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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

the crime thine It shall bee my aduice to all that heare me and to such as heare mee not for Opprobrium non accipere aduersus proximos suos not to receiue or credit opprobrious calumniations cast out against our brethren is one of the degrees of innocence and happinesse recited by the Psalmist Do but remember that if God hath denounced a wo against those that speake euill of Good Et iustitiam iusti auferunt ab eo and rob the righteous of their good names he hath also a woe for them Qui furem vident consentiunt who consent vnto the theft But my perswasion is misplaced you are not such before whom I need to cleare him of this defamation I hope with modesty I may vse Saint Hieroms words Aduersus obtrectatorum libidinem pugnat meriti magnitudo he had deserued better ranke in your estimations then so For did he so long runne his course thorow this Churches Zodiack and as a true Diocesan visit each Pulpit within your City some of them oftner not onely taught within it but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in all the adioyning villages where hee liued neuer allowing his numerous affaires so much as a Sabbath or Sundayes rest whilest he was able So by his vnwearied industry telling the world that they which for gaine or ease or for ambition aimed at Bishopricks mistooke that waighty calling since that as Theophylact speakes Ministerium affert non facit Dominum when Christ made his Apostles Bishops and Superintendents of his Church he appoynted thē not so much to Lord the flocke as to feed it Did he all this and with that zealous care that as a Torch hee consumed himselfe to light others and when Himselfe should faile prouided so farre as in him lay for a succession in his Blood to set hand to the same plough hauing dedicated in his desire all his Sonnes in act Two to the Ministery of this Church and by no meanes willing to heare of any other course though otherwise inuited by Gracious offers for some of them in particular to be vndertaken by them saue that function alone And can it be conceiued he should after all this turne a shifter of his Religion Let me aske with better right then did Zedekia When went that Spirit of God which had accompanied him thorow all the passages of life from him Great buildings before they fall giue warning of their ruine by inclining some way or other what argument did hee euer giue of his Reuolt or that like Ephraim hauing bin so long harnessed so long militant in Gods battels so long a Captaine in the Armie he should in the last day of battell turne backe when hee had now but one enemie to incounter Death that he should forsake his Colours or like a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Renegado recant that faith which with much contention and with losse of Spirits he so long had maintained Had his resolution wauered this way how could he haue disguized so apparant a relapse from those reuerend Bishops who were his familiar and frequent visitants and especially his most honoured friend the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury who was with him on the Wednesday before his decease 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the old rule the end of life euer answeres the beginning If so who can imagine that One who began in opposition to the Church of Rome should end in Apostasie and reconcilement to it Nay that good Father is confident Mors mala putanda non est quam bona vita praecesserit It is incredible he that liued so well should make so inglorious an end Nor was this confidence in him any way abused neither his end disproportionate to his beginning Hee that had so long taught others how to liue was by his owne infirmities tutord in the art of dying It is not strange he should bee perfit in this lesson since for a long time to vse the Apostles words He dyed daily his sharpe agonies hauing made his life but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no better then a liuing death vnto this wholly doth hee addresse his thoughts and admonished by his increasing paines as from the tongue of the Prophet sent from God to summon Ezekiah he sets his house in order Where first he resolues himself into his principia naturalia bequeathing his Soule to God that gaue it his Body to the dust from whence it was taken and not onely so but In principia fortunae hee resolues his fortunes into their beginnings acknowledging with all thankfull duty that vnder God our gracious Soueraigne had been the maker of them I will not conceale his owne words dictated in his last Testament First I bequeath my soule into the hands of Almighty God beseeching him for Christ Jesus sake my most blessed Sauiour that as it hath pleased him euen from my mothers wombe to take mee into his speciall fauour and protection and to continue the same vnto me thorowout all the passages of my life especially vnder my most gracious Ma●ter and Soueraigne the Instrument of his goodnesse and bounty to me and mine for these eighteene y'eres and hath vouchsafed me though the vnworthiest of many to bee a Minister of his holy Word and Sacraments so it would please him in this my time of sicknesse and grieuous infirmity to hold mee vp by his right hand and to vouchsafe mee the comfort of his holy Spirit that I may patiently indure this crosse and affliction which he hath laid vpon me A Petition as soone granted as desired nay I may say as it is in the Prophet Antequā clament ego exaudiam God heard his prayer long before it was framed in this place For from the first beginning of his sicknesse hee was indued with such a spartana patientia well knit patience that some of his Reuerend brethren comming purposely to comfort him professed they found more comfort from him then they could bring and though hee might truly say with Dauid I am weary of my groning and Euery night wash I my bed with teares Yet neuer did any impatient murmure it was a religious boast in the Lord vttred by himselfe breake from his lips against that high hand which had so long humbled him neither did that Petra rockestony disease grow so fast within him but his Christian resolution hardened as fast and his faith built as firmely on the true Rocke of his Saluation Christ Jesus with the Inuocation of which Name hee began and ended the day vsing most frequently those words of Saint Paul Cupio dissolui esse cum Christo I desire to bee dissolued But before he loosed from this shore considering hee was bound for a long voyage he was not vnmindfull first to take in Uiaticum animae the holy sacrament which hee professed in the presence of some especiall friends his wife children and family appoynted by his owne inuitation to accompany him to that feast as Christ

