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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00607	Obedience and submission A sermon preached at St. Sauiours-Church in South-warke, at a visitation, on Tuesday, the eigth [sic] day of December: anno Dom. 1635. By Iohn Fealtly.	Featley, John, 1605?-1666.	1636 (1636)	STC 10742; ESTC S101903	15,948	32

Ecclesiasticall Iudges for those he appoints for the sweet harmonious government of the Church by religious and just discipline His Civill Magistrates too for they administer justice in the weale-publike All these must be conscionably and carefully obeyed for they have the rule over us Multiplicitie of expositions hath begotten a pluralitie of opinions some making Soveraigne Supremacie the aime of my Apostle others only the reverend Clergie I will not neglect either but give me leave to begin with the first the best The King Obey the King for he hath the rule over us Next under God his Majesties authority is to be acknowledged and published by the Clergie so saies the first Canon 'T is my loialtie to subscribe to it and 't is my joy that your reverend selves are the just witnesses of my canonicall obedience 'T is our dutie in generalll to acknowledge it and it shall be my forwardnesse Yea and 't is fit for my Text too in part for this is the exposition of a Aretius in locum Aretius and b Zuing. in locum Zuinglius the words of the former are these Praepositos hîc Magistratus intelligo aut certè Seniores qui populo praesunt in caetibus fidelium authoritate antecellunt The other is not so confident in his opinion and therefore sayes only Videtur referendum esse ad Magistratus obedientiam The reason of both is rendered by them both Quia de Ministris priùs jam egit versu septimo I must confesse that I subscribe not in judgement to this their opinion but yet 't will advantage me to make use of their mistake S. Chrysostome seemes at first to be the Author of this opinion sed parum commodè sayes c Hyper. in locum Hyperius and his reason is double scil 1 Because the Hebrewes at that time had few or no Civill Magistrates that professed the faith but on the contrary cruelly endeavoured their violent suppression But by his leave if the sense would beare it the exhortation were just to admonish the people to obedience even to them since they were ordained their Magistrates as ye shall heare hereafter 2 Because in the insuing words the Apostle tels them that they watch for their soules Atqui Magistratus civiles sayes Hyperius non incumbunt propriè saluti animarum sed tuentur ea quae sunt salutis externae corporalis But sayes he 't is the property of the civill Magistrate to care for the externall government of the bodie and not to imploy himselfe about the affaires of the soule That 's his reason indeed But we know it otherwise blessed be our Almighty Protectour in these flourishing Kingdomes For he that is the Defender of the Faith and Supreme as well in Ecclesiasticall as Civill matters hath doth and I pray God long he may Watch over our soules although not by immediately exercising the function of a Minister yet mediately executing his sacred and religious justice and providence by the learned and vigilant Lords both spirituall and temporall Yea let me go a little further yet too and with humblest thankfulnesse let me acknowledge that immediately also he watches over us by his care of the Church and preserving it from injuries by his royall protection Thus doe we justly acknowledge that he is our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 our Prince to whom of right it belongs to have the rule over us Our second sort of Expositors will have the word to intend our reverend Prelates and justly They are stiled by 1 Tremellius and Arias Montanus Duces our Captaines 2 Beza Ductores our Leaders 3 The vulgar Latins Leo Iuda Iohan. Benedict Parisien and Stephanus Praepositos which 4 The Rhemish Test englishes Prelates 5 Fabritius and Sebastian Castalion Gubernatores our Governours 1 Praepositos vocat pastores Episcopos so sayes Cornelius a Lapide 2 Pastores Gubernatores sayes Hemmingius 3 Praelatos Superiores so Dionysius Carthus 4 Ecclesiae Pastores saies Hyperius And he renders the reason why these are meant and not the Civill Magistrates Cum enim inter Hebraeos variae subinde sererentur opiniones c. The Hebrewes were contentious in the variety of their opinions Some denying CHRIST to be GOD some rendering him not and some but equall with Moses some contending for the ceremonies of the Law and lastly some too hammering out of their owne braines other such doctrines of errours and yet every one boasting of his opinionative learning and vaunting of his skill in the exposition of the Scriptures In the multitude of these disturbances a cure was provided They had a Prelate to appeale unto whose care it was to reconcile their differences Our Apostle therefore endeavouring their satisfaction admonishes them to obedience to those that have the rule over them This I conceive to be proper We 'l follow this exposition and according to their Titles we 'l enquire into their Offices Ye have heard that they are our Captaines Leaders Governours Prelates which are here intended They are those in every Countrey to whom by a just power is committed the government of the Church Not any schismaticall Sectarie here nor any selfe-conceited railer beyond the Seas Not the grave-bearded Brownists nor the down-look't Separatists nor the disorderly Anabaptists Not the Apron preachers of some Sects nor the illiterate pettish Baulers among others These are the Authors of distraction not order and the ring-leaders to mutinie and rebellion not the composers of differences intended in my Text. Such as these have formerly swarmed in this our Kingdome but God be blessed the care of those who watch over us hath corrected the furie of their publike disorder Did ye but heare them in their Conventicles in those Countries where they have gained their freedome you would wonder that men should be sold to such folly Ye know what once did save the Capitoll Sollicitive Canes canibusvè sagacior Anser But these we can scarcely imagine worthy to be ranked with them because on the contrary they are Traitors to ours Ye would hardly beleeve how gravely they will speak their undigested crudities and father their contradictions upon the blessed Spirit They will maintaine a precedencie indeed but 't is preserved in each persons opinion of his particular selfe Every man among them is best although none be good all are Lords none Subjects Had they but so much of reason as they want of religion I doubt not but they would espie their own enormities But so long as they hug themselves in these their vanities give me leave to determine them to be none of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 my Apostle meanes In our Church they are the most reverend Arch-Bishops the right reverend Bishops and those whom they appoint for the preservatiō of discipline in our flourishing Church 'T is confessed that some will storme at my opinion to whom the name of a Bishop is a strong purgation But them I remit to their owne 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Geneva and if want