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A27494	Clavi trabales, or, Nailes fastned by some great masters of assemblyes confirming the Kings supremacy, the subjects duty, church government by bishops ... : unto which is added a sermon of regal power, and the novelty of the doctrine of resistance : also a preface by the right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Lincolne / published by Nicholas Bernard ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2007; ESTC R4475	99,985	198

were of greater scandal to the Church then that aptitude habitually attained unto by some could be of profit His Judgment of the Articles of Religion and practice of the Eeclesiastical Constitutions of the Church of England THe Articles of the Church of England as the Primat had long agon subscribed them so have I often heard him highly commending them The reception of which Articles in the First Canon of Ireland Anno 1634. He drew up himself with his own hand with an addition of a very severe punishment to such as should refuse to subscribe them as may appear in it Anno 1614. He was a principal person then appointed for the collecting and drawing up such Canons as might best concern the Discipline and Government of the Church of Ireland taken out of Queen Elizabeths Injunctions and the Canons of England to be treated upon by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops and Clergy of that Kingdom some of which I have which were written then with his own hand and presented by him The two first of them were these 1. That no other Form of Liturgy or Divine Service shall be used in any Church of this Realm but that which is established by Law and comprized in the Book of Common-Prayer and Administration of Sacraments c. 2. That no other Form of Ordination shall be used in this Nation but which is contain'd in the Book of ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons allowed by Authority and hitherto practiced in the Churches of England and Ireland c. And in his subscription in relation to the above mentioned it is in these words viz. I do acknowledge the Form of Gods Service prescribed in the book of Common-Prayer is good and godly and may lawfully be used and do promise that I my self will use the Form in the said Book prescribed in celebration of Divine Service and administration of the Sacraments and none other I do also acknowledge that such as are consecrated and ordered according to the form prescribed in the Book of Ordination set forth by Authority have truly received holy Orders and have Power given them to exercise all things belonging to that Sacred Function whereunto they are called c. For the now more perfect Canons of the Church of Ireland constituted Anno 1634. in the Convocation there whereof I was a Member most of them were taken out of these of England and he being then Primate had a principal hand in their collection and proposal to the reception of them the methodizing of all which into due order I have seen and have it by me written with his own hand throughout whereby 't is apparent what his Judgment was in relation to them The Annual Festivals of the Church he duly observed preaching upon their several Commemorations On Christmas-Day Easter Whitsunday he never fail'd of Communions that excellent Treatise of his Entituled The incarnation of the Son of God was the substance of two or three Sermons which I heard him preach in a Christmas time Good-Fryday he constantly kept very strictly preaching himself then upon the Passion beyond his ordinary time when we had the publick prayers in their utmost extent also and without any thought of a superstition he kept himself fasting till the Evening Confirmation of Children was often observed by him the first time he did it when a great number were presented to him by me he made a Speech to the Auditory to the satisfaction of all sorts of persons concerning the Antiquity and good use of it The publick Cathechism in the book of Common-Prayer was enjoyned by him to be only observed in the Church a part of which for a quarter or half an hour was constantly explained by me to the people every Sunday before evening Prayer himself being present which was also accordingly enjoyned throughout his Diocess He was much for that decent distinctive habit of the Clergy Cassocks Gowns Priests-Clokes c. according to the Canon in that behalf provided to be used by them in their walking or riding abroad which himself from his younger years always observed And in Anno 1634. that Canon of England of the decent Apparrel of Ministers was by his special approbation put in among those of Ireland Lastly though in our Constitutions there is no form appointed for the consecration of a Church or Chappel yet he was so ready to apply himself to what had been accustomed in England that at his consecration of a Chappel not far from Drogheda in Ireland he framed no new one of his own but took that which goes under Bishop Andrews name and used it with little variation which I have in my custody And thus I have endeavored by this Declaration of his Judgment and Practice in these particulars to give satisfaction to all such who by their misapprehensions have had their various censures and applications to the great injury of him I shall only wish that not only they but all others that hear this of him were both almost and altogether such as he was Mr. HOOKERS Judgment of