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A17294	A censure of simonie, or a most important case of conscience concerning simonie briefly discussed not altogether perhaps vnparallell for the meridian of these times. By H. Burton rector of little Saint-Matthewes in Friday-street London.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 4139; ESTC S107062	105,164	152

will plant my Seat vpon the North Pole What is this that the Deuil will pitch his Seat vpon the North But that euery proud and impious man doth either aspire or vsurpe principalitie ouer such as bee like him such as are remote from the heate of charity and from the light of wisedome This and much more this deuout man Now to draw all that hath beene said in this Chapter by those holy and ancient men of the Church to a corollary or conclusion If such be the Office of a Bishop if as Origen saith it makes the ambitious drunke with vaine-glory If as Saint Cyril to bee punished with fearefull flames if hee must render a strict account for himselfe and for all vnder his iurisdiction If as Saint Augustine nothing be more easie pleasant contentfull to men if perfunctorily and carelesly performed but nothing more vnhappy miserable damnadle with God for which that holy man wept at his Ordination If a Bishop bee a name rather of labour then honour and of dutie rather then dominion If not to be sought nor vndertaken but for meere charitie sake when necessitie compelleth If as Saint Chrysostome hee beare the burthen of all bee most inexcusable exposed to all tongues distracted with daily and nightly cares subiect to all censures liable to all iudgements if others sins bee imputed to his misgouernment if the losse of each soule so precious shall bee required of him if to affect it be to cast him out of Gods fauour if a priuate life be much more sweet more secure and safe if it be not a bed of rest but of break-sleepe if their preaching be most solicitous most assiduous if he be like a ship continually tossed with waues and driuen with contrary windes if not many Ministers bee saued but much more doe perish if subiect euen in despight oftentimes to bee diuerted and driuen from his owne disposition if onely pride in such be enough to cause an vniuersall decay and corruption if their account be most seuere both for their doctrine what and how with what diligence with what deuotion performed and for their life how answerable to their doctrine how holy how religious how euery way exemplary to their flocke how carefull in relieuing the poore how circumspect in electing good Ministers in reiecting the vnworthy if this Office make men rather greater then better hoysing vp the sayles of each passion to all winds of temptation especially when it findes pride auarice ambition and the like If as Erasmus a Bishop put on the person of a Father a Mother a Nurse all importing manifold Offices If as Aaron with his Bells hee must be euer sounding forth the word of Truth if for the multiplicitie and difficultie of the duties of this calling chained one within another many wise and graue men of God haue shrunke their shoulders from it if as Contarenus a Bishop must bee aboue a man of an Angelicall spirit if the very desire and seeking of it imply arrogancie auarice and ambition if it bee not enough to serue his Cure by a deputie if it giue him no dispensation to bee a Courtier and Negotiatour if thus hee bee vnlike Christ and his Apostles If as Poole it be so dangerous to be Non-resident if a Bishoppricke be rather to bee feared then desired If as Bernard it be vsually made rather a secular merchandize then a spirituall meanes to gaine soules vnto God if such be to bee abandoned as betrayers not shepheards hauing the seat not the zeale being successors not imitators if any ambitious Bishop be a Iudas a Deuill an Apostate Angel that would haue all like himselfe to domineere ouer if thus hee be excluded from inioying of Christ if this Office be a Ministration not a domination then to say no more but what so many holy graue learned Fathers haue said alreadie What reason can any reasonable man pretend to excuse not onely the purchase but the least pursuite of such a preferment from the imputation of extreame vnreasonablenesse CHAP. XIIII Of the Censures and Penalties of Simonie and Simonists COme wee now to obserue the censures and penalties which haue been generally imposed vpon Simonie and Simoniacks Aquinas following his Ancients calls Simonie Haeresi● quaedam Gregory calls it The prime Heresie in the Primitiue Church Altare vel Decimas vel Spiritum Sanctum emere vel vendere Simoniacam Haeresin esse nullus fidelium ignorat To buy or sell the Altar as the Sacrificer doth his Masse or Tythes or the Holy Ghost there is none of all the faithfull that knoweth not this to bee Simoniacall Heresie Irenaeus calls Simon Magus The Father of all Heretickes Yea saith Aquinas The impious Heresie of the Macedonians and of those of his Sect impugners of the Deitie of the Holy Ghost is more tolerable then that of the Simonists For those in their dotage yet confessed that the Holy Ghost was a Creature and seruant of the Father and the Sonne But these doe make the same Holy Ghost to be their owne seruant For hee that takes vpon him to buy or sell any thing takes vpon him also to bee the master and proprietary of that which hee so buyeth or selleth Yea so odious is the sinne of Simonie that Pope Deodate said That no Catholike is to bee refused but for auouching the Truth and to make knowne the madnesse of Simonie is to bee exhorted with most earnest intreatie For saith he none is so vile or infamous which may not be admitted for a competent witnesse against a Simoniacke as being the most vile and infamous of all men Therefore euen a bond-slaue a whoore a criminall person may accuse a Simonist yea euen a seruant his master And euery sinfull man may sing a Masse But a Simonist may not So he But some will say This is but the Brutum Fulmen of a Pope Yea it ought so much the more to make vs whom the condition of so many Popes hath made to abominate the very name of Pope to bee afraide and to startle at the very name of Simonie more then at a cracke of Thunder If Heathenish Abimelech so highly honour Marriage and the sacred Lawes thereof as hee sharpely reproues Abraham for hazarding his faire wife how shall not faithfull Abraham and Sara blush the more at such a Mans reproofe Gregory saith Specialiter c. Let both the Clergie and people the Electors specially and absolutely know that that man is not onely vnworthy of the Priesthood but will bee found also obnox●us and culpable of other crimes whosoeuer hee bee that p●●sumeth to buy the gift of God with money So that the like punishment and penaltie is equally due both to the elected and to the Electors if they shall ass●y to violate the sinceritie of Priesthood with a sacrilegious inten● So hee Whence we may learne that the sinne of Simonie neuer goeth alone whether in the Buyer or in the Seller but as the Master Bee