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A87263	The doctrine of the Church of England, established by Parliament against disobedience and wilfull rebellion. Published by G. I. for satisfaction to his parishoners of Watton in the county of Hartford.	Ingoldsby, William, d. 1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing I188; Thomason E130_30; ESTC R14126	37,574	49

from them the second Commandement that bewrayeth his impiety by a subtill sacriledge Had the Emporours subjects like wise knowne and beene of any understanding in Gods word would they at other times have rebelled against their Soveraigne Lord and by their rebellion have holpen to depose him onely for that the Bishop of Rome did beare them in hand that it was simony and heresie too for the Emperour to give any Ecclesiasticall dignities or promotions to his learned Chaplaines or other of his learned Clergy which all Christian Emperours before him had done without any controulement would they I say for that the Bishop of Rome bare them so in hand have rebelled by the space of more then forty yeares together against him with so much shedding of Christian bloud and murther of so many thousands of Christians and finally have deposed their Soveraigne Lord had they knowne and had in Gods word any understanding at all Specially had they knowne that they did all this to pluck from their Soveraigne Lord and his Successours for ever their ancient right of the Empire to give it unto the Romish Clergy and to the Bishop of Rome that hee might for the confirmation of one Archbishop and for the Romish ragge which hee called Paul scarce worth twelve pence receive many thousand crownes of gold and of other Bishops likewise great sums of mony for their Buls which is simony indeed Would I say Christian men and subjects by rebellion have spent so much Christian bloud and have deposed their naturall most noble and most valiant Prince to bring the matter finally to this passe had they knowne what they did or had any understanding in Gods word at all And as these ambitious usurpers the Bishops of Rome have overflowed all Italy and Germany with streames of Christian bloud shed by the rebellions of ignorant subjects against their naturall Lords and Emperours whom they have stirred thereunto by such false pretences so is there no Countrey in Christendome which by their like meanes and false pretences hath not beene over sprinkled with the bloud of subjects by rebellion against their naturall Soveraignes stirred by the same Bishops of Rome And to use one example of our owne Countrey The Bishop King Iohn of Rome did pick a quarrell with King Iohn of England about the election of Steven Langton to the Bishoprick of Canterbury wherein the King had ancient right being used by his Progenitours all Christian Kings of England before him the Bishops of Rome having no right but had begunne then to usurpe upon the Kings of England and all other Christian Kings as they had before done against their Soveraigne Lords the Emperours proceeding even by the same wayes and meanes and likewise cursing King Iohn and discharging his subjects of their oath of fidelity unto their Soveraigne Lord. Now had English-men at that time knowne their duty to their Prince set forth in Gods word would a great many of Nobles and other English-men naturall subjects for this forraigne Innocentius 2. and unnaturall usurper his vaine curse of the King and for his faigned discharging of them of their oath and fidelity to their naturall Lord upon so slender or no ground at all have rebelled against their Soveraigne Lord the King Would English subjects have taken part against the King of England and against English-men with the French King and French-men being incensed against this Realme by the Bishop of Rome Would they have sent for Phillip the French King Lew is Dolphin of France and received the Dolphin of France with a great Army of French-men into the Realme of England Would they have sworn fidelity to the Dolphin of France breaking their oath of fidelity to their naturall Lord the King of England and have stood under the Dolphins banner displayed against the King of England Would they have expelled their Soveraigne Lord the King of England out of London the chiefe City of England and out of the greatest part of England upon the South-side of Trent even unto Lincolne and out of Lincolne it selfe also and have delivered the possession thereof unto the Dolphin of France whereof hee kept the possession a great while Would they being English-men have procured so great shedding of English bloud and other infinite mischiefes and miseries unto England their naturall Countrey as did follow those cruell warres and trayterous rebellion the fruits of the Bishop of Romes blessings Would they have driven their naturall Soveraigne Lord the King of England to such extremity that hee was enforced to submit himselfe unto that forraigne false usurper the Bishop of Rome who compelled him to surrender up the Crown of England into the hands of his Legate who in token of possession kept it in his hands divers dayes and then delivered livered it againe to King Iohn upon that condition that the King and his Successours Kings of England should hold the Crowne and Kingdome of England of the Bishop of Rome and his Successours as the Vassals of the said Bishops of Rome for ever in token whereof the Kings of England should pay a yearely tribute to the said Bishop of Rome as his Vassals and Liege-men Would English-men have brought their Soveraigne Lord and naturall Country into this thraldom and subjection to a false forraign usurper had they knowne and had they any understanding in Gods word at all Out of the which most lamentable case and miserable tyranny raveny and spoyle of the most greedy Romish Wolves ensuing hereupon the Kings and Realme of England could not rid themselves by the space of many yeares after the Bishop of Rome by his Ministers continually not onely spoyling the Realme and Kings of England of infinite treasure but also with the same mony hyring and maintaining forraigne enemies against the Realme and Kings of England to keepe them in such his subjection that they should not refuse to pay whatsoever those unsatiable Wolves did greedily gape for and suffer whatsoever those most cruell Tyrants would lay upon them Would English-men have suffered this Would they by rebellion have caused this trow you and all for the Bishop of Romes causelesse curse had they in those dayes knowne and understood that God doth curse the blessings and blesse the cursings of such wicked usurping Bishops and Tyrants as it appeareth afterward in King Henry the eighth his dayes and King Edward the sixt and in our gracious Soveraignes dayes that now is where neither the Popes curses nor Gods manifold blessings are wanting But in King Iohns time the Bishop of Rome understanding the brute blindnesse ignorance of Gods word superstition of English-men and how much they were enclined to worship the Babylonicall beast of Rome and to feare all his threatnings and causelesse curses hee abused them thus and by their rebellion brought this noble Realme and Kings of England under his most cruell tyranny and to bee a spoyle of his most vile and unsatiable covetousnesse and raveny for a long and a great deale

