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A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

operatiue then another like a Mare mortuum stupid to all motion would the World be and Nature so be calm'd that the seasons of the yeere would bee lost Heate should not name the Summer nor Cold the Winter instead of VVinter and Summer a blended mixture of the qualities a lazy luke-warme season would last all the yeere Vnisons yeeld no Musicke for Harmony consists of variety in stops higher and lower and equality amongst men would breed nought but confusion Siquidem aqualia non habent per se ordinem Looke vp to heauen and reade ouer that bright booke you shall see an inequality of light in those celestiall bodies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One starre differeth from another in glory so was it allowed by God who at the reuiew of his worke found all to be valde bona very good And one man differeth from another in glory in honour in riches in abilities of the minde which Disparit as perfectionis magis ornat vniuersum disparity in worth makes the world more beautifull All were not borne to be rich nor all to be wise nor all to teach nor all to rule but some for Disciples some for Masters some for the Throne some for the Mill some for Seruants some for Lords Which distinction we owe vnto these two Relata disquiparantiae as Logicians terme them Dominus and Seruus These were the two differences which in the Heraldry of Nature were first put to blazon the coates of all mortality and make a distinction betwixt the elder and younger house the Inferiour and Superiour for saith Saint Augustine Domini serui diuersa sunt nomina sed Homines homines paria sunt nomina As men all are alike but these respects of Lord and Seruant make a difference amongst them To make it more plaine looke once more backe and see the host of heauen gouerned by these rules of subiection and superiority fecit Deus duo luminaria magna God made two great lights vnto which the lesser are seruants and tributaries borrowing their lustre from them And as in heauen so in earth hath he ordained Luminaria magna greater lights and higher powers to goe before his people Though I am not of opinion with that insolent Spaniard Juan Puente that Gods meaning or the Text is to be restrained to those two Catholique Lights set vp by him in the front of his booke in which hee hath taken vpon him to adde new deuices and Mottoes to the Shields and Scutchions of them both vnder one the word Luminare maius vt praesit vrbi dominetur Orbi vnder the other Luminare minus vt subdatur vrbi dominetur Orbi But let him passe for a profound Sycophant I hope the Kings of the earth shall neuer come to that nonage to make them Guardians of their Crownes Those lights are well where they are and best shine in their owne Orbes I feare they will bee too dim to giue light to al the nations of the world I am sure too hot and scorching for our Climate Thankes be to God wee need no addition wee haue one Luminaria magna of Religion and State shining like Lampes in the great assembly of Parliament and a Julium sydus an imperiall Starre whose peacefull influence hath many yeeres blest our Land May it bee long ere this Sunne goe downe or by his set leaue vs in darknesse and mourning Nor may there want a succeeding Ray a Beame of that light to shine in the circle of this Throne so long as those Duo luminaria magna in Heauen the Sunne and the Moone shall runne their course Since then it is established per leges vniuersitatis by the law of God and Nations that the Lord must rule and the seruant obey it were preposterous nay monstrous that the seruant should bee greater then his Lord. Let no man whom Fortune hath subiected and made a seruant be grieued at his lot or thinke too meanely of that vocation To serue is no base office nor is slauery the badge of seruants but obedience Seruants obey your Masters It is no neglected title of drudgery that alters man from his creation but a title of dependance that still referres to a superiour and as man should doe lookes vpwards Men and seruants are names neere a kin There was but one Authour that made Man and the same made Seruants euen God himselfe whose decree was That euery soule should bee subiect to the higher power He then that is stubborn resists notmans but Gods ordinance Serui are not slaues but humiles amici inferiour friends Ye are my friends saith Christ to his Disciples they are Fellowes Immo conserut si cogitauerts tantundem in vtrosque licere fortunae nay they are Brethren Non dedignetur fratrem habere seruum suum Dominus eius quem fratrem voluit habere Dominus Christus There are no slaues but such as serue either their owne or other mens crimes Serui nomen culpa meruit sinne brought in the first thraldome but since the glad tidings of liberty release was brought by Christ who cancelled the Chirographum lethale the deadly Indenture that none may thinke it an abiect duty to serue he the Lord hath dignified the calling by taking vpon himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the forme of a Seruant Againe let not the Lords of the earth whom soueraignty hath lifted aboue the common ranke of men thinke so highly of themselues that they contemne all below them since that Lord or Master are not onely stiles