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A00670	A treatise against the necessary dependance vpon that one head, and the present reconciliation to the Church of Rome Together with certaine sermons preached in publike assemblies, videlicet 1. The want of discipline. 2. The possession of a king. 3. The tumults of the people. 4. The mocke of reputation. 5. The necessitie of the Passion. 6. The wisdome of the rich. By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie, late preacher of Graies Inne.	Fenton, Roger, 1565-1616.; Utie, Emmanuel, d. 1661.	1617 (1617)	STC 10805; ESTC S102068	104,035	162

third will he raise vs vp and we shall stand in his sight may not the head of the Church and his onely Sonne challenge it much more Adde vnto this his tender loue to his small weake and distressed Church when the faith of his owne Disciples was going out I will not beleeue saith one wee had thought saith another this had beene hee that should haue redeemed Israel verily it was time to rise to strengthen these bruised reeds and cherish these smoaking flaxes vpon the day God was to giue sentence vpon men for sinne hee staid till the heat of the day was ouer in the third of Genesis Gen. 3.8 but vpon this day being to preach remission of sinne hee rose betimes while it was darke It was the loue of God and his tender affection to the Church which he had so lately and so deerely bought made him rise so soone and appeare so often the same day to minister comfort to distressed soules The summe of which comfort followeth That remission of sinnes might be preached Remission of sinnes which springeth naturally out of his resurrection The 2. fruit as repentance out of his passion for as Christ died for our sinnes that sinne might die in vs by repentance so did hee rise againe for our iustification which consists in remission of sinnes this is the summe of the Gospell defined in the first to the Romanes Rom. 1.16 to bee the power of God to saluation to all that beleeue for as the power of darkenesse shewed neuer more in force then at his death so was the power of light at his resurrection that our Sauior Christ could go downe into the depth of death with so many milstones about his necke with the sinnes of the world vpon his backe and that hee could there shake them all off Rize vp the Sonne of righteousnesse like a Giant leaue all our sinnes in the bottome of the gulfe neuer to rise vp in iudgement to our condemnation This I say is the remission of sinnes and this is the power of God to saluation to all that beleeue And that we may beleeue it The mini stration we must preach it that Repentance and Remission of sinnes might be preached How shall ye beleeue in him of whom ye haue not heard how shall ye heare without a Preacher In the tenth to the Romanes Thankes be to God you heare Rem 10.14 and I make no doubt but you would bee glad to heare the glad tidings of saluation the remission of sinnes preached for it makes you happy Blessed is the man whose iniquities are forgiuen and whose sinne is couered but I beseech you consider the tenor and order of this commission you must heare of repentance before remission else wee shall build the roofe before wee lay the foundation for as sure as Christ did suffer before hee rose so must you suffer the passion of repentance before you can be iustified by remission Pardon me Right Honourable and well-beloued It is my taske to prouide the sharpe sauce the sowre hearbs of Repentance before you can tast and truely relish the Paschall Lambe at Easter you must weepe and mourne with Christ at the Crosse before you can reioyce with him at the resurrection you must put on sackcloath before Scarlet humble your selues before God before you can triumph with him that came from Edom in redde coloured garments from Bozra Esay the 63. and the first Thinke not that that austere doctrine of repentance did end with Iohn Baptist or that you can banish it out of the Citty into the wildernesse for as Iohn Baptist did beginne his preaching Matthew the 3. In the same manner did Christ begin his when Iohn was cast into prison Marke the first Repent and beleeue the Gospell for the kingdom of God is at hand So by his Example are we directed and so by his name are we authorized to preach to you 2 In his name 1 If you aske by what authority wee doe these things The authority my text is our warrant we come in his name At whose name euery knee doth bow both of things in Heauen and in Earth vnder the earth we are the Ambassadors of Christ the annointed King of Kings 2 If you take exception to our weakenesse beeing earthen vessels full of frailty men of polluted lipps like your selues Though of our selues wee are no more in vs then empty pitchers or Rams hornes yet we come in the name of our graund Captaine Christ who by the shining lampes of his Gospell in our empty pitchers can put our enemies to flight in the name of the praise of the high God who by blowing of these hornes with the powerfull spirit of his mouth is able to ouerthrow the walls of Iericho nay the very gates of Hell 3 If