THE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND Established by PARLIAMENT against Disobedience and wilfull Rebellion Published by G. I. for satisfaction to his Parishioners of WATTON in the County of Hartford Printed for William Sheares at the signe of the Bible in Coven Garden 1642. TO His loving Neighbours of WATTON in the County of Hartford Brethren BE loved in the bloud of JESUS for preaching obedience to God and the King I am and have beene more then a mouth a prisoner and cannot get my liberty unlesse I would promise to forbeare preaching to you as I have done and yet I have promised to preach nothing to you but what I shall prove plainely from the word of God the doctrine of the Church of England the oath of Supremacy the oath of Allegiance and our late Protestation all which I have published for your satisfaction If you will read those oaths and these Sermons in my absence you shall find that I have dealt faithfully with you and am ready to seale my doctrine with my dearest bloud if God shall call so great a sinner to so great an honour Neither Living nor Liberty nor Life is precious to mee when I should sacrifice them all to the glory of my great good God the service of my gracious Soveraigne and the discharge of a good conscience towards my selfe and you I told you before how sensible I was of danger for this my fidelity but for Zions sake I could not I cannot hold my peace God will imprison mee to Hell if I imprison his truths Feare God Honour the King is both Law and Gospell and my prayer is that you all may live and dye good Christians and good Subjects and as the Church prayed for Saint Peter in prison so doe you for your affectionate Pastour in prison for his God his King his Conscience regulated by the word of God the Doctrine of the Church of ENGLAND and his Oaths G. I. Decemb. 3. 1642. A SERMON against Disobedience and wilfull Rebellion The first SERMON AS GOD the Creatour and Lord of all things appointed his Angels and Heavenly Creatures in all obedience to serve and honour his Majesty so was it his will that man his chiefe creature upon the earth should live under the obedience of his Creatour and Lord. And for that cause God assoone as hee had created man give unto him a certaine Precept and Law which hee being yet in the state of innocency and remaining in Paradise should observe as a pledge and token of his due and bounden obedlence which denunciation of death if hee did transgresse and breake the said Law and Commandement And as God would have man to be his obedient subject so did hee make all earthly creatures subject unto man who kept their due obedience unto man so long as man remained in his obedience unto God in which obedience if man had continued still there had beene no poverty no diseases no sicknesse no death nor other miseries where with mankind is now infinitely and most miserably afflicted and oppressed so here appeareth the originall Kingdome of God over Angels and Man and universally over all things and of Man over earthly Creatures which God had made subject unto him and withall all the felicity and blessed estate which Angels Man and Creatures had remained in had they continued in due obedience unto God their King For as long as in this first Kingdome the Subjects continued in due obedience to God their King so long did God embrace all his Subjects with his love favour and grace which to enjoy is perfect felicity whereby it is evident that obedience is the principall vertue of all vertues and indeed the very Root of all vertues and the cause of all felicity But as all felicity and blessednesse should have continued with the continuance of obedience so with the breach of obedience and breaking in of rebellion all vices and miseries did withall breake in and over-whelme the World The first Authour of which rebellion the Roote of all vices and Mother of all mischeifes was Lucifer First Gods most excellent creature and most bounden subject who by rebelling against the Majesty of God of the Brightest and most glorious Angell is become the blackest and most foule fiend and Devill and from the height of Heaven is fallen into the pit and bottome of Hell Here you may see the first authour and founder of rebellion and the reward thereof Here you may see the grand Captaine and Father of rebels who perswading the following of his rebellion against God their Creatour Lord unto our first Parents Adam and Eve brought them in high displeasure with God wrought their exile and banishment out of Paradise a place of all pleasure and goodnesse into this wretched earth and vale of misery procured unto them sorrowes of minds mischeifes sicknes diseases death of their bodies and which is farre more horrible then all worldly and bodily mischiefes hee had wrought thereby their eternall and everlasting death and damnation had not God by the obedience of his Sonne IESUS CHRIST repaired that which man by disobedience and rebellion had destroyed and so of his mercy had pardoned and forgiven him of which all and singular the premises the Holy Scriptures doe beare record in sundry places Thus doe you see that neither Heaven nor Paradise could suffer any rebellion in them neither bee places for any Rebels to remaine in Thus became rebellion as you see both the first and the greatest and the very roote of all other sinnes and the first and principall cause both of all worldly and bodily miseries sorrowes diseases sicknesses and deaths And which is infinitely worse then all these as is said the very cause of death and damnation eternall also After this breach of obedience to God and rebellion against his Majesty all mischeifes and miseries breaking in therewith and overslowing the World least all things should come to confusion and utter ruine God forthwith by lawes given to mankind repayred againe the rule and order of obedience thus by rebellion overthrowne and besides the obedience due to his Majesty hee not onely ordained that in Families and Househoulds the Wife should bee obedient to her Husband the Children unto their Parents the Servants unto their Masters but also when mankind inceased and spread it selfe more largely over the World hee by his holy word did constitute and ordaine in Citties and Countries severall and speciall Governours and Rulers unto whom the residue of his people should be obedient As in reading of holy Scriptures wee shall find in very many and almost infinite places as well of the old Testament as of the new that Kings and Princes as well the evill as the good doe raigne by Gods ordinance and that Subjects are bounden to obey them that God doth give Princes wisedome great power and authority that God defendeth them against their enemies and destroyeth their enemies horribly that the anger and displeasure of the Prince is as the