of preeminence but of care For this cause a Master is called the Father of his family and the King is Pater Patriae the father of his Countrey In the Prophet you shall finde Dominus and Pater ioyned If I be a father where is my honour if a Master where is my feare Let them remember that as they haue many below them so they haue one that is farre aboue them a Master and Lord Paramount euen Dominus dominantium that though they be gods on earth dixi quod diiestis yet still but men and breathe one common aire that though fashioned ex meliore luto of better clay yet lutum still but clay and are eiusdem farinae of the selfe same grane though sifted by birth and fortune from the branne of vulgar men For when all the sheafes in the field did homage to Josephs sheafe all were but sheafes linkt in one band of brotherhood from earth and from the wombe But whither doe I presse this poynt My Text is no plea of Iurisdiction no Charter to proue only the Masters prerogatiue aboue the seruant which though it naturally arise from hence yet is not this all That is a granted Maxime our Sauiours meaning is larger and implies that his Disciples being but seruants must not expect better measure at the hands of men then their Lord had found Non potest placere seruus cui displicet Dominus

neuer wanted Seconds to take vp his weapons against the promised Seed God told her Ponam inimicitias I wil put enmitie betwixt you And did hee not keepe tutch Marke the whole passage of our Sauiours life tell me what day was not to him a Persecution So soone as he saluted the light to auoyd Herods bloody Inquisition which pursued him hee was constrained to flie the land and like a banished soiourner make Egypt his abiding place When Herod deceased and he vocatus ex Egypto reuok't was he yet secure No but in the house of his friends as Zacharias so vsed that Barbarians would haue dealt more mercifully Amongst his own countreymen the Iewes vnacknowledged and vnregarded scorned reuiled belyed Hee hath a Deuill He is mad He blasphemes sometimes conspiracy to throw him headlong from a Cliffe sometimes to stone him Thus was hee shuffled vp and downe from coast to coast from the City to the field from the Gaderenes to Samaria from dry land to sea yet no sayles able to make speed from his Persecutions but Mare nos repellit ad Barbaros each shore hee tutch't at was an enemie nor found his wearines the benefit of a resting place whereon to lay his head As a Partridge from the fowlers so fled he from the cruell Priests and Scribes who were They in my Text the Actors in this persecution and like a Roe in the wildernesse was he pursued Many darts throwne after him Many toyles pitched for him for they sought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how to take him in the snare all which though hee long auoyded yet neuer did they giue ouer the furious chase till faint and wearie on the top of Caluary their cruelty ouertooke him where with nailes and speare they goard his harmelesse body and bereaued that Just one of the life they long had hunted after When the Principall is slaine partakers must looke to bleed nor can the Armie hope for mercy when the Generall is put to the sword One life sacrificed cannot appease an incensed enemy nor could the life of Christ though the best among the sonnes of men quench the bloody thirst of the Jewes but being flesht vpon the Leader they are eager after the Heard and hauing rent this Lambe from the fold they seeke to worry the whole Flocke For the diuels commission was not like the command of the King of Syria Fight neither with small nor great saue onely against the King of Israel but as that in Zachary Arise O sword and smite the shepheard and not him alone but let the sheepe be scattered spare none neither Lord nor Seruant Master or Disciple but extirpate all downe with the glorious Temple of Christs body Downe with it euen to the ground and let not one stone of that building one Disciple suruiue to reedifie the demolished Church You see the sad Patrimony of the Apostles and that as Hugo Cardinalis hath it Uenit bellum tanquam ad haeredes imitatores eius the warre descended to them by inheritance and persecution was their lot and portion For so was the will of the Testator Jf they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Sinne is a fruitfull parent and neuer yet wanted issue but as poyson runnes successiuely thorow the veines so haue her agents drained thorow al successions of time The tyrannies of Gods enemies towards his Church neuer ended where they began and though the persons changed the malice did not As in a Campe the word goes from Centinell to Centinell so in this Abyssus abyssum vocat one misery called vp another and as the Carthaginians hate to Rome was by the Fathers assigned ouer and intailed to the sonnes so was the cruell tradition of shedding the blood of Saints deliuered ouer by predecessors to their following generations Finis vnius mali gradus futuri one persecution hath trod vpon the heele of another and where the old went off new Scenes of mischiefe haue taken their Cues The Monarchies of the world haue not shifted oftener their se●●s then the Empires of death and Persecution The first persecution began in Egypt in the time of Pharaoh from thence it was deriued to the Iewes when they