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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

his death out of the abundance of their Romish charitie would perswade the world he died Reconciled vnto their Synagogue for I may not call it Church vnlesse it be Ecclesia malignantium Ecclesia maledicentium Nor let this Lye prooue more authenticke because Printed that rather discredits and weakens it and you haue now more cause to suspect it then before It is a ground in their Religion that Vnwritten traditions haue more authority then written Scriptures And if so why should not we take them at their word and make as slight and scornefull reckoning of their writings as they of Gods Lastly that none may wonder or be perplexed or through a nice misprision suspect there could not but bee some ground for this farre-blowne Calumnie let him but Remember the word that Christ sayd and what He Suffered and then all wonder will end in satisfaction For who can thinke it strange that Christs Seruants are slandered when Hee their Lord and Master could not auoyd the poysoned breath of Slander If His Innocence had no protection but that He on no ground at all was belyed by malicious tongues surely on as little ground will they belie any Disciple of His For the Seruant is not greater then his Lord And saith Christ If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Why then Sufficit Discipulo vt sit sicut Magister eius Let it satisfie all the world and his owne fame that this now dead Disciple hath had but the same fate and vsage his Master had It is the glory of Imitation to counterfeit the life and Art is most proper when it most resembles Nature The Apostles were but Copies drawne from Christ their perfection therefore must needs be greatest who come neerest to the Originall And that Disciple is a true Disciple who learnes not the Lesson but the Master not only suffers for Him but in degree and qualitie as like as may be to Him This is truly Discere Christum to learne Christ this is Induere Dominum Jesum to put on the Lord Iesus this is to Partake the sufferings of Christ. They who durst partake his sorrowes shall share with Him in ioyes they that are sicut in terra shall be also sicut in coelis For so hath the Spirit assured vs. Si compatimur conregnabimus If wee suffer with him in earth we shall raigne with him in Heauen Behold a voyce hath bid me write Blessed are ye when men reuile and persecute you and say all manner of euill for my Names sake falsely Reioyce and be glad great is your reward in Heauen TO THE READER HOw little I affect to be in Print needs no Apologie to any who either know already it was the desire of some my most Honourable friends whose intreaties were commands to me or but consider the subiect which first set me a worke a Slandered and traduced Father vnto whom duty and necessity vrged me to doe this right And I cleerely professe if a true relation of his end may doe him right I haue faithfully performed it and haue giuen the world so iust an account of Him tanquàm Ephemeridem Deo traditurus as if I should haue made my conscience last shrift to God Whether I haue vprightly stewarded his honour and my owne faith I leaue to the strict iudgement of any who are able to distinguish colours and discerne Truth from Imposture being confident as innocence can make a man that none are able to disallow the reckoning Si veredicam Deus testis si mentiar Deus Vindex As therefore the acquitting of His integrity was the prime motiue which entred me into this Quarrell so now the clearing of my owne fidelity was a secondary motiue for the publication of it First that they might not thinke by false alarms and the confused outcries of Report to beare downe a good cause or so easily to triumph in their supposed victory as if none durst affront them I thought good in the meane time thus on the sudden to checke the rumour till haply some more deliberate pen which they shall not long or vainely expect may quite race it out And though this byrth of mine were more hastily formed I hope it will not be vntimely for Truth neuer knew abortion but like a starre newly risen to discouery hath its being of old though the obseruation was but late and moderne Secondly to let those calumnious tongues who gaue out my Reuolt also as well as my Fathers both true alike know I haue not yet so doted on their part or dis-affected my owne as to leaue my Countrey or Religion nor I thinke euer shall except my vnderstanding wits and aboue all the Grace of God leaue me or their perswasions haue the same power ouer me as Mercuries had ouer Sosias that they can make me beleeue Ego non sum Ego I am not the Son of such a Father And what in this case on my owne behalfe I write is likewise auowed on behalfe of my second brother IOHN KING entred into the same orders as my selfe who also had his share in this lewd imputation as well as my selfe for we are not more brothers in nature then by Gods mercy in this resolution Thirdly to take the liberty of adding and explicating some remarkeable circumstances which better become a Margin then a speech Lastly that though the slander hath hitherto got the start the Detection might at last be set in a course to ouertake it Which taske Sermo transiens a Sermon pronounced could not so thorowly effect except it were also Sermo in scriptis written A course no way improper for scriptor praedicare dici potest A Writer is in some sort a Preacher Certè si lingua silet manus praedicat fructuosiùs aliquandò quantò Scriptura venit ad plures vberior quàm transiens sermo though his tongue be silent his Pen preaches and a Sermon preached from the Presse sometimes edifies so much the more then from the Pulpit by how much the Report is carried further So that the audience which before was but Parochiall or at most Prouinciall may by this meanes grow more Generall and as it were Oecumenicall And now hauing committed it to the view of all men I will not preiudicate or doubtfully forestall the beliefe of any I make no question but all will rest satisfied except those wayward dispositions who are resolued afore-hand not to be satisfied at all Non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris hauing banished all reason from them without hope of repeale Such though vnwillingly I must leaue to their owne hardened obstinacy Stultos iubeo esse libentèr and suffer fooles gladly that will be so against my consent If they can yet flatter themselues with any aduantage this fiction may affoord them I shall not enuie them that Paradise into which their fond imagination hath put them I rather pitty the poore shifts they are driuen to for the keeping of their weather-beaten Cause a-float All the