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A12481	Sermons of the Right Reuerend Father in God Miles Smith, late Lord Bishop of Glocester. Transcribed out of his originall manuscripts, and now published for the common good; Sermons	Smith, Miles, d. 1624.; Prior, Thomas, b. 1585 or 6.	1632 (1632)	STC 22808; ESTC S117422	314,791	326

we shall not be vtterly ashamed So much of the notes that arise hereby that a King is called a Shep-heard The other title that I promised to gather matter of duty from is the title of Father A sonne honoureth his father and a seruant his Lord saith the Prophet Malachi and besides it is not scripta but nata Lex If then the King be a Father where is his honour if Lord where is his feare this may be demanded and challenged by him and for him Now by honour I vnderstand not so much that which is outward in words and in gesture words full of all reuerence gesture full of all submissiuenesse bowing of the knee bending of the body c. Albeit a man cannot stoope too low to Maiesty for in whom all authority is founded as it were originally and to whom it is reduced reciprocally to him no honour ciuill honour may seeme to be giuen superfluously But that honour specially which Saint Paul vnderstandeth when he saith Honour Widdowes that is doe for them and which is to be vnderstood of the commandement Honour thy Father and thy Mother that is to say doe for them by the interpretation of Christ himselfe Marke 7. I grant it is said 2 Cor. 12. Children ought not to lay vp for the parents but parents for the children But I answere that there the Apostle doth argue Ex abundanti and rather sheweth what affectionate parents doe binde themselues vnto voluntarily making their affection a Law to themselues than what may be required of them of duty if they will stand vpon their right The truth is that as no naturall father will suffer his child to want if he haue to giue him so euery naturall child will Fraudare genium pinch his owne belly yea and the bellies of his children too rather than he will not yeeld supply vnto his father Was not the fact of a young woman in Rome who beguiled her child sucking on her brests day after day for many dayes together that she might bring her brests full of milke to her father to suckle him which otherwise should haue beene starued to death was not that fact of hers I say honoured and rewarded by them that knew not God and thereupon a Temple erected to Pitie and this was done to an ordinary father to a priuate father What then is to be done to the Father of the Country to such a Father that a man may say of him in some respect as Tertullian doth of the Father of Fathers Tampater nemo tam pius nemo Not such a Father againe to be found none so pitifull We read of one that was called Pater Patriae an hundred were so called in processe of time but he that was first honoured with that title he was truely honourable of another that was called Pater pauperum of another that was called Pater Reipublicae of another that was called Pater literarum that is a Father of learning Francis the first of France was so called Thus these Princes were dignified with seuerall titles for their seuerall vertues what then is due vnto him in whom all these vertues doe shine and in a good measure due I say for honour for supply for support I speake this to doe mine owne duty not to insimulate any no norvpon any weake conceit as though my poore speech might be holden any way necessary O no his Maiesties owne worth is an hundred times a greater motiue than any words that can proceed from a farre more sufficient man than I am His Maiesty is interessed and rooted as is fit in the hearts of his louing subiects no lesse than Dauid was in the hearts of his when the holy Ghost said of him and them as it is in the 2 Sam. 3. All the people knew it and it pleased them as whatsoeuer the King did pleased all the people Before I end this passage I thinke it not vnfit as a stander-by to helpe to remoue three or foure stumbling-blocks and I hope it will not be imputed to me The speech of a great Prince of old time euen of Traian is well knowne Fis●us said he that is the Exchequer or common Treasury is like the spleene of a man for as when the spleene waxeth bigge and swelleth the other parts doe payre and fall away so if the Exchequer doe stroute and be stuft with siluer and gold all parts of the Realme besides will be impouerished and as it were hunger-starued Thus Traian Now say I Howsoeuer this comparison hath beene applauded vnto neither doe I thinke it simply to be condemned specially for some States and some commings-in yet I doe not thinke it to be so fit generally In my iudgement the Exchequer or such a place may fitly be compared to the ventricle to that which we call the stomacke for as if the ventricle be not plyed with necessary meates and drinkes the Messaraike veines sucking continually from it and from the bowels and the Liuer continually sucking from the Messaraikes and the Capillar or small veines dispersed ouer the body sucking from the Liuer there must needes ensue first a hungrynesse secondly a faintnesse thirdly in time a waste and lastly an vntimely death so if the Treasury should not haue as great commings-in and supplyes as it hath so kings and euacuations if it should not haue as well Oesophagum to bring in as Pylorum to send forth and venam portam as well as ve nam cauam it cannot be but the whole Estate will be greatly enfeebled that I doe not say indangered Philopemen was a great Souldier Schollers know out of Liuie and Plutarke yet because he was bare for money he was gibed at by his Aemulus that he wanted a belly he had a head and legges and armes but his belly was pulled-in Maximilian the first was an extraordinary worthy Prince as all confesse that write of him at the least whom I haue read yet because the Empire did not supply him with treasure and besides himselfe was not the best husband but very profuse if Guicciardines taxation be iust hee vndertooke many things and brought little to effect whereby he greatly eclipsed his glory The Hebrewes haue a Prouerb Hacceseph iagnanch ●th haccol that is Siluer answereth all things yea and maketh all things to hold correspondency with it And the wise Grecian said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Money money that is a man without it a body is no body This made Aurelian the Emperour his Councell to tell him that if he would beare himselfe worthily and according to his estate he must be furnished with two things with gold and with iron with gold to reward his faithfull-ones and neere-ones and with iron to beate downe his owne and his Countries enemies Both those are necessary very necessary and it is hard to say whether more It is certaine that many States haue recouered that by gold which they lost by the sword