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

neuer wanted Seconds to take vp his weapons against the promised Seed God told her Ponam inimicitias I wil put enmitie betwixt you And did hee not keepe tutch Marke the whole passage of our Sauiours life tell me what day was not to him a Persecution So soone as he saluted the light to auoyd Herods bloody Inquisition which pursued him hee was constrained to flie the land and like a banished soiourner make Egypt his abiding place When Herod deceased and he vocatus ex Egypto reuok't was he yet secure No but in the house of his friends as Zacharias so vsed that Barbarians would haue dealt more mercifully Amongst his own countreymen the Iewes vnacknowledged and vnregarded scorned reuiled belyed Hee hath a Deuill He is mad He blasphemes sometimes conspiracy to throw him headlong from a Cliffe sometimes to stone him Thus was hee shuffled vp and downe from coast to coast from the City to the field from the Gaderenes to Samaria from dry land to sea yet no sayles able to make speed from his Persecutions but Mare nos repellit ad Barbaros each shore hee tutch't at was an enemie nor found his wearines the benefit of a resting place whereon to lay his head As a Partridge from the fowlers so fled he from the cruell Priests and Scribes who were They in my Text the Actors in this persecution and like a Roe in the wildernesse was he pursued Many darts throwne after him Many toyles pitched for him for they sought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how to take him in the snare all which though hee long auoyded yet neuer did they giue ouer the furious chase till faint and wearie on the top of Caluary their cruelty ouertooke him where with nailes and speare they goard his harmelesse body and bereaued that Just one of the life they long had hunted after When the Principall is slaine partakers must looke to bleed nor can the Armie hope for mercy when the Generall is put to the sword One life sacrificed cannot appease an incensed enemy nor could the life of Christ though the best among the sonnes of men quench the bloody thirst of the Jewes but being flesht vpon the Leader they are eager after the Heard and hauing rent this Lambe from the fold they seeke to worry the whole Flocke For the diuels commission was not like the command of the King of Syria Fight neither with small nor great saue onely against the King of Israel but as that in Zachary Arise O sword and smite the shepheard and not him alone but let the sheepe be scattered spare none neither Lord nor Seruant Master or Disciple but extirpate all downe with the glorious Temple of Christs body Downe with it euen to the ground and let not one stone of that building one Disciple suruiue to reedifie the demolished Church You see the sad Patrimony of the Apostles and that as Hugo Cardinalis hath it Uenit bellum tanquam ad haeredes imitatores eius the warre descended to them by inheritance and persecution was their lot and portion For so was the will of the Testator Jf they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Sinne is a fruitfull parent and neuer yet wanted issue but as poyson runnes successiuely thorow the veines so haue her agents drained thorow al successions of time The tyrannies of Gods enemies towards his Church neuer ended where they began and though the persons changed the malice did not As in a Campe the word goes from Centinell to Centinell so in this Abyssus abyssum vocat one misery called vp another and as the Carthaginians hate to Rome was by the Fathers assigned ouer and intailed to the sonnes so was the cruell tradition of shedding the blood of Saints deliuered ouer by predecessors to their following generations Finis vnius mali gradus futuri one persecution hath trod vpon the heele of another and where the old went off new Scenes of mischiefe haue taken their Cues The Monarchies of the world haue not shifted oftener their se●●s then the Empires of death and Persecution The first persecution began in Egypt in the time of Pharaoh from thence it was deriued to the Iewes when they failed the Arians and Easterne Heretickes went forward with the Chase Vbi desinit philosophus incipit medicus where these wrangling Sophisters of the diuell left the Jesuites began Those onely the great Paracelsians of the world whose practice is Phlebotomy to let States blood in the Heart-veine and deale altogether in metals and minerals Steele and Gunpowder Creatures so prodigiously dexterous in their art that they are now become the onely Inuentories of mischiefe All the shallow elementary examples of trechery formerly practised seruing to them but as a garden of simples from whose composition they haue extracted Quintessence of such speeding operation that it is able to make an Earthquake greater then Nature euer durst owne and in a moment purge a whole Kingdome into nothing Thus hath the diuell his Infantry belonging to his Campe and where the old Garrisons were worne out new supplies to make good their places They shall also persecute you Persecution heere is no single appellation of misery but a compound of all cruelty I cannot giue a fitter Embleme to expresse it then that possest man Mark 5. who dwelt among the Tombes bound with fetters and chaines so mad and raging doth it runne about the world keeps its court amidst the graues and her pauillion hung about with the trophees of death fetters and whips rackes and strappadoes halters and swords stakes and fire Besides this hath a name as numerous as his My name is Legion saith the possest for we are many so is Persecution Nomen multitudinis a collectiue name of Multitude in it many Legions of ills the Burse of Tyranny and which speakes all a full Inquisition is included Persecution of the body and affliction of the mind persecution at home persecution abroad and not only Persecutio manus violence offered to the body but to the Good Name by slanders and calumnies For Non martyrium sola effusio sanguinis consummat nec sola dat palmam exustio illa flammarum it is not the sword alone nor the fire which makes a Martyr There is Martyrium famae Martyrdome of fame as well as vitae of life A man may bee a Martyr without blood-shed and siccâ morte by a dry death attaine the Crown of a Confessor euen by suffering persecution in his fame and honour which is as Anselme calls it Persecutio oris the persecution of the mouth Neither is this lesse grieuous then the former it rather exceeds it as farre as the price of fame is aboue life Feare not those which kill the body saith Christ this is more exquisite and kils if not the soule that which is next in value the Good name One of these two mischiefes Os gladii or gladius