommunication of Pius Quintus renewed by Sixtus Quintus then to conspire against her Sacred Person by open Rebellions in the North and priuie Treasons of Parrie and others thirdly to poyson her best Nobles and Friends by Lopez fourthly to procure an Inuasion by Spaniards in the yeere 1588. fifthly to intitle the Infanta to this Crowne sixthly to procure Breeues from Rome to hinder His Maiestie when time should serue seuenthly to enter into Conspiracie by Secular Priests as Watson c. at the very first Inte of his Maiesties happie Raigne eightly to plot the Powder Treason a Designe beyond all example for hainousnesse since which how they haue
of Beades in an Heathenish d Matth. 6.7 Battologie Pharisaically e Matth. 23.14 deuouring Widdowes houses vnder colour of long Prayers So cunningly can they collogue and vnder sheepes clothing hide woluish rauenousnesse For loe both Craft and Crueltie in Papists Craft first in compassing a Nouice seduced to bee a Recusant from our Christian Communion by setting him in the fore-front of some dangerous Schisme such as the f Vid Watsons Quodlibets q. 2. art 6. Iesuits had of late against the Secular Priests to their owne deserued ouerthrow as g Matth. 12.25 an House or Kingdome deuided against it selfe cannot stand for Babels confusion h Gene. 11.11 must bee by diuision secondly in keeping him in the desperate course of Hereticall obstinacie by the iniunction of that exercise which * Vid. Watsons Quodlibets q 3. artic 10. Iesuites haue inuented to the vtter vndoing of many silly soules and simple Gentles who thinking all sooth that such men say set Houses Lands Goods and all yea euen their Alleageance vnto their Soueraigne at sixe and seuen i Catalog test Verit. p. 2. lib. 20 pag. 31. De vitio in vitium de flammâ transit in ignem Crueltie first in bereauing their Disciples of all true vnderstanding k Matth. 23.15 by hiding the key of Knowledge that is l Concil Trid. Sess Clem. 8. in Append. ad 4. in Indice lib. prohibitorum by keeping the Scripture in an vnknowne language forbidding all whatsoeuer Translations into vulgar Tongues and so by necessary consequence the Rhemish Translation whereas m Esay 45.23 Rom. 14.11 Euerie tongue must confesse Christ secondly in captiuating their wils by enforcing vpon their Consciences a consent to their doctrine whatsoeuer it be n Bellar. lib. 1. de Iustifiâ— cap. 7. through implicit faith that so they only may be the men of Learning and Truth whereas CHRIST willeth vs o Iohn 5.39 to search the Scriptures in which we shall not only find Christ but also the Church p August Ep. 166. as Saint Augustine thinketh And therefore seeing the outside seemeth so faire and the inside is so filthie we may conclude of a Popish Rabbie or Doctor as of an vncased Hypocrite q Esay 32.5 The vile person shall be no more called liberall nor the Churle said to bee bountifull For their acts discouer their habit too plainely as appeareth first by their cunning conueyances to compasse wickednesse happily still discouered to their owne confusion as their r Vid vitam R. Elizabethae often defeated Conspiracies against Christian Princes especially the blessed Queene ELIZABETH and our most gracious Å¿ In Powder Treason Lord King IAMES and godly Ministers as t Vid. Act. Monuments Bezam de vit Caluin Master Luther Master Caluin and diuers others doe verifie what Eliphaz said of Gods great working he u Iob 5.12 disappointeth the deuices of the craftie so that their hands cannot performe their enterprize Secondly by their ends and scope well found out to their shame in their euident issues to bee First the maintenance of their pompous pride For why else did the Pope so mainely still resist the Emperour his Soueraigne as sometime to depose him as Hildebrand x Platin. in Gregor 7. did Henrie the Fourth sometimes to treade him vnder his foote as Alexander y H. Mutius lib. 18. rerum Germaniâ— the Third did Fredericke Barbarossa Secondly the embondaging and keeping vnder of all the World as appeareth by their crueltie exercised both against their enemies the godly z Vid. Act. Monuments passâ—m lac Vsserium de Eccles Occidental cap. 8.9 c. Albigenses Waldenses and the faithfull of Reformed Churches which to their power they would vtterly subuert and vpon their friends whom they tye to as great obseruance as Adonibesech a Iudg 1.7 did the seuentie Kings first lamed then fed vnder his table For they cut short their power and iurisdiction b Vid. Breuia Paul 5. ad Anglo-Papistas by their Popes Supremacie and feede c Vid. Missale c. Catechism Vaux c. them