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A01020	Deuout contemplations expressed in two and fortie sermons vpon all ye quadragesimall Gospells written in Spanish by Fr. Ch. de Fonseca Englished by. I. M. of Magdalen Colledge in Oxford; Discursos para todos los Evangelios de la Quaresma. English	Fonseca, Cristóbal de, 1550?-1621.; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1629 (1629)	STC 11126; ESTC S121333	902,514	708

all this Chapter is nothing else but a seuere reprehension of the Scribes and Pharisees And for that it is an ordinarie thing with the common people to set his doctrine at naught who leads a naughty life Cuius enim vita despicitur necesse est vt predicatio contemnatur Whose life is despised his preaching must of necessitie be contemned our Sauiour Christ in defence of the Catholicke Doctrine said Super c. Vpon the Chaire of Moses c. It was the errour of some That a mortall and deadly sinne depriueth the Pope of his Popedome but this was condemned by the Constantine Florentine and Tridentine Councels for neither doth the Doctrine thereby receiue any harm nor the See loose it's Iurisdiction and authoritie Which is no more than is deliuered by Saint Augustine in expounding that place of the fortie fourth Psalme In stead of thy Fathers thou shalt haue Children Beda and Anacletus the Pope both say That to our Faith is not onely hypothecated and ingaged the authoritie of Priest and Bishop but that of our Sauiour Christ that of the Apostles and that of the seuentie two Disciples But suppose that all these Ministers should haue sinned yet the authoritie of our Sauiour Christ remains safe and sure What matters it whither the Minister be bad where the Lord is so good How much more then in the Church ought wee not as Tertullian saith to qualifie Faith by the persons but the persons by Faith This Doctrine Iudas made good by doing miracles by preaching the Gospell and by condemning him that did not receiue it as if he had reiected Christ himselfe Cayphas doth likewise proue this point who as he was High-Priest did determine that Decree which had already beene ordained in Heauen The like president we haue in the Prophet Balaam who though he went of purpose to curse Gods people yet was forced whither he would or no to blesse them And the Scribes Pharisees being asked Where our Sauiour should be borne answered In Bethlem of Iudaea Those Bishops whom Saint Iohn reprehendeth and threatneth in the Reuelation yet for all this doth he not remooue from them the name of Angells Dignitas enim Officij non amiti●tur per indignitatem personae The office ought not to be thought the worse of for the vnworthinesse of him that supplies that place Per me Reges regnant They representing Gods person as their Ministers doe their persons There is nothing so surely grounded in holy Scripture as the perpetuitie of the Church And this is one reason amongst many other why the Church is called Heauen And as no strange impressions approch Heauen and as those waters of the Flood which did rise so many cubits aboue the tops of the highest Mountaines could neuer come to touch Heauen so neither the persecutions of strangers nor the sinnes of his Ministers shall euer ouerthrow the firme foundation of the Church or the truth thereof Si dereliquerint filij eius legem meam If the children of the Church shall forsake my Law my hand shall be heauie vpon them and I shall bring many miseries vpon them Miserecordiam autem meam non dispergam But my mercie and my truth shall still remaine safe and sound that shall I establish for euer The Lord hath made a faithfull Oath vnto Dauid and he shal not shrinke from it From whence I inferre two things The one That Moses his Chaire lost nothing of it's respect through the Scribes and Pharisees vices as Saint Cyprian hath obserued nor likewise Saint Peters Chaire by the lesse laudable life of those Bishops which succeeded him which is the maine drift and principall intent of this Gospell For as Saint Augustine hath noted it our Sauiour did not seeme to looke so much towards the Sunne setting as toward the Sun rising to wit towards the Cathedra or Chaire of the Iewes as towards the Pontificium of the Christians wherein there was to be Bishops whose liues although they should not alwayes happen to be holy nor their workes and actions so good as they ought to be yet their Doctrine and their Preaching should still bee warrantable Some seeing some Bishops lesse holy than they should be haue multiplied Inuectiues Satyres and impudent and vnseemely Pasquills vpon them not considering that works that want their weight goodnesse doe not condemne the Doctrine of Faith nor weigh downe the ballance against the Chaire of the Church And that our Sauiour himselfe did preuent this inconuenience by saying Super Cathedram Moysi Vpon the Chaire of Moses Of such great force and vertue is the Doctrine of this Chaire that it did not much stand vpon setling the same vpon base and meane subiects for the same was placed in the mouthes of rude and ignorant Fishermen to the end that none should attribute the victorie to their owne naturall gifts though neuer so good So sometimes he puts this Chaire into the hands of sinnefull men because thereby men may see that the vertue is in the Sword which is the Word of God and not in the arme that is but flesh Quaecunque dixerint vobis facite Whatsoeuer they shall say vnto you doe Saint Peter treating of the respect and obedience which we owe to our Superiours saith Seruants be subiect to your Masters with all feare not onely to the good and courteous but also to the froward If then to such crosse carnall masters we doe owe so much respect and obedience What shall we beare to those that are our Spirituall Lords Saint Paul saith Let euerie Soule be subiect to the higher Powers For whosoeuer resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God for there is no power but of God And therefore to contradict our Superiour is to contradict God himselfe And it was high time for the Apostle to broach this opinion for the world sent forth Nero's Claudia's and Caligula's and other Tyrants which did deserue the name of fierce and cruell Beasts But the wickednesse and perdition of Princes must not make those to lose their respect towards them which are borne to obey which point Saint Cyprian presseth home to the purpose Whatsoeuer they shall say vnto you doe Some man may doubt How is it possible for him that liues ill to doe otherwise than teach ill nay rather it may seeme a kind of miracle that his life being bad his preaching should be good especially hauing our Sauiours warrant for the same How can yee being euill speake good things And this difficultie is increased by that which our Sauiour sayd before Take heed of the leauen of the Pharisees Vnderstanding by the Leauen the doctrine which they taught Wee find in the Gospell That they raised vp many false witnesses against the Law Saint Mathew reporteth That they taught It was lawfull to sweare by the Temple but not by the Gold of the Temple and by the Alter but not by the Offering c. I answer That the name of Cathedra or