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B06421 A sermon preached at Windsor before his Majesty, the second Sunday after Easter, 1684. by John Archbishop of Tuam. Vesey, John, 1636-1716. 1684 (1684) Wing V282A; ESTC R185967 16,479 46

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and like the Earth our Government seemed to hang without any hold But though God be terrible among other Kings of the Earth and is now dashing them in pieces like a Potters Vessel he hath set ours upon his holy Hill of Sion where may the same Goodness long and long preserve him That what hath been said may be made useful 1. Since Princes are called Gods it would be their care to walk worthy of that high calling and honour their own Character by defending his Worship and Worshippers from Contempt that hath so honoured them neither suffering their Power to degenerate into Cruelty or Tyranny for that were of Gods to become Devils nor their zeal for Justice and Religion into Sloth and Lukewarmness and Neutrality for that were to become Idols that have eyes and see not ears and hear not for then the latter part of the Text will appear like the writing on the Wall to Belshazzar in the height of all his jollity When the swelling Titles fume in the head and they are elevated like Alexander with vain thoughts of being really what they are onely called God will call them to account who hath said they shall die like men and there will be no distinction in the Grave the Crown will leave no impression on the Scull But let us leave them to be chastized by him against whom onely they sin and 2. In the next place consider what shall be done to them whom God hath so honoured as to give them a Name above every Name Surely they will reverence my Son saith God in the Parable and surely so we should But alas to the reproach of the Christian Name both that which calls her self the Holy and the Catholick and many that would be thought the True Protestant and Reformed Church have eaten of sower Grapes and their Childrens Teeth are set on edge while both Revile and Crucifie our Church between them that so sincerely preaches and practises the Doctrine of Loyal Obedience that let a Prince be of any Religion as to his private Faith it would be his Interest to have all his Subjects of that of the established Church of England I shall crave leave to speak a little to those of each hand though I fear I shall become their Enemy because I tell them the truth Nothing is more current in the Court of Rome than the Doctrine of the Popes Supremacy over Princes it is the Test of Roman Orthodoxy This is acknowledged by many who yet will not allow it the Doctrine of the Church of Rome and I wish for my own part it were not But what is that they call the Court of Rome The Pope and Conclave and their Retinue of Canonists and other Expectants of Preferment And what is the Church The Pope and General Council In both which this Doctrine is so plainly taught that it is hard to tell which is the Mother of the Child To Quote particular Authors were an endless labour Aquinas rules the Case for the School and in Bellarmine Aqu. 22. q. 12. a. 2. Bell. Rom Pont. l. 5 c. 8. 9. Val. tom 3. disp 1. qu. 12. punct 2. Valentia and many others we have the Usage and Practice of the Court in the Catalogues of Princes deposed from whence they argue this may be done because it hath been but the History is better than the Logick But that which is chiefly considerable is the Canon of the Council of Lateran 4. Council of Lateran ch 3. which in point decrees such Princes as will not expel Hereticks out of their Dominions to be Excommunicated and their Subjects absolved from their Allegiance and their Kingdoms to be given to Catholick Princes There is a Salvo for the Supreme Lord if he obstruct not the Sentence that is they will not depose him if he submits like the Condition in the Covenant to fight for the King if he would fight for it If it be said this is a part of the Discipline and not the Faith of the Church the matter is not much mended nor Princes better secured by the distinction since we know they are as rigid exacters of Obedience to the Rule of Discipline as of Faith But thus by their Canon of Discipline they make void the Law of the Fifth Commandment discharging Subjects of their Duty to those whom God and Nature hath commanded them to honour and obey Now this Council if any deserves with them the name of General consisting of 1215 Fathers one for every Year from Christs Nativity to the Year of its Assembling Convened and Confirmed by the Popes Authority and is accordingly owned as such even by two succeeding General Councils Constance and Trent in the mouth of which two Witnesses Const Sess 30. Trid. Sess 2● Cap. 5. whereas Trent bears onely witness to it self the Authority of this Council is more than abundantly confirmed The Issue is this 1. A General Council declares the Doctrine of the Church 2. The Fourth of Lateran is a General Council in the judgment of those of Constance and Trent 3. That hath decreed the Deposing of Princes if they expel not Hereticks after admonition out of their Dominions this then is the Doctrine not of Jesuits onely their Order being founded some Centuries after nor of the Court but even of the Church of Rome And yet I would not accuse all that hold Communion with it of an explicit belief of this Doctrine there are many whose Loyalty is so sound and healthy that it is not to be tainted by the pestilential Air they breath in who would desert that Church in which they believed such things were taught Such I onely desire neither to believe our Priests who charge them with it nor their own who deny it till like those Noble Bereans they have consulted their own Editions of their Councils their Eyes and common Sense and then they will discern by whom they are abused and of what Leven they are to take heed and beware 2. But while I am speaking of these things methinks I hear a Voice saying unto me as unto the Prophet Ezek. 8.6 Son of man seest thou what they do they of the Church of Rome turn thee yet again and thou shalt see greater abominations a People as distant from the Papists as one Pole from the other in the interest yet parallel with them in the mischief of their Faction who pretending to be Israelites have whet their Swords among the Philistins and entered into the secret of our Adversaries Those men in their zeal for God rebel against his Authority and serve their Prince as the Heathens were thought to worship Mercury by throwing Stones at him in kindness to the Reformation they stab it to the heart and under Jacobs smooth voice make it feel the rough hands of Esau endeavouring to destroy at once the best Government the best Monarchy and Monarch and Religion in the World 1. The best Government A Monarchy the first and most natural Form a Form that