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A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

oris either the materiall sword of the executioner or if not so the sword of a two-edged lying tongue hath runne thorow all the ancient Apostles and most of those Haereditarios Discipulos Apostolici seminis frutices later Apostles who in their seuerall ages haue succeeded in the Church Christ himselfe was not free from it was not hee branded with the name of an Impostour after his death and the Disciples were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 made Theaters of misery in their liues of scorne and infamy in their deathes Thus did the Arrians scandalize the great Athanasius And as executors vnto them the Romish Priests Iesuits with their frontlesse imputations haue striued to darken the glorious truth of our Church and Religion by traducing the Professors and on their ruined credits sought to build vp their owne rotten cause Luther was defamed for lewd life and conuersing with the diuell and that he had hanged himselfe Bucer for denying Christ at his death Oecolampadius for dying suddenly when hee was sixteene dayes sicke in his bed Caluin for dying distracted and desperate an aspersion which my Author saith Bolsecke himselfe recanted in the Synod with teares Beza giuen out for a Conuert and a reuolter from the Protestant Church to theirs All which so grosse and false that some with their owne pens confuted the calumniations cast vpon them and amongst the rest Beza after the report of his death and conuersion published his owne defence and their periurious falshood in a tract called Beza rediuiuus Beza reuiued I haue yet one instance of the selfesame quality as false as that though not so well confuted One indeed too many by that and so deare that I could haue wished He had not so soone been added to this catalogue of wronged Worthies But that wish is vaine and like Him lost and by that losse am I furnished with what most willingly I would haue wanted a sad example Your conceit already lookes thorow me and my meaning is articulated in your apprehensions before vttered in words One he was knowne to all enough to me more neerly as being tyed to him in double bonds of Canon and of Nature Sometimes the Bishop of this See or to vse the phrase of Saint John the Angell of this Church though now taken vp into a better Hierarchy the society of Angels in heauen I had cause to thinke hee now was out of the reach of detraction and too high fixed to be traduced but I see flouds of reproche throwne after him by the Papists as after the woman in the Wildernesse For my owne part I thought once not to haue meddled at all in this subiect knowing that Rerum irrecuperabilium foelieissima est obliuio vnhappy losses are happily forgot much lesse with the slander raised after him supposing it too light vpon the Ballance to poyze or sway any wise mans beliefe Againe I could not iudge it but as very ridiculous or malicious if ridiculous I hoped like a fume it would haue vanished For mendacia diù non fallunt and hauing arriued at nine dayes the age of a wonder died in laughter If malicious I held best not to take notice of it For iniury is no iniury if not apprehended Omnis iniuria in sensu patientis saith one to own a scandall crownes the reuenge of the Authour whereas neglected it quickly findes its owne graue But I see this spurious Brat hath found too many Nurses since it was exposed and like a Snow-ball by rolling is growne greater Longa aetate non infringitur sed augetur and as it hath acquired more age so also with those that wish it so more credit Therefore because impudent auouchings make wise men somtimes doubt and the ignorant stumble and for that I would not with a guilty silence seeme to betray a Truth or confirme their errour who take all for granted which is not contradicted I haue at last aduentured to speake Not that I hold my selfe fit or able for this taske at any time much lesse now but onely for that I hoped what I should say might win more beliefe as hauing been an eare witnesse and which is more Oculatus testis an eye-witnes of all his last passages and could beare record against his Accusers falshood as Saint John did of the truth Quod vidimus quod audiuimus c Yet alas what can I say what proportion will words hold against peremptory assertions I haue nothing to conuince them but a plaine vnglost deniall Petilianus dicit Ego nego They say it is so I know it is not and in a iust case it is Rhetoricke enough Let bad causes shrowd themselues in suspected apologies Trueth needs no clothing but as a principle scornes proofe or demonstration Besides it were difficult to prooue a Negatiue much harder to refute an vntruth by the tracke you may as well descrie the Eagles path or define that which is a twinne of the same litter non ens Neither finde I any such President from that Incarnate Truth Christ Jesus who being accused by clouds of false witnesses answered either nothing at all or very little according to his owne prescript Let your communication bee yea and nay And yet if I would seeke euidence to cast them I would looke no further then their owne Iurors but ex ore ipsorum from themselues fetch circumstance to confute them For I neuer yet knew any Lye so close built but there was some loope-light for the Truth to discouer it This is mendacium fenestratum hath many wide windowes for you to behold it First you know Hee whose conuersion they now vrge had been long an eye-sore to them railed on by many of their Pamphleters Parsons especially and that other vnchristened Jesuite for he hath no name or else shames to put it to his booke who thought it would be credit to his worke if he could bring in the name of Doctor King thogh but in the Rere and Post-script Iudge then how can this Report cohere to detest him liuing to defame him sicke yet claime him dead Were it true there is little policy to trust a reconciled enemy But being so false it is most impious and diabolicall to belie the dead For insidiari calcaneo which Gregory expounds to be Finem vitae is the diuels proper passion Secondly for the Authour of his conuersion they alleage such a one who sure vttered words which no man euer heard and acted feats which none could see For had he been a Substantiue visible or to be vnderstood and no Iugler nor dreame nor aire nor meere metaphysicall noiton we who were scarce euer absent should at one time or other haue descryed him But peraduenture it was a night-piece and not fit to bee perused by euery light Well then apply their owne Ignis fatuus to it and grant them as much as they can suppose and marke if it appeare not farre worse You must