Regal Power in matters of Religion and the advancement of Bishops wholy left out of the common Copies in his eighth Book here confirmed by the late Lord Primate USHER'S marginal notes and other Enlargements with his own hand THe service which we do unto the true God who made heaven and earth is far different from that which Heathens have done unto their supposed Gods though nothing else were respected but only the odds between their hope and ours The office of piety or true Religion sincerely performed have the promises both of this life and of the life to come the practices of Superstition have neither If notwithstanding the Heathens reckoning upon no other reward for all which they did but only protection and favour in the temporal estate and condition of this present life and perceiving how great good did hereby publickly grow as long as fear to displease they knew not what Divine power was some kind of bridle unto them did therefore provide that the highest degree of care for their Religion should be the principall charge of such as having otherwise also the greatest and chiefest power were by so much the more fit to have custody thereof Shall the like kind of provision be in us thought blame-worthy A gross error it is to think that Regal Power ought to serve for the good of the body and not of the soul for mens temporal peace and not their eternal safety as if God had ordained Kings for no other end and purpose but only to fat up men like hogs and to see that they have their Mast Indeed to lead men unto salvation by the hand of secret invisible and ghostly regiment or by the external administration of things belonging unto Priestly order such as the Word and Sacraments are this is denied unto Christian Kings no cause in the world to think them uncapable of supreme

Clavi Trabales OR NAILES FASTNED by some Great MASTERS of ASSEMBLYES Confirming The KINGS SUPREMACY The SUBJECTS Duty Church Government by BISHOPS The Particulars of which are as followeth I. Two Speeches of the late LORD PRIMATE USHERS The one of the Kings Supremacy The other of the Duty of Subjects to supply the Kings Necessities II. His Judgment and Practice in Point of Loyalty Episcopacy Liturgy and Constitutions of the Church of England III. Mr. HOOKERS Judgment of the Kings Power in matters of Religion advancement of Bishops c. IV. Bishop ANDREWS of Church-Government c. both confirmed and enlarged by the said PRIMATE V. A Letter of Dr HADRIANUS SARAVIA of the like Subjects Unto which is added a Sermon of REGAL POVVER and the Novelty of the DOCTRINE of RESISTANCE Also a Preface by the Right Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of LINCOLNE Published by Nicholas Bernard Doctor of Divinity and Rector of Whit-church in Shropshire Si totus orbis adversum me conjuraret ut quid quam moliret adversus Regiam Majestatem ego tamen Deum 〈◊〉 ordinatum ab eo Regem offendere temere non auderem Bern. Ep. 170. ad Ludovicem Regem An. 11●0 London Printed by R. Hodkginson and are to be sold by R. Marriot at his Shop in St. Dunstans Church-yard in Fleetstreet 1661. THE PREFACE THese two learned Speeches of the late Lord Primate Usher have been by some prudent persons judged seasonable to be thus published together The one Of the Kings Supremacy may not only be instructive to those of the Church of Rome but to some of our own Communion who have been and are too scanty in the acknowledgment of it The other Of the duty of Subjects to supply the Kings necessities was occasioned by the slowness in Ireland of contributing to the King for the maintenance of the Army continued there for their own defence the great imprudence of which parsimony we felt to our own loss not many years after wherein that distinction in point of Loyalty made between those descended of the antient English race though differing from us in point of Religion and those of the meer Irish which is there much enlarged may be now worthy of observation The whole Speech is full of Loyalty Prudence and Learning for which as he had his late Majesties of Blessed Memory gracious thanks so he had as little from others who were then as backward in assenting to the like Propositions here conceiving he had pressed their duty too high in that point Both these Speeches thus tending to the defence of Regal Power and the duty of Subjects hath in submission to the judgments of those whom I much reverence occasioned the putting forth a Sermon of mine upon the like Subject which I have the rather adventured so near this eminent Primate as having had his approbation occasioned by the censure of some at Dublin anno 1642. when it was first delivered of which more is said in an Advertisement before it Hereupon I have been further induced unto a vindication of the said most eminent Prelate not only of His Judgment in this Subject but in point of Episcopacy Liturgy and Constitutions of the Church of England from the various misapprehensions of such who being of different opinions the great respect given him by the one hath been a scandal to the other But by this impartial relation of his Judgment and Practice in each it may be hoped that both sorts will be so fully satisfyed as to unite in the exemplary observance of that Piety Loyalty Conformity and Humility found in him And whereas some do much appeal to that Accommodation of his in relation to Episcopacy wherein he was not single proposed Anno 1640. which then