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
Pelagius maketh this plaine conclusion of as the third m Gloss 10. Fan. ibid. principall point of that distinction Vniuersalis autem nec etiam Romanus Pontifex appelletur The Bishop of Rome must not bee called vniuersall But marke a distinction Ob. n Bellar. vbi supra Sanders li. 7 de Vis Monarch num 447. the name of vniuersall Bishop is to be vnderstood two wayes first so as he that is vniuersall Bishop be vnderstood to bee the onely Bishop of all Christian Cities so that the rest are not Bishops but onely his Vicars who is called the vniuersall Bishop and so this name is truely prophane and sacrilegious as Gregorie thought but secondly he may be called vniuersall Bishop who hath a generall care of the whole Church so as hee doth not exclude particular Bishops as in GREGORIES opinion the Bishop of Rome may bee called vniuersall Bishop Sol. But to answere him and all their Crue who euer vnderstood vniuersall for one only singular man but they who might well know that IOHN sought not to be Bishop alone but as Gregorie expoundeth the Title o Gregor lib. 4. Ep. 38. to put all Christs members vnder him by the name of vniuersall Bishop and so to bee the chiefe of Bishops or to speake us IOHNS language 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Bishop of all the habitable World a proud Title for one man there being by the order p Concil Nicaen 1. Can. 6. Constantinopolit 1. Can. 5 vid. Iunij Animaduers in Bellar. contr 3. lib. 2. cap. 12. nota 46. of the Church foure Patriarchs who had this name equally according as their Iurisdictions were equall in their parts allotted to them as the Romane Bishop had Italie and the West the Bishop of Antioch had Syria and the East the Bishop of Alexandria had Afrike and the South and the Bishop of Constantinople had Thrace Greece Asia-Minor and the North the Patriarch of Hierusalem being more for honour then neede and yet somewhat conuenient to decide doubts by an odde voice if it were so required For wee find not only this name of vniuersall Bishop giuen by q Iustinian Cod. lib. 1. tit 5. l. 7. Emperours to the other Patriarchs as well as to the Bishop of Rome but also by the Bishop of Rome himselfe thus writing r Concil Nicaeno 2. act 2. THARASIO Generali Patriarchae ADRIANVS seruus seruorum Dei To THARASIVS Generall so hee readeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Patriarch ADRIAN seruant of the seruants of God Wherfore as Iohn transgressed the bounds of modestie and order by his affection so doth the Pope swarue farre from all humanitie by his vsurpation of this title which neither could Å¿ Platina in Bonifac 3. Phocas giue nor Boniface take nor other Popes after assume as their right without preiudice to the other three Patriarchs as t Apud Gratia vbi supia Pelagius reasoned yea and as it is proued afterward when vpon this Chiefedome the Pope did not onely ouersway the other three Patriarchs but all Bishops besides not fearing to bee called by his u August Anconitanit q. 19. art 3. Flatterers Immediatum Episcopum cuiusque Ecclesiae The immediate Bishop of euery Church Is this to preach Christ Iesus the Lord Is this to follow Peter who did not x Act. 10.26 suffer Cornelius to fall downe before him because he was a man No no it is with proude y Act. 12.20 Herod to take to him the name of GOD. But what saith their z Gratian. dist 40. c. 12. Canon Law out of Chrysostome a In oper Imperfect in Mat. homil 43. Whosoeuer desireth Primacie in earth shall finde confusion in heauen neither shall he be reckoned amongst the seruants of Christ that dealeth for supremacie For b Prou. 16.5 all the proud in heart are an abomination vnto the Lord and amongst men they shall finde that c Prou. 25.27 to seeke their glory is no glory since glory is d Beza emblemat 32. like the Crocodile it will follow them that flee it and flee them that follow it that Bernard might well exclaime thus against this vanitie in the Prelates of his time e Bernard lib. 3 de Consid ad Eugen. O ambitio ambitientium crux quomodo omnes torquens omnibus places O ambition the Crosse of proud men how dost thou please all and yet torment all Wherefore I conclude this iust correction of Popish pride too cleerely made knowne to the World by these titles with the words of Saint CYPRIAN f Cyprian lib. de Vnitate