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Scrinia reserata a memorial offer'd to the great deservings of John Williams, D. D., who some time held the places of Ld Keeper of the Great Seal of England, Ld Bishop of Lincoln, and Ld Archbishop of York : containing a series of the most remarkable occurences and transactions of his life, in relation both to church and state / written by John Hacket ...
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Hacket, John, 1592-1670.
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hope to comprehend all that I shall say or any man else can materially touch upon in this Bill The first is the Rise or Motive of this Bill which is the Duty of men in Holy Orders for the words are Persons in Holy Orders ought not to intermeddle c. And this Duty of Ministers may be taken in this place two several ways either for their Duty in point of Divinity or for their Duty in point of Convenience which we commonly call Policy In regard of either of these Duties it may be conceived that men in Holy Orders ought not to intermeddle in Sacred Affairs c. and this is the Motive Rise and Ground of this Bill The second point are the persons concerned in the Bill which are Archbishops Bishops Parsons Vicars and all other in Holy Orders The third point contains the things inhibited from this time forward to such persons by this Bill and they are of several sorts and natures First Freeholds and Rights of such persons as their Suffrages Votes and Legislative Power in Parliament Secondly Matters of Princely Favours as to sit in Star-chamber to be call'd to the Council-board to be Justices of the Peace c. Thirdly Matters of a mixt and concrete nature that seem to be both Freeholds and Favours of former Princes as the Charters of some of the Bishops and some of the ancient Cathedrals are conceived to be And these are all the matters or things inhibited from those persons in Holy Orders by this present Bill The fourth point is the manner of this Inhibition which is of a double nature first of a severe Penalty and secondly under Cain's Mark an eternalkind of Disability and Incapacity laid upon them from enjoying hereafter any of those Freeholds Rights Favours or Charters of former Princes and that which is the heaviest point of all without killing of Abel or any Crime laid to their Charge more than that in the beginning of the Bill it is said roundly and in the style of Lacedaemon That they ought not to intermeddle in Secular Affairs The fifth point is a Salvo for the two Universities but none for the Bishop of Durham nor for the Bishop of Ely not for the Dean of Westminster their next Neighbour who is establish'd in his Government by an especial Act of Parliament that of the 27 of Queen Elizabeth The sixth and last point is a Salvo for Dukes Marquesses Earls Viscounts Barons or Peers of this Kingdom that either may be or are such by Descent Which Clause I hope in God will prove not only a Salvo to those honourable persons whereof if we of the Clergy were but so happy as to have any competent number of our Coat Quot Thebarum portae vel divit is ostia Nili this Bill surely had perish'd in the Womb and never come to the Birth but I hope that this Clause will prove this Bill a felo de se and a Murtherer of it self and intended for a Salvo to noble Ministers only prove a Salvo for all other Ministers that be not so happy as to be nobly born because the very poor Minister for ought we find in Scripture or common Reason is no more tyed to serve God in his Vocationâ— than these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and nobly-born Ministers are And therefore I hope those noble Ministers will deal so nobly as to pull their Brethren the poor Ministers out of the Thorns and Bryars of this Bill And these are all the true Heads and Contents of this Bill And among these six Heads your Lordships shall be sure to find me and I shall expect to sind your Lordships in the whole Tract of this Committee And now with your Lordships honourable Leave and Patience I will run them over almost as briefly as I have pointed and pricked them down 160. For the first the Rise and Motive of this Bill which is the Duty of Men in Holy Orders not to intermeddle with Secular Affairs must either rise from a point of Divinity or from a point of Conveniency or Policy And I hope in God it will not appear to your Lordships that there is any Ground either of Divinity or Policy to inhibit men in Orders so modestly to intermeddle with Secular Affairs as that the measure of intermeddling in such Affairs shall not hinder nor obstruct the Duties of their Calling They ought not so to intermeddle in Secular Affairs as to neglect their Ministry no more ought Lay-men neither for they have a Calling and Vocation wherein they are to walk as Ministers have they have Wife and Children and Families to care for and they are not to neglect these to live upon Warrants and Recognizances to become a kind of Sir Francis Michel or a Justus nimis as Solomon calls it Eccles 7.16 That place 2 Tim. 2.4 No man that warrs entangles himself with the affairs of this life will be found to be applied by all good Interpreters to Lay-men as well as Church-men and under favour nothing at all to this purpose Besides that the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth point at a man that is so wholly taken up with the Affairs of this Life that he utterly neglects the Offices and Duties of a Christian man And so I leave that place as uncapable of any other Exposition nor ever otherwise interpreted but by Popes Legates and Canonists that make a Nose or Wax of every place of Scripture they touch upon But that men in Holy Orders ought not in a moderate manner together with the Duties of their Calling to help and assist in the Government of the Common-wealth if they be thereunto lawfully called by the Soveraign Prince can never be proved by any good Divinity for in the Law of Natâ—e before the Deluge and a long time after it is a point that no man will deny me That the Eldest of the Family was both the Priest and the Magistrate Then the People were taken out of Aegypt by Moses and Aaron Moses and Aaron among his Priests as it is in the Psalm Then there was a Form of a Common-wealth setch'd from Heaven indeed and planted upon the Earth and judiciary Laws dictated for the regulating of the same Nor do I much care though some men shall say That persons in Holy Orders ought not to intermeddle in Secular Affairs when that Great God of Heaven and Earth doth appoint them to intermeddle with all the principal Affairs of that estate witness the exorbitant Power of the High-Priest in Secular Matters the Sanhedrim the 23 the Judges of the Gate which were most of them Priests and Levites And the Church-men of that Estate were not all Butchers and Slaughter-men for they had their Tabernacle their Synagogues their Prayers Preaching and other Exercises of Piety In a word we have Divinius but they had operosius ministerium as St Austin speaketh Our Ministry takes up more of our Thoughts but theirs took up more of their Labour and Industry Nor is it any matter that