they did not hearken unto they are herein remembred what was that which caused it even the pressing violence of those times threatning the destruction of the whole with the sole end of it a pacification whose readiness in yielding up so much of his own Interest then for the tranquility of the Church like Jonas willing to be cast overboard for the stilling of the Tempest would be worthy of all our Imitations now The appeale here is from that Storm unto what his practice was in calme and peaceable times which if followed would give a check to most of those disputes which have of late taken up so much time amongst us The Fruite expected to be reaped from this declaration besides the satisfaction of mine own mind which was not at rest without it is the due honor of him for whose I am oblieged to sacrifice mine own That as he is admired abroad so he may not want that love and general esteem he hath deserved at home And as the peace and unity of the Church was studied by him in his life time so there might not be the least breach continued by a misapprehension of him after his death And surely if such of us who think him worthy of being our copy would but now upon the sight of this writ after him the Arke of our Church would cease to be tossed too and fro in this floating uncertain condition and immediately rest upon firm ground Heretofore having an occasion to vindicate this most Learned Primate in point of Doctrine so unhappy often are persons of his eminency as after their deaths to be challenged Patrons to contrary partyes I had An. 1658. a Letter of Thanks from the late Reverend Bishop of Durham Bishop Morton in these wordes viz. I acknowledge hereby my obligation of Thankfulness to you not only for the book it self but especially for your pains in vindicating that admirable Saint of God and Starr primae magnitudinis in the Church of God the Primate of Armagh c. In which high esteem of the Primate the now Reverend Bish. of Durham succeeds him who hath often signified it in divers of his Letters which I receiued from Paris to that purpose Hereunto two other Treatises have been thought fit to be added mentioned in the foresaid vindication but then not intended to be published which the Eminent Primate had a hand in The one Mr. Hookers Judgment of Regal Power in Matters of Religion the advancement of Bishops and the Kings Exemption from censure c. Left out of the common copyes inlarged and confirmed by the Primate all the marginal notes of the quotations out of the Fathers being under his own hand are noted with this mark* The other a Treatise of the Form of Church Government before and after Christ c. The main aime of it is to shew that the Government of the Christian Church established by the Apostles under the New Testament was according to the pattern of that in the Old then which scarce any book in so little speaks so much for the preheminency of Episcopacy It first appeared Anno 1641. under the Title of the rude draughts of Bishop Andrews which though I was in doubt of by the contrary opinion of an

descents especially seeing Rome hath little else to alledge for this preferment but only that St. Peter was crucifyed in it which was a slender reason to move the Apostle so to respect it Seeing therefore the grounds of this great claime of the Bishop of Rome appear to be so vain and frivolous I may safely conclude that he ought to have no Ecclesiastical or Spiritual Authority within this Realme which is the principal point contained in the Second part of the Oath King JAMES His Gracious Letter of Thanks to the Primate for his Speech JAMES R. RIght Reverend Father in God and Right Trusty and well beloved Counsellor We greet you well you have not deceived Our expectation nor the gracious opinion We ever conceived both of Your Abilities in learning and of your Faithfulness to Us and Our Service Whereof as We have received sundry Testimonies both from Our precedent Deputys as likewise from Our Right Trusty and well-beloved Cousin and Counsellor the Viscount Falkland Our present Deputy of that Realm so have We now of late in one particular had a farther Evidence of your Duty and Affection well expressed by your late carriage in Our Castle-Chamber there at the censure of those disobedient Magistrates who refused to take the Oath of Supremacy wherein your zeale to the maintenance of Our just and lawfull Power defended with so much Learning and Reason deserves Our Princely and Gracious Thanks which We do by this Our Letter unto you and so bid you farewel Given under Our Signet at Our Court at White-Hall the Eleventh of January 1622. In the Twentieth Year of Our Reign of Great Brittain France and Ireland To the Right Reverend Father in God and Our Right Trusty and Well-Beloved Councellor The Bishop of Meath A SPEECH delivered by the Lord PRIMATE USHER before the Lord Deputy and the great Assembly at His Majesties Castle in DUBLIN April the last 1627. MY LORD THe Resolution of these Gentlemen in denying to contribute unto the supplying of the Army sent hither for their defence doth put me in mind of the Philosophers observation That such as have respect unto a few things are easily misled the present pressure which they sustain by the imposition of the Soldiers and the desire they have to be eased of that Burthen doth so wholly possess their minds that they have only an eye to the freeing of themselves from that Incumbrance without