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A04031	A sermon vpon the words of Saint Paul, Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers wherein the Popes soueraigntie ouer princes, amongst other errors, is briefly but sufficiently refuted, and the supremacie of the King, by cleare euidence and strong proofe auerred, to the silencing of the aduersarie, and satisfaction of the indifferent Christian, not blinded with partialitie and preiudicate opinion / by Thomas Ingmethorpe.	Ingmethorpe, Thomas.	1619 (1619)	STC 14088.5; ESTC S121083	20,575	38

obeyed then man yet the law of God alloweth no man by opposition to rebecke him but absolutely bindeth all men with patience to submit themselues vnto his sword and to endure the penalty which he shall inflict vpon them for refusing to do as he commandeth The one way leadeth to rebelliō the innate fruite of Romish Catholicisme abhominable to God and good men the other to persecution for righteousnesse sake the badge of true Christianitie whereby man is tried by his trial God glorified Further yet the vlcerate Aposteme of the Popes vsurpation in taking vpon him to depose Princes and dispose their kingdoms at his pleasure if they chance to stand in his light or any way to eclipse the bright beames of his vnlimited Maiestie by the interposition of their earthly domination is here crushed and lanced to the quicke If his Holinesse had any such coerciue power ouer Princes allotted him by God as he challengeth and his flattering parasites soothe him vp in doubtlesse S. Paul hauing so fit an opportunitie as here is offered him would haue giuen the faithfull some inkling of it But in that he deuideth the Church into two parts onely subjects and higher powers not mentioning any third state superiour to Princes he giueth that Papall fancie so deadly a stripe as all the balme in Gilead will not serue to heale the wound For except we shall traduce the Apostles diuision as defectiue and insufficient it must needs be granted A plaine demonstration to the eye whereby the mount of the Romish synagogue is subuerted that the Bishop of Rome is included in one of the two sorts either he must go in the tale of subiects or be ranked with the higher powers But among the higher powers he can haue no place as by the context is plaine they being there decyphered to be such as beare the sword and to whom tribute is payable the specificall and as I may say characteristicall notes of the secular Magistrate and so not originally inherent and incorporate in the office of a Bishop as the Pope is whom Christ by speciall prohibition hath interdicted all ciuill dominion whereof the sword is the ensigne Math. 20. Mark 10. This letteth not but Bishops may lawfully deale in ciuill causes being thereunto called and authorised by the higher powers and tribute the earnest Wherfore seeing that the Bishop of Rome cannot be reckoned amongst the higher powers it followeth not as an arbitrary or coniecturall supposition but as a necessary concomitant and certainty more then geometricall that he is to be accounted but in the number of subiects And they by Gods owne institution and ordinance are bound to obey not licensed to domineere and tyrannize ouer Princes as the Bishop of Rome in the pride of his heart arrogantly presumeth to do An vlcer that cannot be pierced with too sharp a naile This Analysis of the place howsoeuer the Popishly affected cannot well brooke nor digest with patience as derogatory to the prerogatiue of the Pope whom they take to be their summum bonam yet is it agreeable to the vniforme confession of the Primitiue Church which euermore acknowledged Princes to be superiour to all and subject to none but God as by the verdict of Tertullian Optatus Chrysostome and other of the ancient Fathers if need were and time and place would permit might more particularly and at large be made good Ridiculous it is and worthy the smeare of a black coale which the Bishop of Rome to bleare the eyes of his silly profelytes withall Extra de maiorit obed c. Solitae 1. Pet. 2. The Popes Glosse corrupteth the text doth comment vpon those words of Saint Peter Submit your selues vnto the King 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as vnto the most excellent For by as vnto the most excellent he would beare them in hand that the Apostle intended a resēblance only not that the King was very so indeed whereas the particle as doth there betoken the realty and truth of the matter like as in that of Iohn We saw the glorie thereof Ioh 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the glorie of the onely begotten Sonne And yet is this no point so insulsly paraphrased by reason of the terme of doubting perhaps wherewith he qualifieth his speech as where he a dioyneth without any maner of scruple or staggering at all that Saint Peter said not simply Submit your selues but with this addition for Gods sake following therein the tracke of the vulgar version or rather as other reade more sutably to the Greeke originall for the Lords sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as if by those words as they euer haue had a singular grace and dexteritie in transsubstantiating by words the precept were transformed into a counsell See the Glosse vpon the Chapter whereas taken in their right sence they serue rather to giue a sharper edge vnto it and to make it more emphaticall As Saint Paul when he had giuen out of the magistrate He is the minister of God inferres thereupon Rom. 13. Wherefore ye must be subject not because of wrath onely