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lord_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	12,106	5	9.9774	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00173	The life or the ecclesiasticall historie of S. Thomas Archbishope of Canterbury; Annales ecclesiastici. English. Selections	Baronio, Cesare, 1538-1607.; A. B., fl. 1639.	1639 (1639)	STC 1019; ESTC S100557	287,552	468

liues beecause hee is terrible and who can resiste him You ought neuer to forget in what state God did first finde you then how hee promoted honored exalted you how hee blessed you with royal issue confirmed the throne of your kingdome and in despight of all your enemyes inriched you with ample possessions in soe much as to this very houre all men with admiration pronounce This is hee whom our Lord hath chosen And what shall you yeeld or what can you render for all these bountyes beestowed by him on you Will you at their instinct and instance who persecute aboute you the Church and Ecclesiasticall persons and haue euer to their power afflicted them repay euill for good with oppressions tribulations iniuryes vexations to Churches and their Cleargy Are not these the persons of whom our Lord sayth Who heareth you heareth mee who contemneth you despiseth mee who toucheth you toucheth the aple of myne eye If truly leauing all you possesse you take vp your crosse and follow our Lord Iesus Christ hardly shall you yea neuer shall you bee found faithfull and gratefull enough to recompense these his benefit●s receaued Search out the Scriptures of such as knowe them and you shall finde that Saul although chosen by our Lord 1. Reg. 15. 2. Paral. 20. yet neuertheles beecause hee wandred from his wayes was punished with the ouerthrowe of himselfe and his family Ozias also king of Iuda whose fame was spread both far and wyde and was soe highly renowned for the many victoryes beestowed on him by our Lord had to the downefall of his owne destruction his harte so puffed vp in regard that God did at all tymes assist and strengthen him that contemming the reuerence due to our Lord hee would needes vsurpe to himselfe a matter no whit appertayning to his office but only to the preisthoode which was to offer incense on the altar of our Lord and therefore was strooken by our Lord with a leprosy and by the handes of the preistes cast out from the temple of our Lord and soe remayned till his dying day a foule Leper in respect whereof hee was banished the house of Allmighty God In like sorte many other kinges who mightely abounded in riches beecause they walked aboue themselues in the maruelles of this world presuming to rebell against our Lord perished and in the last gaspe found none of their riches left in their handes Moroeuer king Azarias wrongfully intruding himselfe likewise into the preistly office Reg 15. was punished with a leprosie 2. Reg 6. Lastly Oza though not a king but for touching the Arke of our Lord and vphoulding it beeing in danger to fall by reason of the Oxens stumbling yet beecause this appertayned not to his charge but to the offices of the temple beeing wounded by Gods indignation fell headlong dead hard by the Arcke of our Lord A king according to the common prouerbe chastised by the misfortune of an other looketh more narrowly to himselfe For you are neere an euill turne When as your neighbours house doth burne Allmighty God most deere soueraigne would that thinges appertayning to the disposition of the Church should beelong to preistes and not to secular powers who if they bee Christians his deuine pleasure is they should bee subiectes vnto the preistes of his Church Challenge not therefore to your selfe an others office or right neither rayse contention against him by whom all thinges are ordayned for feare least yee seeme to fight against the benefitts of him from whom you receiue your authority It is not the will of Allmighty God that the Clergie of the Christian religion should bee either ordered or censured by publicke lawes or secular Princes but by Bishpps and priestes Christian kinges ought to submitt the excecution of their designes to Ecclesiasticall Pastors and not preferre their customes beefore them For it is written that none ought to pronounce iudgment against preistes but the Church nor doth it beelong to temporall lawes to giue sentence ouer such Christian Princes were wont to obey the Canons of the Church and not to ouerpoyse with their power Ecclesiasticall Constitutions to humble their crowned heades vnto their Bishoppes not to determyne ouer their Bishoppes for two states there are in which doth principally consist this worlds gouerment the Bishoppes