wrote surely if thou retaine all yet practise none if it be for theory and not vse thou art but like a Granary locked vp in the time of dearth or a sword sleeping in the scabbard when it should bee drawne Such knowledge doth but Animam praegrauare comber the soule as Sauls armour did Dauid and is only like the Persians glittering munition which Alexander said was for Spoile not Fight So this knowledge doth spoyle the owners and make their condemnation the greater when they shall know the right way yet hold the wrong heare so much yet doe so little Let no man thinke it enough to spend the day in hearing or by frequenting a multitude of Sermons to aduantage himselfe for though he count his Lectures as the Papists their Pater-nosters by the beads yet if he be An hearer of the Law and not a doer of it hee prosecutes against his owne soule each Pulpit is to him a Tribunall and euery Preacher a Iudge to pronounce sentence against him Such as these are lyable to the woe which Christ denounced Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises hypocrites that impose such heauie loads vpon your Preachers but touch them not with the least of your actions Nay they are guilty of the blood of their Preachers as Jerusalem of her Prophets O Ierusalem Ierusalem that slayest the Prophets which were sent vnto thee For with tasking them to too much paines they weare them out and make Martyrs of them when there is no time of persecution Againe let the Preachers know here is a Memento for them too they must not onely tell the people what they should doe but by their examples shew them the way Oues ipsum sequuntur the sheepe follow him therefore it is presumed the Shepheards must goe before Quis audiet illum docentem qui seipsum non audit Who shall heare him who heares not himselfe Or Domine quis credet auditui Who shall beleeue his report who by a life vnsutable to his words discredits his owne errand It is Isidore Pelusiota his counsell 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that life and doctrine may consent for he preaches best Qui dicit non linguâ sed vitâ who liues as well as he speakes Therefore Ne simus strepentes vocibus muti moribus Let not their hearts tongues iarre but let their actions bee interpreters and comments to their words and their liues the counterparts of their doctrine For if their faces stand to Jerusalem and their hearts to Ashdod teach others well but follow not their owne lessons they doe but as Nazianzen speakes build vp with one hand and plucke downe with the other What shall I say of them They are as Guardians that haue other mens soules in wardship but neglect their owne or like whetstones they set an edge on others deuotion yet themselues are dull and cut not at all Funguntur vice cotis acutum Reddere quae ferrum valet exors ipsa secundi or lastly they are like Conueyances of land instruments to seate others in the Kingdome of heauen yet themselues haue no part in the state they conuey They stand in the Pulpit like Moses on the Mount Abarim and onely shew the people a Land of promise which themselues must neuer set foot in I haue bin long in the passage to my Text the copious matter would not dismisse me sooner One note and I passe it Of all faculties in man Memory is the weakest first waxeth olde and decayes sooner then Strength or Beautie Of all powers in man it is least at commaund the will not so little A man may be master of his inuention and of his tongue but who could euer boast himselfe the master of his memorie or promise to himselfe that would not fayle Which makes God and his Prophets Christ and his Apostles strengthen it with so many admonitions Remember and forget not Remember thy Creator in the dayes of thy youth and many the like both in the old and new Testament Now as generally in all things we are forgetfull so in nothing more then in things belonging to our woes Either we dare not or cannot remember miseries which must befall vs. The Mariner loues not to heare of stormes nor states rockt in securitie of warres nor can wanton youth endure the tidings of sicknesse or age that must surprize it Naturally all hate reproofe nor haue we patience to heare of iudgements that must follow for all these God shall bring thee to iudgement To such remembrances wee are deafe and auerse Monitoribus asperi and their preachings wee banish from our eares as Amaziah did the words of Amos when hee foretold Jeroboams death and Israels captiuit●e Gradere fuge in terrā Judah O thou Seer goe flie away into the land of Judah and prophecy there but prophecy no more at Bethel They that will please these times must steepe their words in oyle footh and flatter Qui dicunt videntibus Nolite videre though they see they must say nothing or if they doe Loquimini nobis placentia they must speake plausibly We loue to heare of faire dayes which no misfortune clouds and crie with Hezekiah that Nothing but peace may sound in our eares for sorrowes and persecutions wee abhorre to thinke on and like those in the Prophet Put farre away the euill day Hunc voluit nescire diem such blacke crosse dayes as these we curse out of the Ephemerides and excommunicate them from all societie with the yere as Job did his birth-day Let the day perish to all memory let darkenesse and the shadow of death staine it and let forgetfulnesse like a cloud dwell vpon it Iust cause then had our Sauiour being to warne his Disciples of calamities and persecutions that should ensue to stirre them vp to Remember that as the wise man aduised their end might be in their sight Remember the word I said vnto you The seruant is not greater then his Lord. THere is nothing so much sets out the Vniuerse as Order to see how subordinate causes depend of their Superiours and this sublunary Globe of the Celestiall Were not this method what could hinder a second Chaos For in the Worlds beginning all lay in one common wombe of darkenes it was onely order and that Method Gods fiat brought a long which gaue distinction and visibility to things A heauen aboue the earth and light to separate day from night Man as Lord to rule the Creatures and God himselfe Lord ouer all Should all haue been equall what had man beene better then the beasts saue only his shape Or what the Serpent worse then other Creatures saue onely for his malice What actiue predominance should Fire haue had aboue the other Elements Or what priuiledge could that Sire of generation Heate challenge aboue vnactiue Drought or Moysture Grant equall force to the Elements that the qualities of the one should not bee more