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A04127	The oath of allegeance defended by a sermon preached at a synode in the Metropoliticall Church of Yorke; by Thomas Ireland, Bachelour in Diuinitie.	Ireland, Thomas, b. 1577 or 8.	1610 (1610)	STC 14267; ESTC S119564	25,917	46

bellicus labor subdidit quam quod pax Christiana subiecit Although they got much by their warfare yet their Christian cunning peace hath got more to their dominion as a Prophet of their owne foretold and taught Tu regere Imperio populos Romane memento Hae tibi erunt artes pacique imponere nomen Like the snake Rome hath bene warmed in the bosome of our greatest kingdomes till it stung them vnto death like iuie so long it hath embraced that it hath eaten vp whole Monarchies like the Crocodile by weeping and creeping it hath got into the best estates like old Rome it vseth all Religion onely for a vantage he setteth Kings at ods and then becoms an arbiter hee brings kingdomes to the ballance and makes that weightier where hee doth propend As the Romane Emperours would bee counted Monarkes of the world although their Empire in Scipioes iudgement was but a point and vnder Traian when it flourisht most it was not the thirtieth part so the Popes will be taken for Gouernours of the world though that there bee but a little cantle of Europe which will hold of them Thus you see that it is the citties custome not the Churches right which makes them thus vsurping For there is no other no not Saint Peter that can yeeld it them Saint Peter they say was cald a Rocke therefore on Saint Peters chaire must the Church bee built to which we say that as Simon was called Peter i. a rocke so Peter was called Simon i. obedient to shew that they should build so that they might still obey nay being both Simon Peter he was after called Satan to shew the succession of that name would after proue Satannicall But Peter had the keyes of the kingdome of heauen which might loose or binde the kingdome of heauen we confesse was opened by S. Peters key the preaching of the word but the kingdomes of this earth are yet reserued in the power of God promotion comes not either frō East or West from North or South but it is God that sets vp one and pulleth downe another But Peter was bidden feed the lambes sheep why feeding is not fleecing chiefest of the flocke Peter was bidden kill and eate such killing was the conuersion not the confusion the mortifying not the murdering of the Gentiles it was not the killing sword but pricking word which wan Cornelius and 3000. at one sermon I but Peter by walking on the sea did get a dominion from sea to sea and from the floud vnto the worlds end no more say we then Christ that fled thither and walk there because he would not bee made a king But Christ came into S. Peters ship to shew that he would come into S. Peters sea yet as hee came in he came out againe as he desired Christ for to depart from him for he was a sinfull man to shew that hee would part from them when as they parted from his truth yet Peter was foretold his death and bidden follow to shew that as he followed in suffering he should follow in reigning but all this was no more then hee said vnto Iames and Iohn of the cup and baptisme they should be baptized with no more then hee told his other Disciples when he bad them take vp his crosse and follow promising they that left all for him should sit vpon twelue seates and iudge the twelue tribes of Israel who notwithstanding haue no iudgement in this world If they say S. Peter paid for Christ wee may say the fish paid it him if how Christ was first seene of Cephas then of the twelue Mary Magdalen saw him before Cephas if how S. Peter spoke the first and most vnto the Iewes of Christ we must answer it was because he spoke last and worst when he blasphemed him These are the prerogatiues of S. Peter whereon Bellarmine would build the Popes patrimony but how absurdly you may see by that vntempered morter with which hee daubes the Church-gouernment A monarchy saith Bellarmine is the best and to this we grant the best Monarke euen Christ alone as the father establisht him I haue set my king vpon mine holy hill of Zion All thinges according to S. Paul hapned vnto the Iewes in a figure saith Bellarmine and therefore our high Priesthood must resemble theirs to which we must answer Saint Paul meanes al things that are there mentioned for otherwise al their ceremonies are to become Christian the Church indeed as Bellarmine saith is a kingdome but Christ is the king to whom all power is giuen in heauen and earth a flocke but Christ is that good sheepheard a body but Christ is the head a ship which the blessed Apostles could not guide in the tempest vntill our Sauiour came and stilled the waues God forbid I should here condemne all Metropolitans and Diocaesans for I know there bee certaine Ecclesiasticall reserued cases in which they may determine but an vniuersall infinite and incontrollable iurisdiction ouer men Angels diuels and purgatorie soules cannot be but Luciferian vnto which our aduersarie compares it and Anti-christian How can the Pope take on him to direct all truth and salue all mischiefs in this world vnlesse he pull Christes office from his hands Can any man effectually call and send orders of Ministers but Christ which enables vs vnto this calling Can any determine all controuersies but the Spirit that leads into all truth any make one faith but one Christ in whom wee trust Can any gouerne well all the world but he must bee more then a man for a man can hardly gouerne his owne family more then an Angel for Angels are proportioned vnto seuerall prouinces in Daniels prophecie He must bee equall in iustice power and wisedome to God himselfe who takes no more in charge then the Pope challengeth Saint Paul had a care indeed of all Churches but it was of all that were conuerted then far fewer then are now to bee directed it was in writing praying preaching trauelling which the Popes haue little leasure to meddle with it was for edifiyng not destruction as they now intend Beeing destitute of Scripture they flie to their owne decretals whereof some are so plainely forged some full of so plaine falsehood the residue so much partiall that we may say with Christ He that speaketh of himselfe seeketh his owne glory and If I beare witnesse of my selfe my witnesse is not true Saint Peter did referre the choise of an Apostle to the disciples the Councell of Ierusalem preferred him before the rest hee cals himselfe but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a fellow Elder Saint Paul withstood him to his face as being in place and deed such as might and should bee blamed Cyprian saith all the Apostles had the fame fellowship of honour and office vnto which also Hierome consenteth Pelagius the second and Gregory the first would not be cald vniuersal thus it was til Phocas the murderer of his Maister made Boniface the third Pope of Priests