Ecclesiae Nemo fraternitatem mendicio fallat Let no man deceiue the brotherhood by a lye Nemo sidei veritatem perfidâ praeuaricatione corrumpat Let no man corrupt the truth of faith by faithlesse deceiuing Episcopatus vnus est cuius a singulis in solidum pars tenetur There is one Bishopricke of which part is holden by euery one wholly Yet secondly hence that Christ Iesus is the onely supreme Head of the Catholike Church 2. Of Caution wee are not onely to correct Popish errour but also to giue good Caution to our selues for the right vnderstanding of the Kings most Royall Maiestie his Title which we most lawfully and iustly ascribe vnto his most Excellent Person and vnto all and euery his lawfull Heyres and Successors in the Oath of Supremacie when we acknowledge g Vid Oath of Supremacie in 1. Eliz. cap. 1. apud Rastall tit Crowne his Maiestie to be Supreme Gouernour of this Realme and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countreyes as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things and causes as Temporall For hereby wee giue but h Matth. 22.21 Caesar his due euen vnder Christ such a power and authoritie as not onely Scripture assigneth him when it willeth vs i 1. Pet. 2.13 to submit our selues to the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 k B. Tonstal in his Sermon before K. Henrie the eight as vnto him who hath aboue all others a Chiefedome or Headship such as Dauid l Psal 18.43 had ouer the Nations yea and m 1. Sam. 15.17 Saul ouer the Tribes but also reason enforceth vs to yeeld in regard both of his Name of his Nature as hee is a King For what is his name In Hebrew it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as some n Auenar in Lexic thinke of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for that it is the Kings Office o Pet. Martâ—â— in 1. Reg. 3.7 to goe in and out before his people in all good gouernment as Salomon desired p 2. Chro. 1.10 Wisedome therefore In Greeke it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 q Etymolog con 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the foundation of the people because on him is settled their safetie being r 2 Sam. 18.3 worth ten thousand of them In Latine Princeps Å¿ Gregor Tholosanus lib. 6. de
they no place at all in determining of the second point Who is this great Antichrist because they liued before the time wherein that great Antichrist who lurked in those Fathers dayes vnder a mysterie was to be detected disclosed and found to sit at Rome and by his deeds to fulfill all those Prophecies which the holy Ghost had deliuered concerning him in the Scriptures So that our holy Brethren who yet expect a more full expressement of Antichrist in some one particular vile Monster that should if it were possible surpasse the Pope in villany are not so much against vs as they seeme to bee in show seeing it is not any good liking they haue of the Pope whom they confesse to be Antichrist but onely the iust detestation of so wicked a Monster as is Antichrist that draweth them to imagine the further deferring of his most dangerous and accursed approach They are in hope Wee are in faith and both in loue They expect a farre off Wee behold euen at hand the end of all these miseries by the fore-past reuealing the present rage and raigning the future happy ruine of Antichrist and his Kingdome now settled in Rome Wee agree both in the maine not much differing in the Bye As wee yeeld to them in the iust execration of the odious nature of this abominable Antichrist so farre as they prooue what they speake from the Scriptures euen so in like manner are they bee they neuer so learned and wise with patience and loue to heare and to iudge vs their deare Brethren speaking with some knowledge in true zeale concerning the maner of the reuealing of Antichrist which they hold yet to be in futuro We finde to be fully finished in praeterito in praesenti both in times before and now If any x 1. Cor. 14.30 31. thing bee reuealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his peace For yee may all prophesie one by one that all may learne and all may be comforted y Homer 2. Odyss 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 weake men combined may worke much good since z Ouid. quae non prosunt singula multa iuuant what one cannot many may Proofes of our Assertion from the ancient Fathers § XXVII And yet I speake not this in diffidence of our cause For wee want not the authoritie of ancient Fathers either prophesying beforehand or zealously publishing vpon his appearance that the Great Antichrist is alreadie come and the Pope of Rome is hee I will produce no Babes but onely such as without exception are either produced by a Canis Catechis cap. de nouiss quaest 3. Canisius and b Coccius tom 2. Catholicism lib. 10. art 30. 