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A08377	A sermon preached in St. Maries Church in Oxford, March xxiv. MDCX. at the solemnizing of the happy inauguration of our gracious soveraigne King Iames Wherein is proved that kings doe hold their kingdomes immediately from God. By Sebastian Benefield D. of Divinitie, Fellow of Corpus Christi College.	Benefield, Sebastian, 1559-1630.	1611 (1611)	STC 1870; ESTC S115273	13,137	24

Imperatorem non est nisi solus Deus qui fecit Imperatorem Optatus in his 3. booke against Parmenian and S. d Laesus est Imperator qui non habet parem ullum super terram summitas caput omnium super terram hominum Chrysostome in 2. Hom. ad Pop. Antioch and S. Ambrose in his e Cap. 4. Qui tenentur legibus audent suum negare peccatum dedignantur rogare indulgentiam quam perebat Rex David qui nullis legibus tenebatur humanis ibid. cap. 10. Rex utique erat nullis ipse legibus tenebatur quia liberi sunt reges à vinculis delictorum Neque enim ullis ad poenam vocantur legibus tuti imperij potestate Homini ergo non peccavit cui non tenebatur obnoxius Apolo of David and S. f Deus igitur ille faelicitatis autor dator quia solus est verus Deus ipse dat regna terrena bonis malis c. Austin in his 4. booke de Civ D. cap. 33. and Pope g Lib. 2. cap. 100. indict 11. Mauritio Augusto Ego verò haec Dominis meis loquens quid sum nisi pulvis vermis Sed tamē quia contra autorem omnium Deum hanc intendere constitutionem sentio Dominis tacere non possum Ad hoc enim potestas super omnes homines Dominorum meorum pietati coelitus data est ut qui bona appetunt adjuventur c. Gregorie the first in an epistle of his to Mauritius the Emperour do all stand very effectually for the imperiall authority of kings immediately derived from God How this point hath beene mainetained for these last 500 yeares by Venericus Vercellensis in his booke de unitate Ecclesiae conservanda by the Leodienses in their epistle against Paschalis the second by Parrhisius in his treatise de potestate regiâ papali by Babenbergius by Dante 's by Cusanus by Theodoricus de Niem by Franciscus de Zabarellis and others they who haue pervsed that profitable volume set out by Simon Schardius concerning Imperiall Iurisdiction authority and praeeminence cannot but see And how it is in this our age vpholden against all gainesayers not only here a line and there a line but booke vpon booke published by the now-Mirrour of kings by our Bishops by others eminent for their learning as well within this land as without shall make it well knowne to the childrē that are yet vnborne who in their day moved by the same evidence of Gods word whereby wee are moved shall ioine their assent to ours teach their children also that Kings doe hold their kingdomes immediately from God You haue my doctrine It may serue to check that man of sinne who intrudes himselfe into Gods right and takes vpon him the Sovereigntie over all kings and people and claimes absolute and vncontroleable autoritie to giue to take away imperia regna principatus quicquid habere mortales possunt to giue and to take away empires kingdomes principalities and whatsoever mortall men can possesse or haue This was the expresse challenge of Pope Gregory the 7. in his execration against the Emperour Henry the 4. as it is set downe by Platina in that Popes life Were his successours lesse arrogant I suppose not See but the Bull of Pope Alexander the Sixt containing his donation of the west Indies to Ferdinandus king of Castell and Leon and to Isabella his Queene we de nostra mera liberalitate of our meere liberalitie and of the fulnesse of our Apostolicall power doe giue vnto you your heires successours kings of Castell and Leon for ever all Ilands and firme lands detected or to be detected from one hundred leagues beyond the Acores towards the west and south togither with all their dominions citties castles places farmes rightes iurisdictions appurtenances whatsoever This was a largesse so transcendent for the vanitie thereof that as c Hist Nov. orb l. 3. c. 3. p. 281. Benzo writeth an infidell king Attabaliba king of Peru could by the eie of reason discover it and giue it this censure Pontificem insigniter fatuum impudentem esse eo facilè prodi quòd aliena tam liberalit●r largiatur that the Pope was passing foolish impudent so liberally to giue that which was none of his owne A like vanitie did Sanctius brother to the king of Spaine and elect Generall for the warre against the Saracens of Aegypt taxe in another Bishop of Rome as d De rob Memorand lib. 2 tract 3. c. 22. Petrarch affirmeth The bishop of Rome caused it to be proclaimed in his consistory that hee bestowed the kingdome of Aegypt vpon Sanctius Sanctius vnderstanding by his interpreter this favour for requitall commaunded that the Pope should by and by bee proclaimed Great Caliph of Baldach So perfumed he the sonne of pride with his owne smoke for he knew full well that