sacred authority and the kingly power wherein the worthynes of preisthood is of farr greater weyght beecause they must in the day of iudgment render an accompt of kinges themselues Yee ought truly to knowe that yee are bound to depend on their iudgmentes and not to haue them reduced to your wills For many Bishoppes haue excommunicated some kinges others Emperors and if you would knowe any particulers concerning the persons of these Princes Innocentius excommunicated the Emperor Arcadius beecause hee consented to haue saint Iohn Chrisostome banished out of his Sea Saint Ambrose for one fault which in the eyes of other preistes appeared not so heynous excommunicated and cast out of the Church the Emperor Theodosius the great who hauing made condigne satisfaction obtayned absolution And many others such like are to this purpose 2. Reg. 12. Dauid also hauing committed adultery and murder Nathan the Prophet was sent to him by God to reproue and correct him admonished hee was and soone amended for the king laying asyde his royall Diadem and casting away his Imperiall Maiesty was not ashamed to humble himselfe beefore the face of the Prophet to confesse his synne and craue pardon for his offence what shall I say more conducted by pennance hee beesought mercy and obtayned forgiuenes Bee it so with you o deerest beeloued sonne most renowned king most honored Lord according to the example of most excellent Dauid that most godly king of whom our Lord sayd 1 Reg. 13. I haue found a man according to myne owne harte Bee you in like sorce with a contrite and humble hart conuerted to our Lord God and doe seuere pennance for your sund●y excesses for you haue fallē downe headlong and erred in many thinges which as yet I conceale expecting if soe bee it our Lord will inspire you so as you may say with the Prophet Haue mercy on mee ô God according to thy great mercy Psal 24.50 Psalm 33. beecause I haue much offended thee and committed sin in thy sight for God is at hand to them who are righteous of harte and will saue the humble in spiritt Thus for this tyme my Lord I write vnto you suppressing the rest in silence vntill I see whether my speech may fasten on you and bring forth of you fruites worthy of pennance that I may heare by the reporte of others and congratulate with them who shall tell mee your sonne and king was dead but is reuiued was lost but is found againe If soe bee that you will not heare mee who was accustomed to pray for you with abundance of teares and exceeding sighes beefore the Maiestie of the body of Christ I will assuredly in

feared least the incensed bee thereuppon faer more inraged What shall I therefore doe speake Or hold my peace since on euery side danger menaceth mee But beecause it is safer to fall into the indignation of man then into the handes of our liuing Lord beeing confident in the mercy of the highest in whose handes are the heartes of Kinges Daniel 13. inclining them to what side be● lifteth and I wish to the better I will speake to my Lord since I haue once beegun for many times benefitts are prepared euen for the vnwilling especially when wee aduise them rather for their saftie then pleasure His admonition concerning the estate of the Church In your realme is held captiue the daughter Sion the spouse of the mightie king is oppressed by many beeing afflicted by those who haue long time hated her and of whom shee rather should bee honoured then aggreeued especially of your selfe weyghing therefore seriously in your owne conscience the singular benefitts which God hath beestowed on you in the first entrance of your raigne in the midst thereof and euen allmost to this very day loose now her bandes and suffer her to rule together with her spouse that God may bountifully blesse you your kingdome instantly recouer his former power obloquie bee washed away from your generation and singular peace flourish in your dayes Giue credit to mee most beeloued Lord most renowned Prince for our Lord with patience repayeth with longanimity expecteth but with terror reuengeth Listen to mee and doe well otherwise ought you to dread which God forbid least the Amighty beegirt with his swoard on his thigh and come in a strange hand with a huge army to deliuer his spouse not without greeuous punishment from her oppression and seruitude of tribulation but if you will harken vnto mee beecause our Lord hath at this instant most vrgent occasion to make tryall of your obsequious seruice as of his couragious souldier God will poure out his benefittes on you adding glory to the posterity of your sonnes and daughters in long induring ages Otherwise I feare which God forbid