1. Prophesying before Coccius as if they were on their side or else registred for eye-witnesses by good Historians For those who beforehand prophesied of Antichrist and of his seat or kingdome agree vpon these two points The first that Antichrist shall sit at Article 1 Rome rearing vp his Kingdome vpon the ruines of the Romane Empire For to this Article speaketh First Tertullian when c Tertullian in Apâ—loget cap. 32. hee saith that Christians pray for the safetie of the Romane Empire because by the course thereof the great Persecutions which must come by Antichrist are put off and hindred Secondly Cyrill of Hierusalem when d Cyrill Hierosolymitan Catechesi 15. hee saith that Antichrist shall violently take vnto himselfe the power of the Romane Empire Thirdly Ambrose when e Ambros in 2. Thes 2. hee saith that Christ shall not come till the Romane Empire faile and Antichrist appeare who must kill the Saints giuing libertie to the Romanes yet vnder his owne name Fourthly f Chrysost hom 4. in 2 Thes 2. Chrysostome followed by g Theophylact. in 2. Thes 2. Theophylact h Oecumenius in 2. Thes 2. Oecumenius and i Radulphus Fluuiac lib. 18. in Leuit cap. 1. Rudolphus Fluuiacensis when both he and they after him ioyntly affirme that Antichrist by trecherie must destroy the Romane Empire The second that Rome is Babylon the proper seate of Antichrist which shall be destroyed before the end of the World For to this Article Article 2 speaketh First Tertullian who in full assurance of what he speaketh oftentimes k Tertullian lib. in Iudaeos cap. 9. lib. 3. in Marcion cap. 13. vseth these words Babylon in our Apostle Saint IOHN beareth the figure of the Citie of Rome therefore great and proud by her Kingdome and a destroyer of the Saints Secondly Hierome who liuing at that time when Rome was wholly Christian vnder Constantius Iulian and Valentinianus the First yet in foresight of future Apostasie therein there beginning vnder a Mysterie but afterward openly to be complemented very l Hierony tom 1. Ep. 17. ad Marcellum Ep. 151. ad Algosiam qu. 11. in Praefat. ad translat Dydimi de spirit Sanct. Omnia secund Editionem Parisiens 1609. often termeth that Citie Babylon and the purple Whoore spoken of in the Reuelation wherein sometimes hee was an inhabitant Now this cannot bee spoken of Babylon in Mesopotamia which then was desolate and where Hierome neuer liued Thirdly Lactantius who m Lactant. li. 7. Instit cap. 25. alluding to the Sybilline Oracle saith that when that head of the World shall fall and beginne to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is but a street or Impetus for it is deriued either of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sluo or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 traho who can doubt but that an end is at hand vpon all humane affaires and vpon all the World The words of the Sybill to which he alludeth are these as learned n Xistus Betuleius in Annot. in Lactantium Betuleius doth cite them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Rome shall bee a street and Delus vnknowne c. But let vs leaue these Prophesies and come to performances For Antichrist did no sooner appeare in his likenesse but God in his mercie to wards his Elect sent forth his faithfull Witnesses of euery sort Publishing his present approach by open Verdit to publish abroad vnto the World that the Mystery was reuealed and Antichrist was then come and seated in Rome It is odious to say it and idle if wee prooue it not Therefore that Papists especially in England may at length see and marke how their Pope was reputed off in former times euen before Iohn Wickliffe spake against him in Oxford the Pope shall haue faire play his Cause shall bee tryed by a Grand Inquest of twelue good men and true according to the o Sir Thom. Smith de rep Anglor l. 2. c. 18. onely most laudable custome of the Common-wealth of England whereof foure shall be Kings and Princes foure shall be Arch-bishops A Iurie Impanneled and Bishops and foure shall bee Abbots or Monkes Behold now the Prisoner standing at the Barre who because hee is become a Peere in the World shall