the Pope could no more make him a King then he could the Pope a Caliph But Popes and Popish Divines and Canonists and all Clawbackes of that See maintaining that the Pope hath even iure divino by the law of God so large and faire a patrimonie as is the Monarchie and Soveraigntie over the whole world in all causes both Civill Ecclesiasticall they all stand convicted of falshood through the truth of this sacred doctrine Kings doe hold their kingdomes immediately from God Immediately from God Let then the honour be Gods and let our hearts be powred out to giue due thankes to him for placing over vs our Gratious King King IAMES of whom we may as truely say as the Israelites did of their David 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Thou hast set him blessings for ever Aged Leontius Bishop of Antioch as it is recorded by Sozomen Eccles hist lib. 3. c. * In versione Christophorsoni Grynaei cap. 19. 20. pointing to his gray and white haires said vnto some that were present with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 when this snow is melted much mire will follow he meant sedition and trouble But God hath done better by vs. The white snowie haires of our late aged Soveraigne were in her full time dissolved But God his wonderfull providence contrarie to the desires and expectation of many so ordered matters then that no trouble followed The Lord left vs not as sheep without a sheepheard e Numantius ad Scipionē apud Plutarc Apophtheg Rom. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 we are the same sheep still to be lead forth to the waters of comfort though there be another sheepheard The Lord did set King IAMES to be vnto vs blessings for ever blessings temporall and spirituall Temporall for through him wee are delivered from all feare of forraine enimies iudgement and iustice are executed to vs for the quiet of vs all And spirituall for the worship of God is every where within his dominions promoted according to the word of truth And this blessing is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for ever for hereby are we fitted to that eternall inheritance in the highest heavens I will not now make a panegyricke to extoll his Maiestie for his Clemencie Equitie Bountie Pietie Learning Theory and other kingly parts the time forbids me and bids me to conclude My conclusion shall be no other thē a prayer for his Maiestie that God would be pleased to giue him vitam longam regnum prosperum prolem foelicem vitam aeternam a long life a prosperous raigne a happy progeny in this world and in the world to come life eternall Holy Lord stablish the good worke that thou hast wrought in him visite him as thou diddest Moses in the bush Ioshua in the battell Gedeon in the field Samuel in the temple Be thou vnto him in his counsell wisdome and in all his waies his rocke his fortresse his deliverer his God his strength that the hand of violence of rebellion of treason touch him not So shall we vnder his governement lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godlinesse and honestie wherein whē we shal haue finished our race with cōfidēce we looke to be delivered from this bondage of corruptiō into the glorious libertie of the sonnes of God at what time our vile bodies shall be changed shal be fashioned like vnto the glorious body of our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ Even so bee it blessed Father for the same Iesus Christ his sake to whom with thee in the vnitie of the holy Spirit be ascribed all praise and power might maiestie dignitie and dominion for evermore Amen FINIS

Lord said vnto Elias Go annoint Hazael king over Aram and Iehu the sonne of Nimshi shalt thou annoint king over Israel Of Nabuchodonosor Dan. 2.37 O king saith Daniel thou art a king of kings for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdome Of Salomon 2. Chron. 8.9 The Queene of Sheba saith vnto him Blessed be the Lord thy God which loved thee to set thee on his throne as king And to omit others of David in my text of whom it is also specially said 1. Chron. 28.4 That God did choose him and delighted in him to make him king over Israel and ver 3. Psal 21. that the Lorde did set a crowne of pure gold vpon his head These proofes generall or particular standing vpon so soveraigne autoritie as Gods word is of doe make good my propounded doctrine namely that kings do hold their kingdomes immediatly from God Whereto I doubt not but I haue your full assent What neede then is there of any further insisting vpon this point Surely none were there not a generation of men bearing in their foreheads the stampe of Christians that cannot brooke any proofe taken out of Scripture for the maintenance of any doctrine that may distast the bishop of Rome or want his allowance Tel such that by scripture it is plaine that kings hold their kingdomes immediately frō God their reply wil be what tel you vs of scripture Set aside the