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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27494	Clavi trabales, or, Nailes fastned by some great masters of assemblyes confirming the Kings supremacy, the subjects duty, church government by bishops ... : unto which is added a sermon of regal power, and the novelty of the doctrine of resistance : also a preface by the right Reverend Father in God, the Lord Bishop of Lincolne / published by Nicholas Bernard ...	Bernard, Nicholas, d. 1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing B2007; ESTC R4475	99,985	198

mediorollere c. surely much less may this be in cases of less consequence which do not touch upon the foundation but are only circumstantials The ancient Christians held not these things worthy of blood but submitted to them after St. Pauls example in the like And now 't is high time to apply my self to the consideration of that horrid Fact which as fruit sprung from those deadly seeds of Doctrine we lament this day This was the day when out of pretence of relieving the Mother as they call the Common-wealth children destroyed the Father and so at once both The Casuists say Si filius patrem in ultionem matris occidat haec pietas erit scelus but for a Son to slay both Parents at once is a Monster indeed This was the black work of this day rather to be trembled at the thought of then uttered when the most wise pious prudent meek mercifull King was put to death by pefidious sons of Belial faithless and merciless men And this not in the dark but in the face of the Sun at his own gates a thing unparalleld in any Story That which hitherto hath been urged is from what the ancient Church abhorred even to a Heretick a Persecutor a Heathen how much then is this cruelty and hypocrisie to be loathed when exercised against the life and soveraignty of a pious orthodox just and Christian Prince not only to a dreadfull Rebellion but a bloody murther All history shews that Rebellion hath ever in conclusion been the ruine of the Authors take the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Text as some render it poenam judicium i. e. for some corporal vengeance from God or man here That known speech of Rodolphus to those that were about him when he was nigh unto death after his taking up arms against his Master the Emperor is worthy to be remembred See ye my right hand maimed by a wound with this I sware to my Lord Henry the Emperor that I would doe him no hurt nor treacherously entrap him in his dignity but the Apostolick Command or that of the Pope hath enduced me to it that as a perjured person I have usurped an honor not due unto me Ye see in that very hand with which I violated my oath I have received my mortall wound let them look to it who have invited us to what a condition they have brought us even to the very hazard of everlasting damnation according to the Text ipsi sibi damnationem acquirunt I shall conclude with that sentence of St. Jude and St. Peter cap. 2. upon the like then which ye have not a more full execration in the whole Bible These are they that despise dominion and are so presumptuous as to speak evil of dignities i e. Kings and Princes Wo unto them for they have gone in the way of Cain and ran greedily after the error of Baalam and perished in the gain-saying of Core these are spots in your feasts clouds without water trees without fruit withered plucked up by the roots raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame wandring stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever Let us all say Amen to that which fell from a Royal pen King James of ever happy memory in his maledictus qui maledicit uncto Domini pereatque interitu Core qui peceavit in contradictione Core Let him be accursed that shall curse the Lords annointed and let him perish with the perishing of Corah who hath sined in the gain-saying of Korah And let us earnestly pray for the safety of the Kings Majesty according to that of the Christians for the Emperour in Tertullian Det Deus illi vitam exercitus fortes Senatum fidelem populum probum orbem quietum i. e. God give him a long life a secure Empire a safe house valiant forces a faithfull Councell loyall people and a quiet State c. even for his sake who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords to whom with the Father and holy Spirit be all honor and glory now and for ever Amen The late Lord Primate USHER'S Judgment and Practice in point of Loyalty Episcopacy Liturgy and Ecclesiasticall Constitutions of the Church of England THe various interpretations which have been made of the Judgement and Practice of this most Eminent Prelate in these particulars and the mis-applications the eupon pread by some of different Judgments to his great prejudice hath occasioned this brief vindication of him by declaring my own knowledge therein as followeth 1. His Judgement and Practise in point of Loyalty For his Judgement it hath been most fully manifested by a most learned Treatise lately published of the Power of the Prince and 〈◊〉 of the Subject the writing of which was thus occasioned About the beginning of those unhappy Commotions in Scotland 1639. Sir George Radoleife desired me very earnestly to let him know what the Lord Primats Judgment was of them and not being contented with my verball assurance of it desired to have it more punctually under my hand which I had no sooner communicated to the Lord Primate but hereadily and instantly dictated unto me his sentence upon them which was accordingly returned for which I had a letter of very great thanks Now as soon as the Primate came to Dublin the Earl of Strafford then Lord Deputy of Ireland desired him to declare his Judgment publiquely concerning those Commotions which he forthwith did at Christ-Church Dublin before the State in two Sermons to all mens satisfactions from this Text Eccles. 7. 2. I councel thee to keep the Kings commandement and that because of the Oath of God After this the Lord Deputy besides his own desire signified unto him that it would be acceptable to his late Majesty of ever blessed memory that he should either print his Sermons or write a Treatise of the like Subject the latter of which he made choice of And having with much labour and industry finisht it and caused it to be fairly transcribed he came over with it into England with an intention to commit it to the Presse as hath been declared by the learned and Reverend Father in God the Lord Bishop of Lincoln in his Preface to that Treatise To which give me leave to add That his Judgement was alwayes the same and so declared by him upon all occasions since I had the happynesse to be known to him As annually upon the Kings Inauguration day which was constantly observed by him at Drogheda with great Solemnity and occasionly in some learned Sermons preacht by him at the opening of two Parliaments And especially upon the first solemnity for his present Majesties Birth day anno 1630. at Dublin being sent for of purpose by the State then to preach which he did upon this Text Psalm 45. 26. Instead of thy Fathers shall be thy children whom thou mayest make Princes in all the Earth But most fully in those two Speeches of his herewith

