Selected quad for the lemma: power_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
power_n	pastor_n	spiritual_a	temporal_a	6,645	5	9.7032	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69038	The theatre of Catolique and Protestant religion diuided into twelue bookes. Wherein the zealous Catholike may plainelie see, the manifest truth, perspicuitie, euident foundations and demonstrations of the Catholique religion; together with the motiues and causes, why he should perseuer therin. ... Written by I.C. student in diuinitie.	I. C., student in divinity.; Copinger, John, b. 1571 or 2, attributed name.; Colleton, John, 1548-1635, attributed name.	1620 (1620)	STC 4284; ESTC S115632	314,600	666

pittie towardes the poore as they haue remorse of conscience to keepe them or morall honestie to bestowe them And as for other ecclesiasticall dignities and spirituall benefices out of which the greatest liuely hoode should be deducted they saie Non sufficit nobis vobis wee haue not inoughe our selues much lesse will wee imparte any thinge vnto others hauinge such a diluge of chitts and childrē with which the countries of this ghospell doe aboūd that S. Paule should not bragge nor glorie more for begettinge children per euangelium by the gospell of Christe then they by their voluptuous gospell And soe eche of them maie saie Genui vos per euangelium I haue begotten yow by the gospel but I would to God they had gotten them spiritually as S. Paule did and not carnallie as they doe whose voluptuous gospell is Crescere multiplicare ex sanguinibus aut ex voluntate carnis sed non ex Deo nati sunt By filthie concupiscence accordinge to the will of the fleash but are not borne of God whose vnhappy and wofull of springe did robb Christ of his patrimony and did not onlie destroie the ecclesiasticall state of his church but also haue almost brought to ruine the ciuill and temporall state hauing made their inundation with which all England and Irelād are so ouerwhelmed into their neighbours possessions and territories that the boundes and banckes of these countries are not able to resiste their violent irruptions neither yet a meane contment is not able to conteine the confused and disordered multitude of their issue soe as if England either by conquest or some other course doe not appoint their habitation and dwellinge place in some other countrie as Virginia or Guiana or elce where the kingdome of great Brittanie and poore Ireland shall feele the smarte and especially the nobilitie and cheefest into whome they prie daylie seekinge by all dishonest courses to intrude into their landes and liuinges as they haue donn alreadie by suppressinge them in all those countries where this gospel tooke footing for I dare say and boldely affirme that these gospellers haue putt downe and surprised as many howses of noble men and gentlemen as monasteries and churches but it is the iust iudgment of God that these potentats and great people should feele their greatest smarte by whom they were sollicited defended and protected in this their newe gospell And that for two causes vid. libertie to liue dissolutelie without controllment of their spirituall pastors and couetousnes with greedie desire to possesse and enioye the churche liuinges which sorte of people for that they contemne all spirituall power or iurisdiction which the church ought to haue ouer them as the spiritt ouer the fleash did easilie yeald to any heretique impugninge and resistinge this spirituall power and takinge away all ecclesiasticall discipline and spirituall correction and soe they gaue them full scope to all abhominable riotousnes and wanton dissolution 4. But to retourne to my purpose that God is not displeased nor good Christians offended for buildinge churches and monasteries or other religious howses for his seruice nor the poore hindered of their releefe for anny charitable oblations or donations that the deuout christians doe bestow on the church but rather God much pleased therby and the poore releeued First 2 Reg. 7. Genes Dauid for hauinge a desire to build a temple for Godes honor was rewarded with and euerlastinge howse and a perpetuall kingdome Iacob but only for consecrating a stone to godes glorie it was said vnto him I will cause thee to encrease and multiplie The englishmen vppon their first cominge to Irelande vnder kinge henrie the 2. dedicated to the seruice of God the first land they tooke which was in the countie of Wexford and made two famous monasteries as Donbrody and Tentarom of the order of S. Bernard and haue endued thē with great and ample possessions as also many churches in that countie and in euery place where they came which was