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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04127	The oath of allegeance defended by a sermon preached at a synode in the Metropoliticall Church of Yorke; by Thomas Ireland, Bachelour in Diuinitie.	Ireland, Thomas, b. 1577 or 8.	1610 (1610)	STC 14267; ESTC S119564	25,917	46

men to halt betweene two opinions and therefore Christians should hate such amphibologies as they loue God reason and religion To conclude the scope and duties of this oath are honest being faith loue and peace The example hath ben sorted in many Councels Fathers histories the promise is a conscionable protestation of a loyall heart This oath is like shibboleth if you pronounce it right you shal bee receiued if not reiected like Ioshuaes question art thou on ourside or on our aduersaries like Ichues demand of Ionadab if thine heart bee right towards me as mine towards thee then ascend into my chariot if you loue the safegard of your Prince as hee tenders your safety you shall purchase his fauour take it then as giuen by good authority Prayer is a duty most necessarie to be made for Kings we must not pray without faith for without faith it is impossible to please God what wee beleeue we may well sweare and therefore we may sweare for our Princes honour and safety an oath is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an end of all controuersie Now there is a controuersie whether he which takes the Pope for his God can take the King for his maister and this oath wil determine it An oath is to be taken saith Isocrates 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 either to cleere thy selfe of some filthy crime and what fowler then high treason or to free thy friend from a danger and what greater then such a suspicion It is reason they that receiue protection should promise loue and dutie to him which is the cause of it is honest to professe with our mouthes what wee meane in our heartes obseruance where it is deserued It is a duty which the Pope in far stricter terms exacts of al Emperours Iesuits Priests and Auertites from our profession why should not Christian kings require all faithfulnesse of their subiects Kings may command a publicke fast as the King of Niniue did vnto man and beast or publike feastes as Mardochaeus and Maccabaeus did vnto the Iewes or publick oblations as Moses to the making of the Tabernacle and Iosiah to the repairing of the Temple or publicke prayers as Dauid indited holy Psalmes to be sung in the Sanctuary and therefore may compose and impose an oath which is not so praecise a part of religion an oath is vsed in couenants of reconcilement as betweene Abraham and Abimelech and should not we rather be reconciled with our King then a stranger it is a motiue of diligence as when Saul swore the Souldiers they should not eate they were more earnest vpon their enimies it is as a vow before God and man of that which law conscience and humanity requireth at our hands and vowes in lawfull matters are neuer to be reproued This was vsed of heathens amongst themselues as the Romane cittizens were sworne vnto their lawes cōmonwealth of Christians to heathens as the Christian Souldiers did praestare Sacramentum take a sacred oath of their Captaines to rest at their command of heathens to the faithfull as Iacob tooke an oath of Laban swearing by his Gods Iusiur andum saith one quia ius omne nihil nisi ius iurandum est wee should so much obserue the lawes that we might sweare the performance Kings being keepers of each table may sweare their subiects to the keeping of both lawes most chiefly that which concernes God or thēselues for they be first chiefly meant mentioned in the commandments let me then say with Salomon I aduertise thee to take heed vnto the mouth of the king and the wordes of the oath of God for the Kings sake obserue the oath for the oaths sake obserue the King for Gods sake obserue both God oath and King Oh blessed God by whom Kings reigne and Princes decree iustice preserue thy Seruant our Soueraigne in thy truth peace and loue set him as a signet on thine hart with inward grace and fauour still embrace and encrease him set him as a signet on thy hand with outward force and power still protect and defend him giue him a long life a safe estate a wise heart a louing care honour amongst his owne and victories against his eninemies Grant this most mercifull Father for thy Sonne Christ Iesus sake to whom with thee thy most holy Spirit be giuen honour and dominion now and euer Amen FINIS

with them not worse then in the daies of Saint Paul who deliuered ouer an incestuous person vnto satan that his spirit might be saued in the day of the Lord. Now their spirit cannot be saued if they be slaine excommunicate The company that he forbids is not that we should vtterly forsake their society for then we must forsake the world but that we should abstaine from their communion wee should not eate with them of the same vnleauened passeouer Christ Iesus wee should seeke to restore them in the spirit of meekenesse wee should striue to doe good vnto all though they be not of the houshold of faith Saint Paul thought it sufficient that the excommunicate was rebuked of many but our Aduersaries are not satisfied vnlesse they take life and al. God banisht Adam out of Paradice and yet he gaue him certaine meanes to liue Gods holy Spirit parted from the former world yet he left them one hundred and twenty yeares leasure to repent themselues God seuered Mirian from the campe yet hee would haue the people to stay for her that she should not vtterly be desolate and shall wee censure more seuerely