with the crummes of superstitious Rites to their small comfort either of soule so vnsettled by diuersitie of opinions or of bodie so brought low by violent and strict vsage Thirdly the fulfilling of their filthy lusts and pleasures too well knowne to the World by their keeping of d Platin. in Alexand 6. Mantuan lib. 3. Calamitatum Ariost in 7. satyr Concubines nourishing of Bastardie vnder the name of Nephewes keeping of Stewes in Rome and other places yea vsing of Ganymeds and Catamits and all such like Sodomitrie whereof their owne Fauourites are the most liuely Witnesses especially Ariosto in his excellent Satyres Wherefore deare Brethren since by this direct application of the marks before giuen to all false teachers and blind guides wee finde that Prouerbe prooued vpon Popish Prelates and Preachers which c Athen. lib. 7. cap 33. Athenaeus hath * Perca sequitur saepiam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Like will to like as the Deuill said to the Collyer We here for our part haue good cause first to reioyce and prayse our good God for f Reuel 19.2 thus iudging the great Whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornications For g Matth. 4.16 now the people which sate in darknesse seeth great light and to them which sate in the region and shaddow of death Light is risen euen such as many h Math. 13.17 Prophets and righteous Men desired to see and did not see God i Heb. 11.40 in Truth prouiding better things for vs that they without vs should not bee made perfect Secondly to lament the miserable estate of our Brethren in the flesh whose diuisions cannot but bee to euery good man as Reubens was to other Tribes k Iudg. 5.15 great thoughts of heart because this Schisme is not only a weakning of the whole bodie Ecclesiasticall and Politicall in this flourishing Empire but also a most necessarie cause of certaine ruine and vtter vndoing of the parts disioyned be they neuer so strong seeing they are vnperfect by themselues and drawne by Deluders out l Prou. 27.8 of their owne place as a Bird from her nest being in a snare m 2. Tim. 2.26 led captiue by the Deuill at his will Thirdly to endeuour a reconciliation of them to their Mother-Church from whom they are â—ent like vnnaturall Bastards to sucke the brests of the Babylonish Whore For it is the Law of Charitie to pull out of the ditch n Exod. 23.5 a loden Asse such as all those are who o Psal 32.9 haue no vnderstanding being blinded in Poperie and whose mouthes must be held with bit and bridle lest they come neere vs to hurt vs either by secret Trecherie or open Rebellion Therefore as a good Physician first gently prepareth by some moderate Potion before
rep cap. 4. quasi primum caput As their first and chiefe Head vpon whom next vnder God wee are to depend that t 1. Tim. 2.4 vnder them wee may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie So that u Agapet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad Iustinia apud Orthodoxograph tom 1. Agapetus might well say vnto Iustinian 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The King is Lord ouer all yet Gods seruant withall For what is his Nature as he is a King None better expresseth it then the Apostle x Rom. 13.4 Saint Paul saying He is the Minister of God to thee for good For here is first his Maker GOD By y Prou. 8.14 me Kings raigne secondly his matter or obiect of gouernment Thou whosoeuer thou art z Rom. 13.1 euery soule must bee subiect vnto the higher Powers thirdly his forme Gods seruice according vnto his will a Psal 2.11 Serue the Lord in feare fourthly his end b 1. Tim. 2.2 Thy good in an honest and a quiet life So that looke how farre God hath giuen him authoritie and power so farre must inferiours bee subiect vnto it without exemption vnlesse against all conscience by rebellion c Rom. 13.2 they resist the Ordinance of God Now certaine it is that God hath giuen to Kings an absolute power and Soueraigntie vnder him ouer all Persons Goods or Causes within their Dominions For first Persons are subiect vnto obedience without exception as the Apostle saith Let d Rom. 13.1 euery soule be subiect to the higher Powers Yea saith e Chrysost hom 23. in Ep. ad Rom. Chrysostome If thou beest an Apostle if an Euangelist if a Prophet or whosoeuer thou art for this subiection hindreth not godlinesse but ratifieth Gods Order for reward of thy well-doing as Salomon f 1. Reg. 2.26 preferred Zadoc or for thy iust punishment if thou rebellest against thy Soueraigne as did Abiathar deposed g Vid. Bennonem Cardinal Act. Monum Io. Fox de his omnibus Hildebrand Lanfranke Anselme Becket Beuford Poole Allen and the rest of our Romish Renegadoes Secondly Goods are at Princes disposing for the good of Church and Common-wealth bee they what they may bee prophane or sacred which the King may eyther for necessary vse establish as good Nehemiah h Nehe. 13.12 did the Tithes or vpon abuse translate to other occasions thereby to punish the grosse offendours as Ioas i 1. Reg. 12.7 did disgrace the Priests by forbidding them to take any further Offerings of their acquaintance since with what they had before receiued they did not repayre the breaches of the Temples so may Kings take Tribute of Church-lands as Christ k Matth. 