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A73282 Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity. Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623. 1631 (1631) STC 23505; ESTC S123301 19,735 38

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only ad Temporalia and for spirituall matters he hath no more to doe with them than Vzzah had to touch the Arke who for his paines was striken with death 2. Sam. 6.7 hee dares not denie but Magistrates be gods for David should confute him I have said yee are gods Psa 82. but yet say of them as the Aramite said of the God of Israell that he was the God of the Mountaines not of the Vallies 1. King 20.28 they be gods and governours of the Laitie not of the Clergie For the Councell of Constance Sess 31. Laicus in clericum iurisdictionem non habet The Councell of Trent Sess 25. Personarum Ecclesiasticarum immunitas adeò instituitur Beller lib de eler cap. 28. clerici non possunt à iudice politico puniri nec sunt Reges Clericorum superiores idque habuit iure divino The exemption is by a divine right saith the same Cardinall gainst Berclay cap. 34. quite contrary to the order and course of Scripture for David had the same power over the high Priests that Kings have over their subjects and calls Zadoc the Priest and Nathan the Prophet his servants 1 Kings 1. Salomon his sonne turned Abiathar out of the Priesthood that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled which was spoken against the house of Ely 1 King 2.27 Which text hath so puzled Bell. writing against Berclay that hee is glad to confesse that in Salomons time Priests were subject unto Kings Christus solvit c. Math 17 24 25. Paul appealed ad Caesarem non ad Petrum and he hath warrant Act. 23.11 when Saint Chrisostome expounded that of the Apostle Rom. 13. speaketh thus c. consonant to this is Tert lib. de Idela cap. 15. and St. Bernard ad Archiepiscopum Senonensem Epist 42. Si omnis anima et iam et vestra quis vos accepit ab vniversitate si quis tentat excipere conatur decipere For conclusion note onely how Bellarmine in this point hath contradicted himselfe in writing against Barclay cap. 34. his position is Clerici exempti sunt non solum privilegijs Principum sed jure divino and yet in his 1 Lib. Ecclesiae de membris militantis intituled De Clericis cap. 28. Nullum potest deferri Dei verbum quo ista Clericorum exceptio confirmetur Propos 4. In the first skirmish he is like to Thrasilius in Anthonies Deipnosoph lib. 12. challengeth every page of Scripture to be their advocate that if it were possible for paper and inke to blush his bookes would be as red as his Bonnet and at the parting he is willing to confesse that there is no expresse precept of Scripture for it I end with the speech of Constantine the great noted by Theodoret lib. 1. cap. 20. when he exiled Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia Si quis Epispiscoporum in consulto tumultuatur meae authoritati illius audacia coarcebitur If it be Gods prerogative to appoint Magistrates what may we thinke of them that would wring this power from God and cast it upon him that sits in the Temple and advanceth himselfe above all that is called God making himselfe the King of all other Kings to whom all Kings and Kingdomes must doe homage and pay tribute the greatest Monarchs must fall downe and kisse the feete of his Holinesse as they say their bookes Sacrarum Ceremoniarum lib. 1. cap. 3. sect 2. The Emperour must hold his stirrop when he mounteth the bridle when he lighteth beare his traine when he walketh holde the bason when he washeth he now acts the same part that the Divell acted Matth. 4.9 and takes upon him as he did to dispose of all the Kingdomes of the earth and we may say of him as Irenaeus said of the Divell Mentitur Diabolus nam cujus jussu homines creantur illius jussu regna constituuntur Who knowes not that Fredericke the first was deprived of his Kingdome by Pope Alexander the third as Petrus Iustinianus reports in his Lib. 2. Rerum venatarum Fredericke the 2. by Innocentius the 4. Leo the 3. called Leo Isauros was by Gregory the 3. first excommunicate and then deprived of all his revenues in Italy because he commanded that Images should be pulled downe in their Churches as Carion in 3. of his Chro. in the life of Leo the 3. That Paul the 2. in the beginning of his life a Venetian Pedler as Platina calls him at the end strangled by the Divell in the act of Sodomie as Melancton lib. 5. pag. 913. deprived George the King of Bohemia and stirred up the King of Hungaria to make warre against him as Omiphrius saith of him and for no other reason but because he favoured the doctrine of Iohn Husse as Bonfimus Rer Hung Dec 4. lib. 1. Pope Iulius the 2. deprived the King of Castile Pope Alexander the 6. tooke away the East Indies from the true owner and gave it to the Lusitanians the West and gave it to the Spaniard that Atabalippa might justly challenge but all in vaine Quid monstri esset iste Papa qui sic daret non sua as Montinaeus de temporali pontij monarchia cap. 5. That Pius the 5. as Genebrard at the yeare 1569. tooke away this Kingdome from the late Queene and gave it to Philip King of Spaine That Sixtus the 5. deprived Henry the 3. of France first of his Kingdome and then of his life I omit the wrongs to Henry the 2. they are noted by Matthew Paris at the yeare 1170. to have beene so shamefull that Matchaivell himselfe in the Lib. 1. Hist Florent seemes to scorne him for it Rex his flagellis tergum subjecit quorum hodie puderit quemlibet privatum And when King Iohn complained Romanis artibus emunxi Anglos argento Pope Innocentius the third tooke away his Kingdome and gave it to Philip of France as Matthew Paris at the yeare 215. I marvell not that the Pope would faine have footing in England which Innocentius the 4. called Hortum delitiarum puteum vero inexhaustum Who would not desire to have such a garden who would not wish such a well as that The Poets feigne that the River Arethusa being suddenly swallowed up into the ground runnes quite through the sea and riseth againe in Cicily But without feigning from England as from a well hath sprung golden rivers which being suddenly swallowed up did runne through the sea and rise againe at Rome in the Popes Exchequer But I marvell why Priests and Iesuites will bee his Factours whom hee useth as a fisher useth little fishes to catch great ones hee fisheth with Priests and Iesuites as baites to catch Kings and Princes and Kingdomes I remember a fable of the Ape seeing a Chesnut in the fire and knowing not how to get it spied a Spaniell by the fire-side and suddenly catcht his foote to take out the chesnut wherein these men may see their faces in a homely glasse The golden Supremacy is the chesnut perills and dangers