looking at all to the Desolations that are like to come upon them by a long and heavy War which the having of an Army in readiness might be a means to have prevented The lamentable effects of our last Wars in this Kingdom doth yet freshly stick in our Memories Neither can we so soon forget the depopulation of our land when besides the Combustions of War the extremity of Famine grew so great that the very women in some places by the way side have surprised the men that rode by to feed themselves with the flesh of the horse or the rider and that now again here is a storm towards wheresoever it will light every wise man will easily foresee which if we be not carefull to meet with in time our State may prove irrecoverable when it will be too late to think of Had I wift The dangers that now threaten us are partly from abroad and partly from home Abroad we are now at odds with two of the most Potent Princes in Christendom and to both which in former times the discontented persons in this Country have had recourse proffering the Kingdom it self unto them if they would undertake the conquest of it For it is not unknown unto them that look into the search of those things that in the days of King Henry the Eighth the Earl of Desmond made such an offer of this Kingdom to the French King the instrument whereof yet remain's upon record in the Court at Paris and the Bishop of Rome afterwards transferred the Title of all our Kingdoms unto Charles the Fifth which by new Grants was confirmed unto his Son Phillip in the time of Queen Elizabeth with a resolution to settle this Crown upon the Spanish Infanta which Donations of the Popes howsoever in themselves they are of no value yet will they serve for a fair colour to a potent Pretender who is able to supply by the Power of the Sword whatsoever therein may be thought defective Hereunto may we adde that of late in Spain at the very same time when the Treaty of the Match was in hand there was a Book published with great approbation there by one of this Countrey Birth Phillip O Sullevan wherein the Spaniard is taught that the ready way to establish his Monarchy for that is the only thing he mainly aimeth at and is plainly there confessed is first to set upon Ireland which being quikcly obtain'd the Conquest of Scotland first of England next then of the Low-Countreys is foretold with great facility will follow after Neither have we more cause in this Regard to be afraid of a Forreign Invasion than to be jealous of a Domestick Rebellion where lest I be mistaken as your Lordships have been lately I must of necessity put a difference betwixt the Inhabitants of this Nation some of them are descended of the Race of the antient English or otherwise hold their Estates from the Crown and have possessions of their own to stick unto who easily may be trusted against a Forreign Invader although they differ from the State in matter of Religion for proof of which fidelity in this kind I need go no further than the late Wars in the time of the Earl of Tyrone wherein they were assaulted with as powerfull temptations to move them from their Loyalty as possibly hereafter can be presented unto them for at that time not only the King of Spain did confederate himself with the Rebels and landed his forces here for their assistance but the Bishop of Rome also with his Breves and Bulls solicited our Nobility and Gentry to revolt from their obedience to the Queen Declaring that the English did fight against the Catholick Religion and ought to be oppugned as much as the Turks imparting the same Favours to such as should set upon them that he doth unto such as fight against the Turk and finally promising unto them that the God of peace would tread down their enemys under their feet speedily and yet for all the Popes Promises and Threatnings which were also seconded by a Declaratian of the Divines of Salamanca and Valledolid not only the Lords and Gentlemen did constantly continue their Allegiance unto the Queen but also were encouraged so to do by the Priests of the Pale that were of the Popish Profession who were therefore vehemently taxed by the Traytor O Sullevan for exhorting them to follow the Queens side which he is pleas'd to term Insanam venenosam Doctrinam Tartareum dogma A mad and venemous Doctrine and a hellish opinion but besides these

mediorollere c. surely much less may this be in cases of less consequence which do not touch upon the foundation but are only circumstantials The ancient Christians held not these things worthy of blood but submitted to them after St. Pauls example in the like And now 't is high time to apply my self to the consideration of that horrid Fact which as fruit sprung from those deadly seeds of Doctrine we lament this day This was the day when out of pretence of relieving the Mother as they call the Common-wealth children destroyed the Father and so at once both The Casuists say Si filius patrem in ultionem matris occidat haec pietas erit scelus but for a Son to slay both Parents at once is a Monster indeed This was the black work of this day rather to be trembled at the thought of then uttered when the most wise pious prudent meek mercifull King was put to death by pefidious sons of Belial faithless and merciless men And this not in the dark but in the face of the Sun at his own gates a thing unparalleld in any Story That which hitherto hath been urged is from what the