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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

reproue euen Princes as Elias did Achab Nathan Dauid Iohn Baptist Herod but by any corporall chastisement to discipline the meanest subiect much lesse by strong hand and force of armes to reclaime Princes and will they nill they to reduce them to order if they go astray whom God hath reserued to his owne iudgement a punishment no doubt seuere enough the Priest by the resolution of Gods word is not onely not permitted but flatly inhibited so to do What words then can serue to vtter the hugenesse the length breadth depth and thicknesse of the indignity and wrong which the Bishop of Rome of long time hath and still doth offer vnto Christian Princes who if they humour him not in euery thing he would haue tend it neuer so directly to the dishonour of God the destruction of the Christian faith the annoying of their State and peoples ouer whom God hath set them makes no more ado but depriues them streight of their regal dignity assoiles their subiects from their allegiance and if they be not strong enough to make their party good and effectuate his proiects The Pope can fish best in troubled water irritates forreine Princes to inuade their dominions vpon compact to weare them if they can win them knowing like a crafty foxe that ambitious Princes as fish with baite are easie to be caught by such compositions Certainly if Tully himselfe were now liuing who for eloquence bare the bel in all the world he could not with al his Rhetorical colours paint it out sufficiently nor with figures of passiō condignely vociferate exclaime and inueigh against it Were there not of the Kings of Israel and Iuda as the Spirit of God vpbraideth diuers of them that were sold vnto wickednesse and deuoted to idolatry yet in the bookes of Kings and Chronicles you shall not find one Priest recorded that euer attempted the like against any one of them so long as that kind of gouernment was afoote After the coming of Christ and irradiation of the Gospell of the Emperours that reigned some were infidels some tyrants some heretickes some apostataes and yet neither the Apostles for their time nor their successors for many ages after did either offer to rebell themselues or incited others to take armes against them If they will not trust me so far yet I dare say they will giue credit to Othe Frisingensis who was neither Lutheran nor Caluinist but Historian of their owne Thus he writeth I haue read ouer and ouer the gests of the Romane Kings and Emperours and I find none of them before Henrie the fourth Emperour excommunicated by the Bishop of Rome or depriued of his kingdome This deed was done by Hildebrand aliàs Gregorie the seuenth a thousand yeares good after Christ And was there none of all his predecessors thinke you no not one all that while that either knew his duty or would performe it sauing Hildebrand onely that furious and sacrilegious monster But in him and this exploit of his if all be true which men of his owne time and religion historifie of him is verified the old prouerb Similes labris lactucae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dignū patella operculum Like lips like lettuce sory crow sory egge such a couer such a cup I meane like act like author such a stratageme such a contriuer the one wicked the other impious the one sathanicall the other diabolicall Fie of that Papall and more then Pharisaicall presumption that of a Bishop vnder a Prince should not onely aspire and take vpon him to be a Prince among Princes but counts himselfe disparaged and iniuried if he be not suffered to rule the roast by himselfe alone as Lord paramount ouer all Princes He boasteth himselfe for Christs Vicar and Peters successor but this beastly and Lucifer-like pride ministers strong suspition if not assurance that he is neither but rather that man of sinne and sonne of perdition 2. Thess 2. forespoken of by Saint Paul that should exalt himselfe aboue all that is called God for so are Princes I said Psal 82. ye are Gods Oh that it would please God at length to illuminate the eyes of our moderne Princes that they may see their owne right and giue them courage that they be no longer afraid of that Romane chough to take from him these feathers of theirs which he guilefully but wrongfully hath embezeled and purloyned away from them The power which the Kings of the earth giue to Antichrist shall at length recuile againe to the right owners Antichrist confounded implumed himselfe withall Wel some such thing there is intimated in the Apocalyps which thogh it hath not so speedy an accomplishment as we could wish yet we may ascertain our selues that in due time as God in his infallible cousaile hath determined it shall come to passe And as Dalila serued Sampson so shall they shaue off his furtiue lockes bereaue him of his triple Crowne strip him out of