laboured to excuse some to defend others to patronize those who fled away yea to register for Saints the chiefest Authors of this deuillish intendment I need goe no further then to Eudaemons Apologie soundly and most religiously confuted by the most Learned and Reuerend Authour of the Antilogie So that all the premisses put together haue enforced mee to this settled iudgement concerning a Papist which without any feare or scruple of conscience Two certaine Correllaries grounded vpoÌ„ the Premises The former The latter The former demonstrated I boldly thus propose in these two conclusions the first A Papist as a Papist is no true Christian the second A Papist as a Papist is no good subiect What I speake I will prooue or else take all for nothing In the former point thus No sworne Slaue of Antichrist is a true Christian For no u Mat. 6.24 man can serue two Masters for either he shall hate the one and loue the other or else he shall leane to the one and despise the other no Yee cannot saith the x 1. Cor. 10.22 Apostle drinke the Cup of the Lord and the cup of Deuils yee cannot bee partaker of the Lords Table and of the table of Deuils He saith y Ambr. sâ—r 17. AMBROSE that will bee partaker of heauenly things must not bee a fellow or companion of Idols But euery Papist as a Papist is a sworne Slaue of Antichrist because as a Papist hee holdeth onely of the Pope whom wee haue sufficiently prooued before to be that Great Antichrist Therefore no Papist as a Papist is a true Christian Hee may haue the outward Name but he wanteth the true Nature and forme of a Christian as indeed z Rom. 9.6 All are not Israel which are of Israel Hee may bee baptized in the name of the Father and of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost according to the outward forme not to be iterated vpon his Conuersion by a new Baptisme but not according to the inuisible Grace which through his Apostasie hee either receiued not at all or if hee made some small shew of it only he wilfully thrust it from him by the Witchcraft of his wicked Stepdame the Romish Synagogue which as Hierusalem in the a Ezech. 16.20 Prophet bare children vnto God but offered them vnto Molech The latter demonstrated In the latter thus None who giue any Primacie to the Pope in another mans Dominion wherein he liueth as a member of that Common-wealth can bee a true subiect to that his owne Liege King and naturall Soueraigne Because he depriueth the King of his due contrarying therein the precept of the Apostle who willeth vs to render to b Rom. 13.7 all their dues tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome feare to whom feare honour to whom honour For it is the c 26. Hen. 8. apud Rastal in â—a Rom. Kings due that he should be acknowledged by euery person borne bred and liuing as a Subiect within the Kingdomes and Dominions of the same King for Supreme head and gouernour next vnder Christ in all causes and ouer all persons as well Ecclesiasticall as Temporall as it was prooued in the dayes of King Henry the eight largely and learnedly by two great Clarkes of that time Stephen d Gard. l. de verâ obedientiâ Gardiner Bishop of Winchester and Cuthbert e Tonst in his Sermon before K. Henry 8. in Act. Monument p 986. Tonstall Bishop of Duresme For the very title of Supreme head next vnder Christ c. is assigned vnto Kings and Princes first by the Holy Ghost in Scripture as where Peter saith f 1. Pet. 2.13 Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be vnto the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is saith Bishop g Vbi supra Tonstall as to the chiefe head as indeed vnto him who hath a chiefedome or superioritie ouer vs like as h Psal 18.43 Dauid was called the head of the Nations and Saul tearmed the a 1. Sam. 15.17 head of the Tribes secondly by the ancient Fathers both assembled in Councell as in the b Apud â—innium tom 2. Concil in praefatione Toleta Concilij 8. eight Toletan where they all accord to the wordes of K. Reccesiunthus saying the cause of gouerning the members is the saluation of the head and the happinesse of the people the Princes clâ—mencie and seuerally