ancient Church abhorred even to a Heretick a Persecutor a Heathen how much then is this cruelty and hypocrisie to be loathed when exercised against the life and soveraignty of a pious orthodox just and Christian Prince not only to a dreadfull Rebellion but a bloody murther All history shews that Rebellion hath ever in conclusion been the ruine of the Authors take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text as some render it poenam judicium i. e. for some corporal vengeance from God or man here That known speech of Rodolphus to those that were about him when he was nigh unto death after his taking up arms against his Master the Emperor is worthy to be remembred See ye my right hand maimed by a wound with this I sware to my Lord Henry the Emperor that I would doe him no hurt nor treacherously entrap him in his dignity but the Apostolick Command or that of the Pope hath enduced me to it that as a perjured person I have usurped an honor not due unto me Ye see in that very hand with which I violated my oath I have received my mortall wound let them look to it who have invited us to what a condition they have brought us even to the very hazard of everlasting damnation according to the Text ipsi sibi damnationem acquirunt I shall conclude with that sentence of St. Jude and St. Peter cap. 2. upon the like then which ye have not a more full execration in the whole Bible These are they that despise dominion and are so presumptuous as to speak evil of dignities i e. Kings and Princes Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Baalam and perished in the gain-saying of Core these are spots in your feasts clouds without water trees without fruit withered plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever Let us all say Amen to that which fell from a Royal pen King James of ever happy memory in his maledictus qui maledicit uncto Domini pereatque interitu Core qui peceavit in contradictione Core Let him be accursed that shall curse the Lords annointed and let him perish with the perishing of Corah who hath sined in the gain-saying of Korah And let us earnestly pray for the safety of the Kings Majesty according to that of the Christians for the Emperour in Tertullian Det Deus illi vitam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum i. e. God give him a long life a secure Empire a safe house valiant forces a faithfull Councell loyall people and a quiet State c. even for his sake who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords to whom with the Father and holy Spirit be all honor and glory now and for ever Amen The late Lord Primate USHER'S Judgment and Practice in point of Loyalty Episcopacy Liturgy and Ecclesiasticall Constitutions of the Church of England THe various interpretations which have been made of the Judgement and Practice of this most Eminent Prelate in these particulars and the mis-applications the eupon pread by some of different Judgments to his great prejudice hath occasioned this brief vindication of him by declaring my own knowledge therein as followeth 1. His Judgement and Practise in point of Loyalty For his Judgement it hath been most fully manifested by a most learned Treatise lately published of the Power of the Prince and 〈◊〉 of the Subject the writing of which was thus occasioned About the beginning of those unhappy Commotions in Scotland 1639. Sir George Radoleife desired me very earnestly to let him know what the Lord Primats Judgment was of them and not being contented with my verball assurance of it desired to have it more punctually under my hand which I had no sooner communicated to the Lord Primate but hereadily and instantly dictated unto me his sentence upon them which was accordingly returned for which I had a letter of very great thanks Now as soon as the Primate came to Dublin the Earl of Strafford then Lord Deputy of Ireland desired him to declare his Judgment publiquely concerning those Commotions which he forthwith did at Christ-Church Dublin before the State in two Sermons to all mens satisfactions from this Text Eccles. 7. 2. I councel thee to keep the Kings commandement and that because of the Oath of God After this the Lord Deputy besides his own desire signified unto him that it would be acceptable to his late Majesty of ever blessed memory that he should either print his Sermons or write a Treatise of the like Subject the latter of which he made choice of And having with much labour and industry finisht it and caused it to be fairly transcribed he came over with it into England with an intention to commit it to the Presse as hath been declared by the learned and Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincoln in his Preface to that Treatise To which give me leave to add That his Judgement was alwayes the same and so declared by him upon all occasions since I had the happynesse to be known to him As annually upon the Kings Inauguration day which was constantly observed by him at Drogheda with great Solemnity and occasionly in some learned Sermons preacht by him at the opening of two Parliaments And especially upon the first solemnity for his present Majesties Birth day anno 1630. at Dublin being sent for of purpose by the State then to preach which he did upon this Text Psalm 45. 26. Instead of thy Fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make Princes in all the Earth But most fully in those two Speeches of his herewith