noe smale cause they had such good successe in their enterprise Henry the 5. before he tooke the warres of Fraunce in hand builded two famous monasteries by Richmounde one of the order of Carthusians and the other of Sion Nunes of the order of S. Bride eche monasterie standes one againste the other and the riuer of Themes betwixt them which he dedicated to the seruice of God whom they praised with celestiall alleluias as diuine praises which were neuer omitted either by day or by night soe that when th one would make an end the other would beginn the bells giuinge them notice therof Therfore God did prosper him soe well in those warres that he brought almost all France to his subiection and his sonne kinge Henry the 6. was crowned kinge of Fraunce at Paris beinge but xi yeares of age Yea I could recken more then a thowsand examples of the like subiecte 5. And for the releefe of the poore as the pretious ointment that Marie Magdalen bought for our Sauiours feete was not a hinderance for the poore soe whatsoeuer is giuen to further his seruice doth rather further then hinder them Is there anie countrie in Europe more charitable to the poore and more liberall to godes seruants and all other ecclesiasticall persons then Spaine and yet noe countrie more sumptuous and costlie in their churches and more deuoute and lesse sparing of any thinge they haue for the settinge foorth of godes glorie for adorninge churches and monasteries with all ornaments and implements pertaininge therunto Is there anie country in the world that can shewe such hospitales in all citties townes villadges and hamletts for the cure of the sicke and for the releefe of pilgrimes and strangers such colledges for poore virgins that be depriued of parents and frindes where they be kept and brought vpp in all honest and godly education befittinge gentle women vntill they be married vppon the cost and chardges of the colledge in euerie cittie or great towne in Spaine such confraternities being erected for all workes of mercie by which meanes all sortes of distressed persōs are reliued soe many hospitalities for cast children for whome they haue nurses to giue them sucke vpon the hospitalles charges which also giues releefe vnto them vntill they be able to helpe themselues Soe manny colledges for orphanes soe manny vniuersities for schollers as noe countrie can shewe soe manny hauinge 24. vniuersities and so manny howses of mercie that I dare saye that the howse of mercy of Lisborne doth more workes of charitie and sustaines more poore people and marryes more virgins for godes sake then all the protestante countries in Europe 6. To conclude England and Ireland cannot denie but there was better prouision for the poore before the church was destroyed then after and that the most parte of all colleges and hospitalles were builded by church men themselues Did not the faithfull bringe all their goodes vnto the Apostles Act. c. 5. to be disposed accordinge to their

his holy life Anno 1581. 7. Patricke Ohealy of the order of saint Frauncis Bishopp of Maio coming out of Spaine into Ireland no sooner landed then by the sherif and officers of that place which was at Dingell in the weast part of all Irland but he was apprehended together with a religious man of that order nobly descended call Con Ornorcke and were sent to the Contesse of Desmōd who either to currie fauour which the state of the kingdome or for feare to be ill thought of if he had dismissed them or to be impeached of any imputation or suspitiō of any conspiracy with Sr. Iames fitz Morrice then on foote reddy at that time to passe out of Gallicia in Spaine into Ireland with a supply of Spaniardes did remitt them ouer to Limerick to be presented before Mr. Iames Gould then the Queens Attourney in the Prouince as about that time also shee yelded her eldest sonne to Sr. William Drury Lord Iustice of Ireland as an hostage that he should rest himselfe secure without feare of the Earles Ioialtie fidelitie to her maiesty for yelding her sonn and heire apparent of Desmond as a pleadg and the holy Bishopp as a prisoner but as shee was carfull to continew the Earldome in her Ioynes so the other was as warrie to preserue his owne reputation and creditt in his new promotion of Lord iustice who was no les suspected to fauor the catholique religion for he was in harte and will of that profession then the other was to further rebellion Sed quis vnquam tetigit Christum Domini innocens fuit both the iustice and the contesse were frustrated of their hope deceacea●ed of their expectation Maledictus qui conf●dit in homine and thincking to possesse the fauor of the world they respected nott the fauor and iustice