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A04031	A sermon vpon the words of Saint Paul, Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers wherein the Popes soueraigntie ouer princes, amongst other errors, is briefly but sufficiently refuted, and the supremacie of the King, by cleare euidence and strong proofe auerred, to the silencing of the aduersarie, and satisfaction of the indifferent Christian, not blinded with partialitie and preiudicate opinion / by Thomas Ingmethorpe.	Ingmethorpe, Thomas.	1619 (1619)	STC 14088.5; ESTC S121083	20,575	38

they would neuer so confidently affie and repose themselues vppon the Popes dispensation in that case For he plainly auoucheth one where of the law of nature that it is vnchangeable and in another place of the commandements of the morall law of God that they are indispensable Now who knowes not that the dutie of a subiect towards his Prince is both deriued from the law of nature and also prescribed by the fift precept of the Decalogue So that by their owne Angelicall Doctors iudgment which I am sure they wil not for any good go about to impeach the subiects dutie toward his Prince is inuiolate and past dissoluing Do they beare themselues vpon the Popes excommunicating of the King That plaister is too narrow for the sore too For by that Ecclesiasticall censure a man is made but as an heathen Sicut Ethnicus Mat. 18. not worse then an heathen Now it is manifest that heathen Princes ought to haue obedience exhibited vnto them as the Apostles Peter and Paul do precisely enioyne therefore such as be excōmunicated ought not to be debarred of the same neither Besides it is a case ouerruled by the ioynt consent of their owne Doctors for the most part Excommunication is not auaileable to vnloose the naturall bond of duty which seruants children wiues do owe vnto their maisters fathers and husbands much lesse thē to breake that great knot and as it were adamantine chaine wherin subjects as the childrē of the great family which we call the common-wealth are linked indissolubly to their great father that by excommunicatiō neither the seruant nor the sonne nor the wife be discharged from the bond of dutie wherein they are seuerally tyed to their maister father and husband but the subiect doth owe the same if not more dutie to his Prince as who hath his life in his hands which neither the maister hath ouer his seruant nor father ouer his sonne nor the husband ouer his wife therfore the Popes excōmunication of the King were it currant as it is counterfeit blanke annullest is no sufficient discharge to acquite his subiects from their homage fealty towards him O that my voice were as loud shrill as a bell that I might righ these things in the deafe eares of that Adders brood that viperous generation our refractarie Papists who to restore the worthily ab●ndoned vsurpation of the Bishop of Rome care not how they vilifie the Maiestie and deface the authoritie of their soueraigne Lord the King counting it no breach of loyaltie but a most iust and honorable exploit nay a meritorious act before God for any brother of their confraternity by any meanes of open assault or priuie conspiracy to ruine him and his Estate whereas if euery haire of their head were a life they ought of right to affoord them at his command and in his defence In this diuellish and damned resolution equalling if not surpassing the very heathen which knew not God The Conclusion All this notwithstanding if there be any here so bankrupt of grace so destitute of the Spirit of God so bereft of reason and sense The vlcer of Babylon is incurable as to dwell still in the contrary opinion and persist to be the Popes deuoted vassals factious complices and traiterous heretiques I call heauen earth to record this day that I haue blowne the trumpet and giuen them faire warning I haue done what lieth in me to retire them from their wicked course their bloud be vpon their owne heads The authority wherwith God hath inuested Princes and the Popes vsurped power cannot stand together but as in a counter ballance the one scale mounting vp the other falleth downe so the more suppliant men are to the Pope the more inobedient they grow to their Prince For our selues my brethren that already haue shaken off the yoke of Popish seruitude let vs not like those Ifraelites who being in the way towards Canaan longed to be in Egypt againe make our selues thrall any more but let vs hold out without wauering and constantly proclaime all hatefulnesse and hostilitie against that Romane Pharaoh whose gouernment as our fathers to their cost and smart experimented is but tyranny his doctrine Antichristianitie his deuotion superstition his religion the seede of rebellion his discipline disorder and enormitie and his life iniquity Let vs I say abomine and abandon him as the sworne enemy of our State And let vs liue in all true subiection and Christian obsequiousnesse to the Kings most excellent Maiestie the Lords in dubitate Annointed ouer vs. He he is the father of our Country we the children let vs honor and obey him he the Lord we the seruants let vs feare reuerence him he the shepheard we the flocke let vs be guided by him he the foundation we the building let vs relye depend on him he the roote we the branches let vs maintaine him he the head we the members let vs defend him Let vs serue him in peace let vs second him in warre let vs with vniformitie of heart tongue pray for him in both that God would deliuer him from the hands of all his enemies bodily and ghostly secret and open forreine and domestical as frequently and in miraculous manner he preserued our late Soueraigne his most gracious handmaiden queene Elizabeth of famous memorie that he may long reigne a happy a godly and an ancient Father in Israel Let vs giue most humble and most heartie thanks vnto God for him by whose meanes we enioy so many so great so inestimable benefites that the Countries round about vs haue cause to repine at vs and to waxe pale for enuie and for felicitie and all humane happinesse this Iland of ours may worthily be reputed to be the peerlesse paragō of the whole world Finally continue good Lord continue the light of thy fatherly countenance toward him for euer and toward vs his subiects the children of thy couenant that we both here in the world to come may magnifie thy goodnesse and sing vnto thy Name with thy blessed seruants and elect Angels that melodious hymne and eucharisticall encomiasticke musicke Praise and glorie and wisedome and thanks and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euermore Amen Amen To end as I began Let euery soule be subject to the higher powers