but also for conscience sake The Priest indeed as cannot be denied hath a kind of regiment as wel ouer Princes as priuate men annexed to his office In consideration whereof Saint Paul exhorteth Heb. 13. Obey your Ouerseers But this is internall not externall perswasiue not compulsiue spirituall not temporall ouer their soules not ouer their bodies goods and inheritances and so neither hinders the subiection of the one nor is preiudiciall to the principalitie of the other For as the King in sicknesse may be ruled by Physitions in building by Masons and Carpenters in trauelling by guides in warres by souldiers and by his Councell in affaires of State yet this diminisheth nothing of the supremacy he hath ouer them but if these or any of them make default against any of his lawes the King for all that by his princely power may punish them accordingly so the King may be ruled by his Clergie in matters of doctrine and discipline so far forth as they perswade no other then what is consonant to the Propheticall and Apostolicall Scripture But if once they exorbitate from that rule and become either negligent in their office or false in their teaching or vicious in their liuing or in plotting and practising treacherous and perfidious the King may notwithstanding by his royall authority according to the quantity and quality of the offence lawfully correct them whether it be by a pecuniary mulct or by restraint of liberty or by confiscation of goods or by the losse of life or otherwise as he shall see good But if the King on the other side answer not his duty to God in euery point the Priest must not now do the like by him forasmuch as God hath not thereunto authorized him The Priests office is confined to the word and Sacraments it extendeth not to the sword So that the Priest may teach and

A SERMON VPON THE WORDS OF SAINT PAVL Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers Wherein the Popes soueraigntie ouer Princes amongst other errors is briefly but sufficiently refuted and the Supremacie of the King by cleare euidence and strong proofe auerred to the silencing of the aduersarie and satisfaction of the indifferent Christian not blinded with partialitie and preiudicate opinion By THOMAS INGMETHORPE 1. Pet. 2.13 Submit your selues vnto the King as vnto the superiour LONDON Printed by R. Field for Robert Mylbourne 1619. TO THE MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD TO BIE BY THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD Archbishop of Yorke Primate of England and Metropolitane I Present vnto your Grace this short Sermon not for any Synopticall skill to be seene in it for how should a Minstrell pipe artificially wanting his ouerlip but onely for the good I am perswaded may redound by it to the people of this Land my brethren and kinsmen according to the flesh For whereas they are borne in hand and some for want of better grace are made verily beleeue that the Regiment of the Church peculiarly belongeth to the Bishop of Rome by the prerogatiue of his office and thereupon admit no coine for currant money but that which cometh from his Mint and hath his Image and superscription on it here they may see the ground of that leud opinion shaken at least if not razed and as it were a Trophee of the Kings supreame power ouer his subiects as well in matters Spirituall as Temporal by force of Gods word as by dint of sword established So as there is likelihood that such who haue any sparke of the good Spirit which leadeth into truth residing in them vpon so euident a manifestation of their error will be won at length to retract it and leaue banding themselues in the Popes quarrell against the Lord and his Annointed the onely Helena in a manner that this day troubleth the state of our Greece For to appeale to all that be acquainted either with the present constitution of our bodie politique or with the true complexion of our Church what other maligne humour to speake of doth attaint the health of the one or blemish disfigure the beautie of the other If this cloud were scattered Lord how bright would our Hemisphere shine If this mud To the Reader IN this Sermon if thou be not too partiall thou shalt find to the comfort and encouragement of all true subiects the Kings title fairely pleaded against the Pope and proued to be agreable to the written word of God and to the example of the Church when it was yet in the prime and flower of her age If our Romish Rabbines could shew the like evidence for the Popes soueraigntie ouer the King their followers I must confesse were to be borne with in the course of their proceedings that way but it being a thing which the Scripture doth not onely not warrant but vtterly disauow and which is so farre from corresponding to the patterne of the primitiae Church that it is antipode and quite opposite to the same no pretence though never so colourable will absolue their doing from guilt of notorious disloyaltie who contrarie to their allegeance do abandon the King in a right of his inheritance allowed by God and as if that abuse were too litle most vnnaturally do abette against him an out-landish Prelate in a most vnlawfull claime by meare forgerie at first vsurped and euer since by force and fraud supported and maintained Were it that the State made for it and with fire and faggot did seeke to establish it as a signet meet for Sions right hand as heretofore it hath done their fault would appeare the lesse and they the more excusable by how much death is of that terrible aspect and hath so grim and ghastly a looke with it that it is enough to quaile the courage of a right stout champion euen in a right good cause as we have experience of the same in Peter Matth. 