his imperiall prerogatiues reuenues and eschetes and make like another Bishop Heauen and earth shall passe but no title no iota of Gods word shall by any engines neuer so politicke neuer so potent be frustrated or defeated Which being so as ye see cannot be gainesaid The diuell and his spirit of rebellion do possesse the hearts of these men and itch to come into their fingers and will not leaue them I thinke till by some disciplinary exorcisme more then ordinarie they be coniured out O Lord how feareful is the case of those countrimen of ours who vpon the Popes warrant a strange proud Italian Priest make no bones nor conscince not onely to disobey their gracious and liege Soueraigne but by plots and practises to take away his life and to disinherite him of that portion of the earth which God hath entailed to him and his for euer for the preseruation of his Church and continuation of his Gospell amongst vs as for his owne part both by sword and pen he hath hitherto done to the admiration of all Christendome and we do verily trust in God wil perseuere in that resolution he and his hopefull progeny after him to the worlds end What do they thinke the Popes dispensation will excuse their doing from vndutifulnesse Alas Alas that is no armour of proofe but being made of no better stuffe then thin browne paper is not able to beare out the last shot that Gods word doth discharge against so grosse and heathenilsh an impietie But at this time Lord that men not banished from their wits should so foolishly and wilfully build the bulwarke of conscience vpon so fickle a ground and sandy a foundation and hang the state of their soules vpon so rotten a pin onely to kill them with their owne weapon their owne sword they crake much of their Thomas Aquinas the very Atlas indeed that beares on his shoulders the heauen or hell rather of their Schoole-diuinitie but as seemeth they study him but lightly and to halfes else

they would neuer so confidently affie and repose themselues vppon the Popes dispensation in that case For he plainly auoucheth one where of the law of nature that it is vnchangeable and in another place of the commandements of the morall law of God that they are indispensable Now who knowes not that the dutie of a subiect towards his Prince is both deriued from the law of nature and also prescribed by the fift precept of the Decalogue So that by their owne Angelicall Doctors iudgment which I am sure they wil not for any good go about to impeach the subiects dutie toward his Prince is inuiolate and past dissoluing Do they beare themselues vpon the Popes excommunicating of the King That plaister is too narrow for the sore too For by that Ecclesiasticall censure a man is made but as an heathen Sicut Ethnicus Mat. 18. not worse then an heathen Now it is manifest that heathen Princes ought to haue obedience exhibited vnto them as the Apostles Peter and Paul do precisely enioyne therefore such as be excōmunicated ought not to be debarred of the same neither Besides it is a case ouerruled by the ioynt consent of their owne Doctors for the most part Excommunication is not auaileable to vnloose the naturall bond of duty which seruants children wiues do owe vnto their maisters fathers and husbands much lesse thē to breake that great knot and as it were adamantine chaine wherin subjects as the childrē of the great family which we call the common-wealth are linked indissolubly to their great father that by excommunicatiō neither the seruant nor the sonne nor the wife be discharged from the bond of dutie wherein they are seuerally tyed to their maister father and husband but the subiect doth owe the same if not more dutie to his Prince as who hath his life in his hands which neither the maister hath ouer his seruant nor father ouer his sonne nor the husband ouer his wife therfore the Popes excōmunication of the King were it currant as it is counterfeit blanke annullest is no sufficient discharge to acquite his subiects from their homage fealty towards him O that my voice were as loud shrill as a bell that I might righ these things in the deafe eares of that Adders brood that viperous generation our refractarie Papists who to restore the worthily ab●ndoned vsurpation of the Bishop of Rome care not how they vilifie the Maiestie and deface the authoritie of their soueraigne Lord the King counting it no breach of loyaltie but a most iust and honorable exploit nay a meritorious act before God for any brother of their confraternity by any meanes of open assault or priuie conspiracy to ruine him and his Estate whereas if euery haire of their head were a life they ought of right to affoord them at his command and in his defence In this diuellish and damned resolution equalling if not surpassing the very heathen which knew not God The Conclusion All this notwithstanding if there be any here so bankrupt of grace so destitute of the Spirit of God so