of God whose wisdome surpasseth the prouidence of man timidae inepta prouidentiae nostrae 8. The Earle therfore of Desmond within one month after the good Bishopp suffred was proclaimed traitor and most part of the Geraldines with their followers in a serious conflict betwixt themselues and the English of whome Sr. Nicholas Malby was Cheeftaine were ouerthrowen and putt to flight at the Abbay of Bertiff in Irish called Eanighbegg within 7. miles of L●mericke weastward and that most noble ancient howse which was the only strenght and Bulwarcke for the Crowne of England it dangerous seasons of that kingdome heertofore is nowe altogether extinguished And the Lord Iustice continewed no longer in his new dignitie then one month after the Bishopps execution which was the space of time that he challenged the Lorde Iustice to answer before the dreadfull throne of God for their innocent blood I meane of him and his followe and for their vniust iudgment which was that they should be executed by Marshall law wherfore they were deliuered to a band of soldiors their handes being tide behind their backs and their feete with roppes vppon garrans of whome they were cruelly entertained al the way vntil they came to Kilmalocke a towne distant 12. miles from Limericke where they were hanged vppon trees the foolish cruell soldiors a whole senight after their death for they were not permitted all that time to be buried made butts of their carcases to shutt and leuill att them with their bullets calllng them by the name of papists traitors idolators Immediatly after their execution the said L. iustice sickned in the campe and ended his life at Waterfoord crieng out vpon those blessed martirs whome he had putt to death but one moneth before 9. Derby Ohurley Archbishopp of Cashall doctor of both lawes and professor of that facultie in the vniuersitie of Rheames in Fraunce vnder Cardinall Guise Archbishopp of the same was taken in Ireland and cast into a darck Dungeon in the Castle of Dublin and being sore vexed with this vgly prison and pensiue restrainct was more vexed and tormented by an vsuall and exquis●●t torment of bootes full of boylling oile and talloe into which he was cōpelled to putt his legges already wearied with heauie bolts and to stād by a great fire with which his flesh was consumed vnto the bare bones all which he endured with great patience and constancy And afterwardes when by that torment he could not be won●e nor by feare and alluring promisses of vncertaine and deceitfull promotion could nott be inueigled to relent or to faint in the profession of the catholique religion or to embrace the protestant negatiue religion was vpon fridaie morning in the dawning strāgled with a wyth in the moneth of May 1584. and so suffred a blessed martirdome and enioieth a blessed crowne 10. Redmond Ma-Goran primat of Ardmagh was slaine in Conaght by Sr. Richard Bingham Anno 1598. Redmond Ogulloglior Bishopp of Derry being almost 100. yeers of age and 50. yeers a Bishopp was with 3. prie●ts about midnight slaine in his owne howse neere Derry by the garrison of Log hefoile thorough the craft and drift of one Sr. Neyle Garrath Odonel who afterwards falling into disgrace with the English was impeached and arraigned for taking part with Odohirtyes conspiracy and was comitted together with his sonne prisoner in the owner of london anno 1600. Morihirtagh Obrien Bishopp of Emly being apprehended was cast into the castle of Dublin where through penurie and straightnesse of his restraint he died in the yeare 1586. 11. Peers Power Bishoppe of Fearnes being taken and apprehended was cast into the castle of Dublin who either through the frailtie of the flesh or through the extremity of his restraint or els through the deceitfull promisses of temporall promotions yelded to the supremacy of the Queene in the spirituall iurisdiction of the church which being once granted he destroied all articles of our catholique beleefe and therfore he was sett at libertie But being afterwardes sore amased and strocken with an inward sorrow for being so weake and so inconstant in a point so highly importing the increase and honor of christian religion and consequently our saluation retourned like another Marcellinus vnto the place where he fell and where he gaue so vild a scandall deplored his fall and greeuously lamented his errors and so he was hardlier dealt with all then euer before but after long imprisonment and much affliction through godes prouidence he made an escape and fled into Spaine the common support and sanctuary of al distressed catholiques where he died with great probation of a blessed and constant catholique Bishopp 12. Richard Creogh natiue of the cittie of Limericke in the prouince of Munster in Ireland descended of welthie and honest parents of an auncient familie in that cittie who notwithstanding he imploied the prime of his youthfull dayes in the trade of marchandice yet he profitted more in the spirituall exercise of deuotion and pietie then he did in the acquiring of riches and wordly designementes And after some worldly losse went beyond the seas where he gaue himselfe to the studdy of vertue