26. But sith that by the positiue law of the land it is now cleane put downe and as a bastard brat of Babylon banished the Countrie we may iustly proclaime them for ministers of Antichrist that in heart vndutifully wish and by wicked practises audaciously attempt or vnder hand couertly but craftily broake the restoring of it among vs againe Wisedome would they did looke about them and be sure before they take so maine a leape lest lighting against the rocke of perdition they be crushed to peeces with the fall For how light account soeuer they make of the matter Saint Paul doth not slightly sentence it as pettie trespasse or veniall offence but censureth it deeply as a damnable sinne for subiects to spurne against the superiour powers as through their sides thrusting at God himselfe whose ordinance they be and whose roome next and immediatly vnder him they do by speciall assignement from him occupie And if so grieuous a penaltie as the Apostle threatens be to be inflicted vpon such as resist the common Magistrate abusing his power to protect idolatry and to root out the name of Christ and his Gospell as the Emperours then being heathen did how do not they deserue the vttermost rigor of hell torments that withstand their godly and christian King employing the authoritie giuen him of God to Gods glory and to the benefit of the people committed to his charge They would thinke much to be conycacht in any worldly businesse they take in hand though neuer so triuiall How happeneth then that they let themselues be thus sensibly gulled in a case of greatest moment importing no lesse then their bodies and soules be worth They are surely bewitched else they wold neuer either by perswasion be inueigled or by allurement entised or by violence enforced to such an impietie as to leaue their duety to the King which God by expresse charge hath imposed vpon them and to cleane vnto the Pope as a superiour commander whom God hath inscoffed with no such priuiledge The Scripture hath foretold of Antichrist that he indeed would aspire vnto such an estate and in processe of time should atchieue it and for a certaine space hold it till God put in the heart of Kings to call for their owne againe Reuel 17. and with one accord and ioynt consent to pull the beast downe as fast as euer they set him vp as already in part we see come to passe But for any person to whom Kings by Gods appointment should submit their swords and scepters and may lawfully neither draw the one nor weild the other but at his becke and liking onely they may assoone find a man in the Moone as such a one assigned there Let them then take heede I aduise them how to picke a thanke and curry fauour with the Pope they incurre the displeasure of the King lest fearing to be beate with a paper rod they procure themselues a whipping with quicke Scorpions lest flying a painted smoke they run

headlong into a hot burning fire and shunning an imagined Scylla fall ouer helmet and crest into an essentiall Charybdis For assuredly as the Popes blessing when it is at the best and poured out in his fuliest horn is scarce worth a good shoebuckle so his curse though with bell booke and candle is but as a fillip or fleabiting in effect whereas disobedience to the King doth bring the offenders to vndoubted ruine as here for the present so eternally in the world to come Spem pretio non emam Sannio in Terence as simple as he was yet would not buy a pig in a poke according to the prouerb for so he knew he might haply be cheated and disburse his money to his owne disaduantage But these be so sottish nay stupid that they sticke not wilfully to aduenture all their wealth temporall and eternal in a ship that hath a maine breach in the bottome and so is no sooner lanched out from the shore into the deepe but it sinkes streight and is sure to miscarie without hope of remedy They might do far better and shew more discretion a great deale to answer the Popes solliciters in that wicked motion as Demosthenes did the harlot Lais in another vnreasonable demand Tanti poenitere non emo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We list not buy a rue-bargaine so deare He hath good lucke if he run not into forfeiture that seals an obligation and neuer takes notice of the condition he may well come to beshrew himselfe and sit downe with losse that strikes hands before he be throughtly made acquainted with the match he is not like to win the game that playes his cardes at randon as they be dealt without so much as looking whether he followeth sute or no And are not they worthy to perish with Antichrist that embrace his tyrannicall vsurpation as a chiefe article of their Creed and therefore not onely inwardly to be assented vnto In their Cases of conscience the 55. Article but openly to be professed though death ensue before they haue well searched whether it be proportionable to the analogy of faith expressed in the Scriptures the onely authentical and self-complete rule of all true Catholicisme It will not serue their turne before God to say such and such learned men so informed vs no more then it did the Iewes which gaue their voices to Christs crucifying that the Scribes and Pharisees and high Priest had induced them so to do They would be loth to cut their coate after anothers measure or to bespeake their shooes by anothers last for so they might be made either too straite and wring them