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A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

PVRITANO-IESVITISMVS THE PURITAN TVRN'D JESUITE OR RATHER OVT-VYING HIM IN those Diabolicall and dangerous Positions of the Deposition of KINGS from the yeare 1536. untill this present time extracted out of the most ancient and authentick Authours By that Reverend Divine Doctour OVVEN Batchelour of Divinity Shewing their concord in the matter their discord in the manner of their sedition August in Psal 36. Conc. 2. Tunc inter se concordant cum in perniciem justi conspirant non quia se amant sed quia cum qui amandus erat simul oderunt Printed for William Sheares at the signe of the Bible in Covent-garden 1643. To the dutifull Subject THe Puritan-Church-Policy and Iesuiticall Society began together a See M. Hockers preface And the preface of Chemnic before his examen against the first part of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536 and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they have bestirred themselvs busily as hee that compasseth the b Iob 1.7 earth or they that coasted c Mat. 23.15 sea and land each one in his order The Puritan to breake down the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the reformed Church the Iesuite to build up the ruines of Babylon by maintaining the abomination of the deformed Synagogne These though brethren in sedition and heady are head-severed the one staring to the Presbyterie and the other to the Papacie but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tied together with firebrands between them that if they bee not quenched by the power of Majesty they cannot those when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an uprore Their many and long Prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shew of austerity in their conversation and of singular learning in their profession as the evill fiend transformed into an angel of light brought them first to admiration Wherby they have not only robbed widowes houses under pretence of prayer and ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of devotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peeres against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And whereas God hath inseparably annexed to the crowne of earthly Majesty a supreme ecclesiasticall soveraignty for the protection of pietie and an absolute immunitie from the judiciall sentence and Martiall violence for the preservation of policy These sectaries bereave Kings of both these their Princely prerogatives exalting themselves as the sonne of perdition above all that is called God 2 Thess 3.4 Lest they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sow the seeds of sedition without shew of reason Caedem faciunt scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to doe in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the doctrine of the Church to whom it was delivered and the practise of all the Godly as well under the Law as the Gospel that did beleeve understand and obey it to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I have in my hand above forty severall places of the old and New Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction doe indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacy and the indeleble character of Royall inunction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I haved added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discover the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K. Iames. Th Cranmer Io. Whitgift Ric. Bancroft Arch. of Cant Henry Earle of Northam Robert Earle of Salisbury The L. Burleigh L. Tresurer of England The L. Elsmere Lord Chancellor of England The L. Stafford The L Cook B Iewell B Horne B Pilkington B Elsmere B Couper B Bilson B Babington B Amirewes B Barlow B Bridges D Ackworth D Saravia D Cosens D Sutcliffe D Prythergh D Wilkes D Morton D Tocker M Bekinsaw M Foxe M Nowell M Hooker many others most mighty Kings the most reverend Prelates honourable Lords loyall Clergie and other worthy men that have in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and undutifull opponents which by Gods helpe I meane to publish when I have added the exposition of the Fathers to confute the falshood of the Puritan popish-faction and to confirme the truth of the Protestants Doctrine in each particular quotation I protest in all sincerity that I neither have in this treatise nor meane in the other hereafter to be published to detort any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the favourers of it more odious then their owne words published with the generall approbation of their severall favourites doe truly infer and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall subject and Godly affected we accept in good part my endeavour and industry intended for the glory of God the honour of the King and the discoverie of the seditious The displeasure of the male contented factions which can no more abide the truth then the Owles can light or the Franticke the Physician I neither regard nor care for Farewell The Table of the Booke The duty of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares cap. 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares cap. 3 pag. 7 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 18 fourth 300 yeares cap. 5 pag. 21 fifth 300 yeares cap. 6 pag. 26 sedition of Puritans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 31 Danger of their Doctrine to Prince Peopl cap 8. p. 37. Puritan-Jesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuites against Kings from the yeare 1536. untill the yeare 1602. out of the most authenticke Authors cap 8. p. 40. THE FIRST CHAPTER Proveth by the testimony of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserved to the judgement of God KIngs have their authority from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Prov. 8.15 to execute justice and judgement for him amongst the Sonnes of men c 2 Chron. 19.6 All subjects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings d Exod. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl. 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne name unto his Lievetenants the Kings of the Earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 82.6 whose word is Yea and Amen with this onely difference that these Gods shall dye like men h Psal 82.7