prayers soe shee ordained certaine dayes and certaine tymes of fastinge not without significant misteries correspondent to euerie time 4. Also she hath made a prohibition of certaine meates to tame the wantones and exorbitāt luste of our fleashly inclinations disposinge and impellinge the spiritt to yeld vnto her consent aswell by the suggestion of Sathan as her owne delectation and so to make our poore soule which otherwise ought to be the harbenger to intertaine the inspiration of the holy ghost to receaue the suggestion of the diuil her filthy delectation she I say hath prohibited certaine meates therby to deliuer the spiritt from the stinge of the filthie motions of concupiscence and sensualitie and to humble the same vnto the lawe of God and rule of reason Aug. cont Faust Manich. Psal 34. S. Augustine saith the church doth with great reason abstaine from certaine meates certaine tymes as Dauid cum mihi molesti essent c. when those carnall motions did vexe me I did weare haire cloathe and did humble my soule with fastinge S. Paule when he was attatched with these carnall motions he praied vnto God three tymes 2. Cor. 6. Gal. 5. he chastised his bodie and yet he was the elected vessell of God And in another place he said let vs exhibit ourselues as the ministers of God in watchinges fastinges and chasticements for such saith he as are the members of Christ they crucifie the flesh with the vices and concupiscence thereof Matt. 9. Luc 5. Act. 13. our Sauiour also said that notwithstanding the Apostles should be replenished with the holie ghoaste yet they should fast He said also that certaine diuills are so terrible to offend Matt. 7. and soe dreadfull to tempte vs that they cannot be ouercome but by fastinge and praier and therfore the Angell said vnto Tobias Daniel 9 that praier with fastinge is good and Daniell by fastinge did prophesie soe many things to come of the militant churche 5. He is a bad patiēt that doth not abstaine from certaine meates certaine times accordinge to the rule and prescripte order of his corporall phisition concerninge his bodilie disease and is not he a bad christian that doth not obey the comaundemēt of the church his ghostlie phisition touchinge the spirituall sicknesse of the soule and yet such is the protestant who is soe fleashlie giuen that he would not abstaine his carnall appetites from fleash vpon good friday A certaine Irishman beinge sent ouer by the Lord deputie of Ireland to a great noble man in England with grehounds the said noble man hauinge asked of him what meate those grehounds were wont to eate and the man hauing told him certaine distinctions of meate the noble man said that by that obseruarion of diett they were papists doggs the Irishman said they were as good protestants doggs as any were in all Ingland for said he they will not refraine from any flesh vppon good fridaie Amb. lib. de Helici iciun Cyp. de iciun tentat Hier. li. 1. Wherein these heretiques imitate Aerius who would not haue the christians to obserue any time of fastinge as S. Epiphanus said and therfore by him and others condemned for an heretique as also Iouinian for that occasion was condemned for an heretique by S. Hierome 6. But wee ought not to transgresse the the bondes and decrees of our auncestors and elders therfore wee ought not to followe Luther who said he would not faste because as he said the Pope biddeth the same But it is the discipline and custome of the vniuersall church to fast the lent Hieron Epip de consecrat dub 5. Can. 68.19 Mogunt cap. 35. Tollet 8. cap. 9. the aduents the eues of the Apostles and fridaies and Saterdaies and this from the begining So the Canons of the Apostles doe teach and holie councells as Gangrense Mogunt and the councell of Tollet which excommunicated all such as would despise the ecclesiasticall constitutions touchinge fasting or that without ineuitable necessitie should eate flesh in lent time the prophett confirminge the same Ioel. 2. solemnize and institute a faste wherin the christians ought to obey beleue the church according to the saying of S. Athanasius who hath thies wordes If anny will come and say vnto yow S. Athan. lib ad Virgines post initiū doe not fast often