or ouer wide and not fit them What maruell then if they stray from the right faith who frame their iudgement to the opinion of other of knowledge perhaps profound enough and neuer examine whether it be answerable to the platforme of sound doctrine Truth is not pinned to the schoole doores nor tyed to the girdle of great Clearkes but is confined onely within the limits of the holy Scripture And as no gold was accounted holy without the Temple so there is no doctrine to be reckoned Catholicke but what hath his warrant and ground there If all that take vpon them the name of Teachers in the Church were ipso facto inspired of God and Orthodoxall the danger were not so great nor the caution so needfull but since all is not gold that glistereth nor euerie one that pretends well intends well but there be swarmes of false Prophets abroad in the world such as can say one thing and thinke another carrie bread in the one hand and a stone in the other such as in painted boxes for whosesome Triacle sell ranke poyson vnder a pleasant baite hide a deadly hooke and vpon counterfeit mettall set a right stampe Scorpions that haue amiable faces but stinging tailes Crocodiles that vnder teares can shrowd treason Virgilian Sinons Dicebant bene sed mente alta praua struebant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a metaphor taken from foundations of houses which are laid deepe Epicharmus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cicero that vnder a smooth tale can bring in a Troian horse Homericall hypocrites that can speake well but dissemble deeply doubtlesse in matters of Religion especially in this controuersed point of highest consequence they cannot be ouer-cautelous and circumspect And truly hence it is that we daily see so many ouerseene and seduced because they practise not the precept of the wittie Poet in being mistrustfull nor follow the counsell of the sententious Orator in not being ouer-credulous nor take warning of the Diuine both Euangelist and Apostle in not beleeuing euerie spirit 1. Iob. 4. Wherefore I reade them as they tender their owne welfare and soules health not to suffer themselues longer like hooded hawkes to be caried blindfolded they wot not whither as Solomons foole was led to the stockes Prouerb 7. but to trie before they trust and not to follow the opinion of any man how Encyclopaedian soeuer Nullius addicti iurare in verba magiftri till they haue throughly sisted and bolted it and by due proofe and disquisition found it to be floure not bran good ware not raffe In which behalfe forasmuch as the small Tract following promiseth to minister no small furtherance vnto them it shall not be amisse without longer prologue or further prefacing to referre them vnto it Onely I request them to peruse it with indifferencie all factious affection set aside and then in Gods name let them iudge and doe as they see cause I can but perswade it lieth in them whether they will yeeld or no. In the meane while good Reader I bid thee heartily farewell At Stainton in the streete in the Bishopricke of Durrham Nouemb. 5. Ann. 1618. Thine in Christ Iesus Tho. Ingmethorpe The summe of this Sermon for memorie sake may be abstracted into this Tetrastich ACtum est de Papa perijt suprema potestas Quam supra Reges vendicat ensiferos Diuina siquidem Scriptura teste bicornem Constituit Mitram post Diadema Deus In English ALas for you Sir Pope Your supreme powre proues voide To Kings 't is due by right Whom long it hath annoide A SERMON VPON THE WORDS OF SAINT PAVL Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers Rom. 13.1 OF all doctrinall positions set abroach in the schoole of Antichrist men brethren and fathers well beloued in the Lord there is not a more erroneous paradoxe estranged nay abhorrent from all both diuine and humane literature then that which giues the Bishop of Rome preheminence ouer Kings and Emperours Innocent 3. in decretal aduanceth the Pope in state aboue the Emperour as much as the Sunne in brightnesse surmounts the Moone and as gold in value exceeds lead Gelas dist 95. Howbeit as among the Philosophers there was not an opinion so absurd but there were euer some auditors as absurd to entertaine it so as harsh an assertion as this

is and vnsauourie yet there want not euen amongst vs Christians who intoxicated with the cup of Babylonish inchantment not onely not distaste the same as vncatholicke but as truly Orthodoxall approue of it and embrace it and that with such resolution of minde and heate of affection that many stick not in defence thereof to venture goods lands liuing and libertie and some more desperate then the rest Like the Donatists who for their errors credits sake wilfully made thēsclues away Aug. cpist 50. ad Bonif. to lose their liues For the better informing therefore of mens iudgements and consciences in that behalfe I haue thought it opereprecious for the present and worth the while to trauell somewhat in that argument and to let them see vnlesse they hoodwink and blindfold themselues for the nonce that Kings and Princes by Gods ordinance are constituted supreme Gouernors of their dominions without subordination or dependance to any earthly superiour and the soueraigne power which the bishop of Rome claimeth ouer them to be meerely transcendent Antichristian vniust and vsurped A string more then needful to be harped on in these Iesuited cayes wherein traitors go for martyrs and rebelliō against Princes doth maske vnder the vizar and is enameled with the specious name of Catholicke deuotion And for this