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saint_n	bishop_n	paul_n	timothy_n	1,948	5	11.2588	5	true

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A10702	Roome for a gentleman, or The second part of faultes collected and gathered for the true meridian of Dublin in Ireland, and may serue fitly else where about London, and in many other partes of England. By Barnabe Rych souldier.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1609 (1609)	STC 20985; ESTC S115899	39,214	69

to dispence his holy mysteries amongst vs to whome wee are not onely to attribute honour but for whome wee are also bound to pray if they doe not make themselues vnworthy of it by their owne contempt by their couetousnes by their pride and by their ambition as there bee some that haue set themselues opposite to the ordinance of the Church that haue set the holy scriptures at a iarre that will many times make the glose to ouerthrow the Text that will cry out for Discipline yet will obey no Discipline that will take vpon them to teach al men yet they themselues wil not be taught that are angry against Bishoppes and would not haue them to be Lordes yet are become so Lady like themselues that they would haue euery one a new fashion particular to himselfe these are to proud in their own conceites these be they that disdaining to yeelde to authority do shew greater pride in their contempt thē the other can shew in their most ambitious desires Saint Paul writing to Timothie Hee that desireth the office of a Bishoppe that man desireth a good worke I hope the office of a Bishoppe is not altogether without authority and that authority in the Church of God is not altogether vnworthy of honour and where Christ prohibited his Disciples that they should not be caled Rabbi that they should not be called Doctors c. by the opinion of the most learned writers those words of Christ doe not condemne superiority lordship or any other like authority but the ambitious desire onely neither doth he say elsewhere that no man should be great or beare rule amongst them but his words are He that desireth to be great amongst you let him be humbled And Timothie notwithstanding those words spoken by Christ calleth himselfe the Doctor of the Gentiles and Paul in like manner writing to the Corinthians calleth himselfe their Father Now as the holy Scriptures exhorteth the professors of the Gospell to be humble meeke so we ought to render them the first title of honour and to giue thē precedence in the formost ranke especially to those that do not ambitiously desire it Loe heare now the difference betweene the Disciples of Christ and the followers of Antichrist the one refuseth the prefermēts of the world that are offered vnto them by the Deuill and contenteth themselues with their vocation in the ministery the other with the Pope accepteth of al that is offered besides their ecclesiasticall promotions they hunt after temporall iurisdictions other proud titles of the world to vphold and maintain their pride and ambition for the better manifestation whereof I thinke it will not bee out of season to remember a iest that was merily broken by a plaine Country fellow vpon one of the Popes Chaplaines the Bishoppe of Cullen who passing on a iourney sumptuously mounted and gorgeously furnished both himself and al the rest that were in his company was encountered by a rude country fellow who comming to the Bishop after hee had bluntly saluted him he saide my Lord I haue heard speaking of Peter and Paul and of some others that were reputed to be good and godly men I may well commend their goodnes but I will neuer prayse their wit for they were glad to amble about the country on foot for falling followed perhaps with some poore thred bare fellowes like themselues but I see God hath prouided for your Lordship better then for them or your wisedome is the more to prouide so well for your selfe The Bishop that heard himselfe to bee thus pretily nipt returned this answere but sirra said he you mistake your text you thinke I take more state vppon me then is befitting an Apostle but let Peter Paul goe or ride how they list I am not only the Bishoppe of Cullen but I am ouer and besides a Prince Elector and for this state that you thinke I take vpon mee as you thinke it to be too much for a Bishoppe so I know it to be too little for a prince and thus you are answered you haue answered well said the other but good my Lord but one question more if this prince Elector that you speake of do happen to goe to the Deuill for his pride what will become of my Lord Bishop of Cullen We might make the like demaund to the Pope who notwithstanding his humble p●etence to bee Seruus Seruorum Dei yet hee assumeth to himselfe the dispose of the whole world not contented with that neither but he further taketh vppon him to haue commaund both in Heauen and Hell to let in and shut out as it pleaseth him but because his intollerable pride is well inough knowne I may be the more sparing it was the bounty and liberality of princes that first begat this ambition in Popes so ambition was it again that first destroyed Religion but for the tru professors of the Gospell I protest I thinke it a sinne to carry any ill conceit against thē whose praiers vnto God doth so appease his displeasure towardes vs that hee many times forbeareth to punish vs when wee haue worthily deserued it and as the prayers of Moses did rather procure the victory against Amalecke then all the swordes that did accompany Iosua to the fight so I beleeue that the petition of one godly man deliuered with a confident zeale is of more effect then the prayers of a multitude that are but breathed in words and are rather vttered from the mouth then proceeding from the heart Hauing thus placed the Diuine in the formost rank the Souldier is next to be preferred for honor cannot be wanting in those men of valour that haue restored to their country their bloud which their conntrie first gaue vnto them if wee stand vpon birth onely then the most auncient whether in Nobility or Gentility if we stand vpon desert then the martiall man hee that doth deliuer his country from the seruitude of strangers the oppression of Tyrantes that doth countermaund the miseries of ciuill dissentions that doth restraine the pride and ambition of aspiring traitors that doth inlarge their territories defend their liberties vphold and maintaine Iustice and make honorable defence against all inuaders The Souldier is the man that holdeth the whole world in awe and is not onely a sure defence against forraine inuasions but likewise against domesticall rebellions wee need not in this case to seeke after farre fet precedents when wee haue home examples inough of our own who hath not heard of Iack Straw Iacke Cade and of Ket with many others now of later times in Ireland that if the Souldiers sworde had not beene of greater vertue then a writ out of the Kinges Bench to haue brought them before my Lord Chiefe Iustice they would neither haue made appearance nor haue paid fees I say then that the execution of Iustice lieth in Arms but me thinkes I see a Lawyer laugh at this for those that bee of the sorrier sort of Lawyers