least yow should be more feble and weake doe not beleeue them nor harcken vnto them for the enemie of mankinde doth make an instrument of them to whisper and suggest thies thinges remēber that which is written when the 3. children Daniell and other were brought in captiuity by Nabuchodonosor kinge of Babilon it was comaunded that they should eate of the meate that was prepared for the kinges bord and that they should drincke of his wyne Daniell and the other 3. boies would not be polluted or defiled with the kinges table but they said vnto the euenuche who had charge of them giue vnto vs of the rootes of the earth vnto whome the euenuch said I feare the king which ordained and appointed meate for yow least that your countenāce should appeare and seeme more leane and pale then that of the other boies which are fedd at the kings boord and soe should punish me vnto whome they did saie trie your seruants tenn dayes and giue vnto vs of the rootes of the earth and he gaue vnto them pulse to eate and water to drinke and brought them before the kinge and they seemed more beautifull then the other boyes which were nourished by that kings royall meate Doe yow see what fastinge doth it heales diseases and drieth distillations of the bodie it chaseth awaie diuills expelleth wicked thoughts makes the mind clearer it purifies the hart it sanctifies the bodie it bringes a man into the throne of God and least that yow should thincke that this is rashlie spoken you haue testimonies of this in the ghospell pronounced by our Sauiour when the disciples did aske how vncleane spiritts should be cast forth our Lord did answere this kind is not cast forth but by praiers and fasting therfore fasting is the food of Angells and whosoeuer vseth the same he is thought to be of an angelicall order thus farr S. Athanasius Whether the Protestant assertion be true which affirmeth that generall councells can erre CHAPTER I. 1. WHen anie controuersie either of state or the publike weale doth rise in any comōwelth the princes with all the state thereof assemble together and whatsoeuer is ennacted and decreede by them the rest of the subiectes must obserue and obey the same Soe in any controuersie of religion when the cheefe pastors and prelates of the church who haue more power and authoritie of God then all the princes of other common wealthes beinge assisted by his blessed spiritt whatsoeuer they haue decreede for the good of the churche and the weale publike of Christendome their subiectes if they be of Christe his flocke ought to submitt

are lawfull for the kinge to doe vnto whome the said Antigonus made aunswere Vnto tirannicall and barbarous Princes such thinges are lawfull but vnto vs nothinge is lawfull but that which is honeste 3. This is the difference betwixt the good kinge and the tyrant for the one is subiect to the lawes of God and nature the other is subiect to noe lawe but to his will and his passion hauinge noe respect to lawe conscience faith or iustice The one doth respect cheefly the good of the weale publique the other his owne priuate comoditie the one doth enriche his subiects by all the best meanes he can the other doth impouerish them with all extorsion and imposition The one doth reuenge the iniurie don vnto God the comon wealth and pardones his owne proper iniurie the Tyrant doth the contrarie and doth reuenge his owne quarell and forgiue the iniurie done vnto God The one endeuours to preserue loue and amitie amoungest his subiects the other doth sowe dissentions and factions amoungest them to destroy them and by their destruction to enriche himselfe with the confiscation of their goodes The one makes great accompt of the loue of his subiects the other euer groundes himselfe in the hatred of his subiectes The one doth search the best and the most vertuous to bestowe offices and promotions on them the other doth bestowe them vppon the wickeddest people he can gett The one is a pastour to feede his subiectes the other i● a woulfe to destroy them 4. But to come to my purpose that it is not lawfull for kinges to doe what it pleaseth them the verie heathens haue obserued the conrrarie Zonarus tomo 2. in Traiano Traian the Emperor when he gaue the sword to the Pretor of Rome said these wordes If I shall comaund anny thinge that is lawfull or iuste vse this sword for me if otherwise I shall bid or comaund anny thinge against iustice vse it against me The kinges of Aegipt did cause their magistrates to sweate not to obey them but in thinges lawfull the same did Phillipp the beautifull kinge of France and Antigonus the 3. who comaunded his presidentes and magistrates that they should not execute his comaundement though