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A09868	A sermon preached at the consecration of the right Reverend Father in God Barnaby Potter DD. and L. Bishop of Carlisle, at Ely house in Holbourne March 15. 1628. By Christopher Potter D.D. provost of Queenes Colledge in Oxford. Hereunto is added an advertisement touching the history of the quarrels of Pope Paul 5 with the Venetians; penned in Italian by F. Paul, and done into English by the former author	Potter, Christopher, 1591-1646.; Sarpi, Paolo, 1552-1623. Historia particolare delle cose passate tra'l sommo pontefice Paolo V. e la serenissima republica di Venetia. English. Selections.	1629 (1629)	STC 20134; ESTC S114961	32,999	132

the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dignity not the duty which they affect Some too many pretending to be Physitians of the soule intend indeed to cure their owne povertie or necessitie as if the Church should be a refuge for needy persons or a sanctuary for malefactors Many that cannot thrive in any other course of life when they are driven to their last hopes and extremities at last shift themselves into the coat and calling of Ministers and he that knowes himselfe unfit in any other imployment to serve men yet thinkes himselfe fit enough to serve God in this sacred calling All these intruders and mercenaries shall bee sure to faile of their hopes and shall one day receive other kinde of wages then they did expect Now besides this inward calling which serves onely to settle our owne conscience it is needfull that the Church doe externally call and install us by some publique solemnitie before we may adventure upon the exercise of this holy function After grave and due examination of our life and learning if the Church of God do approve us if by the hands of such as are in authoritie shee ordaine and admit us then may we lawfully and safely enter upon this holy charge not otherwise Now here all our Reformed Churches are a●fronted by the Romish faction and proudly challenged just as the Priests of old challenged our Master Christ a Mat. 21. 23. Whence have you authority to teach and who gave you this authority They aske where is our lawfull vocation where our orderly uninterrupted succesion from the Apostles and blush not to affirme which is one of their unwritten traditions b M. 〈◊〉 letters cap. 11. and as true as Lucians true Histories or their Homilies out of the Legend that our Bishops in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths reigne consecrated themselves one another contrary to all Canons of the ancient Church and thence inferre that all our after-ordinations are pure nullities that we have no Ministers no Faith no Gospell no Sacraments Thus of old when Ieremy and Ezechiel went about to repair the ruines of the Church and to purge the worship of God from unsufferable corruptions and abuses the Priests of Israel and Iudah resisted called for their warrant and pretended themselves onely to be the Temple of the Lord and that the Law of God could not depart from them But for answer to our Adversaries we need not say that our first Reformers had an extraordinary calling from God we constantly affirme that those worthy Ministers who in the age of our Fathers first beganne this glorious worke of Reformation had that same ordinary vocation and succession whereof our adversaries vaunt so much But that vocation which the Romish Priests abused to the dishonour of God and the suppressing of his truth our Reformers according to their dutie and conscience used for the reestablishing of pure doctrine Thus Wiclif Hus Luther Zuinglius Oecolampadius Bucer Martyr c. the first purgers of the Church frō Roman superstition tyranny were al created ordained by the Church of Rome it selfe Priests or Doctors of Divinitie by an ordinary usuall publique vocation and that with a solemne adjuration that they should duly and diligently teach the truth of God in his Church according to his word And thus in our Church of England the consecration of every Bishop hath beene still solemnly and canonically performed by three other Bishops at the least as hath beene confessed by a Cudsemius in viv● effigie Sectae Calvinist cap. 11. some Papists and b Fr Mason de Minister Ang proved against the lies and slanders of others out of publique and authenticall records Now then we demand of our Adversaries Hath the Church of Rome any lawfull ordinary vocation or hath shee none If she have none her selfe why is shee so scrupulous to enquire of ours If shee have any our Ministers had the same being all at first called and ordained by her For howsoever the Church of Rome hath adulterated and obscured her Catholique verities with intolerable superadditaments yet hath shee still notwithstanding power to conferre a lawfull vocation It is the consenting judgement both of c Con●il Nic. 1. Can. 8. Codex can Eccl. Af●ic can 68. H●eron di●l adv Luciferian Aug tract 〈◊〉 in Iohan. cont Epist Parm. l. 2. c. 13 Synod 7. act 1. Antiquitie and of the late b M●g Sent. lio 4. dist 25. ibi DD. S●hol Aqui● Suppl qu. 38. art 2 ●●llar de Sacr. in gen l. 1. c. 26 Romane Doctors that heresie it selfe may infect but cannot annull ordinations and that Clerkes ordained by hereticall Bishops are sufficiently in holy Orders and may not bee re-ordained For whosoever bee the instrument the principall Author of our holy charge is Christ the Lord upon him alone originally it depends and from him may be conveyed by polluted hands as the cleare water of a fountaine may passe