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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03409	The Churches authority asserted in a sermon preached at Chelmsford, at the metropoliticall visitation of the most Reverend Father in God, VVilliam, Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury his Grace, &c. March 1. 1636. By Samuel Hoard B.D. and Parson of Morton in Essex.	Hoard, Samuel, 1599-1658.	1637 (1637)	STC 13533; ESTC S104116	44,865	76

place makes nothing at all against the Hierarchy of the Church or that vindicative power which the mildest and most indulgent parents that are doe use upon their children for their good and Church as well as civill magistrates may exercise upon disobedient persons for the preservation of publique peace and unity Punishments imposed on non-conformers no persecutions Let no man therefore say when Bishops correct opposers of their orders and authority that the offenders thus punisht are martyrs and the poore persecuted sheep of Christ and the governours that punish them are wolves and persecutors as some il-affected ones stick not to mutter S. Cyprian writing to Rogatian a Bishop who had been abused by a sawcy deacon (a) Cypr ep ad Bogat 65. Magis ●ptamus cup●nes contumel●s in●u●s singulorum clementi pattentia vincere quam sace●d●tali licentia vind●e 1. commends him because he had sought to reforme him by Christian clemency rather than Episcopall authority then he adviseth him if the Deacon continued in his misdemeanour to curb and punish him by deposition or excommunication (b) P●o Episcopatus vigore cathedrae authoritate according to his power and place For if S. Paul said to Timothy Let no man despise thy youth how much more might thy fellow Bishops saith S. Cyprian say to thee Let no man despise thy age Was this uncivill Deacon a Martyr or S. Cyprian a persecutor When Vigilantius a Priest had much misbehaved himselfe in point of doctrine and manners (c) Hier. ep ad Vigil S. Hierom wondereth that the Bishop in whose diocesse he lived did not Virga Apostolica ferrea confringere vas inutile break that unprofitable peece with the iron rod of his Apostolique authority Et tradere in interitum carnis ut spiritus salvus fiat and deliver him to the destruction of the flesh that the spirit might be saved .i. excommunicate him (d) 1 Cor. 5.5 And a little after turning his speech to Vigilantius he cryes out somewhat too passionately like himselfe O praecidendam linguam medicis O tongue worthy to be cut out by spirituall physitians ut qui loqui nescit discat aliquando reticere that he who knows not how to speake aright might learne at last to hold his peace Was the delinquent here a martyr and his pursuer S. Hierom a persecutor Goulartius and the rest of the Geneva Consistory deprived Rotarius one of their ministers and thrust him out of their City and which is more they hunted him by their letters out of a town not far from thence which had entertained him for their Pastor And why did the Consistory so severely prosecute this man for giving the Cup in his owne Church with his owne hands and not permitting a lay man to deliver it This fact of his was the breach of a Church custome only but of no canon and yet thus sharply did they punish it Were Goulartius and the Presbitery persecutors and that good man a martyr Or were the (c) Vid. Morin de cons●eccl decrees made by sundry ancient councills for the suspension deposition and excommunication of unruly ministers persecutions I thinke our scrupulous mindes will not say so for Non omnis qui parcit amicus est nec omnis qui verberat inimicus Every one that spares is not a friend nor every one that punisheth an enemy But if any can so cast off modesty as to brand these wholsome judiciary Acts and Canons with the disgracefull name of persecutions our Reverend Fathers may the more contentedly put up the like aspersions considering that this affliction that befalls them hath been accomplished in their elder brethren Object 1 O but the ministers usually suspended are good men and therefore we may well say they are persecuted Answ 1. Some of them no doubt are so and if they be Inconformity is accidentally a great sin they shall reap the profit of it another day it is possible sometimes for good men to tread awry being caryed away with the streame of popularity and mis-led by the hope of gaine or glory 2. Whether they be all good or no I leave it to be decided by the searcher of all hearts only thus much in the generall I am sure of that Multi sunt in sanctorum catalogo qui non sunt in consortio many are now accounted Saints which will not goe for Saints at that day when all secrets shall be manifested 3. It is not their goodnesse that is punished but their badnesse S. Peter intimates that a Christian may be detected and punished for an evill doer 1 Pet. 4.15 16. If good men will have their hands in bad causes their goodnesse must not make them law-proofe and beare them off from the stroke of justice Causa non poena I may adde nec persona facit martyrem it is the cause not the punishment no nor the person neither that makes the martyr Inexpiable and great is the sinne of schisme and discord in the Church saith S. (a) Cypr. de unit Eccl. Inexprabilis gravis culpa discordiae nec passione purgatur Cyprian and cannot be purged even with martyrdome And a (b) Ardeant licet slammis ignibus traditi vel objecti bestus animas suas ponant non●t illa fidei co●ona sed poena perfidiae nec religiosae virtutis exitus gloriosus sed d●●onis ●nte●tus Occi●●alis potest cotona●i non potest little after speaking of such as lived contentiously in the Church he saith Ardeant licet slammis c. Though they breath out their soules at a stake or under the teeth of wilde beasts their goodnes is not crowned but their persidiousnesse punisht Occidi talis potest coronari non potest Such a man may bee killed but crowned he cannot be Martyrs are they saith S. (c) Aug. ep 50. Austin which suffer not for disorder and the ungodly breach of Christian unity but for righteousnesse sake for Hagar was persecuted by Sarah and yet she that did impose was holy and she was the unrighteous person that did beare the burden If things be rightly scanned saith he Hagar did persecute Sarah more by proud resistance than Sarah her by inflicting deserved vengeance Object 2 Yea but the fault of inconformity if it bee a fault is but a small one yet more grievously censured than swearing drunkennesse uncleannesse perjury and many other sinnes which farre exceed this want of proportion therefore between the fault and the penalty maketh those punishments to be no better than persecutions Answ Sinnes or faults may bee considered in their nature or in their manner of committing and those ill consequents that spring from them and a sinne that is little and least in the first may bee great and greatest in those last respects and so is this sinne of which we are speaking If we looke upon it in its owne nature it is nothing so foule a sinne as is murder adultery perjury