bereft of reason and sense The vlcer of Babylon is incurable as to dwell still in the contrary opinion and persist to be the Popes deuoted vassals factious complices and traiterous heretiques I call heauen earth to record this day that I haue blowne the trumpet and giuen them faire warning I haue done what lieth in me to retire them from their wicked course their bloud be vpon their owne heads The authority wherwith God hath inuested Princes and the Popes vsurped power cannot stand together but as in a counter ballance the one scale mounting vp the other falleth downe so the more suppliant men are to the Pope the more inobedient they grow to their Prince For our selues my brethren that already haue shaken off the yoke of Popish seruitude let vs not like those Ifraelites who being in the way towards Canaan longed to be in Egypt againe make our selues thrall any more but let vs hold out without wauering and constantly proclaime all hatefulnesse and hostilitie against that Romane Pharaoh whose gouernment as our fathers to their cost and smart experimented is but tyranny his doctrine Antichristianitie his deuotion superstition his religion the seede of rebellion his discipline disorder and enormitie and his life iniquity Let vs I say abomine and abandon him as the sworne enemy of our State And let vs liue in all true subiection and Christian obsequiousnesse to the Kings most excellent Maiestie the Lords in dubitate Annointed ouer vs. He he is the father of our Country we the children let vs honor and obey him he the Lord we the seruants let vs feare reuerence him he the shepheard we the flocke let vs be guided by him he the foundation we the building let vs relye depend on him he the roote we the branches let vs maintaine him he the head we the members let vs defend him Let vs serue him in peace let vs second him in warre let vs with vniformitie of heart tongue pray for him in both that God would deliuer him from the hands of all his enemies bodily and ghostly secret and open forreine and domestical as frequently and in miraculous manner he preserued our late Soueraigne his most gracious handmaiden queene Elizabeth of famous memorie that he may long reigne a happy a godly and an ancient Father in Israel Let vs giue most humble and most heartie thanks vnto God for him by whose meanes we enioy so many so great so inestimable benefites that the Countries round about vs haue cause to repine at vs and to waxe pale for enuie and for felicitie and all humane happinesse this Iland of ours may worthily be reputed to be the peerlesse paragō of the whole world Finally continue good Lord continue the light of thy fatherly countenance toward him for euer and toward vs his subiects the children of thy couenant that we both here in the world to come may magnifie thy goodnesse and sing vnto thy Name with thy blessed seruants and elect Angels that melodious hymne and eucharisticall encomiasticke musicke Praise and glorie and wisedome and thanks and honour and power and might be vnto our God for euermore Amen Amen To end as I began Let euery soule be subject to the higher powers

Paul shewes that Christians may be subiect to an heathen Magistrate but proues not that a Christian may play the Magistrate himselfe is no sound collection of a iudicious mind but a friuolous suggestion of a light braine for if Christians with safe conscience may be subiect to an heathen Magistrate why not rather I report me to you to one that is a Christian better qualified And if it be lawfull for a Christian to be a subiect why not a King since subiection seemeth more to preiudicate the libertie of the Gospel then to reigne beare rule Much might be said in consutation of these phantasticks but because I see they rather need to be purged for phrensie then informed by diuinitie I leaue disputing the case longer with them and at this time onely for their healths sake put thē in mind of Anticyra Naniget Anticyras where for sayling thither they may be sure of Helleborus enough to scoure their humorous braines withall And if they thinke much to be seene arriue and land there let them by my aduice hold on their course till they come to Vtopia or some such Vdemien coast For there if any where it is likely they may find entertainment and obtaine licence to erect their new fangled architecture the confused chaos and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 platforme of their turbulent and tumultuous Anarchy Sure sober and discreet Christians who besides the light of nature haue the Canon of Gods word to direct them will none of it Againe this marres the market of the Romane Clergie who chalenge an exemption from all earthly powers as a legacie bequeathed them of God by vertue of their spirituall function For whereas Saint Paul exacteth obedience of all men none of any vocation excepted as by the tenour of his speech is more then euident it argueth plainly that by