17.25 himselfe payed to Caesar so are Clergie-men to yeeld subsidie as members of the body politike euen out of their Lands and other reuenewes which they hold of the King in capite as we Englishmen say in chiefe according as the l Gratian. dist 8. Can. 10. Canon Law iudged out of S. Augustine m August tr 6. in Ioh. prope finem thus disputing Nolite dicere quid mihi Regi Quid tibi ergo possessioni Per iura Regum possidentur possessiones Say not yee What haue I to doe with the King Then what hast thou to doe with Possessions By the Lawes or right of Kings are Possessions kept Thirdly Causes Ecclesiasticall as well as Ciuill are within the compasse of the Kings Iurisdiction since otherwise there can hardly eyther Kings be n Esay 49.23 nursing Fathers or Queenes be nursing Mothers vnto the Church Was not the Iudge to o Deut. 17.8 ioyne with the Priest in the sentence of Iudgement Did not Asa Iâ—hoshaphat Hezekiah Iosiah Nehemiah and such other good Rulers of Iudah meddle with causes of Ecclesiasticall conusance when they commanded the p 2. King 18.4 Priests to purge the Temple the q 2. Chro. 19 4 Leuites to teach the people r 2 Reg. 23.6 put downe all Idolatry and restrained Å¿ Nehe. 13.15 abuses done vpon the Sabbath day Did not the Fathers of the Primitiue Church craue helpe t Euseb lib. 7. histor cap. 24. of Aurelianus the Emperour for deposing of Paulus Samosatenus Had not Constantine the Great in his power what he determined betweene u Socrat. lib. 1. cap. 4. Alexander and Arius in Alexandria betweene x Optatus Mileuitan lib. 1. contr Parmenianum Caecilianus and Donatus in Carthage Who called Councels Who placed Bishops Who established Churches Who receiued the Appeales of Bishops from their Metropolitanes The Emperour while hee stood and since his deminishing those Kings of the Prouinces as wee may plainely see by the y Tomis 1. 2. Concil apud Binnium apud Caranzum Councels of Spaine at Toledo of France at Orleance and other places For this point is plaine by those words of Leo the z Leo 1. Epist 75. cap. 3. Romane Bishop to Leo the Emperour Seeing God hath enriched your Gentlenesse with so great enlightning of his Sacrament you are presently to marke that this Kingly power is conferred vpon you not onely for the gouernment of the World but especially for the safegard of the Church that by the repressing of bold attempts you may both defend things well ordayned and restore true peace to things in trouble and that by driuing out the vsurpers of anothers right Therefore in a word we find that the King is called the Head of the Church not mysticall and spirituall for so is Christ a Vt supra the onely Head but politicall and corporall as the b Esay 9.15 ancient and Honourable is the Head and yet so not an Head which doth by it selfe execute what is to be done for mans soules health in the Church of God I meane he is not caput administrans a ministring head in his owne person for Kings in Gods law were not to sacrifice as appeareth by Vzziah c 2. Chron. 26.16 therefore smitten with a Leprosie but as our most d Nowâ—l against Dorman D. Rainolds Conference with Hart cap. 10. diuis 1. learned Diuines haue expressed it the King is caput imperans an head who howsoeuer he may himselfe execute any Soueraigne dutie coÌ„cerning the affaires of the Common-wealth as to sit in iudgement with e 1. Reg. 3.15 Salomon and to f Vid. Q. Curtium lib. 3. c. make warre with Alexander yet in offices Ecclesiasticall only is to commaund and see those duties performed by such as are therunto allotted by Gods speciall calling as Dauid g 1. Chro. 24.8 set the Priests in their orders courses Hezekiah h 2. Chro. 29.4 called them to purge the TeÌ„ple For this is the settled iudgement of the Primitiue Church as is manifest by these words first of Augustine i August Ep. 50 ad Bonifac. The King serueth God otherwise as he is a man and otherwise