and fall like other Princes Wherefore Nathan the man of God must reprove David i 2 Sam. 12.7 that hee may repent and bee saved And the Sages Iudges and Nobles without feare or flattery must advise and direct Roboam k 1 Reg. 12.7 Other attempts against Kings the King of Kings hath neither commanded in his law Apolog. David cap. 10. nor permitted in his Gospell David saith Ambrose nullis legibus tenebatur c. David though hee were an adulterer and an homicide was tied to no law for Kings are free from bonds and can by no compulsion of law bee drawne to punishment being freed by the power of Government Thus farre Ambr. Saul the first King of Israel was rather a monster then a man after the Spirit of God had forsaken him and the evill Spirit was come upon him m 1 Sam. 16.14 There were not many sinnes against God Man or Nature wherein hee trangressed not yet his excesse was punished neither by the Sacerdotall Synod nor the secular Senate Who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and bee guiltlesse n 1 Sam. 16.9 The very Annointment was the cause of Sauls immunity from all humane coercion as Augustine affirmeth Aug. contr lit Petil. l. 2. 〈◊〉 48. Quaero si non habebat Saul sacramenti sanctitatem quid in eo David venerabatur If Saul had not the holinesse of the Sacrament I aske what it was that David reverenced in him hee honoured Saul for the sacred and holy unction while hee lived and revenged his death Yea hee was troubled and trembled at the heart because hee had cut off a lap of Sauls garment Loe Saul had no innocency and yet hee had holinesse not of life but of unction So farre Augustine Who questioned David for his murther and adultery who censured Solomon for his idolatry though their crimes were capitall by the law of God After that Kingdome was divided all the Kings of Israel and most of the Kings of Iudah were notorious Idolaters yet during those Kingdomes which endured above 200. yeares no Priest did chalenge no States-men did claime power from the highest to punish or depose their Princes And the Prophets perswaded all men to obey and endure those idolatrous Princes whose impiety they reproved with the losse of their lives Christ fled when the people would have made him a King a Joh. 6.15 Hee payed tribute for himselfe and Peter b Matth. 17.27 When the question was propounded concerning the Emperours subsidy hee concluded for Caesar c Matth. 22.21 And standing to receive the judgement of death before Pilate hee acknowledged his power to be of God d Ioh. 19.15 This Saviour of Mankind whose actions should bee our instruction did never attempt to change that Government or to displace those Governours which were directly repugnant to the scope of Information that hee aimed at Iohn Baptist did indeed reprove King Herod with a Non licet e Mark 6.18 but he taught not the souldiers to leave his service or by strife and impatience to wind themselves out of the band of allegiance wherein the law had left them and the Gospell found them f Luk. 3.14 The Apostle delivered unto the Church the doctrine of obedience and patience which they had learned by the precept and observed by the practise of our Lord CHRIST Peter commandeth obedience to all manner of men in authority g 1 Pet. 2.15 Paul forbiddeth resistance against any power h Rom. 13.1.2.3.4 Iudc 8. And Saint Jude maketh it blasphemy to revile government or to speake evill of Governours i. If therefore an Angell from heaven preach otherwise then they have delivered let him bee accursed k Gal. 1.8 The second Chapter proveth the same by the Fathers of the first 300. yeares THe true Church which had the Spirit of understanding to discerne the voice of Christ from the voice of a stranger never taught never practised never used or approved other weapons then salt teares and humble prayers against the Paganisme Heresie Apostacy and Tyranny of earthly Kings Iustinus Martyr Tertullian and Cyprian shall beare witnesse for 300. yeares wherein the Kings and Potentates of the earth bathed themselves in the bloud of innocents and professed enmity against Christ and his servants Ad inquisitionem vestram Christianos nos esse profitemur c. At your inquisition we professe our selves to be Christians though wee know death to bee the guerdon of our profession saith Iustine Martyr to the Emperour Antoninus Secund. Apolog ad Ant. Imp. p. 113. did wee expect an earthly Kingdome wee would deny our religion that escaping death wee might in time attaine our expectation But we feare not persecution which have not our hope fixed on the things of this life because we are certainely perswaded that wee must die As for the preservation of publike peace we Christians yeeld to you O Emperour more helpe and assistance then other men For wee teach that no evill doer no covetous man nor seditious that lieth in wait for bloud can have accesse to God And that every man doth passe to life or death according to the merit of his deeds Thus farre hee We saith Tertullian tō Scapula the Viceroy of Carthage are defamed Tertull. lib. ad Scap. for seditious against the Imperiall Majesty Yet were the Christians never found to be Albinians Nigrians or Cassians Albinus Niger and Cassius were Traytours against Marcus Antonius Commodus Pertinax and Severus the Emperours but they that sware by the Emperours diety the very day before they that vowed and offered sacrifice for the Emperours health are found to be the Emperours enemies A Christian is enemy to no man much lesse to the Emperour knowing that the Emperiall Majesty is ordained of God and therefore necessarily to bee loved reverenced and honoured whose prosperity together with the welfare of al the Roman Empire they desire so long as the world standeth We doe therefore honour the Emperour in such sort as is lawfull for us and expedient for him wee reverence him as a mortall man next unto God of whom hee holdeth all his authority onely subject to God and so wee make him soveraigne overall in that wee make him subject but to God alone So farre Tertullian Saint Cyprian sheweth many good reasons for the patience of the Saints in his booke against Demetrianus God saith hee is the revenger of his servants when they are annoyed Wherefore no Christian when hee is apprehended doth resist or revenge himselfe against your unjust violence though the number of our people bee very great The confidence wee have that God will reward doth confirme our Patience the guiltlesse give way to the guilty the innocent rest content with their undeserved punishment and tortures being certainly assured that the wrong done to us shall not bee unrewarded The more injury we suffer the more just and grievous shall Gods vengeance be on them that persecute us