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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72992	The magistrates charter examined, or his duty and dignity opened In a sermon preached at an assises, held at Sarum in the county of Wiltes, on the ninth day of March, last past, 1614. By Bartholomevv Parsons Batchelour in Diuinity, and vicar of Collingborne Kingstone in the diocesse of Sarum.	Parsons, Bartholomew, 1574-1642.	1616 (1616)	STC 19349; ESTC S123231	21,367	40

in suis adddit ad glassam extraua vnam sanctam vnlesse hee had left one such behind that could do all these things Not much vnlike to that of Bellarmines that if the Church had not this power to dispose of temporall things and Kings in ordine ad spiritualia In order to spirituall things it were not perfect and sufficient for it selfe in order to its owne good x Bellar. lib. 5. de Rom. Pontif. cap. 7. And for practise of this super-eminent power Henry the sixth and his Emperesse were crowned by the Pope Holding the Crowne betweene his feete and so setting it on their heads and hauing thus Crowned the Emperour hee stroke it off againe with his foote to shew that he had power to depose him y Houeden Annales pag. 689. Which if it be so what validity is there in Gods Charter heere How do Kings and Magistrates hold immediately from him reigne by him haue their power from him if it may be giuen and taken away by the Pope And must there not bee an Index ex purgatorius to wipe out the sentences of Antiquity that sound to the contrary maintaine that earthly Gods hold of none but the heauenly are inferiour to none but him to be iudged by none but him Colimus Imperatorem saith Tertullian z Tertul. ad Scapulam lib. 2. Wee honour the Emperour as a man next vnto God and receiuing from God whatsoeuer hee hath Super imperatorem saith Optatus a Optatus lib. 3. contra Parmenianum Aboue the Emperour there is none but God onely who hath made the Emperour And how shall Tibi soli pecc●ui Against thee onely haue I sinned b Psalm 50.4 scape the Index if the Magistrate stand at the Popes iudgement seate and must there be iudged Soli Reges c. Kings alone c Otto Frisingens in Epist ad Frederic Oenobarb being reserued for Gods examination are not brideled by any worldly Lawes whence commeth that saying as well of a King as a Prophet Against thee onely haue I sinned that is as Euthymius expoundeth it Rex sum c. I am a King Lord of all other and haue thee onely for a Iudge of the faults that I commit But as for this transcendent power which the Pope assumeth ouer all Kings and Princes which hold their Crowne and Scepter Authority and Power onely from God whether hee challenge it directly or indirectly the difference betweene which is in via modo non in vi efficacia d Barclaius 236 in the way and manner not in the force and efficacie Let all that feare God and honour their Kings pray that it may proue that which one of his owne side feareth A Seiani equus qui proprios Dominos peruertit e Barclaius in Epist dedicat ad Clement 8. A Seianus horse which ouerthrew his owne Maisters and that it may stirre vp the Kings of the earth to hate the whore of Babylon to make her desolate and naked and to pull her flesh f Reu. 17.17 I said before that there were many aduersaries which infringer this Charter The Magistrates immediate power from God is crucifyed betweene theeues on the other side also Those factious Statists who very vnnaturally diuide this power betweene God and the people as the childe betweene the two mothers and teach that a King is instituted of God constituted of the people The Kingdome is giuen him of God deliuered him of the people That hee reigneth from God but by and for the people Is chosen of God confirmed of the people g Vindicie contra tyrannos For these Distinctions speake halfe in the Language of the Iewes halfe in the Language of Ashdod h Neb. 13.23 Halfe soundly halfe seditiously For The most High appointeth whomsoeuer hee will ouer the Kingdomes of men i Dan. 5.21 Christianus scit saith Tertullian k Tertul. ad Scapulam The Christian knoweth that the Emperour is constituted of God there is his constitution from God as well as his institution and the deliuerance and seisin is from God as well as the gift Trado I deliuer all these Countries into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar my seruant l Ier. 27.6 Their raigning is as well by God as from God By mee saith the Text m Prou. 8.15 their confirmation from him as well as their election God did not onely choose but also make Dauid King n 1. Chr. 28 4. Hee annointeth him with his holy oyle o Psal 89.20 and setteth a Crowne of pure gold on his head p Psal 21.3 These distinctions then are but peruerse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth There is no copercener with God the Grantor heere It is not I and the Pope nor I and the people but I haue said onely the powers that be are of God and of him onely That I haue beene so long in pleading this immediate power from God out of this clause of the Charter I may say to these times that both teach and doe against this as Paul to the Corinthians in another case Yee haue compelled mee q 2. Cor. 12.11 The next clause to be scanned in this Charter heere is the Grantees for these two are correlates and depend one vpon the other one of thē cannot be without the other no Grantor but with reference to a Grantee Yee are Now these Yee are not onely Principalities r Titus 3.1 the highest Magistrates the supreme f 1. Pet. 2.13 but also subordinate Powers t Titus 3.1 those that are sent of them u 1. Pet. 2.13 For Princes must haue many eyes to see withall many hands to worke withall x Xenophon in Cyropadia they being not able to beare their whole people alone y Num. 11.14 nor their cumbrance and strife z Deut. 1.12 must haue subordinate Rulers that must beare the burthen with them For so God ordereth the matter for Moses ease and the peoples necessity a Num. 11.17 So hee commandeth that Iudgee and Officers should bee made in all their gates which the Lord their God should giue them throughout all their Tribes b Deut. 16.18 And so accordingly Iehoshaphat practised Setting Iudges in the Land through all the fenced Cities of Iudah Citie by Citie c 2. Chro. 19.5 And as they are called In partem sollicitudinis to part of the burthen and care so God vouchsafeth them heere Partem honoris part of the honour and ioyneth them Patentees heere together giuing to these subordinate Rulers and Iudges for to them particularly doth this word of God here come d Iohn 10.35 his Name his Office his Seate the execution of iudgement in his stead e Deut. 1.17 For as that precious ointment powred on Aarons head ran downe to his beard and thence to the skirts of his garment f Psal 133.2 So that sacred annointing vnto Soueraignety and Gouernement which is