whensoeuer they had iust occasion to manifest or demonstrate their most respectfull and bounden obedience to Regall Soueraignety as witnesse for the Latine Fathers Tertullian when he saith c Tertull. l. con Scapulum cap. 2. we reuerence the Emperour as is lawfull for vs and expedient for him euen as a man second to God and obtayning from God whatsoeuer he is and inferiour to God only for so is he superiour vnto all others as he is inferiour to the true God only and for the Greeke Church d Chrysost tom 4. bom 2. ad populum Antioch Chrysostome when bewayling the miserie of the Antiochians likely to ensue for their despitefull outrage done vpon the statue of Theodosius the Great he said he to wit the Emperour is abused who hath not an equall vpon the earth being the top and head of all men vpon the earth But euery Papist as a Papist giueth a supremacie vnto the Pope in these kingdomes and dominions of our most gracious Soueraigne For first the e Gratian. dist 22. can 1. ibi Gloss Extrauag â—om l. 1. tit 8. can vnam sanctam Canonists with f Tho. Bosius l. 3. de regno Ital. c. 4 lib. 4. cap. 5. Bosius g Carer li. 2. de Rom. Pontif. potestate cap. 9. Carerius and other h Apud Azor. part 2. Instit l. 4. cap. 19. M. Blackwels large Examination pag. 22. â—3 c. palpable flatterers of Popes hold him to be the Supreme head absolutely fully and directly both in Spirituall and Temporall things secondly the i Bellar. l. 5. de Pontif. Rom. cap. 4.5 c. Iesuits fraudulently maintaining as much as the other hold him to haue a Primacie directly in spiritualibus and in Temporall things indirectly only in ordine ad spiritualia thirdly the * Conc. Parisiâ— an Dom. 829. li. 1. c. 3. ConueÌ„t Paris 1561. 1595. apud Bochellum decret Gall li. 5 tit 4. Parisians and secular Priests our English Dormise such k Iohn Haâ—t in Ep. ante Collâ—t cum D. Rainoldo as Hart l Watson Quodlibet q. 8. art 4. Warmington Watson together with Doctor m Galiel Barc de pote Papae c. 2. Barkeley howsoeuer they collogue with Christian Princes in granting vnto them a chiefedome or Primacie within their Dominions in temporall affaires yet will they not in any case derogate any one iot from the Popes supremacie in spiritualibus making the Pope to be head of the Church
furie haue beene enacted which without due execution are of no better worth then r Cic. 1. orat Catilinariâ— a rustie Sword in the scabberd I cannot most Honourable and Rightly Renowned but vrge vnto your Wisdomes those words of King Iehoshaphat Particular to the Honourable Iudges and Lords then hearing spoken to all his Officers set ouer the people for deciding all causes of eyther conusance Ecclesiasticall or Ciuill Å¿ 2. Chron. 19.6 7. Take heede what yee doe for yee iudge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the iudgement wherefore now let the feare of the Lord be vpon you take heede and doe it for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts For your Honours are to your Soueraigne as these were to Iehoshaphat Iudges of State whom these words doe warne of a double beware first to know what yee doe then to doe what you know To know what yee doe by your skill in the Lawes lest doing things at random ye be put to reproofe since first the cause is not for mans profite but for Gods glory which t 1. Cor. 10.31 must be sought onely and aboue all things for u 1. Sam 2.30 he that honoureth mee I will honour and secondly GOD Himselfe is present at the Iudgement to strengthen your hands for doing whatsoeuer yee shall iudge aright or to turne that vpon your owne heads what yee shall put to other men wrongfully for x Gal. 6.7 as a man soweth so shall he reape And to doe what yee know to bee right and conuenient by the strength of your authoritie fearing God with whom is none iniquitie being y Habac. 