at Chattam and to ride near to St. Anderos to bring the Prince for England if there were a rupture in the Treaty But if they should suddenly strike Hands and make a Bargain my Lord Duke had his Thoughts upon a Question which if it should be ask'd he would not be surpriz'd as if he were ignorant what to answer that is What Dowry should be granted to the Princely Bride Therefore he consulted the Lord Keeper and required Satisfaction to be brought by a Courier that must not spare Horse-Flesh who was hied away as fast as he could be with this Answer May 14. My Illustrious Lord THe Dowry about which your Grace requires the speediest Direction must consist in some of the Kings fair Mansion Houses and in Revenue For both which the Mannor-Houses and the just Sum of the Joynture I must refer to you and can do no otherwise to my Lord of Bristol's former Conclusions with that Council But whether it should be allotted in Land or other Revenue I cannot yet convince mine own Judgment fully which were better Sometimes I consider it were good that a great part were named out of Customs and such other Incomes lest our Poverty in Crown-Lands be discovered Sometimes I find it for certain more advantageous to his Highness to have all the Joynture in Land and that the choicest of our Kingdom because being once in the Joynture it is sure to be preserv'd in the Crown and no longer subject to be begg'd or begger'd by Fee-Farms and unconscionable Leases And I believe your Lordship will so advise it Or if you please the Sum being agreed upon you may suspend the rest till you return that Counsel in the Law on all sides may put their Cases upon it Your Grace will give me leave to observe that now is the first time that any Daughter-in-Law of this Crown had any other set Maintenante than was granted to her voluntarily by her Husband But your Grace may reply That this is the first Portion of so great a Bulk And it is no way inconvenient for his Highness that she have a Copious Maintenance confirm'd to her in present as I could tell your Grace at large if I were present with you All is right here to your Lordship's Good and I will be vigilant to keep it so Nor will I serve his Majesty in that place wherein I shall not be so heedful as to be able to yield an account of any Disservice or Offer that way which may concern your Grace c. By the same Messenger at the same time another Dispatch was posted to the Prince in answer to his Highness who had signified his Pleasure was That the Recusants should be gratified for his sake warily and not by broad Day-light to shew that he was sensible of those Hospital Civilities which he then received from some Cards of their Suit Whereupon the Lord Keeper writes May it please your Highness I Would I had any Abilâ—â—â—â—â— to serve your Highness in this place wherein you have set me and what far more Grace and Favour Countenanced and Encouraged me To observe your Highnesses Commands I am sure the Spanish Ambassador resiant must testifie that since your Highnesses Departure he hath been denied no one Request for Expedition of Justice or ease of Catholicks although I usually hear from him twice or thrice a Week which I observe the more Superstiticusly that he might take knowledge how sensible we are of any Honour done to your Highness And yet in the Relaxation of the Roman Catholicks Penalties I keep off the King from appearing in it as much as I can and take all upon my self as I believe every Servant of his ought to do in such Negotiations the Events whereof be hazardous and uncertain God Bless your Highness as in all other so especially in this present Business of so main Importance c. These are the Negotiations which the Lord Keeper for his Share at this Season brooded under the Wings of Fidelity and Prudence How well let the Wise and Unbiassed be Judges Such will not be Cajol'd into a wrong Belief by Corruptors of History as Heraclides serv'd his Scholars Quos duplo reddidu sluitiores quam acceperat ubi nihil poterant discere nisi Ignorantiam Cicer. Orat. pro Flacco 140. It is enough declared how the great Matters about the Match went here The Dispensation of Pope Gregory the XV. turn'd them round in Spain till they were giddy with the Motion It was expected it should come in the common Church Style an absolute and Canonical Dispensation and no more only for her Sake that was in Submission to his Laws But it was Compounded with so many Reservations and ill-visag'd Provisoes that it swell'd like a Tympany The Pope knew with home he had to deal For there are none in the Earth more Superstitious to do him Honour then the King of Spain and his People That King would make the Pope too big for a Priest that the Pope might make him too great for a King Nor is there any other intent to make that Patriarch of the West the sole capacious Fountain from which all Pipes of Grace and Indulgence Ecclesiastical should be fill'd and run abroad but principally to Water his own Garden What between the Nuncio Resiant at Madrid who was Commanded to stop all Proceedings till safety were granted nay and put in Execution both for English and Irish Catholicks as much as they ask'd What with the Charge given to the Inquisitor General to use all possible diligence to draw the Prince to his Holiness's Obedience What with Olivarez's frowardness of whom the Duke could not obtain to put a Postscript in his Letter to the Pope that to add these new and un-relish'd Conditions with which the Dispensation was Clogg'd would be interpreted the worst of Unkindness what with all these together his Highness might say Fat Bulls of Basan have compassed me in on every side A little Honey God wot a little was allowed to to the Lip of the Cup if he would Taste of that Potion that was that from thenceforth his Highness might have access to his Dearly Affected Mistress not as formerly a bare Visitant but now as a Lover so some of their chief States were in presence to hear all their Conference a Rule which they say is never Infring'd in the grave way of the Castilian Wooing The old Man Gregory the XV. gave light himself to his Friends and Servants in Spain what they should do by the Flame of his own Zeal For he sent a Letter to the Prince Signed with the Signet-Ring of St. Peter to exhort his Highness with many words to reduce himself and the Kingdoms of which he was the Heir to the Subjection of the Roman See Hereupon some of our Hot-Heads in England made it a Quarrel and a Calumny that the Prince sent an Answer of Civility to the Popes Epistle Civility though it is a thing unknown among the Plebeians and Clowns