you thinke we take too much vpon vs that we are busie-bodies that we are they that trouble Israell disturb the Conscience more then needes we are sent in his name who hath laid this Oportet vpon vs So it behooued Christ to suffer and so it behooueth vs to preach equally are these two applied together 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So it behooued Christ to suffer who if he had not suffered euerlasting woe had lyen vpon you and so it behoueth vs to preach wee haue receiued the ordinance of God by imposition of hands we be set apart for this businesse wee haue put our hands to the plough there is a necessity lies vpon vs we may not be scared away with a white cloath Woe vnto vs if wee preach not the Gospell 4 If our message of repentance be vnwelcome because it sets your Conscience vpon the racke till you haue made a penitent confession of your sinne Remember wee come in his name who suffered greater torment for you to teach you mortification by his passion the sacrifice of a broken heart made acceptable to the bloudy sacrifice of his Sonne 5 And then but not till then behold we come in the name of him who rose from the dead to raise vp your soules by the spirit of consolation In the name of him who rose the third day betimes to bring speedy comfort to a troubled spirit 6 To conclude wee come in the name of Christ the Lord annointed whose name is a sweet oyntment powred out to cure your soules by gentlenesse we come not by force of armes compelling but by forcible perswasions alluring Iaphet to dwell in the tents of Sem yea wee beseech you in the name of Christ that you would bee reconciled vnto God So did Paul intreat the Corinthians and so doe wee desire you for the commission is without limitation extending to all Nations Among all Nations Before his death 3. The extent It was onely to the lost sheepe of the house of Israell but when the stone which the builders refused at his Death was become the cheefe corner stone at the resurrection then were two walles knit together the Iew and the

A TREATISE AGAINST THE Necessary Dependance vpon that One Head and the present Reconciliation to the Church of ROME TOGETHER WITH CERTAINE Sermons preached in publike assemblies VIDELICET 1. The want of Discipline 2. The possession of a King 3. The tumults of the people 4. The mocke of Reputation 5. The necessitie of the Passion 6. The wisdome of the rich By Roger Fenton Doctor of Diuinitie late Preacher of GRAIES INNE Aug Ser. 12. in Nat. Dom. Caput vestrum peperit Maria nos Ecclesia LONDON Printed by Edward Griffin for Nathaniel Butter 1617. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR FRANCIS BACON Knight Lord Keeper of the great Seale of ENGLAND and one of his Maiesties most honourable Priuy Counsell RIGHT HONOVRABLE THere are many controuersies in the Church euery one thinkes hee is in the Tower of Sion Some that conceiue themselues to bee inspired with the rushing winde would haue the Church like that Spirit to bee inuisible Some are so pure that they would haue it where it was first Some imagine a Church to reside vpon their wit Some will haue it in any place where there is no Roome and some the greater or more bend all their wits to Rome and to one Head in that Church like the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Pythagoras or Aristotles Primum that must bee a Monarke by Power not by Gifts by Multitude not by Truth That must suppresse Schismes and determine Faith Their crie is great The Roes and Hindes of the field doe stand agast vpon the opening of euery Romish hound Cant. 2 7. The Consonants which speake for this onely Supremacie as their superior Vowels bid them and which cause men of tender consciences to make head they know not whither Others either of no Religion or such as would haue an exact Religion in an Idaea stand by and receiue none till all bee agreed But if wee listen to the Canonists as the Heathen made Terminus a God and such a God that would not yeeld to Iupiter so the Bishop of Rome must bee the end vnto which all diuisions in Religion wheresoeuer discussed must bee reduced from whom it is not lawfull to appeale to GOD. Many there are that follow him wee may take vp a Fathers complaint many which wee may flie none which wee may follow which flicker aloofe and suffer him to flie with his wings of vnlimited authoritie without a Quid iure posset Quid charitate debet and like an Eagle not in Rome but in the world to flie alone Emperours before were Lions but now in the mysterie of Sampsons Riddle mortified by Christ are become Nursing Fathers and no Lions The Bishops of Rome were Nursing Fathers now they are Lions that range alone that will brooke no equalitie either with man or with the world or with the Scripture or with any power but God So though God hath broken downe the wals of the old Ierusalem like the bankes of Paradise and hath let out the riuers of the Church to take their names from the Countreyes through which they passe yet hee hath made inclosure againe and will haue all to lose their name in him as the great Sea Thankes