then the Lord of hoasts Hereupon their owne decrees affirme that excommunication is not mortalis but medicinalis gladius not a killing but healing sword Saint Austin saith it is not Corporalis but Spiritualis poena a penaltie for the soule not for the body Cyprian shews the very case suppose an euill doer cannot be seuered without sedition Tolera Zizanium eslo frumentum be wheat and beare with tares Thus did Saint Ambrose excommunicate Theodosius his threatning was Rogamus non pugnamus wee cannot fight but pray Lachrimae sunt arma t is the teares of our eyes not weapons in our hands which must ouercome you our warfare is not carnall but spirituall and mighty through God wee must fight with knowledge against ignorance with humility against pride with examples of obedience against wilfulnesse in wickednesse How many Iewes Turks Atheists Epicures and murderers doth God now suffer in this world and sets a marke on them as on Cain that none shall kill vntill he please to take them hence can any thing then be so shameles vnder the pretence of religion to murder whom they list as that Frier did who slew sixe score with his owne hands in a French massacre Their doctrine therefore cannot be but impious against God in deposing or abusing his officers for he will take it as if it were himselfe as he said of Samuel they haue not cast away thee but me It is hereticall against the Scripture which commands the contrary truth loue and peace it is abhominable and so damnable in their owne conscience the censure of the world and the sight of God Although the Popes propose it as meritorius yet their guilty conscience foretelleth heauy things and in their hearts proditionem amant nov proditorem they loue the deed as far as it profits them but the doer they will haue in bitter detestation much more the world hateth this and for it owne safety will not suffer such a sinne vnpunisht Nature abhors murder as appeares by the bleeding of the murdered in the presence of the murderer much more the murders of a Prince whose life hath bene accounted sacred in all ages countries and religions much more vnder the color of religion when Gods Holinesse is made a patron of such diuellish treacheries and therfore in his iudgment hee will punish the lesse offenders with lesse torments and these with worst and most as being most mischieuous men Thus their opinion must needes be absurd which puls all kings kingdoms from Gods power leaues them in the disposition of a weake old sinful man As then this oath may betaken with a good conscience being vndertaken it must be kept notwithstāding al absolution it may be wisdome as times alter to change an opinion but it is impietie to breake a resolution grounded on Gods word Zachariah beheld a flying booke the length was 20 the bredth was 10 cubits which entred into the swearers house and eate vp the timber stones thereof but now we may behold a flying bul of mighty voyce but little force which coms from Rome to licence command many to forsweare themselues Violare Deorum non licet acta Deum if one Magistrat infringe what an other hath determined there followes nothing but confusiō God although that he promist whatsoeuer we boūd or loosed on earth shold be so bound or loosed in heauen yet he neuer promist we might loose on earth what was already bound in heauen Woe to them therfore which call euil good good euill which de iustitia would make iniustitiam and breake the seauen-fold binding of an oath as the Hebrew name imports as Samson did the new made cords with little force or care who can this be but Anti-christ who sitting in the Temple of God would exalt himselfe aboue God so far as to dissolue the bonds made sacred by his holyname and bring that blemish vpon Christianity which euen Iewes and Turks abhorre who say the causes of our Christian troubles are our daily blasphemies periuries This doctrine of absolution is so contrary to inward peace outward honesty so odious in it selfe perilous for example scandalous to the Church preiudicious in the confederacies of Princes and suspicious in all contracts for if our couenants be neuer so surely writ on earth and registred in heauen yet they say they may be cancelled of his Holinesse that it cannot be suffered in a Christian common wealth looke then into the word of God whether it be better obeying the king in keeping of a lawfull oath then a stranger in breaking it looke into thy conscience whether it can be discharged of periury by the bull of such a Bishop looke vnto the iudgement of all flesh whether the Popes pardons can proue a supersedeas against hell Thus we must not looke for absolution Equiuocation and mentall reseruation is as dangerous they be solaecismes in reason much more absurd in conscience Christianity This was Lysanders noted crime to deceiue children with triffles and men with oathes This was that heinous fault of Ananias hee told not all he should haue told but kept halfe backe for his owne profit and so lied against the holy Ghost This was the custome of hereticks to protest one faith and haue another in their bosome This is the shame of Christendom since this doctrine was defended men make a common trade of lying and deceiuing This is the heart and the heart whereof Dauid so complaines the dissembling to satisfie for the present which Eleazar much abhorred the trick of a false brother which had the voyce of Iacob and the hands of Esau he spoke like a friend and dealt like an enimie The Satyre could not abide him could blow both hot and could Solon condemned 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ambidexters in their words and deedes God will not suffer