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A02608	A sermon preached before the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie in the Church of Beauly in Hampshire, the thirtieth of Iuly. M.DC.IX. By Christopher Hampton, Doctor in Diuinitie, and one of his Ma[jes]ties chapleines.	Hampton, Christopher, 1552-1625.	1620 (1620)	STC 12738; ESTC S120498	29,853	115

may keepe alwaies as for example he that prayseth God with his tongue cannot do it euer that member must haue rest as well as the other parts of the bodie but hee that praiseth God with his life conuersation may euer do it Euen so do I commend the words works of peace vnto you or if you think me vnworthie to commend such a diuine blessing looke if it be not the word of a Great mighty King that is far aboue all exception He cōmandeth it vnto vs from the Author of peace Beati pacifici not pacidici but pacifici blessed are not the praysors but the practisers of peace Let the Mountaines bring peace the little Hills righteousnesse vnto thy people O thou Prince of peace And so The God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Iesus the great shepheard of the sheep thorough the blood of the euerlasting Couenant make you perfect in all good workes working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be praise for euer euer Amen FINIS AN ADDITION To the former Treatise of SOVERAIGNETIE SHEWING THAT THE POSSESSION THEREOF HATH NOT beene in Popes saue by Vsurpation and Practises but in Emperours and Kings by a continued or perpetuall Descent DVBLIN Printed by the Societie of Stationers 1. Cor. Chap. 3. Vers 21.22.23 Therefore let no man glorie in men for all things are yours Whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas or the World or life or death or things present or things to come all are yours And yee are Christs and Christ is Gods TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE GERALD Earle of KILDARE and the rest of the Nobles or Gentrie in Jreland CHRISTOPHER by the mercie of God Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all IRELAND wisheth much happinesse heere and full in the world to come HOnoured Lords and esteemed Gentlemen I haue published aswell the former Treatise as this addition of Soueraignetie for your sakes whom J am bound to informe by the dutie of my place and in retribution of the respects you giue vnto me otherwayes that since the sound of my voice cannot reach to the eares of euerie one now it is grown low with yeares and infirmities the Meditations of my heart may neuerthelesse be offered to the eyes and iudgement of all which J desire you to peruse and examine by the weights or standard of Truth without preiudice or forestalled opinion ⸫ ⸫ AN ADDITION To the former Treatise of SOVRAIGNETIE AT the first institution of the Ciuill and Ecclesiasticall authoritie in the Church God saith to Moses Thou shalt speake to Aaron and put the wordes in his mouth and J will bee with thy mouth and with his mouth and will teach you what you ought to doe And hee shall be thy spokesman vnto the people and he shall be euen he shall be as the mouth and thou shalt bee to him as God Aaron obeyed Moses and Moses called for an account of Aaron Salomon being King according to his Fathers appointment ordained the Offices of Priests in their Ministeries Leuits in their orders that they might giue thankes and minister before the Priest after the order of euery day For so commanded Dauid the man of God neither did the Priests or Leuits omit any thing of all that hee had commanded So it is written of King Iehosaphat that hee appointed the Leuites and Priests And of King Iosias likewise that he appointed Priests to minister in their seuerall Offices In the New Testament our Sauiour Christ at his birth acknowledged subiection to Augustus the Emperor being borne vnder his tribute and setting the example of his owne subiection before his Disciples asketh Who is Superior hee that sitteth at the Table or hee that serueth Js not he Superior that sitteth but J am among you as hee that ministreth and serueth Before Pilate he disauowed to haue any earthly kingdome and acknowledged that the Roman Empire had authoritie ouer his body life for both were then in question and for blasphemy too which is a spiritual crime After the death of Christ his Apostle Paul appealed from the Iewes to Cesars iudgement and saith in expresse termes That there he ought to be iudged And his cause was for preaching the Gospel Peter likewise patiently endured Nero his Swoord for teaching the truth This was the condition of Christ and his Apostles they professed themselues subiects to the Romane Emperour Eleutherius B. of Rome did write vnto Lucius then king of the Britans to take Lawes for the Gouernement of his kingdome out of the Olde Testament and the New which were then in the Kings hands giueth this reason of his aduise Yee are Gods Vicar within your owne kingdome A.D. 220 Tertullian Wee Christians worship the Emperour as man next vnto God inferior onely to God For so is the Emperour greater then all men when hee is lesse then the onely true God A.D. 225 Cyprian would not giue way to Cornelius Bishop of Rome to absolue any of Africk excommunicated there A.D. 340 Before the Councell of Nice there was small or no regard had of the Church of Rome but euery Church was ruled by their owne Canons or by the common aduise of Bishops vntill the Emperors became Christians Then Socrates testifieth in his Ecclesiasticall Historie in this wise We haue also herein comprised the Emperours liues for that since the Emperours were first Christened the affaires of the Church hath hanged on them and the greatest Councells both haue bin are kept by their aduise Eusebius writeth Constantine the Emperour appointed Councells of Bishops to assemble together disdained not to sit in the middest amongst them to be pertaker of their doings This great Constantine about the yeare of our Lord 340. called a generall Councell at Nice So Theodoret writeth A great and holy Councell was gathered to Nice by the grace of God by the godly Emperor So Eusebius also testifieth that Constantine gathered a generall Councell and by honourable Writs called the Bishops of all Countries to repaire together And the same Author witnesseth that the Emperor Constantine confirmed the determinations of the Councell of Nice More also The whole Councell sate in Reuerend comely order quietly in silence looking for the Princes comming and when the watchword was giuen that the Emperor was come the Bishops stood vp from their places and his Maiestie passed a long through the middest of them as if hee had beene an Angel of God In that Councell of Nice the whole bodie of Christendome was deuided into foure Patriarcheships whereof the first place was giuen to the Bishop of Rome the second to the Bishop of Alexandria the third to the Bishop of Antioch the fourth to the Bishop of Ierusalem afterward came in the B. of Constantinople in the place of the B. of Antioch these foure Patriarches had their peculiar