purpose I haue purposely singled out and chosen for my Text the parcel of Scripture euen now proposed as promising much that way For indeed it containeth an absolute rule briefly setting downe both the subiect from whom and the obiect to whom subiection is due Which two points duly debated and discussed it will euidently appeare among other wholesome documents whether of right is aboue or vnderling to other the ciuill Magistrate or the Pope and consequently who do better or be more to blame in the title of Supremacie we who stand for the King against the Pope or our vnnaturall countrymen who take part with the Pope against the King The King of Kings grant that in the audience of Christian subiects I may not without fruite intreate of so important prositable and necessarie a Subiect And first touching the parties liable to subiection our Apostle declareth who they be in the words euery soule Where by soule is meant According to the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the old Testamēt for which Targhum expresly hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Leuit. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a kind of speech wherein the whole is noted by the part not the spirits of men separated from their bodies for they be either in heauen if good or if bad in hell as Scripture affirmeth and informeth vs and so without the reach of any earthly Potentate to be able to touch them but according to the figure synecdoche the soule being the nobler part of man is put for the whole man composed of soule and body A figure of speach very familiar in holy Writ and much frequented To this is annexed the particle euery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 euery soule which being a note of vniuersalitie and neither here nor elsewhere throughout the whole volume of Gods booke by any restraint of exception in this case abridged it cannot but make the proposition generall and extend vniuersally singularly to all For the persons to whom subiection is to be yeelded the Apostle likewise expresseth them by the name of higher powers whereby is signified the ciuill Magistrate in euery commō wealth of what forme of gouernment soeuer it be as the King Tres regiminis formae Monarchia Aristocratia Democratia Plato in polit Aristot l. 3. polit cap. 5. lib. 6. Ethic. cap. 16. where the state is Monarchicall the Optimates where it is Aristocraticall the people where Democraticall For it is not to be thought that Christ came to abrogate to abolish or repeale any lawfull ciuill policie formerly established but by planting therein his spirituall kindome standing especially in the motions of the heart of the Synagogue of sathan to make it the Church of God The outward administratiō wherof may well be fitted and made agree to any fashion of politicall regiment without impeachment or preiudice to the same In so much that where they meete aright a Christian commonwealth the Church are no longer to be held for two distinct bodies as iron and clay which will not sticke together but so grow into one like the sience and the stocke wherein it is graffed that they become in a maner termini conuertibiles as Logitians speake termes equiualent or as Grammarians say synonymaes words that import all one matter And of them may be verified that which Ioseph said of Pharaohs two dreames of the Kine and of the eares of corne Gen. 41. They are both one By which their combination mutual dependence the wel-being of either is not onely no whit empaired but greatly bettered and amended As may be exemplified not to instance forreine countries in this natiue and florishing Realme of ours the Lords name be praised for it And pray we incessantly and from the ground of our hearts that as he vouchsased of his goodnesse to stitch them together againe when by force of Romish tyranny they were rent asunder so now they may be wedded in a perfect and perpetuall mariage neuer to part nor be diuorced any more The seueral parcels of the account thus cast the sum of the whole in grosse by iust Arithmeticke amounteth to this much that all men of what condition or state soeuer they be do stand obliged and bound by dutie to subiect themselues in all things to the temporall Magistrate where they inhabite and conuerse without resistance A doctrine of singular consequence and to many very good vses seruiceable To giue you a taste of some of the principall and most materiall points for time will not suffer me to touch them all in particular First it ditteth vp the mouthes of Anabaptists who dreaming of an equalitie purchased by Christ disclaime all Magistracy See the Antitheses between the true Christ and the salse put forth by certaine of that crue in Transiluania especially the seuenth as a calling altogether vnlawfull for Christians to exercise As though true Christianity and Magistracy were things incompatible and as fire and water did expell one the other Whereas in very truth there is no more repugnancy between them then betweene heate light which though they be disparata distinct things and in themselues seiunct and separate yet are found to concurre well enough in eodem tertio as in the globe or body of the Sunne If Saint Paul had bene of their minde he would no doubt in this his treaty of a Magistrate haue branded it with some marke of dislike or other and not blaze it with colours of applause and approbation as he doth Neither would he so vehemently haue called for obedience vnto rulers but rather haue incensed and set the people at defiance against them To say this of Saint