it were signed with his owne hande vnles it were iust lawfull It is an ould prouerbe Melius est imperium in quo nihil licet quam imperium in quo mihi liceat It is better to be vnder his gouernment where the lawe giues noe scope then vnder his where all thinges are lawfull without any restrainte 5. And for their spiritual comaunde S. Gregorie Nazian doth admonishe thē you saith he that are sheepe aske not to feede your pastors Orat. 17. ad Ciues timore percusso● neither intermidle in things that pertaines not vnto your charge doe not iudge your iudges nor prescribe lawes to your law giuers if yow will haue me to be plaine with yow for the lawe of Christe hath made you my subiectes and referred you to my tribunall and that yow are sheepe of my flocke Chrysost de verbis Isa Homil. 40 And therfore S. Chisostome willed kinges to containe themselues within their limittes for the boundes of priest-hoode is distinguished from the boundes limittes of kinges for that of priest-hoode is more then that of kinges for the kinges power exceedes not temporall thinges but the power of priest-hoode came from heauen the kinge hath the charge of our bodyes but the priest hath to deale with our soules L●ciferius Bishop of Caler saith these wordes What power haue you speakinge of Pr●nces of Bishopps which if you shall not obey by the sentence of God alreadie giuen you shal be condemned S. Iohn Damascen saith that Princes haue nothinge to doe in Church matters for that their office is not to gouerne ecclesiasticall state and therfore S. Paule saith Nescitis quod Angelos iudicabimus multo magis secularia Doe you not know that wee shall iudge Angells much more seculer thinges 6. The inconuenience of this is declared by two examples of a politicke courtier and a religious christian Ecebolus Sophist was maister to Iulian the Apostate and much esteemed of him this polititian in the gouernment of Constantius did frame himselfe a christian to conforme himselfe to the Emperors humour when the said Constantius became an Arian heretique the said Sophiste tourned his coat also Againe when Iulian the Apostate was Emperor denied his faith became an infidle the said Ecebolus became also an infidle afterwards when Iulian died and Iouinian also that a most deuout and godly Catholique succeeded Iulian Ecebolus like the Cameleon did conforme himselfe to the newe Emperor cast him selfe at the Church doore crauing pardon of the Christians Lib. 3. c. 11 as Socrates saith A liuely representation of the polititians of this time of whome Iouinian the Emperor said Socrat. li. 3.21 that they worshipp not God but the Prince 7. The other example is of Cesarius who as his brother S. Gregorie Nazianzen saith beinge honoured with great offices and promotions of the said Iulian and for that he would not forgoe his religion beinge a Catholique he was disfauoured of the said Iulian and forsakinge the worlde and the fauor of the Emperor did set little by all wordly promotion and credit of the Emperor in respect of the Catholique religion This example of Cesarius doth represent vnto vs a fine Catholique and the other of Ecebolus a fine Polititian of these our dayes Wherefore if wee endeuour to followe the Princes Religion as often the kinge doth change the same soe often wee must alsoe change ours and soe wee make of the Prince a God and forsake the liuinge God That the protestant religion whose principall foundation and groundes are these articles aforesaid is nothinge else then a denyinge of all Religion and pietie and a renewinge of all heresies CHAPTER I. 1. CAluine in his institutions saith Inst li. 4.14.7.15 that S. Augustine of all antiquitie is the best faithfullest wittnes Aug. to 6. ab haeresibus 82. but he enrolled your Patrons amoungest old heretiques as Iouinian Vigilantius Aerius Aquarios Armenians Nouatians Pepusians Pheudapostles Euuomians Pelagians and Donati●tes Iouinian the Moncke saith that fastinge or abstinence are of noe worthe He destroied also the virginitie of the blessed Virgin affirming that shee lost her virginitie when shee was deliuered of Iesus and said that continencie in Virgins and religious people was noe better then matrimonie and soe certaine Virgins beinge at Rome vpon this heresie did marrie by which saith S. Augustine was comitted a prodigious thinge and was extinguished so represently that it did not gett footinge amoungest other priestes 2. S. Ierom exclaimed against Vigilantius vsinge these wordes It is a sacrilege to heare what the filthie fellowe calls vs ashmoungers and idolaters for that wee reuerence dead meanes bones which he ment by the reliques of the holie Sainctes And the said S. Ierom writes that he denyed