through a filthy pipe or chanell and though it be vitiated in the passage yet t is not abolished And therefore that wee may retort this crimination upon the Adversarie albeit we confesse our Vocation to bee derived to us by the mediation of the Church of Rome not by her authority yet we both avouch our vocation to be holy and lawfull and challenge theirs to be sacrilegious For in the Romane Priesthood are confusedly intermingled things holy and profane it is partly a Rose partly a Nettle it consists of a double power one sacred to absolve sinners by the Ministery of reconciliation which we embrace and retaine the other impious to sacrifice againe Christ Iesus in the Masse which we reject and abominate So then the Rose we plucke and leave them the Nettle whatsoever they deliver in the name and by the commission of Iesus Christ we humbly receive it and use it to his glorie but for that which is authorized onely by the Popes warrant and institution wee leave it to them who are his servants and love to weare his liveries BUt in this question as in others our Opposers are long since victi triumphati reduced to a perpetuall silence by the learned labours of our Worthies M. Francis c De Minist Anglican Mason for our Church and for the forraigne Churches by the noble d De Eccles cap ult Mornay e De ●egit vōc Minist Sadeel and f De la voca ion des P●steurs Peter Moulin in a just Treatise of this argument But being now upon this discourse of vocation I may not wave this faire occasion to note the rare and exemplary calling Sinè ambitu more majorum of that Reverend man whose Consecration gives occasion to this meeting But because what I now speake of him must be spoken to him neither his modesty nor mine permits mee to say much Onely thus much I cannot forbeare Our deare Soveraigne his gracious Master hath honoured not Him so much as Himselfe and the Age in the freedome of

in the very b Jnter aliqu●t Iesuitas Dominicanos Church of Rome and it were happy if wee could suffer charitie to moderate in all our disputations If it be truth we seeke and no● victorie why take wee not the counsell of Saint Paul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To seeke and speake Eph. 4. 15. truth in love Since the matters questioned are clogged and perplexed with so many insuperable difficulties that the greatest Wits and Spirits of all Ages have here found themselves entangled in a maze and at length after all vexing disquisitions seeing no evasion no issue out of this Labyrinth no banke or bottome in this Ocean were forced to checke their restlesse repining understandings with S. Pauls O Altitudo Since on all hands they are c Pareus in Iren. Frid. 3 Palat●n Confess ad fin ●dmon Ne. ●stad confessed to be not fundamentall not essentiall to the faith since our owne Church as the d C●lestin Epis 〈◊〉 ad Epist G●ll. c. ult Vide Epistolas Prosp. Hilarij ad Aug. Primitive in great wisedome hath thoght meet here to walk in a latitude and to be sparing in her definitions why should we not all be wise unto sobriety and let God alone with his secrets why may not our e Rom. 141 Phil. 2 3. 3. 15. 2 Tim 2. 22. 1 Cor. 13. 4 7. See Perkins in Gal 1. 2. Gal 3. 15 Vid in g nem S 〈…〉 erga dissen tientes a se mo lestiam epist 73. ad Iubaian in fine in praefat concil Ca●th●●g ●audat●● sepeab ●●ag de bap cont Donat l. 2 6. ult l 2. c. 3. l. 4 c. 8 9. c. hearts be united though our heads doe differ why doe wee not desire rather safely and sweetly to compose these differences then rashly with f Aug. Enchir ad Laurent c. 59. danger to define them and forbeare all Capitall censures either way which must needs involve many holy soules now at rest with God many g Bez. Annot major in Rom 11. v. 35. Calv. Inst l. 3. cap. 22. Sect. 1. Sect 8 vid. * Catholique Bishops of the ancient Church many learned and godly Doctors of our owne nay entire reformed Churches all which have varied in these opinions though most neerly linked in their affections The faire and moderate cariage of these controversies between those P. Melans in Rom 9. Sixt. Sen. lib. 6. ann 251. two reverend men whose memories we justly honour h Vide cum in praefat ad Loc com Melanct. Gallice à seversos epistolas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Iohn Calvin and Philip Melancthon easily perswades me that their violent followers at this day are not more learned but more uncharitable And it appeares by that which M. i Exam. of Ioh. Careles Fox hath recorded that our owne blessed Martyrs in the daies of Queene Mary in their very prisons freely disputed and dissented in these opinions And Bishop Hooper hath left his judgement to posteritie in the Preface to his Exposition of the Decalogue which haply he learnt at Zurich of H. Bullinger his intime friend and familiar In all likelihood the wit of man cannot better determine these doubts then as our most gracious and religious Soveraigne hath done by silencing them for the best charme against a Spirit of contention is to strike it dumbe Wherein he hath worthily imitated the wisedome and piety of his blessed Father our late great Peacemaker who by the same meanes quenched a dangerous sparkle kindling upon the Protestants of France and likely to inflame them in a nice question about justification God Almighty grant us here the same successe give us holy wisedome to temper our zeale and unite us all in the holy bond of truth and love I passe from our Pastors wholsome doctrine to his holy life For a 2 Tim 2. 15. