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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

of condition that may seem unequal unto any side and to refer unto his own sacred breast how fat he will be pleased to extend or abridge his Favours of whose Lenity in forbearing the executing of the Statute our Recusants have found such experience that they cannot expect a greater liberty by giving any thing that is demanded then now already they do freely enjoy As for the fear that this voluntary contribution may in time be made a matter of Necessity and imposed as a perpetual charge upon posterity it may easily be holpen with such a clause as we find added in the grant of an ayde made by the Popes Council An 11. H. 3. out of the Ecclesiastical Profits of this Land Quod non debet trahi in confuetudinem of which kinds of Grants many other Examples of later memory might be produced and as for the proportion of the sum which you thought to be so great in the former proposition it is my Lords desire that you should signifie unto him what you think you are well able to bear and what your selves will be content voluntarily to proffer To alledge as you have done that you are not able to bear so great a charge as was demanded may stand with some reason but to plead an unability to give any thing at all is neither agreeable to reason or duty You say you are ready to serve the King as your Ancestors did heretofore with your bodys and lives as if the supply of the Kings wants with monys were a thing unknown to our Fore-fathers But if you will search the Pipe-Rolls you shall finde the names of those who contributed to King Henry the third for a matter that did less concern the Subjects of this Kingdom then the help that is now demanded namely for the marrying of his Sister to the Emperor In the Records of the same King kept in England we finde his Letters Patents directed hither into Ireland for levying of money to help to pay his debts unto Lewis the Son of the King of France In the Rolls of Gasconie we finde the like Letter directed by King Edward the Second unto the Gentlemen and Merchants of Ireland of whose names there is a List there set down to give him ayd in his Expedition into Aquitain and for defence of his Land which is now the thing in question We finde an Ordinance likewise made in the time of Edward the Third for the personall taking of them that lived in England and held Lands and Tenements in Ireland Nay in this Case you must give me leave as a Divine to tell you plainly that to supply the King with means for the necessary defence of your Country is not a thing left to your own discretion either to doe or not to doe but a matter of duty which in conscience you stand bound to perform The Apostle Rom. 13. having affirmed that we must be subject to the higher powers not only for wrath but for Conscience sake adds this as a reason to confirm it for for this cause you pay Tribute also as if the denying of such payment could not stand with conscionable Subjection thereupon he inferrres this conclusion Render therefore unto all their due tribute to whom tribute custome to whom custome is due Agreeable to that known lesson which he had learned of our Saviour Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God the things which are Gods Where you may observe that as to with-hold from God the things which are Gods man is said to be a Robber of God whereof he himself thus complaineth in case of subtracting of Tythes Oblations So to deny a supply to Caesar of such means as are necessary for the support of his Kingdom can be accounted no less then a Robbing of him of that which is his due which I wish you seriously to ponder and to think better of yielding somthing to this present Necessity that we may not return from you an undutifull answer which may justly be displeasing to his Majesty ROM 13. 2. Whosoever resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation THe former Chapter may be called the Apostles Ethicks this his Politicks in the former he had taught them their dutys one to another in this towards the Magistrate And for this subject De officio subditorum both St. Peter and this our Apostle are very often and copious upon not only in this Epistle but in divers others inculcating it as his last words to Timothy and Titus chargeing them to teach it to the generation succeeding 1 Tim. 2. 1. 3. 1. And a some Expositors conceive one Cause to be the Rumor then falsly raised upon the Apostles as if they had been Seditious Innovators of the Roman Laws and the Kingdom of Christ preached by them tended to the absolving Subjects from their obedience to any other Whose mouths he here stops in shewing that the laws of Christ were not induced for the overturning the Civil but confirming not abolishing but establishing and making them the more sacred Abhorring those tumultuous spirits who under pretext of Religion and Christian liberty run into Rebellion as if there could be no perfect service of Christ nisi excusso terrenae potestatis jugo without casting off the yoak of earthly power In the text it self he exhorts to a Loyall subjection from these two principall Arguments First from the Originall of Regall Power ordained of God Secondly the Penalty of resisting it threatned as from God himself They shall receive to themselves damnation Every word in the Text hath its Emphosis Whosoever See how he commands a subjection without exception as in the former verse Let every Soul Omnis Anima si Apostolus sis si Evangelista si Prepheta sive quisquis tandem fueris as S. Chrysostom upon the place Resisteth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which implies how all preparative Ordering of forces Risings to that end as the Syriack renders it qui insurgit are condemned as a violation of Gods Ordinance not only an actuall resistance by open force in the field commonly called Rebellion like that of Absolom against David Jeroboam against Rehoboam but all secret undermining of a Prince by fraud and falsehood tending to it The Power 'T is observable the Apostle rather mentions the power then the person armed with it to teach us we should not so much mind the worth of the person as the authority it self he bears We acknowledge that sacred Apothegme of the Apostle Acts 5. 29. 't is better to obey God then man but both may be at once obeyed God actively and the Magistrate passively as the Apostles themselves then did The Ordinance of God As if Rebellion were Giant-like a waging of war with God himself as St. Chrysostome hath it which fully checks that proud conceit of some viz. that being made heirs of God they are no longer to be made