failed the Arians and Easterne Heretickes went forward with the Chase Vbi desinit philosophus incipit medicus where these wrangling Sophisters of the diuell left the Jesuites began Those onely the great Paracelsians of the world whose practice is Phlebotomy to let States blood in the Heart-veine and deale altogether in metals and minerals Steele and Gunpowder Creatures so prodigiously dexterous in their art that they are now become the onely Inuentories of mischiefe All the shallow elementary examples of trechery formerly practised seruing to them but as a garden of simples from whose composition they haue extracted Quintessence of such speeding operation that it is able to make an Earthquake greater then Nature euer durst owne and in a moment purge a whole Kingdome into nothing Thus hath the diuell his Infantry belonging to his Campe and where the old Garrisons were worne out new supplies to make good their places They shall also persecute you Persecution heere is no single appellation of misery but a compound of all cruelty I cannot giue a fitter Embleme to expresse it then that possest man Mark 5. who dwelt among the Tombes bound with fetters and chaines so mad and raging doth it runne about the world keeps its court amidst the graues and her pauillion hung about with the trophees of death fetters and whips rackes and strappadoes halters and swords stakes and fire Besides this hath a name as numerous as his My name is Legion saith the possest for we are many so is Persecution Nomen multitudinis a collectiue name of Multitude in it many Legions of ills the Burse of Tyranny and which speakes all a full Inquisition is included Persecution of the body and affliction of the mind persecution at home persecution abroad and not only Persecutio manus violence offered to the body but to the Good Name by slanders and calumnies For Non martyrium sola effusio sanguinis consummat nec sola dat palmam exustio illa flammarum it is not the sword alone nor the fire which makes a Martyr There is Martyrium famae Martyrdome of fame as well as vitae of life A man may bee a Martyr without blood-shed and siccâ morte by a dry death attaine the Crown of a Confessor euen by suffering persecution in his fame and honour which is as Anselme calls it Persecutio oris the persecution of the mouth Neither is this lesse grieuous then the former it rather exceeds it as farre as the price of fame is aboue life Feare not those which kill the body saith Christ this is more exquisite and kils if not the soule that which is next in value the Good name One of these two mischiefes Os gladii or gladius

his death out of the abundance of their Romish charitie would perswade the world he died Reconciled vnto their Synagogue for I may not call it Church vnlesse it be Ecclesia malignantium Ecclesia maledicentium Nor let this Lye prooue more authenticke because Printed that rather discredits and weakens it and you haue now more cause to suspect it then before It is a ground in their Religion that Vnwritten traditions haue more authority then written Scriptures And if so why should not we take them at their word and make as slight and scornefull reckoning of their writings as they of Gods Lastly that none may wonder or be perplexed or through a nice misprision suspect there could not but bee some ground for this farre-blowne Calumnie let him but Remember the word that Christ sayd and what He Suffered and then all wonder will end in satisfaction For who can thinke it strange that Christs Seruants are slandered when Hee their Lord and Master could not auoyd the poysoned breath of Slander If His Innocence had no protection but that He on no ground at all was belyed by malicious tongues surely on as little ground will they belie any Disciple of His For the Seruant is not greater then his Lord And saith Christ If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Why then Sufficit Discipulo vt sit sicut Magister eius Let it satisfie all the world and his owne fame that this now dead Disciple hath had but the same fate and vsage his Master had It is the glory of Imitation to counterfeit the life and Art is most proper when it most resembles Nature The Apostles were but Copies drawne from Christ their perfection therefore must needs be greatest who come neerest to the Originall And that Disciple is a true Disciple who learnes not the Lesson but the Master not only suffers for Him but in degree and qualitie as like as may be to Him This is truly Discere Christum to learne Christ this is Induere Dominum Jesum to put on the Lord Iesus this is to Partake the sufferings of Christ. They who durst partake his sorrowes shall share with Him in ioyes they that are sicut in terra shall be also sicut in coelis For so hath the Spirit assured vs. Si compatimur conregnabimus If wee suffer with him in earth we shall raigne with him in Heauen Behold a voyce hath bid me write Blessed are ye when men reuile and persecute you and say all manner of euill for my Names sake falsely Reioyce and be glad great is your reward in Heauen TO THE READER HOw little I affect to be in Print needs no Apologie to any who either know already it was the desire of some my most Honourable friends whose intreaties were commands to me or but consider the subiect which first set me a worke a Slandered