that the swoard shall neuer departe from your family vntill hee commeth who shall fully reuenge the iniury offered him and his beeing God Almighty himselfe like to the plague which left not the house of Solomon from whom although God made choyse of him ād gaue him that abundance of wisedome ād peace as it was sayd of all This is the sōne of wisedome and peace yet beecause hee flew backe from the wayes of our Lord and walked in iniquity vpon iniquity God rent his kingdome and gaue it to his seruant especially in reguard hee sought not instantly after his sinne to appease the wrath of our Lord like Dauid his father who presently vpon his offence humbled himselfe to God corrected his fault beesought mercy and obtayned pardon I would to Almighty God that you likewise through the grace of our Lord would imitate his example And thus much for the present I write the rest I leaue to the relation of this bearer a man Religious and of great estimation and as I suppose your faithfull seruant vnto whom I humbly beeseech you if it pleaseth your Maiestie that you will confidently giue credit although I rather desire with your royall fauour to speake with your selfe in presence God grant my Lord and king now and euer well to fare Thus much to the king sending also by the same messinger these letters worthie your attention to the Bishop of Hereforde Thomas by the grace of God the humble seruante of the Church of Canterbury to his reuerent brother Robert The letter of saint Thomas to Robert Bishop of Hereford by the same grace Bishope of Hereforde sendeth greeting and wisheth him in all thinges well to doe If my letter had stirred vp in your Brotherhood a carefull diligence I had not found you slougthfull in your affection or not effectually watchfull for discharging the duty of your vndertaken office I haue made choyse to bee an abiect to bee accursed for all to bee the obloquio of men and the out cast of the people to the end I may not see the calamityes of the Saintes and rather then to dissemble the iniurys of our nation expecting if perchance any one among yee beeing zealous of the law of God and thirsting the liberty of the Church would come after and ioyne with mee that wee might not yeeld hornes of power to offendors and beehould you who as I beeleiued was beestowed on mee by God that together with mee might build pull downe and plant beegin to mee with conuerting your spurre of zeale to ruine and your comforte to despaire preaching humiliation nay deiection and denouncing goodnes when on all sides there is nothing left but trouble to the destruction of the Church of God and of his cleargie yea euen at such time when as you ought cheifely to confirme with constācy the wauering mynde and indure with mee the combate for defence of the patrimony of the crucify'd for repressing and subduing the enemyes of the Church to sound into myne eares to breath into my head that I should intreate more instantly reproue more sharply rebuke more seuerely and if prechance they listen not to mee then truly to cry out to mee Arise Why doe you sleepe Plucke out the swoard of sainct Peeter reuenge the blood of the seruantes of Christ which is poured forth with the iniurys of the Church that in you and vs are dayly sustained Is it cleane slipt out of your memory with how greate iniuries I was afflicted with what reproches abused when in my person Christ was againe before the Tribunal of a Prince adiuged I call not againe to minde the wrong offered to myne owne person allthough the same was also in truth to the Church Marke you more diligently consider deepely in your harte what was done beefore my departure out of the land what in my departure and what after my departure yea what is done euery day in the realme against the Church of God his cleargie with what conscience can these things bee dissembled by you who was expected to bee a Redeemer of Israel a champion to deliuer the Church out of bondage And now beecause you haue bin soe long silent I poure out my plaintes against you O my eldest sonne I feare an other will step in your place to beereaue you of your inheritance yea win from you which God forbid the blessing of an heire But allthough hetherto you haue rested silent recouer now your courage againe my dearest sonne Cry out and cease not Lift vp your voyce on high against them darte feare into their heartes strike into them contrition force out of them satisfaction least otherwise the wrath of God fall downe vpon them and the whole nation or which God forbid on the mightyst Potentates of the kindome for the iust reuenge of God hangeth euen now ouer their heades This I write not to confound