government under which we live I consider the state of England and that of the Islands and the dignity of Bishops and the condition of the other Ministers of the Church such as it is at this day In Scotland for the time present the State hath otherwise provided but not in England and therefore ye ought not to take example by them as though your State were like theirs I hear that your Governor hath taken order about Wills and appointed one to prove them But I cannot conceive how that may be done without Episcopal Jurisdiction conferred by the Bishop Your Governour I know hath power to present to the Bishop a man proper to execute this authority of the Bishop in his name Likewise the Governor as Patron of the Churches and Parishes of his Government upon the vacancy of any living ought to present by such a time a man well qualified to succeed in the Office of a Pastour but the admission and induction of such a charge belongs to your Bishop and to no body else If I be well informed you observe nothing of all this which if it be so you 'l never be able to justifie it The example of the French Churches and of the Low-Countries doe you no good Your case is quite another They have Laws from their Soveraigns and particular places for themselves but all that you doe is contrary to the Laws and Ordinance of the King your Soveraign You hold Synodicall meetings wherein you make Statutes about the Government of the Church unto which you bind your selves and the rest that are naturall Subjects to the King wherein you unsensibly derogate from his authority The Synods of the Arch-bishops and Bishops together with the rest of the Clergy of this Realm dare not presume that which you doe nor attribute to their Canons and Statutes what you attribute to yours Yet the Assembly of Bishops and of their Clergie is of men far otherwise qualified then some dozen of the Ministers of your Islands to judge and discern what belongs to the edification of the Church their Decrees nevertheless are of no authority to tye unto them those of this Realm till the King yea in his own person have approved them and by Proclamation made them his There is no body in his Realm nor in any of his Dominions that hath power to enact Laws and Decrees but himself The Parliaments authority is great but without the Kings assent nothing takes the rigour of Law I know very vell that at the perswasion of the Ministers your Governours and others that were present to your Synods have subscribed and acknowledged your Synodicall Acts they did it even in my time but their power doth not stretch so far That may bring a greater prejudice to themselves then give force of Ecclesiasticall Law to your Decrees I doe not think that his Majesty being well informed will grant unto your Ministers or Governours of your Islands such authority They will be more pernicious to you then youthink You 'l alledge me I know your Priviledges but I dare boldly answer you that you never had any such priviledges I have read them and have the copies of them and they say that in matters Civil you shall be governed by the ancient Coustumier of Normandy and that you are not subject to the Statutes of the Parliament in such matters nor to the Subsidies other charges and impositions that are raised in England except which God forbid ever should come to pass the King were detained Prisoner by the Enemy In matters Ecclesiasticall you are freed from the Bishop of Constance and under that of Winchester yea even of old by the Popes authority and consent of the two Kings from whom also in part your neutrality in times of warre is approved excommunicating all such as would molest you Ye cannot shew concerning your priviledges but only what is renewed as often as there is a new King And for the Patent which you say you have procured from his Majesty for matters of Religion First it is in generall terms and without any clause derogating from the authority of your Bishops Secondly if it be questioned it may be told you that it was surreptitious and granted you before the King was well informed of the business To conclude you must understand that in matters of Religion the Kings Majesty will doe nothing without the counsell and advice of the Arch-bishop and your Bishop of Winchester wherefore you may doe well to insinuate your selves in their favour and conform your selves to them as we have done in the beginning You may reduce the Decrees of the Church of England and the use of the book of prayers to a good and Christian Discipline farre more solid and better grounded then that for which ye so earnestly bestirre your selves I must addone word more which will be hard of digestion This is it that you may be upbraided that as many Ministers that are naturall of the Countrey being not made Ministers of the Church by your Bishop nor by his Demissories nor by any other according to the order of the English Church you are not true and lawfull Ministers Likewise that as many among you as have not taken institution and induction into your Parishes from the Bishop nor from his Substitute lawfully ordained and authorised so to doe ye are come in by intrusion and usurpation of cure of Souls which no body could give you but your Bishop that is in terms and words Evangelicall that you are not come into the Sheep-fold by the door but by elsewhere and that by the Ecclesiasiastical Laws you are excommunicants and Schismaticks I know well enough you do not regard such Laws and think that your Priviledges will exempt you from them wherein you greatly deceive your selves For a man may tell you who are yee that would have your Ecclesiastical Decrees made by Private Authority to have force of Laws and dare scorn and reject those of the English Church made by Publick Authority by farre honester men greater Scholars without comparison more learned and farre more in number then you are The Kings Majesty by his Royall authority hath approved them this Realm hath received them But what are your Synodall Decrees who be the Authors of them and who be they that have approved them 'T is winkt at and your ignorance is born with but think not that that which is born in you be any such thing as vertue Your Priviledges do not stretch so far as that you may make Ecclesiasticall Decrees Had it been so the Priests had retained Mass and Poperie In that you hold a contrary course to that of the English Church whereof you are and must be if you be Englishmen Members it proceeds from nothing else but from the connivence and indulgence of your Governors who have given too much credit to the French Ministers and partly in the beginning to the stubborness of the Papists of the Islands When your Governors shall have a liking to