and traduced Father vnto whom duty and necessity vrged me to doe this right And I cleerely professe if a true relation of his end may doe him right I haue faithfully performed it and haue giuen the world so iust an account of Him tanquàm Ephemeridem Deo traditurus as if I should haue made my conscience last shrift to God Whether I haue vprightly stewarded his honour and my owne faith I leaue to the strict iudgement of any who are able to distinguish colours and discerne Truth from Imposture being confident as innocence can make a man that none are able to disallow the reckoning Si veredicam Deus testis si mentiar Deus Vindex As therefore the acquitting of His integrity was the prime motiue which entred me into this Quarrell so now the clearing of my owne fidelity was a secondary motiue for the publication of it First that they might not thinke by false alarms and the confused outcries of Report to beare downe a good cause or so easily to triumph in their supposed victory as if none durst affront them I thought good in the meane time thus on the sudden to checke the rumour till haply some more deliberate pen which they shall not long or vainely expect may quite race it out And though this byrth of mine were more hastily formed I hope it will not be vntimely for Truth neuer knew abortion but like a starre newly risen to discouery hath its being of old though the obseruation was but late and moderne Secondly to let those calumnious tongues who gaue out my Reuolt also as well as my Fathers both true alike know I haue not yet so doted on their part or dis-affected my owne as to leaue my Countrey or Religion nor I thinke euer shall except my vnderstanding wits and aboue all the Grace of God leaue me or their perswasions haue the same power ouer me as Mercuries had ouer Sosias that they can make me beleeue Ego non sum Ego I am not the Son of such a Father And what in this case on my owne behalfe I write is likewise auowed on behalfe of my second brother IOHN KING entred into the same orders as my selfe who also had his share in this lewd imputation as well as my selfe for we are not more brothers in nature then by Gods mercy in this resolution Thirdly to take the liberty of adding and explicating some remarkeable circumstances which better become a Margin then a speech Lastly that though the slander hath hitherto got the start the Detection might at last be set in a course to ouertake it Which taske Sermo transiens a Sermon pronounced could not so thorowly effect except it were also Sermo in scriptis written A course no way improper for scriptor praedicare dici potest A Writer is in some sort a Preacher Certè si lingua silet manus praedicat fructuosiùs aliquandò quantò Scriptura venit ad plures vberior quàm transiens sermo though his tongue be silent his Pen preaches and a Sermon preached from the Presse sometimes edifies so much the more then from the Pulpit by how much the Report is carried further So that the audience which before was but Parochiall or at most Prouinciall may by this meanes grow more Generall and as it were Oecumenicall And now hauing committed it to the view of all men I will not preiudicate or doubtfully forestall the beliefe of any I make no question but all will rest satisfied except those wayward dispositions who are resolued afore-hand not to be satisfied at all Non persuadebis etiamsi persuaseris hauing banished all reason from them without hope of repeale Such though vnwillingly I must leaue to their owne hardened obstinacy Stultos iubeo esse libentèr and suffer fooles gladly that will be so against my consent If they can yet flatter themselues with any aduantage this fiction may affoord them I shall not enuie them that Paradise into which their fond imagination hath put them I rather pitty the poore shifts they are driuen to for the keeping of their weather-beaten Cause a-float All the

so the Glosse and therefore as they might not scorne or thinke much to runne those courses of hazard and reproch which hee himselfe had past so neither take vpon them out of pride to do more then he Thus doth he expresse himselfe If I your Lord and Master haue washed your feet ye ought to wash one anothers feet there hee giues them an example of Humility heere of Patience If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you To strengthen which perswasion he argues from this Axiome The seruant is not greater then the Lord. A iust truth and not to bee contradicted but Rome denies it and that great Heteroclite in Religion the Pope thinkes it too scant for him to be circumscribed by presidents either of the Apostles though he calls himselfe Peters successor or of Christ himselfe whose Uicar hee is proclaimed Hee will ducke and complement as low as may be stile himselfe Minimus Apostolorum and seruus yea lower yet seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Yea and yet the Fox wants attributes deepe enough to earth his pride in You know what in another case Saint Augustine sayes Fabrica ante celsitudinem humiliatur fastigium post humiliationem erigitur it is true in this those that will build high lay deepest foundations Nor euer was insolence so high flowne but before it tooke wing it raised it selfe from the ground Brutus will kisse the earth though his thoughts aime at the gouernment of Rome