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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

OBEDIENCE AND SVBMISSION A SERMON Preached at St. SAVIOURS-Church in South-warke at a Visitation on Tuesday the eigth day of December Anno Dom. 1635. By IOHN FEATLY Obedientia non servili metu sed charitatis affectu servanda est non timore poenae sed amore justitiae Greg. l. 12. Mor. LONDON Printed by R. B. Anno Dom. 1636. A SERMON OF OBEDIENCE AND SVBMISSION Hebrews 13.17 Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves AVthority is the basis of regularity and this of peace for confusion raves in disobedience and the want of submission is the ground of contention 'T is thus in Civill 't is likewise in Ecclesiasticall governement Religion is forced into a melancholike dejection if not supported by Lawes provided for her content Shee 's at least obscured where not countenanced with authority and languishes in a consumption where she despaires of regard She requires power but such as either findes or inforces obedience She triumphs in authority but such as we finde ascribed to the destinies Fata volentem ducunt nolentem trahunt gently leading the obsequious but by violence drawing the refractory mutiniers For 't is but idle aire that is articulated in commissions and not necessitate's obedience Superiority degenerates into the miserie of a Hieroglyphick if it knowes no more than a titular Chimaera and becomes the sad Embleme of its neglected selfe 'T is at most but a Mercuriall statue only pointing out not speaking the way But why should I loose my time in the treatie of such a no-thing For so it is Comparisons are Relatives and ye know the Canon in Logick Posito vno Relatorum ponitur alterum Relatives are Twins and derive their being from the same instant There cannot be a great but there must be a little there cannot be a superiour unlesse we grant an inferiour the highest must have a lowest and how can this bee granted in policie without obedience Otherwise 't is a parity not a government 't is a giddie confusion not a well-ordered command Religion hath her just policie She proceeds by rule Authority speakes and obedience answers Thus does the Common-wealth thus does the Church too triumph though she 's militant Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the LORD'S sake whether it be to the King as supreme c. 'T is S. Peters in his 1 Epist 2. Chap. and 13. Vers There 's the prerogative of Supremacy and the loyalty of the Subject It is the same too although subordinate to sacred Majestie in the Church according to S. Paul in the warrant of my Text Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves Too curious a division may offer violence to my Text. For mine owne part I affect not their course who endeavour rather the magnifying of their wit than the true dividing of the matter The words are plaine my division shall imitate The sentence is a precept properly rather than counsell to obedience Herein observe 1 The Object of our duty viz. They that have the rule over us 2 The Subject or matter of our dutie turning upon two hindges scil 1 Obedience 2 Submission Of these in their order and first of the Object of our dutie or persons to be observed Those that have the rule over us Those A number excludes a Deitie but power insinuates it Where shall I begin then to seeke my Object but there where I finde the centre of command I must look up first to thy Throne O GOD and acknowledge with submission that thou hast the rule over me I must acknowledge further too 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sayes the heathen Poet. Homer in ● Odiss Although thy Throne be far yet thy power is neere for my salvation if it may stand with thy gracious pleasure And not so onely but yet further too I must determine with the sweet * Senec. in Ep. Quadam ad Lucilium Philosopher that Propè es mecum es intus es Thou art neere me in thine ordinances if I obey thou art with me in thy care if I submit thou art in me by thy Spirit if I humbly receive thee Let me begin then with my GOD and so let me end too since he 's the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end Apoc. 1.8 We had had no creation but by his power we had had no Kingdomes without that creation wee should have had no Lawes without those Kingdomes and we can have no Magistrates to execute those Lawes but by his election so our Apostle tels us There is no power but of God Rom. 13.1 'T is strange to me therefore when I consider that this GOD is but one that the Heathen should dreame of a plurality Yet t is true yee have read it and I have knowne it among them 'T is strange too when I consider of the infinity of this my GOD that the sottish Romans should stile their Nero God whose wandering carkase so long since travelled in the bellies of the Wormes But 't is more strange when I reade of Christians that stile a mortall man Dominum Deum nostrum Yet this is true ye may finde it among the Papists They might have had more pretence for it I confesse had they at first entitled the Papacie to it and not the Man for to that they ascribe a kinde of immortality Againe 't is strange too when I ponder upon the Vbiquity of my GOD that a man could live which would denie a Deitie Yet such there is I must I will beleeve it for 't is canonicall The foole hath said in his heart there is no God Psal 14.1 But where is no God Thou Foole if this night he condemne thy soule thou wilt finde that there is a God He 's in that heart which denies him either in mercie to convert or in judgement to confound Behold then here 's the ground of our object GOD for the highest powers that the Sunne gazes upon receive their command from his divine Ordinance He commands and Kings obey for by him Kings reigne Prov. 8.15 Kings command and we obey 't is our Apostles injunction Rom. 13. Thus must subjects thus must inferiours subject submit to their Kings to their Superiours in and for his sake who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords because sayes my Text they have the rule over us But who are these which have the rule over us We may be unjust in our obedience if we submit to a Vsurpation Blessed be God my beloved brethren we can have no such pretence for rebellion 'T is first our dread Soveraigne to whom without so much as the least suspition of doubt we must humbly and heartily submit with the greatest industry of obedient loialty And let the hearts of those Traitors that conspire disloialty by a just Prolepsis teach them their fate in being the burning tormentors of their divelish selves But must we obey none else Yes his Ministers of justice too or else we are Rebels His

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