hee hath done more then he is bound whereas in many things we offend all as saith the Apostle and All our righteousnesse is a as filthy clout as the Prophet Esay speakes De nullo gloriandum quia nostrum nihil est saith Saint Cyprian v●e laudabili vitae nostrae si remota misericordia consideretur as excellently Augustin and whether Doctrine I pray you more sound more sauouring of piety more tending to humility Thus we haue shewed the excellency of the Gospell aboue all Pharisaisme and Iewishnesse and therefore that there was no cause why any in those dayes should be ashamed of it Shall I now let sinke my speech and enter into a comparison betweene the Gospell and new Pharisaisme Popery I meane Beloued I doe not call sowre sweet to adorne the Doctrine that by authority is set forth within this Realme with the title of the Doctrine of the Gospell neither doe I call good euill to liken our Aduersaries positions to the leauen wherewith the Pharises would haue marred the rellish of the Gospell taught and preached by our Sauiour and his Apostles for we are able to proue that howsoeuer we be termed by them Nouatores New-fanglers such as haue forsaken the path of our Fore-fathers and gone beyond the bounds which our Elders haue put yet that we broach none other Doctrine but that which we find in the fountaine of the Prophets Apostles which are the onely authenticke Pen-men and Registers of the holy Ghost and that their Doctrine howsoeuer they would grace it with the grauity of Antiquity yet it is no more ancient then the Country and habitation of the Gibeonites was farre remote and distant from the Land of Can●an for all that they tooke to themselues old sacks and old bottles and old shooes c. we are able so cleerely to proue that wee feare not any indifferent iudgement Let vs take a short view of some of the most materiall differences betweene them and vs. The Supremacy of the Pope is an Article which they chiefely stand vpon him to be Christs Vicar Paramount Supereminent and Vniuersall aboue all persons of the world they make it a matter of faith his decisions to yeeld vnto as proceeding from irrefragable authority they make it a matter of conscience his precepts simply to put in execution they import a flat breaking of the Commandement of God they thinke themselues tyed in obedience lussa sequi tam velle mihi quàm posse necesse est nec ciuis meus est in quem tua Classica Caesar audiero Papa habet ●oeleste arbitrium De iudicio summi Pontificis alicui disputare non licet What word for this That which Nicholas the third alleageth De electione cap. fundamenta in Sexto Leo distinct 19. Their sound went into all the world c. And why This maketh rather against them then for them for it is said their sound as of many not his sound as of one that is Peter But yet principally of Peter that from him as from a certaine head he might shead his gifts as it were into the whole body Thus the foresaid Ni●holas in the foresaid cap. Fundamenta Beloued that Christ ascending vp on high gaue gifts to men and that of Christs fulnesse wee receiue grace for grace I read Ephes. 4. and Iohn 1. But that Saint Peter should be the head or the necke either by which they should distill I doe not finde Scriptum esse doceat Hermogenis of ficina Oh but Christ said not in vaine Feede my Sheep feed my Lambes O but he said no more then Saint Paul said to all the Elders of Ephesus Feed the flocke of Christ whereof the holy Ghost hath made you ouerseers But what feeding is meant A Ciuill rule and gouernment with the sword and Scepter after the manner of Princes O no Disce Sarculo tibi opus esse non Sceptro vt opus facias Prophetae said Bernard Learne thou that thou hast need of a weeding hooke or the like toole and not of a Scepter that thou maist doe the worke of a Prophet Saint Paul saith Wee together are Gods Labourers yee are Gods husbandry Gods building Whereby you may easily learne how that place of Ieremy 1. whereof the Popes in the Sext and Extrauagant would take hold but it runneth into their hands for their labour I haue set thee ouer the Kingdomes to plucke vp and toroo●e out and throw downe and to build is to be vnderstood namely not carnally by force of armes or brachio seculari for when did the Prophet exercise any such authority He denounced Gods iudgements against the impenitent Nations but as for force he vsed not any or made head against the least of Nabuchadnezzars Captaines his weapons therefore were not carnall no more then the Apostles were yet mighty through God to cast down holds What holds Casting down imaginations euery high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing into subiection euery thought to the obedience of Christ So doth Lyra himselfe interpret that place in Ieremy Thou shalt plucke vp plant destroy c. that is Thou shalt denounce thatthey shal be destroyed So doth Ambrose interpret this later of St. Paul He bringeth into captiuity euery thought while he doth by reason ouercome the gaine-sayer induceth him to the faith of Christ c. You see therfore that howsoeuer the Popes Supremacy be a Doctrine that soundeth forth from Rome is their Gospell or gladsome tydings yet it is not part of the Gospell of Christ whereof St. Paul was not ashamed he would haue bin ashamed of this sauouring only of the pompe of this world nay exceeding the pompe of the proudest Tyrant not of the humility of Iesus Christ Not that we are Lords of your faith but helpers of your i●y 2. Cor. 1. Then St. Paul disclaimeth Soueraignty euen in spirituall matters So doth S. Peter The Elders I beseech which am a fellow Elder I beseech I doe not command your fellow Elder Not your Lord or Soueraigne And for the obedience to the Ciuill Magistrate they are both plaine Let euery soule be subiect to the higher powers Rom. 13. Euery soule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Though thou be an Apostle though an Euangelist c. saith ●hrysostome if an Apostle must be subiect then he that calleth himselfe Apostolike much rather 1. Pet. 2. Submit your selues to all manner ordinance of man Which if it be so then to Kings as to the chiefest Shall we cauill with Innocent III. and his Glosse cap. Solitae decret sect prim That because it is said Tanquam praecellenti therefore that it is a similitude onely of preeminency and not preeminency indeed that is to be vnderstood This indeed is an interpretation that they may be ashamed of for if Tanquam there doe signifie a similitude onely and not a truth then in the next words Be subiect to Rulers as sent