autority of the Church the autoritie of the Pope we take scripture to be no better thē a q Colloqium Wormat. apud Lubbert de princip lib. 1. cap 5. doubtfull vncertaine and leaden rule then a r Colloq Ratisbon Rungqu 2. matter of debate then a ſ Colloq Wormat. vbi supra booke of discord then a poore t Hosius de expresso Dei verbo kind of element then a u Pighius cōtrov 3. de Ecclesia dūb iudge then x Ludov. Canon Lateran dead inke then y Eckius inken diuinity then a z Pighius Hierar l. 3. c. 3. nose of wax then a Hosius Gretser c. Aesops fables Impious wretches had they not wiped all shame from their faces they would never haue laid such load of disgraces vpon Gods holy worde Their Cardinall Hosius staies not here he proceedes a degree farther He coines a distinction of scripture as it is vsed by themselues whom they call Catholikes and as by vs whom they call Heretikes His words are in the end of his third booke against Brentius his Prolegomena The scripture quomodo profertur à Catholicis verbum est Dei quomodo profertur ab haereticis verbum est diaboli as it is alleadged by vs so must it bee forsooth the word of the Devill but as by them so only shall it be the word of God Upon this ground and distinction of theirs I doubt not but that blasphemous b Apodix 1. Thes 8. p. 131 Dorhoff hath made an alteration in the beginning of our Creede and in steede of Credo in Deum patrem omnipotentem creatorem coeli terrae hath substituted Credo in Diabolum carnificem orcipotentem corruptorem coeli terrae For if scripture alleaged by vs be verbum Diaboli what is our beliefe What our religion You see of what validitie proofes drawne by vs from holy Scriptures for the confutation of any popish point are in the estimation of some Papists They hold vs for Heretikes and consequently the sense of scripture which we bring to be no sense of scripture Hence is it that the Author of the short Narration how Henrie the IV. late king of France and Navarre sent his Embassadours to Pope Clement the VIII for absolution from his heresie tels vs that though some doe mainetaine the king to hold his kingdome immediately from God yet that at Rome this is accounted a very ridiculous matter It is evident to be so by Cardinall Bellarmin who in his first book de Romano Pontifice cap. 7. parag Postremo distinguishing betweene secular and ecclesiasticall soveraignty affirmeth that the Ecclesiasticall is à solo Deo de iure divino from God alone and by the law of God but the secular is from mans institution and de iure gentium by the law of nations If we marke the antithesis and opposition betweene the lawe of God the law of nations as also between the soveraigneties Ecclesiasticall and secular we must needs acknowledge it for Bellarmines opinion that kings holde not their kingdomes immediatly from God This his opiniō is more clearely set downe in his booke de Clericis cap. 28. parag Ad confirmationem His expresse words there are Regna non sunt de iure divino sed de iure gentium proinde mutabilia sunt Kingdomes are not by Gods law but by the law of nations and therefore are changeable wherevpon dependeth his treasonable doctrine delivered in his fift booke de Rom. Pontif. cap. 8. where among other things Parag. Praeterea he affirmeth that not only Princeps Episcoporum the Pope but Episcopus quilibet every Bishop though but the Popes vassall may vse temporall power over kings and inforce them to make lawes yea and for some causes depose them too as appeareth by the precedents of that chapter But this and other like proditorious assertions there and elsewhere broached and defended by Bellarmine others of that faction vpon this ground That kings do not holde their kingdomes immediately from God I now let passe The immediate dependencie of kings and their kingdomes vpon God howsoever at Rome it be ridiculously entertained hath already bin prooved and warranted sufficiently to such as do beleeue the scriptures Unbeleevers I much heede not Yet if any will that the autority of the ancient fathers be produced let such know that a Ad utilitatē gentiliū terrenum regnū positum est à Deo sed non à diabolo c. Irenaeus in his 5. booke aduersus haereses b Christianus nulliꝰ est hostis nedū Imperatoris quem scien à Deo suo cōstitui necesse est ut ipsū diligat revercatur honoret salvum velit cum toto Romano Imperio quousque seculum stabit Colimꝰ ergo Imperatorem sic quomodo nobis licet ipsi expedit ut hominem à Deo secundum quicquid est à Deo consecutum solo Deo minorem Hoc ipse volet Sic enim omnibus major est dum solo vero deo minor est Et Apologet. cont gent. cap. 30. Sciunt Imperatores quis illia dederit imperium sciunt quà homines quis animam Sentiunt enim Deum esse solum in cujus solius potestate sunt à quo sunt secundi post quem primi ante omnes super omnes deos Quid-ni Cum super omnes homines qui ubique vivunt mortuis antistant Tertullian in the 2. cap. of his booke to Scapula c Super