bee vnto God that one of the other side of the banke was lately driuen ouer the waters of Meribah and Separation by the Spirit of God as by a gentle gale of winde and is now vnited vnto vs in a commerce of Religion Mirante Roma gaudente Ecclesia The Church ingeminating the name of ANTONIVS of SPALATO as they did VICTORINVS of ROME Aug. confess 8.2 conuerted to publike profession by Simplicianus In Saint BERNARDS time it was A voce tonitrui tui formidantes The Pope spoke then something like the voice of God but now hee roares onely in a Bull and wee hope ere long all EVROPE will sit vpon him as a beast when they shall see such great Masters of the flocke forsake him The Author of this Treatise hath not confuted euery obiected Scripture Like Turkish Arras no large Imagerie is drawne but in foure knots hath folded all the colour which is pretended for the dependance vpon Rome An obscure resemblance of him yet his Sed cuius haec imago est It is the Posthumus of Doctor FENTON adorned with no other garments then he left it not so properly his Image but his Similitude in which there are the true lineaments that expresse the proportion of his former workes though not liu'd with those fresh colours yet his without addition or correction One there was it seemes of the Tribe of Dan something a kinne to the borderers in the North that after his death bit his booke of Vsurie by the heale Gen. 49.17 and drew his arguments as Cacus did the cattle of Hercules backward Ne qua forent pedibus vestigia rectis whose impudencie was dasht before it had scarce looked abroad by that watchfull and true Euangelicall Bishop the Diocesan of London It may bee those that Gossip into other mens labours onely for newes will dandle this a little in their hands to see whether it bee like the father or no Nazianz. in pacie 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to iudge but to depraue it And who will depraue that iudgement of his which was admired of euery side euen of those which in regard of our present gouernment haue their opinions slipt a little out of ioynt If there bee any the naked innocencie without affectation and the naturall maiestie of the stile like a Master Bee without a sting will defend it But as his booke against Vsurie had a Patron so next to him not in desire as Adam was to God nor in conceit as Nebuchadnezzar nor in voice onely as Herod but in integritie and honour and iudgement is this poore modell dedicated And now wee are sure that since God hath separated your light from darknesse Gen. 1.4 and drawne the Curtaine to discouer those secret excellencies lodging within you which because of some interpositions had not their full Epiphanie to the world you will cleere his cause and ours both concerning Maintenance and Countenance Not being of those which haue broild the Clergie with disgraces and slaueries Ier. 52.13 Gregor past cur 3. part cap. 20. as Nebuzaradan according to Saint GREGORIES sense did burne the Temple but keepe the gold some alas which haue kept Iustice but loued it not whose prosperitie cùm arrisit irrisit made them fooles that thought vs no better or else our pleas had neuer beene laught out of the Court with a plus facetiae quàm iustitiae Ber. de consid 3.2 nor these that were oppressed had lift vp their weeping eyes to behold how Iustice was become blinde as the Poets picture Loue with which it was growne too familiar But to your Honour which did euer commiserate our humilitie and releeue our miseries and reuerence our calling and patronize our labours doe I presume to present this booke which may be bold to offer praiers to God for

this word Honour which is commended to the fauourable opinion of the world to bee blowen to and fro with the breath of mens nostrils there is an heauenly substance to bee disposed of to bee placed after death according to thy death either in euerlasting Tabernacles or perpetuall torments Wherefore endangering thy selfe in single combat not onely to die but to die the death not onely to perish but to perish and come to a fearefull end not onely to be cut downe but cut downe and cast into the fire Then poize these two the blemish of honour with the hazard of euer lasting life in the ballance of thy iudgement and accordingly make resolution I presume none will deny but in our vsuall and daily quarrels the danger is great and rufull for any Christian to consider but in a case of necessity when otherwise neyther Court can cleare me nor the deuise of man giue remedie there laying apart all personall respects abandoning all affections of Honour without any desire of reuenge only for triall of right I le commend my cause to the proofe of Armes and sentence of weapon to be directed by Diuine iudgement If your resolution be such let mee commend vnto you a double consideration of cause and person 1 Is thine iniury so hainous as may not be borne and the triall so difficult as neyther can bee manifested by Record of Writte Ier. 32.44 nor decided by testimony of two or three witnesses established by our Sauiour nor indeed by Oath Ioh. 8.17 which the