1.13 a God of pure eyes and hating Couetousnesse that openeth a gappe for respecting of persons and taking of gifts to z Iob. 15.32 your owne destruction because this case with you is such as that was of the children of Leui a Deut. 33.9 who at Massah and Meribah and the dayes of the golden Calfe said to his Father and to his Mother I haue not seene him nor did acknowledge his Brethren nor knew his owne Children he obseruing Gods Word and keeping his Couenant For it may bee many of you haue Parents or Brethren or Kinsfolke polluted and peruerted by Poperie for whom Nature pleadeth but Grace must preuaile since first the cause is Gods who hath said b Math. 10.37 he that loueth father or mother sonne or daughter more then mee is not worthy of mee Secondly the end of your care in this case is the sole preseruation of our King and the State which aboue all particular respects to your selues you are bound to maintayne with as great zeale as c Liuius lib. 2. Brutus had to hold vp the free State of the people of Rome when he caused his owne sonnes to bee executed for conspiracie against the same seeing as yee are men publike so your care must be publike for publike securitie d Psal 45.6 forgetting your own kinred fathers house Thirdly the persons against whom yee are placed as e Esay 49.16 walles of defence will not be wonne with loue being wholly enraged with spite against vs f 2. Sam. 17.8 like Beâ—res robbeâ— of their whelps but must be repressed by rigor of Law being euery way as presumptuous as their Pope himselfe is proud to take an ell if you giue them an inch to enter in at the least glat to spoyle our Vines yea vpon the least conniuence attempting some course for atchieuing some mischiefe hauing g Prou. 4.17 eaten the bread of wickednesse and drunke the wine of violence It may bee Ob. they are fauoured in respect of their Gentrie and generous Nature But touching their Gentrie Sol. as I grant it to bee a worldly priuiledge so it cannot bee included amongst spirituall prerogatiues since as one h August in sentent Prosperi 301. said well Non nascendo sed renascendo fit iustus A good man is made not by first birth but by new birth And therefore Popish Gentlemen cannot much expect any fauour at your hands in this regard since Heresie is as odious in a good mans eyes as i Genes 49.4 was Reubens Incest to Iaacob who plainely denounced this sentence against him thou shalt not excell Now for their generous Nature wherein doth it appeare In that they seeme such as will be ruled with reason Yea but I wish rather that they would bee ruled by Grace But how are they ruled by Reason Because they submit themselues to the penaltie of the Law Surely thankes be to them for nothing since it is not for conscience sake k Rom. 13.4 as they bee mooued only but for feare of a greater mischiefe that may accrew vnto them vpon their disobedience For as Saint Augustine l August Epist 50. ad Bonifac. saith well Sicut meliores sunt quos dirigit amor ita multò plures sunt quos corrigit timor The better sort are directed by loue but the more and the worse must be corrected by feare I admit them generous and kinde Ob. and bountifull and what other morall vertue else you please to be in them Sol. Yet to God they are no better for all this m Rom. 14.23 without a true faith then n Ephes 2.10 aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel and of you my good Lords they cannot bee esteemed for intire members of our bodie Politike and Ecclesiasticall without their true conformitie vnto Gods true Religion established in this State since o Menander apud Stob. Ser. 42 one Law maketh one people and p Iam. 4.12 one God giueth one Law to which without exception wee must q 1. Pet. 2.13 all be subiect holding all of one Head both Mysticall r Ephes 1.23 Christ Iesus and Å¿ 1. Pet. 2.14 Politicall our good King if we will bee liuely branches and not rotten boughes Yee haue well razed vp the roote of Poperie by casting off the triple Crowne and casting out of their Wafer-god Now rush downe the branches that remaine as a burden to this Realme and State by wholesome seueritie in the due execution of Statutes and Lawes made against Iesuites and Seminarie Priests Heresie Schisme and all manner of Recusancie that t Cantic 2.14 our Vine may bee voide of Foxes and our branches hold their Grapes till the Haruest of Happinesse when your Honors amongst other Saints shall reape your reward by the fauour of God who meane-while will blesse your labours of loue for the good of his Church and this flourishing Common-wealth wiâ—h all the comforts of Grace and Peace in u Psal 122.6.7 the Peace and Prosperitie of Zion and Hierusalem well cleered from all those withered branches and rotten members that hang or depend vpon this great head Antâ—christ as now we are briefly to deliuer in the second part of this description wherein
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