government under which we live I consider the state of England and that of the Islands and the dignity of Bishops and the condition of the other Ministers of the Church such as it is at this day In Scotland for the time present the State hath otherwise provided but not in England and therefore ye ought not to take example by them as though your State were like theirs I hear that your Governor hath taken order about Wills and appointed one to prove them But I cannot conceive how that may be done without Episcopal Jurisdiction conferred by the Bishop Your Governour I know hath power to present to the Bishop a man proper to execute this authority of the Bishop in his name Likewise the Governor as Patron of the Churches and Parishes of his Government upon the vacancy of any living ought to present by such a time a man well qualified to succeed in the Office of a Pastour but the admission and induction of such a charge belongs to your Bishop and to no body else If I be well informed you observe nothing of all this which if it be so you 'l never be able to justifie it The example of the French Churches and of the Low-Countries doe you no good Your case is quite another They have Laws from their Soveraigns and particular places for themselves but all that you doe is contrary to the Laws and Ordinance of the King your Soveraign You hold Synodicall meetings wherein you make Statutes about the Government of the Church unto which you bind your selves and the rest that are naturall Subjects to the King wherein you unsensibly derogate from his authority The Synods of the Arch-bishops and Bishops together with the rest of the Clergy of this Realm dare not presume that which you doe nor attribute to their Canons and Statutes what you attribute to yours Yet the Assembly of Bishops and of their Clergie is of men far otherwise qualified then some dozen of the Ministers of your Islands to judge and discern what belongs to the edification of the Church their Decrees nevertheless are of no authority to tye unto them those of this Realm till the King yea in his own person have approved them and by Proclamation made them his There is no body in his Realm nor in any of his Dominions that hath power to enact Laws and Decrees but himself The Parliaments authority is great but without the Kings assent nothing takes the rigour of Law I know very vell that at the perswasion of the Ministers your Governours and others that were present to your Synods have subscribed and acknowledged your Synodicall Acts they did it even in my time but their power doth not stretch so far That may bring a greater prejudice to themselves then give force of Ecclesiasticall Law to your Decrees I doe not think that his Majesty being well informed will grant unto your Ministers or Governours of your Islands such authority They will be more pernicious to you then youthink You 'l alledge me I know your Priviledges but I dare boldly answer you that you never had any such priviledges I have read them and have the copies of them and they say that in matters Civil you shall be governed by the ancient Coustumier of Normandy and that you are not subject to the Statutes of the Parliament in such matters nor to the Subsidies other charges and impositions that are raised in England except which God forbid ever should come to pass the King were detained Prisoner by the Enemy In matters Ecclesiasticall you are freed from the Bishop of Constance and under that of Winchester yea even of old by the Popes authority and consent of the two Kings from whom also in part your neutrality in times of warre is approved excommunicating all such as would molest you Ye cannot shew concerning your priviledges but only what is renewed as often as there is a new King And for the Patent which you say you have procured from his Majesty for matters of Religion First it is in generall terms and without any clause derogating from the authority of your Bishops Secondly if it be questioned it may be told you that it was surreptitious and granted you before the King was well informed of the business To conclude you must understand that in matters of Religion the Kings Majesty will doe nothing without the counsell and advice of the Arch-bishop and your Bishop of Winchester wherefore you may doe well to insinuate your selves in their favour and conform your selves to them as we have done in the beginning You may reduce the Decrees of the Church of England and the use of the book of prayers to a good and Christian Discipline farre more solid and better grounded then that for which ye so earnestly bestirre your selves I must addone word more which will be hard of digestion This is it that you may be upbraided that as many Ministers that are naturall of the Countrey being not made Ministers of the Church by your Bishop nor by his Demissories nor by any other according to the order of the English Church you are not true and lawfull Ministers Likewise that as many among you as have not taken institution and induction into your Parishes from the Bishop nor from his Substitute lawfully ordained and authorised so to doe ye are come in by intrusion and usurpation of cure of Souls which no body could give you but your Bishop that is in terms and words Evangelicall that you are not come into the Sheep-fold by the door but by elsewhere and that by the Ecclesiasiastical Laws you are excommunicants and Schismaticks I know well enough you do not regard such Laws and think that your Priviledges will exempt you from them wherein you greatly deceive your selves For a man may tell you who are yee that would have your Ecclesiastical Decrees made by Private Authority to have force of Laws and dare scorn and reject those of the English Church made by Publick Authority by farre honester men greater Scholars without comparison more learned and farre more in number then you are The Kings Majesty by his Royall authority hath approved them this Realm hath received them But what are your Synodall Decrees who be the Authors of them and who be they that have approved them 'T is winkt at and your ignorance is born with but think not that that which is born in you be any such thing as vertue Your Priviledges do not stretch so far as that you may make Ecclesiasticall Decrees Had it been so the Priests had retained Mass and Poperie In that you hold a contrary course to that of the English Church whereof you are and must be if you be Englishmen Members it proceeds from nothing else but from the connivence and indulgence of your Governors who have given too much credit to the French Ministers and partly in the beginning to the stubborness of the Papists of the Islands When your Governors shall have a liking to