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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61456	Ad magistratum three sermons preached before the justices of assize, at Bury-St.-Edmunds in the countie of Suffolk : with sacred hymns upon the Gospels for the hyemal quarter / by Tho. Stephens.	Stephens, Thomas, fl. 1648-1677.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5456; ESTC R26257	67,843	154

many years after even to the days of Samuel from thence they began their expeditions they randezvous'd there there they incamped when they renewed the Kingdome to Saul 1 Sam. 11. 14. Yet in Gilgal in the camp of the men of war is the seat of justice Thirdly Mizpeh is the place whither the people were assembled by Samuel to pray for them and to expiate their Idolatry And Rupertus is of opinion that the waters which the people drew there had the same vertue which the waters of jealousie had Numb 5. 24. which were waters of bitterness to all offenders which drank thereof and caused the belly to swell and the thigh to rot and so discover the worshippers of Baalim and Ashtaroth Yet even in Mizpeh where an expiation of Idolatry was to be made was the seat of Iustice. 1. Samuel goes to Bethel the house of God The time is come says St. Peter that judgement must begin at the house of God 1 Pet. 4. 17. Which words although they principally reflect upon those persecutions and afflictions w ch shall befall Gods people yet have they an eye to those chastisements and punishments w ch shall be inflicted upon offenders within the pale of the Church But here I hope neither the Conclave nor the Consistory hear me should my voice reach either Rome or Geneva I should stir a Wasps nest Which places although far remote from one another yet in this case are they coupled together by the tails like Samsons foxes with a fire-brand of sedition between them Most Scholars know what Bellarm hath wrote De exemptione clericorum à jugo seculari so he calls the mild mercifull government of Kings 't is a yoke an intolerable yoke w ch neither they nor their Proselytes can bear Where he ties up the hands of the secular power from executing judgment upon a Clerk though stain'd with treason or murther or sins of the deepest die I meddle not with those priviledges w ch Christian Emperours and Kings have in their respective dominions given to the holy Church Let those that have them plead them But that by the moral or positive law of God all Clergy-men should be exempt from all civil sanctions and the coercive power of the Magistrate is so destructive to Kingdomes nay even to Christianity it self that nothing more 'T is that w ch Christ never pleaded he paid tribute for fear of bringing a scandal upon the Gospel Mat. 17. Nay he was obedient to the sentence of death pronounced against him by the secular power that power w ch he acknowledged had that authority from him which was used to his destruction Ioh. 19. 11. He suffered for us says the Apostle leaving us an example that we should follow his steps 1 Pet. 2. 21. That is to suffer and to submit not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to plead an exemption and then to lord it over others I but says Bellarmine the Pope hath exempted all Clergy-men from subjection to secular Princes that as to them they are not Princes nor higher Powers And I pray who exempted the Pope Why the Canonists will tell you that Papa est jure divino directè Dominus totius orbis the Monarchy the temporal Monarchy of the world was absolutely and inseparably given to the See of Rome as a branch of the Charter which Christ gave to Peter Why but what think they then of the Apostles injunction Let every soul be subject to the higher powers Rom. 13. 1. That is say they Lay-men to their respective Clergy as sheep to their shepherds sons to their spiritual parents Why but St. Chrysostome makes Every soul of a larger extent and fetches in the Clergy too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Oh then by higher Powers says he is meant the Pope Why but St. Peter interprets it of secular powers 1 Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreme Oh says Bellarmine Eo tempore valde necessarium erat diligenter monere Christianos ut Regibus obedirent ne fidei praedicatio impediretur I quote his own words lest you should suspect that I abuse him At that time says he obedience to Kings ought diligently to be prest upon the people lest they should stop the free passage of the Gospel Let heaven and earth hear this and stand amazed At that time What is the eternal spirit of truth become a servant of the Times Is scripture become a Lesbian rule and bowed to our fancies But this is the very answer that a classical Brother gave me in the days of Englands rebellion when I pinch'd him with those Apostolical precepts and asked him whether he thought St. Peter and S t Paul wrote true divinity he answered that Paul and Peter wrote seasonable doctrine for the times they lived in were they alive now when Christians knew their strength better he thought they would change their copy Thus the Jesuite and the Covenanter like men that run in a circle turn back to back and run from one another in a seeming difference but never cease till they meet face to face and kiss each other But some of the brood of Loyola have met with the best confutation that is a halter and have found that a cart at Tiburn is but an ill chair to dispute in having been justly cut off by those laws from which they pleaded exemption As for my Consistorial friends if they repent not their brother Guthry will tell them they must expect the same condemnation For they that travel the same rode if they keep the same pace must needs come to their journeys end both together Indeed so long as the Lemane lake bounded them they were to be pitied not to be feared but cùm proximus ardet Ucalegon 't is time to look about us when our neighbours house is on fire If any please to turn over that sober and modest history of Scotland written by the most reverend Archbishop of St. Andrews he will finde rebellions even to a prodigy hatched under the wings of Religion There Pont dares tell King James and his Councel that they do not acknowledge them judges in causes Ecclesiastick which is the cause perhaps why our brethren now adays leave that clause of His Majesties titles out of their prayers There will they finde the Ministers of Edinborough proclaim a fast on a day appointed by His Majesty for a solemn feast and to detain the people at Church three Preachers make Sermon all day long And we know who wrote after that copy in England too In a word for the raking in this kennel makes it stinke abominably there Blake audaciously tells the King that speeches delivered in the pulpit although alledged to be treasonable cannot be judged by the King till the Kirk first take cognizance thereof Did the Priests of Bethel here put in a Declinator think you against Samuel did they appeal to the Sanhedrim or the Schools of the Prophets No