the authoritie of Saint Paul which is agreed of all sides to be canonicall and authentick Clerks if they be men do owe subiection to the Magistrate no lesse then lay men The inference is not mine that ye should suspect it as new fangled and partiall It is the ancient Fathers owne of whom I haue borrowed it and from whom the Church of Rome would seeme to swarue in none of her Theoremes Chrysost hom 23. in epist ad Romanes and proceedings Chrysostome in his 23. Homily vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes out of the same words now in hand maketh the same deduction that by that generall precept of the Apostle all are concluded vnder subiection to the Magistrate Priests to vse his owne terms as wel as secular men Theophyl in cap. 13. epist ad Romanos Theophylact as he traceth the footsteps of Chrysostome in most of his expositions so in this he iumpeth iust with him and followeth him to a haire To whom subscribeth Theodoret In cap. 13. ep ad Rom. In Epist ad Roman Epist lib. 3. cap. 100. neither doth Oecumenius vary from them Pope Gregory the first maketh vp a part in the same harmony howsoeuer the later Popes sing the cleane contrarie note But it is no newes to heare Popes contradict one another the Musicke of the Papacie is compact almost if not altogether of such discords which make a melody fit for hell and Diuels to daunce by the measures thereof Saint Bernard though he saw not all things Ad Senoneos Arcbiepiscop epist 42. about the yeare 1140. by reason of the blindnesse of his time wherewith he was ouerwhelmed as he is taxed in the Prouerb Bernardus non vidit omnia yet as thicke as the mist was he could descry this interpretation for true through it and not onely condescended to it himselfe but laboured by strong perswasion to possesse others also and that Eugenius a Bishop of Rome himselfe amongst the rest with apprehension of the same And if these gray haires these old Fathers had all held their peace the case is so clearely resolued in holy Scripture and by practise of the Church so abundantly ratified and confirmed that none but such as haue lost their eies or wilfully close them against the light of apparent proofe can chuse but see it To beginne with the Priests of the old Testament that they were euer subiect to the Prince and vnder his Coram nobis it is frankly and freely confessed by Doctors of their owne that I shall not need to spend any time nor to bestow any paines about the further prouing of that point And for the Gospell that by it the state of Princes was neither abated nor altered but remained still the same it was before and so the Princes hand no more restrained from his Clergy then from his other subiects it may also by many manifest testimonies of the new Testamēt vnauoidably be euinced You cannot be ignorant how that Christ charged the Scribes and high Priests as well as others will all duty to Caesar the right and interest of God which in all things and at all times and of all persons ought to be foreprised and kept inuiolate safe reserued And for his owne part when he was conuented arraigned and condemned by the Romane Magistrate Ioh. 19. though but a deputie he was so farre off from excepting against him as one that transgressed the bounds went beyond the limits of his authority in medling with him both a Priest and a Prophet that he dutifully submitted himselfe vnto his will ingenuously agnized his power ouer him to be from heauen notwithstanding his iudgement against him was most iniurious and wrongfull And if Christ had freed his Apostles from the iurisdiction of the Magistrate would Saint Paul think you wittingly haue forfeited and betraied his right Act. 25. when of his owne accord he appealed to Cesar and made his personall appearance and apologie before his tribunall seate vnrequired No no it is well knowne Saint Paul was of that puissant spirit and vndanted courage that rather then he would haue so done he would haue incurred vndergone any euen the sharpest penaltie yea though he had bene thereunto by authoritie vrged and prouoked And whom I pray doth Saint Peter warne 1. Pet. 2. to submit themselues vnto the King as vnto the supereminent were they not his fellow Elders as well as the rest of the faithful whom a little after he importuneth to feed the flocke of God 1. Pet. 5. As for the title of kingly Priesthood attributed by Saint Peter to the Church of Christ 1. Pet. 2. it maketh nothing against this if it be construed aright For it must not be vnderstood of the kingdoms of this world as though the Apostles meaning had bin that Priests which in former times were subiect to the King were now by meanes of the Gospell become kings within themselues and may do as they list without controulment and feare of law Dorm fol. 40. as Dorman that drowsie Endymion and his Louanian consort dreame in their sleep but the Church

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