with them not worse then in the daies of Saint Paul who deliuered ouer an incestuous person vnto satan that his spirit might be saued in the day of the Lord. Now their spirit cannot be saued if they be slaine excommunicate The company that he forbids is not that we should vtterly forsake their society for then we must forsake the world but that we should abstaine from their communion wee should not eate with them of the same vnleauened passeouer Christ Iesus wee should seeke to restore them in the spirit of meekenesse wee should striue to doe good vnto all though they be not of the houshold of faith Saint Paul thought it sufficient that the excommunicate was rebuked of many but our Aduersaries are not satisfied vnlesse they take life and al. God banisht Adam out of Paradice and yet he gaue him certaine meanes to liue Gods holy Spirit parted from the former world yet he left them one hundred and twenty yeares leasure to repent themselues God seuered Mirian from the campe yet hee would haue the people to stay for her that she should not vtterly be desolate and shall wee censure more seuerely then the Lord of hoasts Hereupon their owne decrees affirme that excommunication is not mortalis but medicinalis gladius not a killing but healing sword Saint Austin saith it is not Corporalis but Spiritualis poena a penaltie for the soule not for the body Cyprian shews the very case suppose an euill doer cannot be seuered without sedition Tolera Zizanium eslo frumentum be wheat and beare with tares Thus did Saint Ambrose excommunicate Theodosius his threatning was Rogamus non pugnamus wee cannot fight but pray Lachrimae sunt arma t is the teares of our eyes not weapons in our hands which must ouercome you our warfare is not carnall but spirituall and mighty through God wee must fight with knowledge against ignorance with humility against pride with examples of obedience against wilfulnesse in wickednesse How many Iewes Turks Atheists Epicures and murderers doth God now suffer in this world and sets a marke on them as on Cain that none shall kill vntill he please to take them hence can any thing then be so shameles vnder the pretence of religion to murder whom they list as that Frier did who slew sixe score with his owne hands in a French massacre Their doctrine therefore cannot be but impious against God in deposing or abusing his officers for he will take it as if it were himselfe as he said of Samuel they haue not cast away thee but me It is hereticall against the Scripture which commands the contrary truth loue and peace it is abhominable and so damnable in their owne conscience the censure of the world and the sight of God Although the Popes propose it as meritorius yet their guilty conscience foretelleth heauy things and in their hearts proditionem amant nov proditorem they loue the deed as far as it profits them but the doer they will haue in bitter detestation much more the world hateth this and for it owne safety will not suffer such a sinne vnpunisht Nature abhors murder as appeares by the bleeding of the murdered in the presence of the murderer much more the murders of a Prince whose life hath bene accounted sacred in all ages countries and religions much more vnder the color of religion when Gods Holinesse is made a patron of such diuellish treacheries and therfore in his iudgment hee will punish the lesse offenders with lesse torments and these with worst and most as being most mischieuous men Thus their opinion must needes be absurd which puls all kings kingdoms from Gods power leaues them in the disposition of a weake old sinful man As then this oath may betaken with a good conscience being vndertaken it must be kept notwithstāding al absolution it may be wisdome as times alter to change an opinion but it is impietie to breake a resolution grounded on Gods word Zachariah beheld a flying booke the length was 20 the bredth was 10 cubits which entred into the swearers house and eate vp the timber stones thereof but now we may behold a flying bul of mighty voyce but little force which coms from Rome to licence command many to forsweare themselues Violare Deorum non licet acta Deum if one Magistrat infringe what an other hath determined there followes nothing but confusiō God although that he promist whatsoeuer we boūd or loosed on earth shold be so bound or loosed in heauen yet he neuer promist we might loose on earth what was already bound in heauen Woe to them therfore which call euil good good euill which de iustitia would make iniustitiam and breake the seauen-fold binding of an oath as the Hebrew name imports as Samson did the new made cords with little force or care who can this be but Anti-christ who sitting in the Temple of God would exalt himselfe aboue God so far as to dissolue the bonds made sacred by his holyname and bring that blemish vpon Christianity which euen Iewes and Turks abhorre who say the causes of our Christian troubles are our daily blasphemies periuries This doctrine of absolution is so contrary to inward peace outward honesty so odious in it selfe perilous for example scandalous to the Church preiudicious in the confederacies of Princes and suspicious in all contracts for if our couenants be neuer so surely writ on earth and registred in heauen yet they say they may be cancelled of his Holinesse that it cannot be suffered in a Christian common wealth looke then into the word of God whether it be better obeying the king in keeping of a lawfull oath then a stranger in breaking it looke into thy conscience whether it can be discharged of periury by the bull of such a Bishop looke vnto the iudgement of all flesh whether the Popes pardons can proue a supersedeas against hell Thus we must not looke for absolution Equiuocation and mentall reseruation is as dangerous they be solaecismes in reason much more absurd in conscience Christianity This was Lysanders noted crime to deceiue children with triffles and men with oathes This was that heinous fault of Ananias hee told not all he should haue told but kept halfe backe for his owne profit and so lied against the holy Ghost This was the custome of hereticks to protest one faith and haue another in their bosome This is the shame of Christendom since this doctrine was defended men make a common trade of lying and deceiuing This is the heart and the heart whereof Dauid so complaines the dissembling to satisfie for the present which Eleazar much abhorred the trick of a false brother which had the voyce of Iacob and the hands of Esau he spoke like a friend and dealt like an enimie The Satyre could not abide him could blow both hot and could Solon condemned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ambidexters in their words and deedes God will not suffer