christianlike care that euery man should haue to prouide for his family These scraping excuses are fitter for Churles then for Gentlemen and yet me thinkes Simonydes shifted himselfe pretily who being demanded why he began to grow so miserable in his latter yeares to fall a hording vp of riches when he was ready for the graue to acquit himselfe from a couetous disposition aunswered because said he I had rather haue goodes to leaue to mine enemies when I am dead then to stand in need of my friendes whilst I am aliue I cannot forget to giue Dionisius his due commendation who being aduertised of one that abounded in wealth and yet liued a sparing and a miserable life he commanded the party vpon paine of death to bring in his riches and to resigneall that euer hee had to bee disposed at his pleasure the party that durst not directly contradict what the King had commaunded made semblance to deliuer all that euer hee had but secretly reseruing a small portion to himselfe wherewith departing into a remote place hee after liued with that little pittance which he had concealed in a more bountifull manner then euer he had done before when hee was possessed of his greatest aboundance which being certified to Dionisius hee sent yet once againe for him and giuing him all which before he had taken from him he said now thou knowest how to vse riches take what is thine owne for now thou well deseruest them I might conclude that if the enioying of wealth riches be matter sufficient to make a man to be gentilized it were then a vilde thing to bee a Gentleman because they are seldome attained vnto but by oppression extortion deceit fraud such other corruption there are comprised vnder the title of Gentry all Ecclesiastical persons professing religion all Martial men that haue borne office and haue had commaund in the field all Students of Artes and Sciences and by our English custome all Innes of Court men professors of the Law It'skilles not what their Fathers were whether Farmers Shoomakers Taylers or Tinkers if their names be inrolled in any Inne of Court they are all Gentlemen The profession of Armes being honourable euery ordinary Souldier that hath serued seauen years without reproch ought to be accounted a Gentleman and by the lawes of Armes may challenge the combat of any Gentleman in defence of his reputation A Gentleman hauing aspired to any title or dignity in the field and in respect of age or of any other infirmity is retired to his owne house or to any other resting place ought neuerthelesse to enioy that title and reputation which he had formerly gained Amongst Students there be many that to attain wisedome and knowledge haue betaken themselues to continuall study and haue thereby attained to singular vertues and for profound knowledge in many matters be had in admiration but that kind of vertue that extendeth it selfe to the common profit of al men that is altogether occupied about the maintenance of the common wealth hath his first preferment but those that doe but imploy the benefite of their studies to some particular purpose or to their own priuate gain must giue place to the former The true martialing of soueraigne honour to place euery one in his right degree and to giue him his due the Diuine is first to haue preferment for the Minister of the word of God ought to haue the chiefest and most honourable place especially when they be such as they ought to be as Saint Paul writing to Timothie They deserue to haue double honour faith he where they reade or preach the Gospell where their works and manner of liuing are conformable agreeing to their doctrine And as Saint Hierome saith Great is the dignity of Prelates but greater is their fall if they be wicked But this honour thus rendered vnto them they can not challenge as their proper right or due apertaining to themselues for that Prelate that is ambitious of worldly honour and estimation doth rather smell of the Spirite of Antichrist then shew himselfe to bee a follower to our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ whose prescriptions are humility for hee that exalteth him selfe or desireth to bee great amongst you let him be brought low sayeth our Sauiour let him bee your seruant It is manifest that in Mathew and Marke he reproueth the ambition of the Sonnes of Zebedie who ambitiously desired the one to sit on his right hand the other on his left and as Christ elsewhere condemneth the ambitious affections of such as ambitiously desire to exalt themselues and to seeke superiority so doth he in like sort condemne all other what or who soeuer that are so puft vp with pride and arrogancy that they disdaine to giue place and reuerence to those that haue iurisdiction and magistracy in the Church of God and there is no lesse pride and contempt in those that will refuse to giue honour and reuerence to him that is in authority to beare office and rule in the ministery then there is in him on the other side that doth ambitiously desire to rule but not to profite the Church the which so farre as my little skill will afforde me may most aptly bee applyed to the Pope his shauelings But he that hath any spirituall charge or hath the cure of soules in the Church of God I say with Saint Paul He is worthy of double honour and he that diligently preacheth the Gospel and conformeth his life according to his doctrine I say still wee cannot reuerence him enough nor render him too much honor Our Sauiour himselfe would in no wise take vpon him to iudge betweene the brethren that came vnto him about the diuision of their land neither is there any example in all the New Testament where any of the Apostles after their calling intermedled wich matters appertaining to temporall Magistracy but applyed their whole endeauors to the preaching of the Gospell the auncient Romaines had that obseruation for they would in no wise admit that their Flamius nor any other of their sacrificing Priests shold beare any rule or gouernement in the common wealth but that they should onely exercise themselues in the seruice of their Gods but this prohibition was not done in any disgrace whereby to abate or diminish the least iot of their honor or estimation for king Dridanias censuring of professions which might bee most worthie gaue the highest degree of honour to the Priests that did dayly offer sacrifice in the temples of their Gods If the Heathen did thus much exalt and dignifie the reputation of these prophane Priests that were but dedicated to the seruice of Idols and Pagan Gods what estimation what reuerence what honour may wee render to those that are the Ambassadors of the Almighty God that are sent vnto vs with the glad and ioyfull tidings of our saluation that are our Fathers to begetvs to Iesus Christ by the preaching of his Gospell that are his Stewardes