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to talk aright is but one part of our duty the other is b Gal. 2. 14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to walke aright Doubtlesse the life of a Minister should be most exemplary in holinesse he should be a patterne of sanctification to all his people Like Catoes Orator he must be c Sene praf ad Controv. Vir bonus dicendi peritus it is not enough for him to teach the way to heaven he musttread it His speech should be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as d Lib. 3. ●p 202. Isidore Pelusiota a speech quickned and enlived with action For sure there is no life in his doctrine who hath not doctrine in his life Our workes must feed as well as our words and our hands teach piety no lesse then our tongues Our people with Thomas in another case except they see they will not beleeve their eyes must bee taught as well as their eares therefore said Paul to his Philippians Do those things which you have heard Phil. 4. 9. and seene in me It was an excellent elogie which Nazianzene gave to great Basil in his Epitaph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his words were thunder and his life lightning Thus it should be with all us my holy brethren If sin now grown shamelesse impudent bee deafe to the thunder of our voices we must discountenance and strike it dead with the lightning of a pure conversation if wee cannot outcry it wee must outlive it And no wonder if such strict mortification such severe Christianity be looked for in us for our devotion must set many hearts on fire and like burning Beacons give warning to all the Country On the contrary as in a writing Copy an error doth not onely show but even teach it selfe the common lines still aiming at their originall so here the sinnes of teachers are the teachers of sin others leud example doth but countenance evill theirs in a sort commands it And therefore as Isidore Pelusiota hath judiciously Lib. 2 ep 121. remarked in ●evit 4. the Lord appointed as great a sacrifice yea the same for expiation of the Levit 4. Priests sin and for the sin of the whole Congregation implying that all our sinnes are publique and scandalous that which is but a small blemish in any other coat is a foule stain in a linnen Ephod infirmities in other men are enormities in us and that which is sin in them in us is more then sacriledge A wicked Priest is the vilest creature upon earth and most disnonors God for the people quickly loath the sacrifice if once the sonnes of Eli be sonnes of Belial What then shall I say but pray with Moses Lord let thy Vrim and Deut. 33. 8. thy Thummim bee with thine Holy ones or with David Let all thy Priests he clothed with righteousnes let Holinesse to the ●ord bee written upon al our hearts and foreheads that we may all endeavor to bee seriously and solidly pious and be able to say to our people as Gideon to his souldiers Looke on me and Iud. 7. 17.

taken onely of his delivering them to Monsieur de Fresne it no way importing him what the said Lord should after doe with those prisoners Though hee saw when the said Ambassadour consigned them to one there present who touched them yet he judged not fit for him to enter hereupon into any act and therefore he did not interpose one word in any sort Wherefore a true Narrator of this action ought not to say that Ottobon delivered the prisoners into the hands of Claudio Montano without protestation condition or any reservation but that Monsieur de Fresne delivered them in presence of Marc Ottobon he being silent And this much be said touching the verity of these two forenamed contrary Instruments which as they are very different in the substance so are they no lesse diverse in their lawfull form For in the one is observed all that which is needfull for a legall validity and the other is defective in things essentiall All Lawyers agree that to the framing of an Instrument must be presupposed the person of a Notary created by the lawfull authoritie of the Soveraigne in that place where it is to bee framed and for the forme it is necessary that he bee acknowledged for such by both the parties and required by them both or at least by one of them according as he hath interest Now in our case the prisoners being presented to Monsieur de Fresne by Marc Ottobon who spake in the name of the Senate unto the Ambassador both hee himselfe and the other two Notaries of the Duke are lawfull and publique Notaries of Venice The Secretary alone was he who in all that number of persons which were present at the consigning of the prisoners had interest in that action and therefore hee might lawfully require the Notaries to doe their duty But on the contrary who is this Paul Catel that he should come to draw an Instrument at Venice where he is unknowne If it be answered that he is an Apostolique Protonotarie and therefore hath power to forme Instruments concerning Ecclesiastiques to pas●e by that power which we will not now dispute though it were not hard to show that this universall proposition stands in need of many limitations to make it true But not to touch now upon that point in the case whereof wee speake one of the parties was Claudio Montano and the other Marc Ottobon and Iohn Moretto Since then a Notary ought to be one acknowledged by them both he could not be Paul Catel whom one of the parties did not know at all Againe it is needfull that a Notary be required to doe his part either by both the parties or at least by one of them in the presence of the other otherwise the act is invalide Now will they