so will the Pope lessen himselfe and contract his greatnesse into short titles as the Snake hides her length by folding her selfe vp into many gyres and doubles kisse the ground euen when he meanes to build his nest in the Starres when he aimes not at Romes alone but the worlds supremacy Thus like a Falcon he stoopes lowest when he meanes to soare highest and his ambition like a bullet spit from the mouth of a Cannon first grazes and then mounts For behold from these low foundations from this flat and bottome of dissembled humility he hath built a Tower loftier then Babel on the highest pinnacle whereof as on a Pharos the Banner and Flag of his Supremacy is hung out hath cast vp a Mount equall to Olympus on the top whereof himselfe stands like the Tempter vpon that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exceeding high hill from whence he shewed Christ all the Kingdomes of the earth Loe from hence doth he ouerlooke the world and the Kingdomes of it and to maintaine the Idoll of his supremacie with an Omnia dabo sets them all to sale proclaiming vnto the Kings of the Nations All these will I giue if ye will fall downe and worship me But amongst them if there bee any that refuse to adore this Golden Calfe or question his vsurped supremacie Res fisei est straight hee seazeth their Crownes and as due to him by forfeit bestowes them most bountifully vpon any who by force of Armes can get them It is not long since he gaue away our Land vpon the same quarrell that I may name no Germane examples not of yesterday but to day yet thankes bee to God the Title proued so difficult and the possession so hard to get that he who thought it already his was faine to disclaime the suit and with losse of fame and costs returne home Thus doth hee sit in Templo Dei opposing himselfe against and exalting himselfe aboue all that is called God that is all Kings of the earth who are stiled Gods Dixi quod Dii and Christi Dei Christs the Lords Anoynted which will not acknowledge him their Head as being impatient to heare of any Deity equall or greater then himselfe Nor against these onely doth he aduance himselfe but he doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fight against the God of heauen and his Christ. Take a short suruey of his practice and you will finde no greater opposition betwixt the sides of the Diameter nor larger distance betwixt the two poynts of heauen North and South nor more enmity betwixt the words Christ and Antichrist thē their persons Our Sauiour Christ when he entred Ierusalem came riding meekly vpon an Asse no attendants but his Disciples and a few poore Villagers but Kings haue walkt afoote whilest the Pope hath rode and Emperors like Querries waited on the stirrop Christ washed his Disciples feet and wiped them but the Pope hath caused Emperours to kisse his feet Christ taught vs to giue vnto Caesar Reddite Caesari The Pope bids take from Caesar the things which are Caesars not the Tribute but Crowne and life too Christ refused to be called good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as holding it a stile fit for God alone but the Pope is patient of a stile so farre aboue it as superlatiues can stretch him Optimus Maximus and Dominus Deus noster Papa our Lord God the Pope Christ instituted a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imposition of hands but the Pope hath practised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an imposition of feet For Caelestine the fourth crowned the Emperour Henrie the Sixth with his foot and spurned it off againe with his foot dismissing him with a curse of Excommunication So as Christ laid his hands vpon them and blessed them the Pope laid his feet vpon the Emperour and cursed him Now iudge their contrariety and see if this seruus seruorum seruant of seruants the Pope take not more vpon him then euer Christ the Lord of Lords did Finally the Popes that I may omit the impiety of their owne persons some whereof haue been Arians as Liberius some Nestorians as Anastasius II. some Heretickes as Syricius Caelestinus c. some Sorcerers as Alexander VI Sergius IIII. and 17. besides some Atheists as Leo X. who called the Gospell Fabulam de Christo a fable of Christ The Popes I say for these many Centuries of yeeres haue beene such profest enemies to Christ that there haue beene no persecutions Massacres Invasions Powder-plots but they haue come out in a sort cum Priuilegio with their allowance their encouragement their priuity At their feet haue the garments of all those Jesuiticall Assassinates beene layd down as Stephens executioners layd theirs at Sauls Nor doe we yet finde better measure looke but to the other side of the sea and then iudge Nor can we hope better but the voyce of the Ancient Churches by them persecuted cries vnto vs in the words of my Text as Christ to his Apostles If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you I Am arriued at my last point which needs no long discourse Haec meditatione potius quam expositione indigent It is a matter fit rather for meditation then proofe and is a story acted and no supposition so that our Sauiours Si persecuti If they haue persecuted me is now turned to an assertion They haue persecuted me Since the quarrell in the garden betwixt the VVoman and the Serpent the deuill