was styled with that appellation onely in regard of the kingdome of heauen as Iohannes de Parisiis a bird of their own feather Ioh. de Paris cap. 18. wel noteth all the ancient Fathers vno ore with one voice so expound the place With Scripture doth accord the vse of the Church for many ages succeeding Peruse the Ecclesiasticall stories from top to toe or if your leasure or skill will not serue you consult the best learned Diuine amongst our aduersaries you can come by and if he can produce vnto you one vncounterfeit president to the contrary but that the Priest for the space of a thousand yeares after Christ was still vnder the checke and correction of the Prince then let me beare the blame and shame of a false teacher Truth it is religious Princes haue shewed Clergimen extraordinary fauour in their Courts both for their Maisters and for their message sake but neuer Prince look who enlarged their liberties most did so absolutely release them from the bond of allegiance but that himselfe might at his pleasure call them to a reckoning of their doings and proceed to punishment against them if the case so required vntill such time as the Antichrist of Rome as it was prognosticated of him long before vnder the persō of the whore of Babylon Reuel 17. got the mastery of the Kings of the earth and bound them in such awe that they durst not so much as question much lesse crosse any of his desires or designes though neuer so leud neuer so extrauagant As a glozer of their owne vpon the Decretals not obscurely insinuateth his words be these Quaeritur quis exemit Clericum de iurisdictione Imperatoris c. Question is moued who exempted the Priest from the iurisdiction of the Emperour whereas before he was his subiect Extra de maiorit obed cap. 2. in marg Laurentius saith the Pope exempted him by consent of the Emperour But what though the Emperour at the Popes motion had endowed them with an immunitie and an impunitie full out as large as is pretended You must know it is one thing to pleade a priuiledge by speciall graunt from the King and another to intitle themselues vnto it in the right of Gods word to claime it as their owne heritage properly belonging and inseparably vnited to their sacred function So that ye see howsoeuer it be disguised vnder the maske vizar of Religion it goeth cleane against the streame of Gods word and is in truth no better then flat rebellion against his Vicegerents and Lieutenants here on earth for Priests vnder the colour and pretext of Gods law to sequester themselues from the gouernance and chastisement of the Prince And this conclusion shall vndoubtedly go for currant and stand for Catholicke though all the kennell of Iesuites Seminarians and other Antichristian hounds do barke and baule neuer so with open mouth against it as hereticall Moreouer Princes may hence take a scantling how farre their authoritie and charge stretcheth as well in respect of the persons ouer whom as of the causes wherein they haue to gouerne and beare the sword For sith the holy Ghost requireth subiection of all in generall and that simply without limitation of any kind of matter it is a sequele past the refelling of both Seminaries A Gordiꝰ knot past loosing except the Pope like Alexāder come with his sword chop it all to peeces and lay all their heads together that Princes within their owne Realmes and territories are supreme gouernours as of all persons be they Priests Prelates Popes or whatsoeuer so likewise in all things whether they concerne the first or second table of the Law of God For where the Spirit of God compriseth all they do but delude themselues who vpon any pretence exclude themselues And where the Spirit of God speaketh indefinitely and at large not distinguishing of the things wherein subiects are or are not to obey it is vaine for subiects of any sort to capitulate and indent with their Prince in what cases forsooth they will be at command and in what they will not Whereby appeareth that popish Princes who suffer themselues to be perswaded that all Ecclesiasticall both persons and matters are cleane without the compasse of their cōmission and pertaine not to their princely charge and thereupon refuse to haue to do with Priests their doctrine and doing or to deale in any other occurrent of spirituall nature leauing them to the entire conduct of Churchmen neuer regarding whether they be managed aright or no are deeply guilty before almightie God and haue much to answer for breach of dutie in the execution of their office As also those reformed Princes who hauing the word of God for their warrant and the examples of the godly Kings of Israel and the religious Emperours of Christendome for their president do by due course of law prouide that all men do their dutie Priests as well as other and that Gods true Religion be maintained within their dominions as well as ciuill iustice ministred do no more then what of right they may do and of bounden dutie should do And therefore it was an egregious sawcie disloyall and irreligious part of Thomas Becket Archbishop of Canterbury Math. Paris in Henrico 2. anno 1164. Guil Newbrigen●retū Ang lib. 2. cap. 16. when the King then regnant inflamed with desire of iustice sought to punish certaine Clergie men for diuers robberies and murthers committed whereof they stood detected and conuicted before the Iudges in their circuits openly to resist and oppose himselfe against him as he did And truly the Bishop of Rome had done far better for the credit and reputation of his Church if when he canonized him for a Saint he had condemned him for a traitor For who not alreadie addicted to the Romane superstition will be induced to thinke wel of that religion which obtrudeth vpon the people to be worshipped a rebell and traitor against his Prince of whom the maisters of Paris made it a disputable point whether he were saued or damned And one in fauour of the Church of Rome extolling him to the clouds for a Martyr Rogerus Normannus another answered he was worthy to die as a malefactor for that he durst presume to thwart coūtermand the perēptory command of his Prince whom God would haue in all things with all reuerence submission obeyed his owne diuine dominion and due no way violated And in case the Kings pleasure be repugnant to the will of God though the rule be generall Act. 5. The King as mount Sinai may not be touched without mortal offence much lesse violently assaulted The true punctuall import of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the very abstract quintessence of a subiects dutie The superiority which the Pope vsurpeth ouer Princes is here stript whipt being the most venimous Cockatrice that euer poisoned the Church of Christ that God is rather to be