have the boldnesse to say that Paul Catel was required by either of them For although that Marc Ottobon was present when Monsieur de Fresne said unto the Cardinall These are the prisoners and when Claudio Montano touched them and prayed the Officers of Iustice to keepe them Ottobon himselfe being all this while silent Yet it was not therefore lawfull for Paul Catel to retire himselfe to make an Instrument and to say that Marc Ottobon did actually deliver the prisoners without protestation condition or reservation but it was necessary that Claudio Montano at least should have desired the Notary to make a publique Instrument to this effect that when Marc Ottobon had heard him desired to make an Instrument and thereby knowne him to be a Notary and having occasion to speake yet notwithstanding kept silence in this case a Notary might have recorded his silence but hee could not say that he delivered the prisoners to Montano that being an untruth I wish these prudent men would take leasure to consider whether reason of Government doe permit unto them that a Notarie being in an Assembly where some action passeth should privately withdraw himselfe and without the knowledge of one partie forme an Instrument this considered if they will not dissemble with their owne conscience they must confesse that they have divulged an untruth and a nullitie The following actions of the State will give yet more light and attestation to the truth For in the very yeare 1607 and also afterward many Ecclesiasticall persons both Priests and Friers were imprisoned impleaded and according to their merit absolved or punished Some for their seditions chased out of the Signiory and banished and the Ban of one put in print to the publique notice of all the world Now to that which concernes 4 the fourth Writing which is a Decree of the Senate for the re-admission of the Religious fugitives which Paul Catel saith hee transcribed out of the Register of the Pregadi or a Court of the Senate it is not needfull to say much of this matter For it is true that the Senate did consent that such Religious as went out of the State for the Interdict might returne excepting onely the Iesuites and that such Religious persons as were gone out onely upon this occasion might be re-established and their goods and Benefices restored And it is true in like manner that there was a release of sequestration made upon the revenewes of such as were in Rome or elsewhere out of the Dominion true also that that Decree of the Senate was written and recorded in the secret Bookes of the Counsell of Pregadi For not any thing of the least moment is there put in deliberation which is not first written and read and being resolved on it is registred in those secret Bookes and all this was done in that act of the Senate touching the restitution of the Religious But these bookes are not showne or seene by any person whatsoever unlesse he have part in the Government or be a Minister of the Senate And if they thinke meet to publish any thing it is copied out and signed by the hand of a Secretary onely and of no other But when the Senate deliberateth to give answer to an Ambassador or to any other person calling him into the Colledge the Secretary reades it to him And if that reading doe not seeme sufficient for the memory of that Personage to whom it is made the Secretary reades it over and over againe untill he be fully satisfied And this same forme is observed when the Person is not called into the Colledge then a Secretarie is sent unto him and carying with him one leaf which containes the resolution of the Senate hee reades it to him once and againe In this manner notice was given to the Cardinall of the Senates Decree touching the restoring of the Religious which happely after was communicated by the Cardinall to Paul Catel But that he hath seene it in the Book or copied it thence that he might have it in a more notable and authentique forme this is a plaine and shamelesse lie like others of his which are apparent by the evidence of the facts themselves No discreet person ought to marvell that the passages of this Treatie are vainly represented by divers and that each one according to his affection draweth things to the advantage of the party which he favoureth but every man ought to resolve himselfe in things that are evident and beleeve that the truth cannot be suppressed Considering that the Interdict was not observed for one moment either in Venice or in any place within the Dominion that the Iesuites doe still remaine banished out of the State that no writing in this businesse was published by either of the parties save onely one with consent of them both which was the revocation of the Protestation with Letters from the Prince directed unto the Prelates of his State dated Aprill 21 by which any man may comprehend how things were understood that such Ecclesiastiques as committed any great trespasses after the accommodating of these Controversies were imprisoned and punished that if Churches or Religious Houses have a desire to purchase any immoveables they must first demand License and briefly that all the Lawes heretofore questioned are still punctually executed and observed And informing his judgement by these evidences he ought to reject all forged and counterfait Libels whereof as the former times have beene fruitfull and brought forth innumerable so wee cannot hope but that the times to come will produce some such like untill our Lord enlighten all things with the glory of his appearing FINIS