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A14386 Romphaiopheros = the sword-bearer. Or, The Byshop of Chichester's armes emblazoned in a sermon preached at a synod by T.V. B. of D. sometimes fellow of Queenes Colledge in Oxford, and now pastor of the church at Cockfield in Southsex. Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638. 1627 (1627) STC 24705; ESTC S119120 20,427 32

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but contemne them Bern. de Consid. ad Eugen lib 4. c. 6. And I haue learned a good Collect out of our Common prayer booke which I shall ever put up to God in the behalfe of my selfe and the rest of my brethren in the ministerie That God would grant unto his servants with all courage to deliver his word and according to the example of St. Iohn Baptist constantly to speake the truth boldly to reproue vice and patiently to suffer for the truths sake through Iesus Christ our Lord I haue done with the text and each particular thereof I proposed to speake of I must now intreate leaue of you to run over it againe not any more as an Interpreter but as an Herald For the Byshops armes of this Diocesse grounded in this text gaue me first occasion to fasten on these words as a fit theame to be intreated on in this Synodicall assembly And I will now for a Conclusion before we part blazon those Armes I doe not professe any great skill in that honorable science of Heraldrie I am but a novice and of small understanding in it And therefore if my termes be not so jump proper to Armorie as they should I must intreat your patience and pardon who are better seene in the Art then my selfe In every Coate or Escutcheon and so in this there are two things observeable The field and the charge The field here is azure or sky-coloure which is supposed to be the coloure of the heaven if there be any coloure in it Azure in blazoning moralized signifies puritie and sinceritie This is a fit field to place Christ in And it doth teach vs thus much that the Byshops conuersation must be in heaven as St. Paul saith Our conuersation is in heaven whence we looke for a Saviour c. Philip. 3. 20. We haue done with the field for I will but touch upon every point because I know before whom I speake I come to the charge For order sake we will make this partition of it The charge is either maine and principall or it is circumstantiall The maine or principall charge is Christ who is described in this text Lord what a great honour it is for a man to carrie Christ in his shield But yet is it a farre greater grace to carry Christ in his heart This doth teach that the Byshop must be an imitator and follower of Christ as he hath him in his shield so to hold him still in his heart to expresse him throughout the course of his life and to resemble him in all his actions Now it is written expresly of Christ that he went about into all the Townes and villages Preaching and doing good among the people And I haue heard it of Richard Byshop of this See who for his sanctitie and holy life had the title of Saint put upon him I haue heard it I say of him that in everie three yeare he was wont to goe over all his Diocesse Preaching I wish the Byshop that now is had as good meanes to doe this as he had then I am sure there wants no good affection And the desire of performing this businesse if strength and meanes were answerable to the minde and intention is as full and perfect in our present Diocesan as ever it was in S. Richard I haue done with the principall charge the Circumstantiall followes which is nothing else but a description of the maine charge that is of Christ. Now Christ here is set out unto our eyes in these three things 1. in respect of the positure of his bodie 2. in respect of the habit 3. in respect of an adjunct The site and position of his body is sitting upon a bench Sitting in blazoning moraliz'd signifies gravitie and constancie and therefore you haue Kings and judges and other princes pourtraited for the most part Sitting in the place of judicature See King Iames his Paterne for a Kings inauguration Pag. 33. sequ There is one thing more which Sitting imports which is so well practised by our Diocesan that I cannot slip it over in silence and that is his residence and living upon his Charge And indeed where should a Byshop liue saue in his Diocesse He must be no flitter he must be a sitter there I am sure that the Angell brought that good newes of Christs birth unto the shepheards 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as they were watching and attending their flock Luke 2. and assure your selues that then shall a man meete with the best newes and receiue the greatest comfort when he is in his proper place and busied about the workes of his owne calling See Didac Stella in Luke 1. verse 11. The second thing in this description is the habit and that is a long glittering garment of beaten gold Here are many observations I will point onely at this one It is of pure beaten gold and it is also a glittering garment The life of the Byshop as it must be pure in it selfe without blot so it must appeare pure in the eyes of men without blemish Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes Math. 5. The third thing in the description is the adjunct and that is a sword in his mouth What is ment by the sword I haue told you aboue here onely obserue that it is in his mouth Not in his hand but in his mouth The sword in the hand doth import Temporall power but the sword in the mouth Spirituall The Pope of Rome doth indeed challenge to himselfe both swords applying that of the Apostles when they said to Christ Ecce duo glady loe there be two swords most foolishly to the maintenance of his Spirituall swaggering in the Church and his secular dominering over the whole world But questionlesse he is but a meere usurper and so we leaue him But for our Byshops now who are Lords also Ba-according to the Statutes of this Realme they haue Temporall jurisdiction wee grant it and a sword put into their hands but whence had they it Surely not from Christ but from the Prince Christ it was that put the sword in their mouthes and if they haue at any time as they haue and that worthily too an other sword put into their hands this is not the guist of Christ they lay no claime unto it so but the grace of the Prince and so they acknowledge it Secondly the sword here is in Christs mouth as you see I told you that by the sword was ment the word This then teacheth that the Byshop is not to deliver any doctrine unto the people that he hath not fetched from Christs mouth What I haue received from Christ that I haue delivered unto you 1. Cor. 11. There is but one thing behinde and that is the colour of the sword It is gules that is red Red in blazoning doth signifie blood This is then a bloody sword and it doth teach that the Byshops doctrine must be so piercing and sharpe that it draw blood upon offenders I haue spoken fully to this already I will therfore cease to prosecute it any further I will adde this one thing onely that the sword both of Byshop and Minister must be like to the sword of Saul and Ionathan which never returned emptie from the slaughter of the mighty and most happie of all other Byshops and Ministers shall he be at the last judgement whose sword shall be found the most red of all by the blood that he hath drawne with it upon sinne and Sathan I haue said Consider what I haue said and the Lord giue you a right understanding in all things AMEN O LORD that givest thy holy Word send Preachers plenteously That in the same wee may accord and therein liue and die O holy Spirit direct aright the Preachers of thy Word That thou by them mayest cut downe sinne as it were with a Sword FINIS Praeloqu Gregor Alstedius Lipsius Partition I. Interpretation Beza Calvin Obseruation Explication Probation Lyra. Use I. Use II. Observat. Proleps II. Observat. 1. Use. Observat. 2. Use. Observat. 3. Use. Observat. 4. Use. Apostrophe * Hus significas anserem III. Interpretation Observat 1. Probation Use. Observat. 2. Probation Iuvenal Use. Observat. 3. Probetion Use. Observat. 4. Probation Greg. Nyssen Use. I. Use. II. Observat. 5. Probation Use. I. Zanchius Proleps Philo. Augustine Use. II. Bernard Appendix Observat. Observat. Observat. 1. Observat. 2. Stella Observation Observat. 1. Observat. 2. Observat. 3.