Apostle makes the vpshot of all controuersies amongst men If thy quarrell be such Heb. 6.16 thou appealest to the iudgement of Weapon 2 Then in the second place examine thy selfe if respecting the priuate iniury and blemish of honour thou canst meet thine enemy in the field and leaue all sinister affections at home if thou canst carry Christian Charity in thine heart and the weapons of Death in thy hands If thou canst commend a prepared soule to thy Sauior intend to shed that bloud for which his bloud was shed on the crosse If thou canst expect the reward of Gods saints in heauen determine to cast out thy brothers soule in a wrong cause then see you haue warrant and keepe thy resolution but vnderstand that this thy passage into heauen if there be any such after all honest pretences mans witte can deuise all the Differences the Law can afford are bestowed vpon it will prooue as hard and narrow a passage for thy soule as a Nedles eye for the huge Cammell What shall we say then Is there no redresse for the blemish of honour and reputation Yes beloued there will come a day when the most secret cause will be made manifest when all the Courts in the world shall be iudged ouer againe till which time God hath reserued many causes vntried for his owne Court. Therefore saies St. Paul 1 Cor. 3.5 Iudge nothing before the time till the Lord come who will lighten things that are hidde in darkenesse and then shall euery man haue praise of God haue patience then till the trumpe blow and the walls of Iericho fall flatte to the ground Till the Heauens passe with a noyse and the elements melt with feruent heate then shalt thou meet the iudge of the world and receiue sentence according vnto right then shall thine honour bee restored seuen fold in the sight of Men Angels there meane while resolue thy selfe like a Christian if thy supposed honour affect thee in case of Gods honour or the safety of thy soule cast it off better it is for thee to enter heauen lame in honour maimed in reputation in the sight of the world then hauing all sound to be cast into hell fire I speake not after the manner of men else would I perswade that it were not a world could ecclipse true honour Well true or supposed honour shall I suffer disgrace till the last trumpe This is an hard interim I would to God I could releeue you Shall I with S. Augustine adfratres in Eremo commend vnto you the example of our Sauiour who beeing disgraced and shamefully dishonoured of his enemies the first oblation he offered vpon the Altar of the Crosse was prayer for his enemies that were not so fit it was writ adfratres in eremo but I know to whom I speake Shall I commend the Prophet Dauids example who dishonourably reuiled of Shimei reuenged not againe but dealt honourably with lame Mephibosheth the remnant of his enemies house Yea but Dauid was a Prophet altogether swallowed vp with diuine contemplation we are not of that precise coat yea but Dauid was a Prince and well wist what true honor meant a valiant Prince whose arme would encounter a bow of steele and by the might of his God spring ouer a wall yet herein was his glory to shew kindnes to his deadly foe 2 Sam 9.3 Remaines there not one saith Dauid of the house of Saul on whom I may shew the saluation of God Honourable Dauid that thought it the most honour to be likest God in shewing mercie to his enemies All my Fathers house saith Mephibosheth to Dauid were but dead men before my Lord the King Posse nolle nobile To reuenge a quarrell argues skill and courage but to forgiue or not regard an iniury that is right Honourable Wherefore to conclude this point Mar. 8.35 that which our Sauiour Christ pronounced in the Gospell of Marke is as truely to be meant of honour as of life Whosoeuer will saue his honour shall loose it and whosoeuer shall lose his honour for my sake and the Gospels shall saue it Be it then farre from dust and ashes to seate himselfe in Gods place crying vengeance is mine I will repay it to extoll his owne honour before Gods least he that sits in heauen laugh them to scorne and the Lord should haue them in derision This is one point in which vaine man the Sonne of Adam does affect to become a God Like one of vs. If it would please Almighty God to looke downe from Heauen vpon the sonnes of men Psal 13.2 hee might behold more presumptuous and aspiring gods amongst men or would hee come downe from heauen to make triall of these cries that are come vp to him Gen. 18.21 as himselfe speaketh in the 18. of Genesis would it please him to take a view of his own dwelling place the holy house of his habitation he should perceiue one of Adams vnhallowed sonnes seated in his roome houzed within the holy stones of Sion his chambers chaires adorned with the Churches robes himselfe and his family fed with Tithes and Offrings would not this prouoke Almighty God to take my text for good sooth and say behold the man is become a god like one of vs harboured in our sanctuary and serued with our Priests like one of vs honored and worshipped in consecrated Tithes and holy offerings like one of vs whiles